Dog training is a practice that is applied on a dog in order to make it efficient and manageable. Training will also helps to strengthen the bond between dogs and humans. Dog training is all about making your dog non violent and improving the efficiency of a dog while understanding their needs and wants.
A highly contagious disease, canine distemper is a viral disease, often fatal in nature. The organs affected are respiratory tracts, central nervous system and the gastrointestinal tracts. Though largely affecting dogs, wolf and foxes can be a victim of the same as well.
Cats are often infected with the larvae of large flies known as cuterebra. Other animals infected with the same parasite are squirrels, rabbits, dogs and rodents. Cats can acquire cuterbra larva after probably they have investigated a rodent or rabbit den. After such an act the cat may come in contact with the cuterebra eggs or larvae.
One of the largest, fastest and the most intelligent, the octopus is a mollusk in the order Octopoda. The animal has two eyes and four pairs of arms, also known as the tentacles. These tentacles are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak and it lacks in any kind of internal or external skeleton.
Formation of hair block in the stomach is a very common disease among rabbits. Wool bearing rabbits while grooming can get balls of wool stuck in their stomach. This condition is known as wool block. If not treated properly, this condition can even lead to death. One of the first and foremost signs of wool block would be the rabbit’s refusal to eat because of concentration of wool in its stomach. Due to this your rabbit will feel full and will refuse to eat.
As the name suggests, the red-eyed tree frog is native to the Neotropical rainforests of Central America. This frog is vibrant in appearance with bright red eyes and vivid green body with yellow and blue stripes. They have orange toes. The average size ranges from 2 to 3 inches. The young ones are brown in color and turn greener as they grow up. The skin on their belly is thinner than the skin on their neck and back. Since these frogs are arboreal in nature, they spend most of their time in trees and are very good jumpers. Red-eyed frogs are not poisonous and resorts to camouflage to protect themselves. They are usually active during night and remain motionless at day time. Since they quickly resort to camouflage it becomes difficult to capture them.
The most spectacularly colored toads on earth, the Golden Toad is found exclusively in the country of Costa Rica. Because of its limited availability, it is also referred to as Monte Verde toad. Way back in 1966, they were first described by the herpetologist, Jay Savage. Since 1989 not a single Golden Toad was spotted anywhere else in the world apart from Costa Rica. A decline in the population of the amphibians suddenly led to the extinction of this particular species of frog.
The Asian Bull Frog is commonly known as the chubby frog. Belonging to the narrow-mouthed frog family, they have rounded bodies. The skin color ranges from brown to mahogany with cream stomachs. They have distinctive stripes on their bodies which are usually copper brown to salmon pink in color. The throats in males are darker in color than that of the females. Body length varies from 7-8 centimeters with females having a slightly larger body than the males.
Commonly known as sweet flag, Acorus calamus belongs to the Acoracae family. The other names by which it is known as are flag root, muskrat root, sweet calomel and the like.
Algae are a group of autotrophic organism. They can either be unicellular or multicellular in form. Among them the largest and the most complicated ones are the seaweeds. The most commonly seen algae is the blue-green algae. They are very much like the land plants who obtain energy through photosynthesis just like the land plants. They are known to occur in both fresh water and hypersaline water as well.