While making sure not getting parasites is the most important thing a horse owner can do, the one all should be on the lookout for is parascaris equorum. The more common name is the equine roundworm. It’s able to infect horses, as well as donkeys and zebras. Typically, calves that are six months old are the ones that are most vulnerable to being attacked by this parasite.
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There are two kinds of snake that are tied for the most poisonous snake in the world. The first is the black mamba. The black mamba is found mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, and it is actually the largest species of snake found in Africa that is venomous. They’re often longer than six feet when they are adults, and are able to kill a grown man with their venom in a matter of ...
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The most popular cat is a topic that is often up for debate. In the United States of America, however, that breed is often the Maine coon. For cat owners, it is one of the largest cats they can own, and it is domesticated. It’s one of the most popular breeds of cat in the world, but that is always liable to change as tastes fluctuate in the world. The Maine coon is a cat with a ...
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This is actually a topic that is widely debated and has never really been settled. Many animals often make the list over and over, so they’re real contenders for the spot. One that almost everyone thinks of is the koala - the fuzzy gray bear from Australia. The thing is, they’re not a bear, and they can actually be very volatile when they’re provoked.
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The American College of Laboratory Medicine certifies veterinarians as specialists in laboratory animal medicine. This college is meant to help ensure that everyone who goes into a vet’s clinic as a doctor is able to do their job right. They have even come out with an app that is meant to help those in labs know what kind of drugs affect the animals they take care in the labs when given ...
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This depends on what kind of animal you’re talking about; boutu are more often called the Amazon river dolphin. They actually don’t lay eggs. They give birth to live young. Many bird species lay between three and six eggs, with some laying more and others laying less. The number of eggs in a nest depends on what kind of bird, and where they live.
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Whales are the largest animals on the earth. There are many different kinds of whales. The blue whale is the largest kind of whale. The name of “blue whale” has also come to mean a cyber game that may or may not have existed and was invented in 2013. That is beside the point.
The animals are typically large and can swim quite aways in the water before they tucker out. ...
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Feral cats are cats that are unaccustomed to human interaction, and either were born to stray cats or stray cats that have been strays so long because they haven’t been reclaimed. These cats can be neutered or not, depending on where in the world they are. If there is a neuter, trap, and return program, the neutered stray cats might be tagged in some way to show the local population ...
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In captivity, a chinchilla can live between fifteen and twenty years. However, if they’re living in a climate they’re not used to, they can live less than ten years. They normally don’t get longer than a foot or so. They’re native to the Andes mountain in South America - in places like Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
The chinchillas that aren’t kept as ...
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This is called a giraffe. They are the tallest mammal on earth - with a full grown giraffe easily able to look through a second story window. Yikes! It is native in China and scattered areas throughout Africa - such as Niger and Somalia. Only one species of giraffe still lives, while there are seven extinct species that have been found through fossil studies and fossil carbon ...
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