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Fish and Amphibians
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Mammals
This
is probably the most admired and loved family of animals and contains
many of our favourite species, including:
CATS etc
Habitat destruction is only one of the reasons animals become endangered.
Hunting for food and fur takes a huge toll on populations and cats, with
their beautifully marked coats, are highly sort after even today! Both
the Ocelot and Geoffroy's Cat have been persecuted for many years and
even as recently as the 1980's, an estimated 50,000 Geoffroy's Cats and
200,000 Ocelot were killed each year for their skins.
Although Cats normally live a solitary life, some other animals find that
living together is better. Meerkats live in large family groups and as
well as being safer from predators (with their famous sentries) they also
give each other help with other duties like searching for food and babysitting.
Otters are everyone's favourite! Ours are very playful Short-clawed Otters
from Asia. Watching these fantastic swimmers in their glass-fronted pond
makes synchronised swimmers seem totally uncoordinated!
How
can we describe a Kinkajou? Well it's related to the Raccoon family, it's
about the size of a domestic cat but has a very long 'Prehensile' tail.
It eats fruit, small animals and insects and loves breaking into beehives
and stealing the honey! In South America it is known as the 'Honey Bear'
BATS
Flying mammals!
All our bats are fruit eaters and range in size from the small Short Tailed
Bat to the huge Indian Flying Fox. Living together in our nocturnal area
'The Tomb' doesn't present any problems for our bats as they each have
their own favourite hanging and feeding areas!
Also in Mammals:
Primates | Rodents
| Cats etc | Bats | Tapir & Peccaries
| Rare and unusual
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