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Exotic Farm Animals
This category deals with exotic farm animals which have become commercial enterprises in the farming community such as emu, ostrich, or yak. The treatment and care of these non traditional creatures along with certain farming techniques is discussed here.
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Why did people follow herds of animals such as woolly mammoths and bisons?
Early humans depended on the herds of mammoths, bison, and other large animals for food, clothing, shelter, and many other things. So, when the big game moved, humans followed them.
Herds - Bison usually travel in small bands of twenty or more searching for grass to eat. The leader is an older stronger male. The small groups form larger herds when they are migrating. The larger the herd, the safer they are.
Horns - They rub the horns against trees or even against rocks to keep the horns sharp and polished.
Senses - Bison have excellent senses of hearing and smell to alert them of dangers. It is difficult to sneak up on a bison. The wide flat nose picks up the scent and the bison is always listening for any unusual sounds. They have poor eyesight.
Defense - When bison are alarmed, they run (stampede) or defend themselves with their sharp horns. Or, Instead of stampeding they might surround the young.
Nose - Besides having a keen sense of smell, the bison uses its nose for pushing away the snow and uncovering the grass that lies underneath.
Fur coat - Bison actually have two coats in one. There is a layer of underfur close to the body for trapping warm air next to the skin. The thick outer coat sheds water and keeps out the wind. In spring the bison sheds the winter coat.
Migration - For the winter, bison migrate to valleys and wooded areas to find shelter from the cold winter storms.
Wallowing - The bison is bothered by insect pests which bite or lay eggs on the fur. Wallowing (or rolling on the ground ) helps to get rid of the pests, and also helps to rub off the loose patches of fur.
Tail - looks like a rope. It makes a great fly swatter.
If it's a white-tailed deer, which is the type most people see and think of, it's called a fawn. If it's a red deer, the baby is called a calf.
I did some research and i guess that ther bodies are made to store water and keep them moist. And that there glands provide cool liquid. And a little more info. is that there hump IS NOT made to store water, it stores mostly fat. That would be AwesomE if it stored water though!!!!!
Ostriches cannot fly but they can run extremely fast, hitting speeds of 43 mph (70 kph). In a fight they have a vicious kick that can kill a lion. They are the largest and heaviest birds, females weighing about 200 pounds (91 kg) and males about 250 pounds (113 kg).
What is the similarities of horse and ostrich?
Birds are the surviving descendants of dinosaurs. Their bone structures seem to show similarities. In addition many dinosaurs have been found to have feathers rather than scales. There are other similarities - warm blood, egg laying and nest building.
I don't know. but I have just found an opened pack of Tesco Red Leicester cheese buried in my compost heap. There was mould on one end of the cheese, but I would have cut that off and used the rest. I assume someone more fussy than me put it in their rubbish bag and an animal got to it before the dustmen.
PS I have also found a bumble bee nest in the compost, so I will not be investigating further!
As of 2008, there were 3,000 wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) left in the wild, residing in the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba. There are also 53 in the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Alaska.
Where are camels used for transportation?
Camels are used for transportation in North Africa, the Middle East (Arabia to India), and Western China. They have been mostly replaced by motor vehicles for transportation. However, there are areas that are too rugged to be served by motor vehicles where camels provide the best means of transportation. Also, in some places, camels are grown for meat. Where the need for transportation is extremely irregular, it is frequently easier to use a camel than to go miles searching for a motor vehicle.
The American bison once numbered in the millions. The Indians depended on them for food, and in an effort to bring the tribes to their knees, the government decided to exterminate them. So called buffalo hunters followed the herds by rail, and slaughtered nearly all of them. The last 1100 animals were rescued, and they can now be found in several refuges, with numbers in the tens of thousands.
The speed with which spiders multiply depends on the kind of spider and the environmental conditions. In general a single female spider will lay eggs only once a year, typically only once in her lifetime, but she can have from a few dozen to a few hundred babies, and they, in turn, will have that many babies of their own within a year.
Is the camel spider poisonous?
The camel spider is not poisonous. However they can penetrate human skin, and painful bites have been reported, leaving gaping wounds if the victim survives but this happens rarely.
What does it mean to have a dream of a bison or a buffalo?
Your soul remembers the tıme ıt was a hunter!
You need to re connect to you 'Wıld Sıde' go huntıng or somethıng... You need to kıll a anımal and eat some of ıt before your soul wıll calm !
What animal name rhymes with Beth?
The only legitimate name I can think of to rhyme with Beth is Seth.
For me American Bison live in a cold places not in the places that is too much cold like Alaska, because of the thick layer of skin of the bison they can survive in a cold places
they can also live in a grass type places so that they can find food easily....
How many liters of water can be stored in a camels stomach?
About 900lbs. (That's about 100 gallons) -My camels drank up to 130 liters at the most. This water gets stored in the blood stream (diluting the blood) after (just after they drink it) being stored in the stomach lining for about 24 hours.
