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There are more tigers in the zoological ones than in their natural habitat. Until some decades ago these felines dominated for almost all Asia

 

 The first true carnivores of those that one has news lived about 40 million years ago, during the superior eoceno, and they belonged to the family of the miacidos.

 

The Black Vulture, Aegypius Monachus, is a falconiforme accipitrida paleartica of gender monotipic. Their next relative seems to be the Torgo, Forgus tracheliotus, African.

 

Among the strangest animals in Venezuela, the manaties is included. It is aquatic mammals that can live so much in salted waters or estearina, like in sweet waters.

 

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 The Foca Monje of the Mediterranean, in other times symbol of good luck, is, at the moment one of the threatened species in the world.

 

 Is an animal of slow growth. When it arrives approximately to the maturity to the 13 years, it reaches a size of 3 meter. 

 

 

The bear was an totimic animal in the paleolithic and neolithic cultures of the north hemisphere, and it continues being an animal symbol in the occidental culture. 

 

 

 

The eagle has ferocious aspect, due to her curved pick and her sharp claws as daggers. they are famous for their high flight and to be excellent leather jackets.

 

The turtle inhabits for more than 300 years the basins of the rivers Orinoco (Venezuela) and Amazons, and his main enemies, today in day, they are the traffic and illegal trade of animals that it is nurtured of his meat, his eggs and his shell.

 

These amphibians turn out to be sensitive indicators of the health of the an ecosystem, in the same way that the canary was good the miners to detect if the air was made scarce; when the little bird died, it was hour of abandoning the mines. 

The otter

It is one of the animals more beautiful that there is in the world and that regrettably it is in extinction.

This titi is a primate of extreme beauty that only habits the low area of the forest Atlantic in the state of River of Janeiro (Brazil). The 575 monkeys that are are located in the Federal Biological Reservation of Poço you give Elks and the private land that it surrounds it.

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