Animals World

Jul 15, 2007 at 13:46 o\clock

The crossbill

by: animalsworld   Category: Birds

The crossbill is a gentle little bird. The feathers of the bird are green, yellow and gray. It lives in pine  forests, as it feeds on the seeds of the pine and the fir.       The crossbill`s beak is very strong and not like the beak of any other bird. It ends in two sharp points that are crossed over each other. This helps the bird to crack the fir cones and get at the seeds.

The crossbill makes its nest in fir-trees. It likes to climb quickly  about the branches and often hangs upside down for some minutes. The crossbill makes its little home well. The walls are about an inch thick. It makes them of pine twigs and then lines the nest with feathers, soft grass and fir-needles.

The crossbill

There it lays three or four small greenish or greyish-white spotted eggs. The crossbill is the only bird that makes its nest in any season. For a long time the young birds need much care and attention from the parents, as their beaks are not strong and they cannot open the cones and get seeds for themselves.

After a while the parents teach them to work. They begin to give them half-opened cones, and soon the young crossbills learn to use their beaks.

Jul 13, 2007 at 13:14 o\clock

Octopus

by: animalsworld   Category: marine animals

The octopus is a cephalopod of the order Octopoda that inhabits many diverse regions of the ocean, especially coral reefs. The term may also refer to only those creatures in the genus Octopus. In the larger sense, there are 289 different octopus species, which is over one-third of the total number of known cephalopod species.
Octopuses are characterized by their eight arms, usually bearing suction cups. These arms are a type of muscular hydrostat. Unlike most other cephalopods, the majority of octopuses — those in the suborder most commonly known, Incirrina — have almost entirely soft bodies with no internal skeleton. They have neither a protective outer shell like the nautilus, nor any vestige of an internal shell or bones, like cuttlefish or squids. A beak, similar in shape to a parrot’s beak, is the only hard part of their body. This enables them to squeeze through very narrow slits between underwater rocks, which is very helpful when they are fleeing from morays or other predatory fish. The octopuses in the less familiar Cirrina suborder have two fins and an internal shell, generally lessening their ability to squeeze into small spaces.

Jul 13, 2007 at 13:12 o\clock

Hello my animals world!

by: animalsworld

I’m growing up with sister and brother but i don’t have animals at my home.
But I like them very much. I like to read about animals and I search in the internet interested stories about animals. I want to share with you what I found.