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  INFORMATION The red panda is slightly larger than a house cat with a bear-like body and thick fur. The belly and limbs are black, and there are white markings on the side of the head and above its cute eyes. They have nice round ears and white whiskers. The red pandas are instantly recognizable by their red coloring and cute face, long bushy tails and raccoon like features, they are excellent tree climbers. The giant panda resembles a black bear while the red panda resembles a raccoon. So no one is for sure which resembles a panda. Both red pandas and giant pandas are endangered, their population is decreasing rapidly and may soon be extinct. Their primary threats are habitat loss and degradation, human interference and poaching( illegal trafficking and killing of wildlife ). According to the World Wildlife Fund , there are less than 10,000 red pandas left in the world Red pandas feed mainly on leaves and bamboo, but occasionally snack on fruit, insects, bird eggs and small lizards.

INFORMATION Komodo dragons are large lizards with long tails, strong necks, and sturdy limbs. Their tongues are yellow. Almost all Adults are stone colored with large scales, while younger ones may display a more colorful pattern. Komodo dragons are the heaviest lizards on Earth. They have long, flat heads with rounded snouts. They have very scaly skin and huge tails.   Large adults eat goats, pigs, deer and more while smaller ones eat birds, bird eggs, small mammals, small reptiles and so. They have been known to bring down horses and water buffaloes too.  The ones which live in the Zoo take Insects, mice, rats, rabbits, and a prepared carnivore diet. While the adults prefer to hunt large mammals, the very young ones feed on insects, eggs, geckos, and small mammals.  Komodo dragons hunt and ambush its prey. It has been discovered that they have a very venomous bite . Komodo dragons have sharp, serrated teeth, but a weak bite, and prey may escape the attack of the predator but the pr

Once in the jungle, when food was scarce, A cunning wolf roaming in the forest was very hungry. it looked all over for food but found none. While travelling to the dark part of the forest the wolf smelled meat. it was happy, so happy that it tracked the smell and soon reached the spot. it was the king of the forest, a lion. the lion was eating the meat of a sheep. The wolf who was very intelligent, tried to trick, the lion by saying "Oh, king here you are. While searching for food I saw this other lion who was killing a herd of buffaloes. I asked what it was doing and to that it said our old king's methods of making animals listen won't work. It is going to give all this meat to all the carnivores and he will become king. Once he does that he is planning to kill you. O king I ran as fast as I could to inform you, please go and stop it!"  The lion, understanding the wolf’s trick, asked the wolf “You are a carnivore right? How can I know that you didn't take meat fr

 

 

 

A snake had succeeded in attacking the fierce eagle while it was at rest in its nest. the snake had curled up on the eagle's neck not letting the eagle peck it or catch it from its deadly claws. The eagle tried to shake off its enemy flying high in the sky. But the snake only tightened its grasp. The eagle being unable to breathe lowered down to earth from above the clouds. A countryman saw this unequal battle and approached the snake, dragging it from the eagle’s neck and threw it down. The snake was on the ground when it jumped upon the man who caught it. He hit it with a stick then threw it again.  The snake realized that it could not bite either the man or the eagle with the careful watch of the countryman. So the snake jumped at the water bottle, hanging from the belt of the countryman and let its poison flow in the water. As soon as the water turned to poison the snake leaped from the belt as fast as lightning and slithered away. The countryman didn't notice the act of t

A hunter whose wife had died, lived in a small cottage in the middle of a forest with his 4 year old child and his beautiful hound (a hunting dog). Whenever he went hunting he would put his child to sleep and take the hound with him. The hound was very trustworthy and had saved the hunter’s life many times. One night, the hunter went hunting but he had forgotten the hound. Meanwhile the dog was playing near the child’s cot. When the hunter reached the end of the forest he noticed that he had forgotten the hound. The hunter, getting worried, ran to his house as fast as his legs could carry him. When he reached he saw blood on the floor. The hound came running to him and stopped. The hound’s claws and teeth were dripping with the red liquid. The hunter was furious thinking that the dog had killed his child. Angry as he was, he took his sword and was going to slice it. The animal understood that its master wanted to kill it. It lay steady on the ground, kneeling to its master. He took a d

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