Canada Goose

Swans, geese and ducks are also known as the waterfowls, which means they are birds that spend their lives on or near water for a living. Because they are waterfowls, or water birds (that is if you're putting words into direct meaning.), that puts them in a typical physical appearance, which includes flat, shovel-shaped beaks, webbed feet and waterproof feathers. Most of the waterfowls get their food either from the water itself or from underwater mud, except for geese, who are exceptions to this rule - they feed on land, pulling up grass and plants with their beaks.

Most waterfowls nest on the ground, and their chicks can swim just only a few hours after they are hatched. There are more than 150 species of these birds. Ducks are found all over the world, but most geese live in the Northern Hemisphere and breed in the Arctic.

Now the Canadian Goose is a handsome goose has a brown and white body and a black head, with white "chinstrap" on its throat. It breeds near lakes and in wetlands throughout Canada and the Northern United States, and its size varies according to where it lives. The largest geese, from the American Great Plains and be seven times heavier than the ones in Alaska - a record difference for the same species of bird. In the early evening, Canada Geese usually return to water to roost. They make a loud, honking noise as they fly.

Migrating birds, or gees, also have a ranking status while flying, the leader always is the head of a upside down V shape, or the front of a whatever shape the flock might form, depending of the group number, and the rank follows to the end whereas the lowest or the least experienced ones wrap up the rear.

The Canadian Geese's distribution are in the North America, but then introduced into Northern Europe and New Zealand and their size can go up to 3.5 ft or 1.1 m long.

Snake: The Anaconda

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The fear or adoration for snakes rooted way back from the beginning of time. Not only that, snakes are a symbol of the devil in the Biblical sense. Satan, the most beautiful angel amongst all angels, took the form of a snake and decided to tempt Adam and Eve to take the fruit of knowledge back in the day when God created them as first humans. Amongst of all snakes, the anaconda is one of the largest and heaviest snakes on earth.

Although scientists don't know the exact maximum length of an anaconda (since they tend to grow until to their death.), but it has been recorded of a massive size of 28 ft. (8.6m) long and can weigh up to 450 lbs. A new born baby is already a hugely over-sized 3 ft. (1 m) long! Their location is in tropical Sough America, so people don't have to worry about those big snakes in other regions.

When anacondas and humans clash together can indeed be quite dangerous, and there are some incidents when one of those huge snakes swallows a human, but those attacks are very rare. When attacking a prey, usually aquatic animals, including fish, river fowl, cayman, and capybaras, the anacondas use their super strength muscles through out their whole body to wrap around the animal and strangle them to death or faint. How in details? Well, each exhale of a prey gives out, the tighter the snake wraps... well, you know the ending of this story. Imagine when a prey just faints and then wakes up in the stomach of a snake's belly? It's a slow and painful death!

Anyway! Here comes a new fun fact about hunting for anacondas, the most common knowledge that we have is that preys die from lack of oxygen because they were strangled, which is true! But since strangling can cause blood pressure to rise quickly, and a lot of times preys die from high blood pressure or a stroke.

Snakes do regurgitate when they feel they are threatened, but it's unlikely they will do that very often due to conserving energy. It's hard to get a meal in the wild, so unless the threat is definite, they will continue their meal. Besides, it's even a harder work throwing up than swallowing for them and, also, their teeth are hooked backwards and snakes don't like to risk damage to their teeth.

Giraffe

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"Riddle me this, riddle me that..." This is a quote from the villain character, The Riddler, from Batman. Unlike Riddler, I'm not evil, but like him, I am indeed going to give you an enigma for you to guess. Here are the clues:

1) It has 7 very long neck bones. (Every mammal has 7 neck bones, from a small rat to a big elephant.)

2) It has such high blood pressure that if humans have it, we will die from high it.

3) Its hoofs are so powerful that a fully developed male lion can die from just one kick from this animal.

4) It lives in Africa.

5) It has a leopard's spots.

6) It is a herbivore, which means it eats grass and leaves.

Give up yet? Well, the answer is the "Giraffe"! Anyway, the average weight for an adult male giraffe is about 1,200 kilograms (2,600 lb) while the average weight for an adult female is 830 kilograms (1,800 lb). It is approximately 4.3 meters (14 ft) to 5.2 meters (17 ft) tall, although the tallest male recorded stood almost 6 meters (20 ft).

Although giraffes in the wild have a lifespan close to 13 years, but those in captivity can live up to 25 years, considering the fact it's a harder life in the wild.

Can you imagine if your arms are 10% longer than your legs? Well, that's how it is with giraffes, their front legs are longer than their hind legs and they walk like a camel!! What I meant was, unlike dogs, who walk something like front right paw first, then hind left paw, fallowed by left front paw and right hind paw wraps it up; where as giraffes walk like right front and right back walk together and then fallowed by left front and left back. That's kind of like a moon walk for me.

As we all know that we have women's group in the human society to support women. Giraffes also have them, female giraffes associate in groups of a dozen or so members, occasionally including a few younger males. Younger males tend to live in "bachelor" herds, with older males often leading solitary lives.

When it comes to pregnancy, giraffe's pregnancy period lasts between 400 and 460 days, after which a single calf is normally born, although twins do occasionally occur. The mother gives birth standing up and the embryonic sack usually bursts when the baby falls to the ground. Newborn giraffes are about 1.8 m (6 ft) tall. Only about 25 to 50% of giraffe calves reach adulthood.

Rabbit Diary III

I finally caught Regular eating apples, it is really cute, if you listen carefully, you could actually hear the sound of it chewing on its food.

But these days I found that he became a scared rabbit, even with me! I have no idea why it became so nervous.I guess I need to approach it more often again.