Friday, April 25, 2014

the poison dart frog


     The poison dart frog is vary deadly and if eaten you will die soon the dart frog lives in rain forests and comes in many bright colors and the poison can kill 10 fully grown men, there are over 100 types of the poison dart frog the poison dart frog, is going extinct and they got there name from the local tribes of the rain forests they used the poison ,from the frog to make deadly darts ,and to get all of the poison out they poked holes in the frogs back and held it over a fire. The female is more wider than the male the poison dart frogs bright colors are a sign of danger, to the predators around the frog but some of the predators do not take the sign and pay the price.
eggs of the poison dart frog

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Caiman alligator



   The caiman can be found in rivers of the rain forest and they are mostly in south america. they caiman can be hunted by the big cats of the rain forest or even bull sharks that are living in the rain forests fresh water
black caiman 

The caiman can grow up to 13 feet long and the largest, on record is a black caiman that was 32 feet long,and that size beet the worlds largest fresh water gator by 11.75 feet and the size was 20.25 feet long the gators name was Lolong the gator was so big that it had to be pulled on land by 100 men and Lolong died of cardiac arrest around 8pm February/10/2013. The caiman's diet is catfish,piranhas,birds,fish and when they are the right size they will hunt on land and eat humans and livestock at night. the caiman dose not make a good pet unless you have the proper training to handle a caiman.

Friday, April 4, 2014

The Andaconda



The Andaconda is the biggest snake in the amazon and rain forests they can eat all kinds of food it can find that is made out of meat and the will even eat there own kind out of mating rites or a clam on a kill. the andaconda comes from the boa family and they will stay in slow moving rivers or streams, There are four types of andaconda and they are the green,the yellow , the dark spotted andaconda, and the Bolivian andaconda these are the four types of andacondas and they are all killers.
                                                       


                                                         Food that the andaconda eats 
andaconda

caiman
capybara

pig
turtles
birds
deer
   

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

African rock python

 watch African


The African rock python can grow to be able to eat a fully grown man and even a large gators.They eat lots of things they can find the have even been reported to eat lions and other large edible prays. They have eaten children that got to close or that when't for a walk and found a nest and the mother is never far away. The largest rock python found was 20 feet long and all rock pythons have a nasty reputation to up hold people
 keep them as pets and they take the risk of death,having a pet that can rap around you and crush your bones and kill you the rock python has been fund in florida,they are moving in to the homes and local pools and are eating the wild life of the ever glades and even the children.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

The eyelash viper

watch video of eyelash viper
watch eyelash viper handling
                           
                         The eyelash viper is found in south america they rang around central america, mexico, Colombia, and they eat frogs mice humming birds nest lings and lizards.They get there name from the 3 to 4 scales around there eyes and that is how the name came to be. They come in colors of yellow green they will not bite a human if it is not bothered, there bite holds a Hemotoxic venom witch they would inject in to there prey. The scales are hard and sharp unlike the other snakes that are pit vipers like it the have a pair of heat sensitive pits between there eyes and they will hunt at night and sometimes during the day.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

                                                                 Bahamas saw shark
           
          
        The Bahamas saw shark is apart of the Pristiophoridae family and are found in the western central Atlantic ocean from the Bahamas and at depths between 400 and 1,000 meters  these sharks are at least 8ft long. The Bahamas  saw shark is found on continental and insular slopes in  the shallows and they can hide by covering there self in a blanket of sand  


Tuesday, March 25, 2014


                                                             The frilled shark
                                                                                                             
           
   
                                             
        The frilled shark is a snake like shark from the preastoric time they have no dorsal fin but they have small side fins they are rare to see they prefer the depths of 5,000 feet, and they eat smaller sharks and small fish and they have never been seen eating there pry, the small sized ones are not likely to live for 3 to 4 years, the frilled shark is not like the other types of sharks,the first frilled shark was found by a fisherman in tokyo/japan, the fisherman reported seeing a eel like monster with sharp teeth and he called the Awashiwa marine park ,they went back to the site on where the monster was found and it was a living fossil ,they got it out of the water and it died after a few hours the gills on it looked like someone had cut them with a knife and the number of gills where a total of six on each side of the ell like shark they have 200 rows of fork like teeth and they make a grate grip on slippery pry like squid.