Spanish animals in danger of extinction

Iberian lynx

Lynx is a genus of mammals Felidae popularly known as lynx. Four known species characterized by their size, strong legs, long ears, short tail and body more or less mottled.
All species live exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere, in Eurasia and North America (where they seem to originate). The so-called African Lynx (Caracal caracal), who lives in Africa and much of Central and West Asia, is actually a little cat who keeps some related external similarities with the representatives of the genus Lynx result of evolutionary convergence, such as its tail exceptionally short (little more than a mere stump), and their large ears, topped by large plumes of black hair at the tip used to increase its already large hearing. There are also some characteristic tufts of long hair on the cheeks.

The iron Tarentola


Tarentola is a genus of the family Gekkonidae and is commonly known by the name of salamanquesas or perenquenes.
The members of this genus for the most part have colors ranging from pale brown or gray in various shades to a dark almost black. His skin is rough and usually has several lumps and stains. The color of their skin and features allow them to hide during the day on tree trunks, stones and other elements of their natural habitat. Some can change color slightly, changing its skin tone. Animals are very fast and can climb on vertical surfaces, since most have pads on their feet that allow them to join. The genus name comes from Taranto, an Italian city.

The bearded vulture

Quebrantahuesos the most frequented places in the wild and inaccessible mountains. Its giant silhouette of a falcon, his belly clear, red chest, his face masked with a disturbing "mask" that leaves poke two black eyes uniquely colored, with three concentric circles, black, yellow and red, have occurred in men fear , fear and horror.
In Spain, until relatively recently, it was common in many mountain ranges, but the relentless pursuit of which has been subjected to indiscriminate use of poison in the area to destroy mammalian predators, it has reduced to breeding areas in very small the Pyrenees.

The Mediterranean monk seal


The Mediterranean monk seal and Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is one of the rarest pinnipeds there. Endangered, once populated the waters of the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, reaching the islands of Cape Verde, Madeira and the Canary Islands (which gave its name to the island of Lobos) and to all the North African coast.
Cited for the first time in the Odyssey of Homer, skeletal remains were found in caves of the seals belonging to the Malaga magdaleniano time ago and epipaleolitico between 14000 and 12000 years. Marks, fractures and burns detected in these bones indicate that people used to seal not only for meat but also for skin and fat.

wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus) is a Fam.Canidae in the order Carnivora within the mammals. Probably the most distinctive features of the animals of this size are their long and pointed canine teeth and sharp teeth or premolars upper and lower molars. Carnivores have a simple digestive system and its claws are usually sharp. Moreover, their clavicles are comparatively small. Their brains are highly developed, so these animals are considered more intelligent than most other groups. In addition to the wolf, the dog's family also includes domestic dogs, coyotes, different species of jackals and the dingo. The constitution of the wolf immediately indicates its ability predatory. The 42 pieces of heavy jaws, his rib cage and broad bulky masseter muscles, which give its characteristic shape almond eyes that are the result of a pragmatic evolution to serve its function in the predator trophic level. An adult wolf can have a length of between 100 and 120 centimeters, and an appeal to the cross of 60 to 70 centimeters. The weight varies between 30 and 50 kilos, but copies have been found up to 75 kg. Females have a size and weight than those of males. The variations in size between subspecies and some others may be explained by differences in temperature in areas they inhabit. There is an inverse relationship between temperature and body size of a warm-blooded animal. Those animals in warmer regions have a body mass than those who live in colder regions (Bergman and Allen). The age of the wolf in good survival can reach 16 years.


samaruc


Fish body oblong proportionately slim little depressed by the cephalic region and the rest compressed, rounded wings and mouth contour supraterminal bearing teeth unicúspides irregularly arranged in several rows. Relatively large scales. Color pardoverdoso by the dorsal surface and clearer to the stomach. Males have yellow and green reflections, in addition, show a dark spot behind the operculum and a series of cross-band and narrow brown. The fins have odd points and radios lined up in the yellow or orange tones. Females do not have all this design and its dorsal and anal fins are less extensive than in males. Longitudinal line with 28 to 30 scale, cross only 8 or 9. Can achieve little more than eight inches, with females generally larger than the males of the same age, although the size of normal adults is about four to seven cm.

Imperial eagle

Our ornithologist is now at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River, is observing a flock of geese from Europe when a shadow passes by ground among geese, suddenly a vast imperial eagle has captured a goose common, after stopping at a slope close to the other geese, is set in our ornithologist goose, weighs at least three pounds, is it possible that an eagle of not more than four kilos capture an animal as large, "if it is not an eagle either is Emperor of forests, is the imperial eagle.
Presented by age 2 plumage, a dark brown adults except creamy white shoulders and neck, and a young tawny brown tone. Only you can be confused with the golden eagle if the observation is bad or long distance. Mainly live in forests in the Mediterranean, in the marshes and the marshes, provided nests in the trees. Its current population is about 80 to 100 couples.


Brown bear

The brown bear in Spain is in danger of extinction. Only a few copies in the Cantabrian Mountains and in the Pyrenees.
Asturian population is estimated at about 80 individuals, mostly located in the Natural Park of Somiedo and Cangas del Narcea. Poaching and the increased presence of humans in their natural habitat are some of the causes of their gradual disappearance.
The brown bear is our nature. It is a treasure that must be careful. Protecting Bear also protects other wildlife.
Their conservation needs the help of all. The bear is an animal plantigrade, meaning that, like humans, go to support the weight of his body on plants his feet.
It's big and muscular, with a small head on his big body.

The black vulture


The black vulture (Aegypius monachus) is the only species of its kind and one of the few vultures can be found in Europe along with the griffon vulture, the vulture and the eagle. Half the size of this species is 25 dm, slightly more than the griffon vulture, although cases have been referred to individuals who could have come to three meters. It should not be confused with the American black vulture, a member of a species (Coragyps atratus) and family (Cathartidae) different.
Its main range is in Asia, covering the entire area from the Caucasus to Turkey and Manchuria. In Europe you can find in the Crimea, Greece, several Mediterranean islands (Cyprus, Crete, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and Mallorca) and southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. In winter it can also be found in the Nile Valley, Palestine, the Punjab and Korea, rarely coming to Japan.



Vicenç Marco Quijada

Tuesday, January 20, 2009