ANSC 3180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Udzungwa Red Colobus, Libyan Jird, Sloth Bear
24 Apr 2019
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Young elephants will run to their aunt if their mom is not available. Pangolins are very endangered (harvested for medicine) Flying squirrel change diet over seasons = omnivores. They don"t have the same thing available to them at different times. Sloth bear is a carnivore but specialize as insectivore. Geophagia = eat sand, earth, helps to digest food (udzungwa red colobus monkey) It is not a nutr but allows the animals to get access to nutr. Eucalyptus leaves are full of toxins (humans would be very sick) They need to spend a lot of time to eat. Low value and there are toxins in leaves. They have enzyme systems to detoxify these. Grow up through the lip is natural. Etruscan shrew is very very small mammal, adult is only 4 cm, 2g) Blue whale is bigger than almost all of dinosaurs. Bee hummingbird is the smallest bird, ostrich, wandering albatross (almost all their life on wings, 3. 5m wingspan)
