All animals are connected with each other somehow. Although it is not always welcome relation, they interact with in nature anyway. Little Bumblebees come across various creatures in this story with many illustrations. Let’s find out circle of life in nature through the seasons of Bumblebees.

In order to enjoy the animals in the zoo, it is very important to understand the nature of wildlife, their survival and their environment. On this page, Jack the Lizard shows images created from many different information sources.

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Bull-headed Shrikes live in China, Korea, Japan and Russia. Some migrate to southern China during the winter. They often fly around open field and the edge of forests to look for their prey.

The prey is diversified such as insect, fish, amphibian, reptile, and small mammal.

They look adorable, but have dreadful habit, impalement. It is not clear why they do that. Some think that they prepare for winter, but they do not always come back. Another say that since they are small and cannot eat whole prey at a time, they come back later. Yet they often forget where they left their prey. Sometimes they killed prey and do not even eat it, they just stick it on the twig and leave.

In Japanese this curious behaviour is called “Hayanie”.

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Carnivorous plants eat insects, spiders, crustaceans and invertebrates. They feed on even small lizards, frogs and mice too. To catch prey carnivorous plants use three major techniques.

Some species such as round- leaved sundew produces sticky substance with sugary scent on its leaves to attract and capture prey. Others develop their leaves like pots to trap prey insides of them. These pots secrete sweet scent and nectar to allure prey into the pots. Pitcher plants have this type of net. Water wheel plants and Venus flytrap bite their prey with their leaves and slowly digest victims in about 10 days. In the wild Venus flytrap is only found in North and South Carolina, U.S.A. All three types of carnivorous plants have brilliant colorful leaves in common.

Although carnivorous plants can be found all continents except Antarctica, they live in the places in which nutrients are limited in the soil. While carnivorous plants eat other animals, they also do photosynthesis like other plants do. Therefore they need sunlight and water. One of unique feature of carnivorous plants is special enzyme with which they digest their prey.

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When Lions feed on fresh killed prey, they eat internal organs first. They rip up belly of prey and devour heart, liver, and kidney. They also eat intestine but not stomach. Then the hindquarters of prey are consumed. Finally they eat the ribs and forequarters. Usually the head and spinal column are left behind. The exact reason why they have this eating habit is not known. It may be because internal organs are nutritious part of body.

Since Spotted Hyenas can crush bones with their powerful jaws and teeth, they clean the carcass lions left. Alongside of Spotted Hyenas Jackals also feed on anything left over. Following those carnivores Vultures and Marabou Storks start eating carrion. Finally Burying beetles and Flesh flies come in finishing all.

Males fight each other for the position of ruler. Rulers have their harem in which they mate with females. However the way to the ruler is hard. Occasionally one of them loses their lives during the fight.

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In winter males arrive at the breeding beaches in south coast of California and northern Mexico. After the battles female arrive and form harem with a dominant male. The harem is composed of 50 to 100 females and each of them gives birth to single pup which has been already in a mother since the preceding season. At birth pups are only about 4ft (1.2m) and weigh about 75lb (35kg).

Males grow up to about 13ft (4m) long and weigh nearly 4000lb (2000kg). Females are much smaller, about 10ft (3m) long and 1300lb (600kg) in weight. The diets of Northern Elephant seals are squids, several kinds of fishes such as rockfish, ratfish, sharks and rays.

Stoats live in broad regions of the World such as Europe, North America and Asia. The habitats are varied too, marshes, woodlands, mountains and farmlands. They are dwarf predator. The body length is only about 18cm to 32cm (7 to 12in). They look like least weasels, but stoats are little bit larger.

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Stoats prey on the various small animals such as voles, shrews, pikas, birds and fish. Sometimes they hunt prey larger than themselves such as hare and ptarmigan. The hunting technique is very unique. When the Stoat confront prey, it romps around prey as if it is not interested. Then suddenly it pounces on the prey and bites the back of victim’s neck.

Some animals such as wild cats, foxes, owls and snakes prey upon stoats. Stoats use the burrows of their prey instead of digging their own burrows. Stoats also store excessive food to eat later.

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Some animals living in hot and dry places need estivation to escape heat and dehydration. When it is too hot and prey is scarce in desert, Desert hedgehogs estivate in underground burrows or rocks. During estivation their body temperatures get lower and heartbeat get slow to save energy. In contrast to European hedgehog, they do not hibernate because it is not too cold for them to do so in the desert.

Desert hedgehogs go hunting during the night. They eat insects, scorpions, spiders and snakes. Their size is about 14 to 28cm (5 to 11in), they are one of the smallest hedgehogs. Desert hedgehogs live in Sahara desert and Arabian Peninsula.

Other than desert hedgehogs, some snails, beetles and frogs do estivation.

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Shoebills live in east Africa from Sudan to Zambia. The habitat is watery places such as swamps and mashes. Stillness is the most important tactics for Shoebills. Since they are very large birds, about 115 to 150cm (45 to 60in) tall, their prey can easy to spot them when they move. That is why they have to wait the moment prey comes around.

They hunt aquatic animals such as fish, frogs, turtles and young crocodiles. Especially African lungfish is their regular prey, because it is easy to catch when it comes to the surface to take a breath.

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Sumatran rhinoceros are very rare and the smallest rhino in the rhino family. They live in the rain forest of Malaysia and Indonesia. The length of body is about 2 to 3m (6.5 to 9.5ft) and the weight is about 600 to 950kg (1300 to 2000lb). Varying from most other rhinos they have reddish brown hair. It protects skin from insects and cools off their body. They like to splash around in mud during the day. This behavior also keeps their body temperature suitable and helps to avoid parasites.

The diet of Sumatran rhinos includes fruits such as mangosteens and wild durian, and plants such as bamboo and Eugenia. They also lick salt to take necessary nutrition.

Elephants and tapirs share their natural habitat with Sumatran rhinos. Large mammals like them form trails when they walk around. Other animals such as dholes, boar and deer use those trails too.

Marsican Brown Bears live in Central Apennine Mountains in Italy, especially in the Abruzzo National Park. They are not large brown bears; a male is about 1.9 m (6.2ft) long and 130kg (290lb) in weight. Usually they are very tranquil and not aggressive. Despite of their popularity only about 50 of them remained because of shrinking habitat and poaching.

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Marsican Brown Bears need space to survive. More than 90 % of their diet is plants and fruits, therefore they have to eat a lot to get enough nutrition. They also need the place in which they can hibernate quietly during the winter.

Amami rabbits are very rare rabbits, only found in two small islands Amami Oshima and Toku-no-Sima in Japan. These semi tropical islands are located between Kagoshima prefecture, southern Kyusyu and Okinawa prefecture.

They live in forest and rest in tree hollows or caves during the day. They are active in the night and nibble Susuki grass, the bark of Japanese Cedar and fruits. Usually a mother has one or two baby rabbits and digs a hole for rearing.

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Amami rabbits make noise or stump with hind legs to communicate. The predator is vipers, dogs, cats and mongooses which are introduced species to kill vipers.

Amami rabbits are natural monument species in Japan.

They are NOT sea otter! The habitat is the Pacific coast of South America from southern Peru to further north of Argentina. Therefore they are marine mammal, called “Marine otter”.

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The size is about 1m (3ft) long and 4.5kg (10lb) in weight. They are active during the day, looking for food such as crabs, shrimps and mollusks.

Marine otters are poached for their pelts and threatened by the pollution of shore. The heavy harvesting of kelps is also serious impact on the population of marine otter. As kelps are very important habitat for crabs, shrimps and other marine animals on which marine otters prey.

Specialists are trying to confirm how many marine otters still survive and study the effects of harvesting kelps.

The Japanese Coin Turtles or Chinese Pond Turtles occur throughout in Japan except Hokkaido. They are also found in China, Korean peninsula and Taiwan. In Japan their habitats are rivers, ponds and marshes. They also like to stay the man-made environments such as paddy field and shrines in which there are usually ponds. They are omnivore, so eat variety of foods such as small fish, crayfish, clams, water bugs, insects and water plants.

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When they start mating, males approach females by extending their necks to females’. After the mating females are laying eggs on the ground from June to August. Some baby turtles hatch out in autumn and others stay in the ground during the winter until spring comes. Adults hibernate when water temperature gets lower. They stay in under water mud or rotten leaves during the hibernation. They usually use lungs to breathe, but when they stay in water they take oxygen through their skin.

Female has larger carapace about 30cm (12in) and male has one about 20cm (8in). The life expectancy is subject to conditions, about from 20 to 40 years. Males turn their color almost completely black when they get old.

Quolls live in Australia and Papua New Guinea. In the Quoll family the following 6 species are identified, New Guinean, Western, Eastern, Northern, Bronze and Tiger Quoll. Tiger Quolls are the largest among them, about 35 to 75 cm (14 to 30 in) in length.

Tiger Quolls have white spots on their tails that is distinguishable mark from very similar look Eastern Quolls which have no spots on their tails.

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Alongside Tasmanian Devil, Tiger Quolls are the largest carnivorous marsupial in Australia. The prey includes, insects, reptiles, birds and small mammals.

The threats to all Quoll species are habitat destruction and predators such as domestic cats, foxes and dingoes. Moreover cane toads are the most serious problem they have been facing on recently. Since cane toads are highly toxic, eating them leads Quolls to almost certain death. So now some Quolls, like Northern Quolls have been trained not to eat cane toads.

Juvenile Amazon River Dolphins are grey. Pink is sign of maturity. The color is not only uniqueness of this dolphin. Amazon River Dolphin is also equipped with several sharp senses.

One is their sharp eyesight despite the fact that their eyes are very small. The other is that they have the rigid hairs on the beak which spots prey in muddy river beds. They also use sonar in murky waters. The front teeth of Amazon River Dolphins are adapted for seizing prey. The rear teeth are for grinding crabs and small turtles.

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Since Amazon River Dolphins have large flippers and flukes but very small dorsal fin, they are very mobile in shallow river waters.

Caracals live in Africa, the Middle East and North West India. Their habitats are the dry woodland, savannah and semi-desert. The length is about 60 to 91 cm (23.5 to 36 in) and 6 to 19 kg (13 to 42 lb) in weight. The lifespan is about 12 years in the wild and 17 years in captivity.

The diets are birds, rodents, hares and hyraxes. They remove the skin or the feathers from prey and leave the guts after meal.

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They jump amazingly high when they ambush birds. Sometimes the height reaches 3 m (10 ft). Also the power of caracal cannot be underestimated. A caracal is able to knock down the prey larger than itself such as gazelles and small antelope.

Despite of fierce appearance caracals can be tamed and in India and Iran help humans to hunt birds.

Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur is identified as the smallest primate in the world. The body is about 9.2 cm (3.2 in) in length and the weight is about 30 g (1.1 oz). The only home for this lemur is the Menabe region in the island of Madagascar.

Madame Berthe’s Mouse lemurs eat variety of food. Fruits and sugary stuff produced by insects are very important diets for them. As nocturnal predators they catch insects and small reptiles in the night. On the other hand the predators of them include civets, mongooses, owls and snakes also on the move during the night.

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The reduction of habitat caused by illegal logging and slash-and-burn agriculture threatens survival of Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur.

By the way all primates have five fingers with nails like us. They can hold things with hand. The eyes of primates face forward and give them accurate perception of distance.

Leopards live in Africa and Asia. Jaguars are not Leopards even though fur patterns resemble each other. About 9 subspecies of leopards are found so far. Some species such as Amur leopard, Java leopard and Arabian leopard will be extinct if we do not protect them. Among those leopards Amur leopards have one of the smallest populations about 30 to 45 left in the wild and 300 in captivity. The main threats are deforestation, poaching (illegal hunting), and inbreeding (few genetic diversity because of small populations).

Amur leopards inhabit around the borders of three countries, Korea, China and Russia. The length of male is about 2 m (6.4 ft) and 90 kg (200 lb) in weight. In the wild the life span extends up to 15 years and in captivity it may be longer about up to 20 years.

The climate in which they spend during the winter is not easy. The temperature drops to minus 56℃( minus 65F). Amur leopards hunt deer, hares (wild rabbits), badgers and rodents. They have thick long tails as snow leopards do to balance themselves while chasing. Certainly you do not need a fridge to keep fresh meat. They keep their left over on trees or under rocks.

In Japan there are two kinds of fox, The Hondo fox (Vulpes vulpes japonica) and The Hokkaido fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki). Later is slightly larger and has black spot on the feet and back of the ears. Hokkaido is the second largest island in Japan. The Hokkaido fox inhabits Hokkaido and islands nearby.

The Hokkaido fox is about 60~80 cm (23~31 in) in length and weighs about 4~10 kg (9~22 lb). The habitats widely range from coast to subalpine. They hunt rabbits, rodents, small birds and insects. In autumn they also eat some fruits and seeds.

In early spring pups are born in the den. Basically only the mother takes care of them, but pups' older brothers or sisters help mother sometimes. The father lives alone and does not participate in parenting.

In Hokkaido they are one of the most popular animals, but you must not give them food because of the parasite in their body. If other animals including humans were infected, they would die.

Surely they are cute, especially in fluffy winter coat though.

The Ghost bats are Australian.　The name comes from the pale appearance in the night. Large ears can hear the sounds a great distance away. They live in caves, cracks in the rocks and abandoned old mines.

The size is about 10~12 cm (4~5 in). A large variety of prey can be hunted by the ghost bats such as insects, frogs, lizards, birds, small mammals and other bats. They usually hunt within 1 to 2 km of their roost places.

They are vulnerable to the destruction of their roost site. Reworking of old mines and cave tourism are some of the reason.

The family of hippopotamus includes two species, the hippopotamus and the pygmy hippopotamus. Both of them live in Africa. The hippos are found in south of the Sahara desert and the pygmies only occur in West Africa. Although the number of the hippo is still stable, the pygmies are threatened by habitat loss through the deforestation.

The adult male hippo can grow up to about 5 m (17 ft) in length, weighs about 3 tons (9000 lb). The running speed sometimes reached faster than 40 km/h (25 mph). The hippo can run much faster than human. Looks like easy-going creature but once they are disturbed, they turn to be relentless.

Especially a mother with calves is dangerous to approach. Since young hippos are vulnerable to Nile crocodiles, lions or hyenas, mother hippo will be very nervous if they are around. One bite of adult hippo is too much for those guys to risk their lives.

Philippine Eagles can be found on the islands, Mindanao and Luzon in the Philippines. They live in the forest and hunt snakes, palm civet (looks like a cat), hornbills, flying lemurs and monkeys. They are probably the largest bird of prey in the World. The average adult is about 75 to 100 cm (30 to 40 in) tall and the wingspan reaches about 2 m (78 in).

The nest is built on the giant tree about 30 m (99 ft) above the ground. Parents raise only one chick a year. Only 500 Philippine Eagles remain in the wild and they are critically endangered. The main threat is deforestation as results of logging and expanding of agriculture.

Lions can be divided into about 16 sub-species, but four species of them, European, Spotted, Barbary and Cape are already extinct. Barbary and Cape lions were largest species. Somali lions are the smallest.

However the extinction is not always absolute. Some Barbary lions have survived in captivity. Several zoos such as Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland and Hodnin Zoo in the Czech Republic breed Barbary lions and about 100 of them are reared around the World.

The long mane which extends chests and belly is the distinguished feature of Barbary lion. The size is about 3.5m (12ft) long and 230kg (550lb) in weight. The natural habitat was the mountain forests of North Africa.

Complicated Situations - Crab-eating Macaque

The Crab-eating Macaques live in South East Asia such as Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thai, the Philippines and so on. The macaques were　also brought by people into other places including Hong Kong, New Guinea, Mauritius, and others. Because the Crab-eating Macaque has adapted the new environment to survive, the ecosystems have lost its' balance and the native animals which have not had its' predators in the isolated islands are threaten by the alien macaque.

The Crab-eating Macaque looks like a bearded grandpa. It was named the Crab-eating Macaque, but crab is just a part of its diet. The main foods are fruits and seeds. The macaque also eats leaves, frogs, lizards, bird eggs, chicks and so on.

The Crab-eating macaques frequently come to the humans' worlds. In Thai and Borneo Island in Indonesia, the macaques are hunted and eaten by human because they damage the grain field. On the other hand in Bali in Indonesia, the Crab-eating Macaque is a sacred animal and lives in temples.

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Precious Tasmanian Devil

Only found in the island of Tasmania which is located in southeast of Australia. Tasmanian devils are little marsupial. They are only 65 cm (26in) in length and weigh about 12kg (27lb). Females are little smaller. They are like little dogs but powerfully built. The prey is other marsupial such as wombats, wallabies and possums, also birds, reptiles and insect, so they are carnivore. They do both hunting and scavenging. The ability of run fast and the strong sense of smell lead them to the prey. Their strong jaws can crush victims flesh and bones.

Now the great danger threats the survival of little guys. The facial cancer, which is only epidemic among devils by biting each other for food, causes the tumor on their face. As the tumor grows, they are not able to hunt and eat. The cancer spreads very fast. The population of devils is dropped significantly. Therefore zoos and conservation organizations catch some healthy devils to protect. Now about 170 of them are in captivity and will be reintroduced in the area, of which free from the disease in future.

Although people try hard to find out what causes this cancer, the cause and cure are not found yet.

Bilbies are Australians who live in dry lands such as the Tanami Desert of Northern Territory, the Gibson Desert of Western Australia and some areas in southwest Queensland. The population of Bilby is declined because of habitats loss and predators such as foxes and cats.

Bilby is about 30 to 50 cm (12 to 20 inches) in length and weighs about 1 to 1.5kg (2lb to 3lb).　Bilby eats seeds, bulbs, plants, insects and spiders. The moisture in the food gives Bilbies enough water to survive. They are well adapted to arid environment and active in night and rest during day in their burrow to avoid heat.

Beaver the Builder

There are two kinds of beaver in the world. One is European and another is American.

Adult beaver grows up to about 30 inches (80cm) in length and weighs about 55 pounds (25kg). Their lifespan is between 18 and 25 years. Beaver couple lives together. Their diets are the bark of poplar and maple tree. They also eat plants and berries during warm period of a year.

Beavers construct the dam and the lodge for their home. First of all they set the timbers up in the stream. Then they fill the gap between the timbers with mud, stones and leaves. Beavers start making their lodge after the dam holds water long enough and creates the ponds. The dome-shaped lodge is made of branches and leaves. It provides the foods and the protection from the predators such as wolves, bobcats and cougars. Since beavers do not hibernate, they can live together comfortably inside of the lodge during the winter. Although the dam is pretty strong enough to hold current, it must be well maintained. To do so, beavers create canals to supply the reinforcement.

Beaver dam and lodge also benefit other animals. Frogs and fish can have their hiding place. The canals eventually shape wetland which furnishes the habitat for aquatic insect.

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Coati is a member of the raccoon family, lives in North, Central and South America. Their sizes are about 30 to 70 cm (about 30 to 27 inches) excluding the tail, weight between 3 to 8 kg (6 to 18 pounds). Females and youths stay together to live, eat and grow their families. Males older 2 years old are solitary most of the time and join the female group for mating. The life span is about 7 to 8 years.

Unlike racoons which are active during the night, coati is diurnal. They use their long tails to locate each other in the high bush and weed. Their main diets are insects, fruits, frogs, lizards, rats, and so on.

By the way, some toads discharge toxic fluid to scare the enemies off. Unfortunately this weapon does not work for coati. Coati steps on the toed to squeeze the fluid out of its skin before eat it.

Night Hunter

In rainforests the Jaguar eats a variety of prey. From meaty large mammal such as capybara, tapirs and peccaries to carnivorous tough reptiles such as anacondas and caimans whatever the jaguar can find on the dark and humid forest floor. The jaguar hunts small species such as turtles, frogs, and fish. Rainforests are tough places to survive.

The jaguar is smaller than the lion and the tiger. The size of body is only about 180cm. The weight is about 160kg. But the power of jaguar is incredible. The jaguar will assault prey in the river or the pond.　It is very difficult for the jaguar to get the body out of water because of currents and mud. Jaguar can do that anyway and drag the carcass into the forest to eat it comfortably.

Olive Baboon in sorrow

Baboons have 5 species, Hamadryas, Guinea, Yellow, Chacma and Olive. All of them have dog-like faces. They are also closely related to the mandrill which has colorful face.

The olive baboon is the most common baboon in Africa. Since they are omnivores, they eat every edible thing such as plants and insects. They are also hunter, so they prey on mammals such as rodents, rabbits and small monkeys. Meanwhile lions and leopards kill olive baboons. Therefore olive baboons always change their sleeping place to avoid those large cats. They are very smart and sometimes cause troubles by eating human crops and garbage.

They live in troops. Each troop is composed of 20 to 100 females and their offspring. The bond between mother and their youngsters is very strong. Infants cling to her mother for a year. A mother baboon keeps the body of baby died from disease, injury or starvation for several days.

Bull Elk is huge powerful deer, about 400kg (1100lbs), 2.4 m (7feet) long. Male Grey Wolf is about 80kg (175lbs) and 1.5m (60in) long. Usually wolves do not hunt a healthy solid bull elk. They do not want to get hurt with antlers. However when they are extremely hungry and have no other animals to gnaw, they must engage with a Bull. If they can make him run, they will win. Bull would be exhausted himself running.

A bull Sperm Whale does not have enemies. Its body reached 20 m in length that is the largest among toothed whales. It is too big and powerful for even Killer Whales to attack.

Sperm Whales ate the Colossal Squid. It is known as the largest squid, even bigger than a Giant squid which can grow up to 13m long. A Colossal Squid has sharp hooks on its arms which causes considerable damages to Sperm Whales.

Although Chimpanzees mainly eat leaves, nuts and fruits, chimpanzees do hunt and eat meat.

According to the study of Kyoto University chimpanzee in Tanzania kill Red Colobus which is about 130 cm long and weigh 5 to 10kg for their meat. They also kill Blue duikers which is 35cm tall and weigh 4kg little antelope and Red tail monkeys. They do hunt both team and individually. While one team chase a prey up on trees, others are waiting a moment a prey down to the ground. Once a prey touched ground, it is doomed.

It is rarely witnessed that Chimps scavenge but they eat other animals left over too. The report said that Chimps scavenge the body of Bush back killed by a leopard. Chimps probably scavenge the animals which could not kill by themselves since the prey is too big, weigh about 15kg.

Two anziani had been attacked by bear, north east Japan October 5 2008. One of them was picking up walnuts when she was assaulted from behind. Do not blame on the bear. Probably he was only finding food, and loss of habitat is the most likely reason of his action. This bear was probably a Japanese black bear.

Brown bears are also distributed in Hokkaido Island, northern part of Japan. They eat salmon like grizzly bears do in Alaska to accumulate body fat. Whereas they are omnivorous, they eat raspberries, butterbur ants, bees and deer. In fact 80 % of their diet is vegetable.

Shrews look like mice but they are not related, not even close. They are more close to moles. Anyway shrews are shrews.
They are tiny. The largest of their kind is about 14cm long and the smallest is only 3cm long , weigh about same as 1 cent U.S. coin. They are smallest mammal on the earth.
They eat mainly insects, but some of them eat fish and even a house mouse which is more bigger than shrews.

Eurasian water shrews are skilled divers. When they hunt preys in water, they use bubble because their eye sight is quite poor. They brow bubble toward a object and smell the scent of reflecting bubble to recognise the distance and if the target was prey or not.
When they catch a prey, they paralyse it with venomous saliva. The others lives on the ground use hyper frequency to hunt like some bats do.

If lionesses are not hungry, this kind of conflict would rarely occur. Although they compete for meat and hate each other, they do not want to hurt themselves during the fight. Simply they cannot afford to take such risks. When the preys are scarce, however this could happen. They are desperately hungry and easily irritate like us. Surprisingly hyenas are tough and consistence. They are raiders of Africa.

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The Philippine Tarsier is a tiny primate, whose size is about a banana, 6 inches (15 cm) long. The ancestor of tarsier lived in the Philippines 40 million years ago. Astonishingly tarsier has survived in some of the Philippine islands since then. Tarsier is certainly small but it is very good hunter at night. Tarsier’s big front-faced eyes can measure the distance between itself and the prey very accurately. Tarsier also has very strong hind limb to jump at least 3 meters long between branches. Once tarsier spots a prey, it hits the prey swiftly by using their legs. During the daytime, the Tarsier hides in the hollow to avoid any predators like owls. Tarsier mainly feed insects but also catch small lizards and birds and sometimes even snakes.

It is very dangerous for even polar bears to hunt the walrus, but this one is very lucky. He found the carcass of the male walrus, which probably died from injured during the fight against another one. Arctic fox and gulls are also gathering for their share.

This is the Great White Shark attacking a Fur Seal. The Great White ambushes the seal from below. The shark prefers the prey with high contents of energy-rich fat.

You may be afraid of the shark because of the imange of the man-eater from the Steven Spielberg’s film Jaws. But human is not their favourite food as the body is consist of many bones and little muscle and fat.

Now we don't have the accurate statistic of their populations, but the number has been clearly declined. The Great White shark is now on the list of endangered species. They are very curious, and intelligent. Do you believe that they have personality?

Even if the Lion is the King of Wild, they have to be very careful to hunt an African Buffalo. Its huge horns are strong enough to hurt lions. We sometimes see the buffalo on TV on the Animal Channel or the Discovery Channel, but have we ever see them in a zoo?

The Lions like to hunt the Warthog cubs because they make such a delicious meal. But even for the Lion, King of the Wild, it is very difficult to catch these elusive little runners. And dangerous too! Just look at those sharp tusks!

The Lions team up together to capture their prey, just like the wolf packs. To catch a Zebra for example, one group of Lions chases the unsuspecting Zebras towards a second group hiding in the bush ahead. POUNCE! They get him as he runs terrified right into their waiting jaws and claws. He never had a chance.