Nilgiri LangurTrachypithecus johniiNormally found in southern India. Lives in a troop of 5 to 16. Eats leaves, shoots and fruits.In the 'Endangered' list. Threatened due to habitat loss and heavy poaching. Legend has it that its flesh and fur have aphrodiasic properties. As with the tiger, this belief is killing this beautiful animal.. Please make sure monitor adjusted properly for color and brightness. Otherwise the features of the Langur won't show.This happens to be most interesting Flickr picture tagged Langur.
Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) / Morning navigation to Booth Island's Salptrire Bay, a 3 km (1.9 mi) wide bay indenting the north shore of Booth Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. It was charted by the third French Antarctic expedition (190305) under the command of Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Charcot established the expedition's winter base at Port Charcot in 1904. A cairn at Port Charcot, with a wooden pillar and a plaque inscribed with the names of the members of the French expedition, has been designated a Historic Site or Monument, by a Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. In the late morning, due to excessive ice, we took a zodiac cruise of Salptrire Bay (650356S 640108W) along the west side of Booth Island and waited for better conditions in the afternoon to make a landing at Port Charcot.
Die Sugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur /.Erlangen :Expedition des Schreber'schen sugthier- und des Esper'schen Schmetterlingswerkes [etc.,1774]-1846..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31078294
The Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis) is a species of bat from the Vespertilionidae family. See also the Desert red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii), a related species.Eastern red bats are widespread across eastern North America, with additional records in Bermuda. It is also scarce but widespread throughout many of the Bahamian islands. This is a medium-sized Vespertilionid, averaging weights of 9.5-14 g and measurements of 112.3 mm in total length. Adults are usually dimorphic: males have red hair while females are chestnut-colored with whitish frosting on the tips of the fur.Like most Vespertilionids, eastern red bats are insectivorous. Moths (Lepidoptera) form the majority of the diet, but red bats also prey heavily on beetles (Coleoptera), flies (Diptera), and other insects. Echolocation calls have low minimum frequencies, but calls are highly variable ranging from (35-50 kHz). Eastern red bats are best suited for foraging in open spaces due to their body size, wing shape, and echolocation call structure. However, red bats are frequently captured by researches foraging over narrow streams and roadsMating likely occurs in late summer or autumn and the sperm is stored in the female's reproductive tract until spring when ovulation and fertilization occurs. In June, females usually give birth to three or four young and then roost with their young until they are weaned. Males roost alone throughout the Summer. High temperature demands associated with gestation and rearing young may limit the northern range for reproductive females. Eastern red bats often roost amongst live or dead leaves on the branches of live hardwood trees, but have also been found using loblolly pine trees in pine plantations.In late summer, eastern red bats from the northern parts of the range may migrate south for the winter, although little is known about migration routes or overwintering range. In winter, red bats forage for insects on warm nights and even warm days. On warm days during the winter, red bats enter torpor while roosting in the canopy of hardwood or coniferous trees, but during cold bouts they crawl underneath dead leaf litter on the ground and use their furred tail as a blanket.