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Monday, 27 August 2012

Endangered African Chimps With Little Babies

Endangered African Chimps: Too Cute to Lose

Learn about endangered African chimps with little babies on our Africans Animals blog.

Discover the struggles they face due to habitat loss, poaching, and disease. Join us in raising awareness and taking action to protect these amazing animals. Share our informative and engaging posts with your friends and family, and consider making a donation to support conservation efforts. Together, we can make a difference and ensure a bright future for African chimps and other endangered species.

From the Wilds of Africa: A Look at Endangered Chimps and Their Adorable Offspring

Have you ever heard of the endangered African chimp population? These majestic creatures are facing a critical threat to their survival due to habitat loss, poaching, and disease. And what makes this situation even more heartbreaking is that these chimps often have little babies clinging to them as they struggle to survive in the wild.

But there is hope! By raising awareness about the plight of these incredible animals, we can help protect their homes and ensure that they have a future for generations to come. That's why we created the Africans Animals blog, where you can learn about the struggles facing African chimps and other endangered species on the continent.

Babies on Board: The Struggle for Survival of Endangered African Chimps

Our blog features engaging and informative articles about the lives of African animals, from the smallest insect to the largest elephant. We use a fun and witty tone to keep you entertained while still providing valuable information about these fascinating creatures. And if you're looking for something to share with your friends and family, our posts are easily shareable on social media!

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Chimpanzees in Peril: Join the Effort to Protect These Amazing Creatures and Their Little Ones

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Chimpanzees are very familiar to us humans, perhaps because so much of their behavior reminds us of ourselves. They are considered great apes, just like gorillas, orangutans, and bonobos. Their distinctive mode of travel—walking on the soles of their feet and the knuckles of their hands—have earned them the title of knuckle-walkers.

Amazing apes

Chimps are very intelligent and can be trained by humans to perform a variety of tasks. For example, did you know that human beings were not the first to enter outer space? A chimp named Ham orbited Earth in 1961 and was taught simple commands to help test space travel for human astronauts. Ham became the first "American" in space! Because they are so smart, chimps have been involved in many scientific studies, and unfortunately some people keep them as pets. Taking them from the wild has caused a decline in their populations. People also hunt chimps for food (bushmeat) or to protect their crops from being eaten by hungry chimps. These conditions, plus loss of habitat, have resulted in the chimpanzee being an endangered animal.

Take a good look

There is no hair on a chimpanzee’s face, hands, or feet, but the rest of its body is covered with either long black or brown hair. Unlike other primates such as monkeys and baboons, chimps don’t have tails. But they do have large ears that stick out a bit, which helps them hear other chimps in a dense forest. Newborn chimps have pink skin under their dark hair that later turns black as they age. Like humans, chimps have opposable thumbs to help them grasp branches or grab a bite to eat, as well as fingernails and toenails.

The chimpanzee grand family

Home for a chimpanzee is a community of other chimps made up of family groups. Within these family groups there are usually about 6 to 10 individuals. An entire chimp community can sometimes have as many as 100 members, made up of many different family groups. One experienced adult male chimp can be the leader of the community, although in other communities leadership is shared among several males. Chimps use body language, facial expressions, hand-clapping, grooming, and kissing to communicate within their community. Usually a male chimp stays in the community into which he was born, but females transfer to other communities when they become adults.

Chimpanzee and rearing their young

Female chimps in the wild usually give birth for the first time when they are between 12 and 15 years old. The newborn is extremely helpless, and the youngster must stay with its mother until age seven before it can survive on its own. Soon after birth, the baby learns to cling to its mother’s underside. Later it will transfer to her back, and uses this "piggyback" style of riding for the next seven months or so. Young chimps get milk from their mothers until they are about three years old. They can begin walking on their own at about age four, but continue to stay with their mothers for a few more years, learning all the skills they need to survive. A mother chimp develops a close bond with her young that may last a lifetime.

Everything tastes good!

Chimpanzees eat a wide variety of food. Observers have recorded about 80 different items wild chimps eat, including seeds, fruit, leaves, bark, honey, flowers, and insects. This makes up most of their diet. However, chimpanzees also hunt other animals, like monkeys or small antelope, for meat. Feeding is usually an individual activity, but sometimes chimps look for food together. Chimpanzees are famous for using tools to get food. They often strip a branch of leaves and then dip it in an ant or termite hill to get the insects inside. When water is scarce, chimps chew leaves so they are soft and sponge-like—this allows them to then soak up rainwater inside of tree holes.

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Sunday, 26 August 2012

The Endangered Koala Bear with all the Kialafication in needs to survive in the wild

Koala Bear

The Koala Bear Genus: Phascolarctos Species: cinereus is an amazing creature and is very muscular, quite lean, and is almost 33 inches long. The koala bear has a slightly fuzzy coat of fur. When you look at the ears of the koala bear they are big and floppy and you might be amazes to note that a koala bear has almost no tail! Koalas have stubby little nose. The eyes or a koala are small yellow and beady eyes. Like its bear cousins, the koala bear has strong bones to support its heavy body while climbing trees in its natural habitat. The females koala bear weigh between 13.2 and 24.2 lbs., while the male koala bear weigh between 17.6 and 30.8 lbs.

For the protection of the koala while out in the dangerous jungles forests and its natural habitat, these beautiful animals have rough paws that act as traction to prevent them from slipping and falling Each paw has 5 digits. The koala bear back paw consists of two "fingers" that are joined together to form a "grooming paw". These help it get rid of off twigs or ticks that may have gotten tangled in its thick fur. The koala bear has 3 other "fingers". Two of them are very sharp and the koala bear uses them for climbing. The last "finger" which takes the place of a human thumb is stubbed; there are no claw on it. The koala bear front paw has 2 tiny "fingers" that are substituted for 1 large thumb. You also find that it has 3 normal "fingers" that are very sharp which are used for climbing.

As far as the coat is concerned, the koala bear is said to have a thick fur which is normally used to help keep it cool and at the same time warm. The koala bear fur also acts like a rain slicker, repelling moisture. The color of the koala bear fur sometimes changes from gray to brown depending on the season. While not all zebra stripes are the same, some koala bears have patches of white on their neck, chest, and inside the ears, legs, and arms which makes them unique as compared to other animals.

During the mating season when the koala bears are ready to make babies intheir natural habitat and breeding grounds, the koalas mate around September-March. due to competition of the species and the strongest koalas in the family, the breeding female koalas are set to mate with the male koalas when they're almost 3 or 4 years old! They sometimes only produce one offspring per year. It takes about 35 days after the female koala conceives to birth a Joey (a baby koala bear). When the Joey's born, it looks like a pink, hairless, jellybean, with beady little eyes just like its parents. The little koala bears Joey's can't see or hear when they're born. The baby koalas are only 2 centimeters long and weigh only 1 gram. During the first few months, the baby koala stays in its mother's pouch and sucks on something in its mother's nipple called "pap". "Pap" is very mushy, just like baby food. The Joey eats "pap" until it's 1 years old. Then the koala mother starts to feed it eucalyptus leaves.

While in the wilderness the koala bear uses its brown and gray fur to prevent itself from predators . at the same time, the koalas' bottoms are padded with so much fur, that they can sit on pointy branches and not get hurt! The koalas thick, fuzzy fur keeps them warm, but not too warm. Their sharp claws dig into the trees so that they don't fall off. No wonder the koala bears are as good climbers as any other tree climbing animal you can ever thing of..

While a good eyesight is the best protection while out there int he koala jungle, the koala bears to have a very keen sense of smell. In fact the koala bears with their tiny noses have an excellent sense of smell which can detect the poisonous leaves, just by sniffing them!

The koala doesn't have that diverse of a diet. The only thing the koalas eat are eucalyptus leaves. The eucalyptus leaf is poisonous to other animals and strange as it may be the koala's digestive system is immune to it. The only thing is, if the koala bears eat more than 3 lbs. of leaves a day, they'll get indigestion.

In the natural habitat of the koala bears, there are always animals of prey and the koala bears are not spared of any animal attacks and survival of the fittest. The animals that prey or kill koala are mainly foxes, dogs, dingoes and most of all, humans. With the global changes and natural catastrophes many of the koala bears are killed during forest fires which engulf their natural habitat..

While many of the African and Asian animals are on the verge of becoming endangered and efforts are being made to help conserve these animals, these beautiful animals used to be endangered, but there are now laws in Australia that forbid you to hunt koalas, especially just for their fur, which is what most people kill them for. With little information about how to take care of koala bears, many of koalas are killed because they have life threatening diseases.In Australia, the main problem to the koala bears are the slow moving forest fires. While many efforts are geared in educating people about the importance of the koala bears and forest fires in particular there are organizations for animal rescue and koala bear rescue koala protection and koala bear conservation networks are spread around the global to help protect these beautiful bears worldwide

With the increase in population in many parts of the world, the koala bears are not spared in terms of encroachment in their natural habitat and breeding grounds as well. As one of Australia's most recognizable animals apart from the famous kangaroo, the koala bear population is decreasing because of the destruction of the woodlands and forests in which it lives. Found in the scattered dry eucalyptus forests of Eastern Australia, the koala eats only a small variety of the hundreds of eucalyptus species, and needs large areas of woodland to forage in.

When European settlers arrived in the early 1800s, they cleared the forest to build homes, farms, and towns. As the koala bears and other wild animals in their naturala habitat were pushed out of its habitat, the koala bear populations became scattered or died out. Only 20% of the original koala habitat remains today.

They were also extensively hunted for their soft, gray fur. As late as the 1920s more than 2 million koala skins were exported to Europe and the U.S. a year. The koala had to be reintroduced to South Australia from Victoria after the fur trade wiped out the local population.

The destruction of the koala breeding grounds and natural habitat have created the greatest threat to the koala bear.While many laws about animal rights and koala bear protection being in place, in many parts the local governments are often unable to enforce the laws successfully. Also, as settlements spread, the danger of forest fires increases. Fires can wipe out 70% of the koalas in an affected area, from which their population seldom recovers.

With the emergence of new settlements and road networks destroy the koala bear natural habitat habitats and many koalas are killed by cars as they search for new breeding grounds. As people venture in these bear territory, some venture in these grounds with dangerous dogs or go hunting and as such the koala bear become vulnerable to many dog attacks and other introduced animals such as foxes, and domestic dogs also account for many deaths. An animal loving person wouldn't want to unleash his dog to tear down a koala bear but in the wilderness these are some of the many atrocities that the koala bear faces. Remember its a jungle out there.The remaining few koalas in the wilderness become succeptable to inbreeding and disease. Fewer than 50,000 koalas are left in the wild there by creating a need to something about the koala bears.

In the whole world, saving the koala bears is of great importance and and this mainly depends on the government of Australia to work with conservationists, communities and businesses. Worldwide conservation efforts are being made and many organizations which are already providing a lot of information on koalas. The Australian Koala Foundation is educating Australians about the plight of the koala, and the Koala Habitat Atlas, a part of the Australian Koala Foundation, is identifying and assessing remaining koala habitat. Nature reserves are now including larger koala habitats. Public awareness of the plight of the koala is very important to its survival. International recognition of the problem by the IUCN is also helping put pressure on the government and developers. Tourists coming to see the koala are bringing over a billion dollars into Australia.