Giant Rabbit Photograph

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Two-headed snake

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This wonderful snake have two heads. One day one ten-year-old American boy from Kentucky tried to pick up a snake with a stick and then noticed, that it is two-headed! Imagine how surprised he was when the snake grabbed the stick with both heads!



Two-headed snakes are not as rare as you might think. They have been found in the Unated States, Argentina, Honduras, Sri Lanka and Spain.

Gordon Burdhardt, zoologist at the university of Tennessee, has studied several two-headed snakes. And every time the heads were so independent they even fought for food.
Sometimes the heads become so aggressive they can even try to eat each other!

Two-headed snakes also have a great deal of difficultly deciding which direction to do. That’s probably because one head wants to turn left and the other one wants to turn right.
A lack of understanding between two heads can lead to even greater difficulties: a predator would quickly swallow the hesitant snake.
“So their chances of surviving in the wild are nil”, – says Burdhardt. “They can be easily attacked by predators. Two heads are NOT always better than one”.
Even in captivity, there are problems. Food should be given to one head first and a moment later to the other one. If both months are busy chewing, they won’t attack each other.
On the whole, though, they can do quite well in captivity, says Burdhardt.

Thelma and Louise, a two-headed boa constrictor was born in Ney0York. Experts don’t know why she was born this way. Indy the snake has 26 brothers and sisters but because she’s one of the kind, she could one day be sold for about $500,000 to a zoo or a collector.
Right now Indy’s second head can’t eat, drink or breathe but it flicks its tongue and looks around.

The two-headed monsters of myth may have a basis in reality!

Jellyfish: slippery and wonderful

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After some days of inactive the blog comes back :) I hope that new post will be published daily.
New post is about Jellyfish.

Jellyfish have been around for 650 million years. They were here before dinosaurs and sharks! Scientists think there may be 2000 species of jellyfish. They come in all sorts of color: from pale pink or blue to bright orange-red or screaming yellow.

Some jellyfish are transparent. Jellies also range in size from about two and a half centimeters to more than two meters long. Jellyfish are more than 95 % water and have no heart, bones, or brain, and no real eyes.

Where there’s water – from icy polar seas to tropical Pacific shores – there are jellyfish.

Some of them live in fresh water. All jellyfish sting, but not all jellyfish have poison, that hurts humans. Of the 2000 species of jellyfish only about 70 seriously harm or occasionally kill people.

The most dangerous jellyfish are:

• - Australian box jellyfish;
• - Lion’s mane;
• - Portuguese man-of-war;
• - Sea Nettle.The

Australian box jellyfish, or sea wasp, is the most dangerous jellyfish in the world. It can kill you within minutes. If it stings you, you can become paralyzed and then drown.

A large box jellyfish has enough venom to kill 60 people. Many beaches in Australia have kits with special anti-venom in case it happens to swimmers.

A soup of driver tentacles was once used in a murder attempt – it wasn’t successful.
The Portuguese man-of-war is world-famous for its extremely painful sting. In fact, it is not a true jellyfish, but rather a collection of separate organisms each with a special job to do, working as a unit.

Parrot fish, lionfish and clown fish

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The blue parrot fish, as the name suggest, has beaklike jaws. When young, these fish are light blue. They turn darker blue as they get older.

The lionfish is one of the most unusual creatures on the reef. Its spines are very poisonous and can be dangerous even to humans. The lionfish uses its spines to defend itself, not to attack.
On of the biggest dangers to the Great Barrier Reef are the thorny starfish which multiply in huge numbers and crunch their way through the living corals. Few creatures will eat them as they are quite poisonous.

The clown fish lives among the tentacles of large sea anemones. This brightly colored fish is immune to the anemone’s stinging tentacles. It helps to attract other fish that the anemone catches and eats. So the clown fish is in safety and isn’t hungry.

sea monstors

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1. Chimaeras. Shark-ghost or Rabbitfish. Poisonous thorns on fins.

 
 

2. Viperfish. Viper. All is clear: canines and a jaw.

 
 

3. Pelican eel. Grig.

The squid found in a stomach.

5. Colossal Squid. The giant. Ktulhu fhtagn!

6. Оcean sunfish. Moonfish. Mola mola. Reaches at length of 3 m and weights of 1410 kg. Capture of a supergiant in length of 5,5 m is fixed.

 

7. Stargazers. Poison, canines, electroshock. A hypnotizing sight.

 

8. Grenadiers (rattails). The grenadier. A rat tail.

 
 

Male sounds similar to drumbeat to involve female.


9. Oarfish. Oar. A greater fish, 11 meters.

 
 

10. Megamouth shark. Deep-water.

 
 

11. Fangtooths. Canines.

 

12. Firefly squid. A glowworm. Scientists approve, that it is only one of cephalopoda,
which have color sight.

13. Handfish. A small fish with handles. It is covered by poisonous thorns, walks on a bottom.

14. Coffin fish. A coffin. The dangerous ugly creature. In case of danger, swallows of water and it is inflated so, that it cannot be swallowed.

15. Dragonfish. The Way of life is precisely unknown.

 

16. Blobfish. A droplet.The air bubble does not work for it, develops gel which density is less, than at water. By means of this magic gel rises and falls. Muscles a weak, therefore simply swallow all alive on the way.

 

17. Sea cucumber. Breathes through the priest, receiving oxygen from sea water

18. Lizardfish. Lizard.

19. Not clear draw.

  

Great Barrier Reef, or The magic underwater world

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Hello! Today post is not about animals, but about very interesting thing - barrier reef :P

The Australian Great Barrier Reef is a largest coral reef in the world. It’s 2000 km. long and can be seen from space! Just take a look at this natural wonder!

Corals make wonderful shapes. Some look like trees, others look like flowers. There are more than 400 types of coral in the Great Barrier Reef. Corals are tiny animals that live only in warm seas. They need warmth and bright sunlight all the year round. When many corals grow in the same place they make a coral reef.

 

The edge of the reef facing the ocean often forms a steep cliff. There are more then 1.500
specials of fish and 4000 types of mollusk in the Great Barrier Reef.
They are all the colors of the rainbow.

In spite of its colorful markings, this angelfish can be hard to see among the bright colors.