Forest Benefits For Animals

1. Habitat, animal house

 
Forests are home to animals, wild animals as a place to live. Many animals who spend their lives in the woods. From his birth until the animal is dead. Each animal has its own way of life, his own residence there that live in trees, forest floor, underground or in the waters of the forest. Each animal has its own power. For rulers animal will defend his territory, other animals can also get in there a different habitats of these animals will become the prey of the local authorities.

Now this animal habitats on the wane because of the destruction of forests is done intentionally or unintentionally. Due to the decreasing availability of shelter animals, these animals can get lost or arrive at the residential area. So that makes people panic and fear being around outside the home environment.

 2. The foraging

In addition to the animal shelter, forest as well as a supplier and provider of food for the animals that live in it. Plants and other animals serve as food. All animals and plants are complementary, in the absence of one of the animal's life will be unbalanced and can paralyze life.

Each creature's life will certainly complement their respective needs. All that is required must have been there in the woods just how living things are equip themselves.

 3. Place breed

In addition to the life, the forest is used as a breeding ground. Each animal has a different way of breed. So is the breeding ground there are in the tree and on the ground. Breed aims to preserve the lineage and also to increase the number of group members.

4. Playground

The high trees and geographically from the forest floor is used for young animals to play with friends of the opposite. As a collection of young monkeys playing from one tree to another by way of skipping.

Likewise, other animals that use the forest as a place to play, above the ground or water trees. So intertwined cooperation and sense of socialization for each group of animals on its own.

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Siamang Recognize Forest Animals

Siamang is one of the animals of the species of primate that has the Latin name Symphalangus syndactylus. Primate this one has a pretty distinctive appearance that is tailless, black hairy, and arboreal.

Siamang live in the forests of Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. They are classified as large-bodied monkeys. Their body size can be 2 times larger than Siamang, with a height of 1 m and weigh up to 14 kilograms. Siamang is the only representative of the genus Symphalangus.

Siamang has 2 unique characteristic that is two fingers on each leg are united by a membrane, and has a voice that makes the throat sac Siamang can inflate up to his head, enabling him to produce a sound that is loud, resonant calls or songs.

There are two types of Siamang namely, Siamang Indonesia (S. s. Syndactylus), and Siamang Malaysia (S. s. Continentis). Siamang can live up to the age of more than 30 years in captivity. 

Siamang main threat is habitat depletion from land clearing for palm oil plantations used in Indonesia and Malaysia. In addition, the population has declined siamang also due siamang hunted for sale on the black market.

SSiamang habitat is in the forests of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, both lowland forests, rain forests or forests at altitudes up to 3800 m above sea level. Although Indonesia and Malaysia Siamang appearance similar, but they differ behavior. 

Siamang usually live in groups of 4 to tail, but sometimes there are also consisting of up to 6 animals, which will inhabit an area up to 23 hectares. In the morning, Siamang will call each with unique voice and will break the silence of the forest.

Siamang have long hair, bushy, and tangled with the darkest color of all types of gibbons. They have long arms and bigger than their feet. The average height is about 90 cm Siamang. However Siamang largest ever has a height of 1.5 m. 

Siamang consuming at least 160 species of plants, but their main food is figs. Indonesian Siamang eat more fruit than Siamang Malaysia. Siamang indonesia takes up as much as 60% fruit of their daily food.

Siamang prefer to eat ripe fruit than uncooked, and rely more like young leaves than older leaves. They also eat flowers and some types of small animals, especially insects. 

 

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Tsetse Fly Dangerous Small Animal

This fly is native to Africa. But unlike other types of flies, flies suck blood and transmit this highly lethal disease. People who come into contact with tsetse flies will sleep disease. Disease carried by the tsetse fly can cause problems in the nerves, kidneys, and the cardiovascular system. The life span of the tsetse fly which is for three months and will suck the blood of mammals, especially on a daily basis. Tsetse flies normally start hunting prey in the hours during which the heat to survive.

Tsetse flies are large enough and of African origin who live by sucking the blood of vertebrate animals (vertebrates). Tsetse flies covering the whole of Glossina genus of the family Glossinidae. Tsetse have long been studied by scientists because they are biological parantara of trypanosomi Africa that resulted deadly diseases including sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana in cattle.

Gambian trypanosomiasis is an infectious disease caused by Trypanosoma gambiense. This disease is also called West African Trypanosomiasis West African Sleeping Sickness or. 

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