Warmer weather is here, which means it’s time to see the sloths in their outdoor habitat! Hoffman’s two-toed sloths Bonnie (age 22), Nutella (age 5), and
Once the sloth defecates, the moths will then crawl onto the fresh dung to lay their eggs.
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Alpacas are a domesticated, social species that live in herds. Although they originated in Peru, they have now spread worldwide in human care. Although they share similar characteristics and are often mistaken for one another, alpacas and llamas are different species! There are four South American camelids: the alpaca and the llama, both domesticated, and the vicuña and the guanaco, both wild species that diverged from a common ancestor around 2 million years ago.
Alpacas communicate through body language, vocalizations and possibly through dung piles.
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These easily recognizable creatures are native to middle and southern Africa. They are some of the largest land-dwelling mammals in the world, reaching weights of up to 6,000 pounds. Like other rhino species, white rhinos are heavily poached for their horns. Powdered horn is used in traditional Asian medicine, supposedly curing a range of illnesses from fevers to cancer. Uncontrolled hunting in the colonial era was historically the major factor in the decline of white rhinos; however, hundreds of white rhinos are poached annually. They are particularly vulnerable to hunting due to their unaggressive nature and their occurrence in herds.
Territories are often marked by spraying urine, spreading dung, foot-dragging and horn-scraping.
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