Wildlife is rich and diverse:amazing plants and unique animals do not get tired to impress the imagination. Some representatives of flora and fauna are so rare in nature that they simply wonder: how could such a thing have been thought up at all? And you understand that mother nature is truly a dodger. This article will describe the amazing animals of our planet.
Eurasia
Eurasia - a huge continent, where they found for themselveshome of more than one hundred thousand species of fauna. The most amazing animals that have features of the structure or appearance are listed in the Red Book because of their rarity.
Например, выхухоль.An animal with a sonorous name is the only large mammal in the world that feeds on insects. The usual habitat of these animals is the territory of Russia, but they can also be found in Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Desman can weigh up to five hundred grams and have a length of about twenty centimeters. In addition, she has a long bald tail.
The territory of Asia also found refugeamazing animals. In natural habitat, you can meet a snub-nosed monkey (Northern Burma), a raccoon-like dog (East Asia), a horned goat (Afghanistan, Pakistan), a Malay six-winged, crested deer (China) and many others.
All these amazing animals of our planetlinked to the risk of extinction, as their populations are reduced. They are so unusual that a person seeks to study everyone, thereby interfering with the natural course of their life.
South America
В центральной части Аргентины обитает крохотный (9-10 cm) night creature - ferocious battleship. It is quite difficult to catch these representatives of the fauna even in the camera lens, since these amazing animals of the world are very cowardly and are able to dive completely in any soil for a few seconds.
Also in the territory of Argentina live Patagonianmaras. These unusual animals are similar to both the hare and the kangaroo at the same time. Their paws are compared to dogs, and the body is compared to the body of a deer, but mares are relatives of guinea pigs. That's how nature sometimes jokes.
Among the amazing mammals that inhabitSouth America can be distinguished by herbivorous vicuna, a predatory maned wolf (up to one meter high), a spectacled bear (has white spots around the eyes and nose with brown coloring of the rest of the hair), yaguarundi (looks like a mixture of otter, weasel and cat) and others.
Spider monkeys live in the Amazon Valleyget their name because of the tenacious and sticky tail, and the river itself is inhabited by terrible cannibal fish that can gnaw a whole cow in a few minutes.
North America
Amazing animals of our planet wholive in North America, are not always known to the world community. Some of them are quite rare individuals and are found only in wildlife. True, this does not apply to an unusual animal of some kind, which can be easily tamed. It lives in mountainous areas and feeds on rodents.
А вот ошейниковый пекари - зверь очень скромный и never seem to the eyes of an ordinary traveler. This animal is very similar to the boar. Because of the value of its skin, this representative of the fauna is under the strictest protection.
It gives heat to predators one of the fastest animals in the world - the pronghorn. This herbivore beast can reach speeds of up to one hundred kilometers per hour.
Scolopendra Californian look terrible can bite and hurt. Residents of the southern states are trying to avoid this type of millipedes, who are not averse to getting into the house and taking a break from the heat of the street.
Among the large land animals can be distinguished musk ox, caribou deer, wood bison and wapidi deer (the last two live only in reserves).
Africa
This continent attracts the attention of many and as if hiding something. The most amazing animals of Africa are of great interest to scientists and travelers.
An unusual animal lives in the basin of the Congo.beauty - okapi. This is a kind of mixture of zebra, giraffe and horse. For the first time about these representatives of the fauna became known from the local Aborigines, who walked in the skins of Okapi. Scientists have suggested that this species of animals has survived since the ice age.
Some amazing animals of our planet,living in Africa are like fairy characters. For example, a cute creature belttail resembles a little dragon. Its length reaches seventy centimeters, and the body is covered with small flakes-plates. Such amazing animals of the world for children will be the best memories from the journey, but to see this type of lizard, you need to visit the Sahara desert.
Еще одним редким животным, обитающим в Сахаре, is a velvet cat. Her peculiarity is that she does not drink water at all. This predator has enough blood of its victims to quench their thirst. The cat hunts only at night, when the terrible heat subsides.
African animal aardvark exhibitsunusual abilities while digging earthworks. This animal is able to clamp its nostrils so that during work the land and ants do not clog there. Like the Argentine battleship, the aardvark is able to dig a hole in seconds to hide from a predator. And this is not an easy thing, because the size of the animal rather big. Its weight ranges from fifty to one hundred kilograms.
Australia
The amazing animals of the world that inhabitAustralia, for the most part, is absolutely unique. For example, kuzu and sage wolf are found in the natural environment only on the territory of this continent.
Australia is famous for its endemic animals. For example, wombat. This animal is friendly, clumsy and phlegmatic, so very often Australians domesticate these creatures.
The Tasmanian Devil is a brawler and bully, readyfight the enemy twice superior in strength. This night animal is on the verge of extinction, since poachers are actively hunting it, despite the ban.
The animal that is often mentioned in school textbooks is the platypus. The only mammal having a beak. This animal moves beautifully in water, but on land it is slow and clumsy.
Australia is a continent with a lot of unique and unusual representatives of the animal world, therefore local authorities have an active policy on the protection and conservation of flora and fauna.
Amazing animals of our planet: a list (top 10)
- Russian Desman (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan).
- The horned goat (Afghanistan, Pakistan).
- Fish-drop (Pacific Ocean).
- Cone Aye-aye (Madagascar).
- Starfish (North America).
- Sloth (South America).
- Armadillo (America).
- Crab Yeti (Pacific Ocean).
- Indian flying fox (India).
- Tarsier (Indonesia).
