THE OWL

Description

The owl is the group members of Strigiformes Ordo. This bird belongs to wild bird(carnivore, meat eater) and it is an animal night (nocturnality).  Entirely, there are around 222 species that has been known, which spreads around the world but Antarctica, the majority of Greenland, and some of the isolated island.

The owl is well known for his parallel eyes, not as generally as another bird species. A crooked-sharp beak as the eagles, and brush around its head, the outward appearance formed a circle face "face" the owl is so impressive and sometimes silhouette. Moreover, its nect so flexible so that his face to rotate 180 degrees.

Morphology and Behavior

Generally the owl hairy dotted, brown or gray spotted with black and white. Combined with its behavior that are often becoming statue-like, not moving at all, made this bird was easily visible, however, it is in the middle of the day when it is sleeping under the leaves.

Tail the owl are generally short, but its wings big and wide. The wings reached around three times longer his body.

Its eyes can measure the exact distance; a powerful of striking beak, feet that are deft and able to firmly ensconced strongly; and the ability to fly quietly, as basic capital ability to hunt in darkness. Some types can even estimated that the distance and the position prey in the darkness, total sense of hearing only based on assisted by "plumes her face to direct votes.

Varian

The Ordo Strigiformes consists of two tribes (family), they are Tytonidae and Strigidae. Many of this species are endemic of Indonesia. Most of them are in Ordo Tyto, Otus, dan Ninox.

For instance :

• Burung hantu Pere David
• Burung hantu elang Andaman
• Burung hantu kelabu besar

Tytonidae

• Serak Jawa (Tyto alba)
• Serak bukit (Phodilus badius)

Strigidae

• Celepuk reban (Otus lempiji)
• Beluk jampuk (Bubo sumatranus)
• Beluk ketupa (Ketupa ketupu)
• Punggok coklat (Ninox scutulata)
• Kokok beluk (Strix leptogrammica)

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BANGKONG SERASAH

Description

Bangkong Serasah or Serasah Frog may be a quite the tribe of Megophryidae. Its scientific name is Leptobrachium hasseltii Tschudi, 1838. alternative Names in English is Hasselt's litter frog; it had been named therefore as a tribute to J. C. van Hasselt, one of person who knowledgeable and naturalist who worked in Hindia Belanda. (Indonesia within the Dutch colonial time).

Morphology

A medium Bangkong, aproximately 50-70 mm in lenght. Male Bangkong has small size than female. it is squat with big round head and big eyes. Dorsal (its back) is brown, blue-grey or purple (dark phase) and gold (bright phase). It has black polcadot-pattern symmetrical and gold polcadot-pattern in its edge. Its black-strip move from mouth to eyes. Iris is black. Ventral (abdomen) is grey to black. Swimming membran is only on foot.

Habitatual and Spread Out

Bangkong can be found only in forest, most of them is in mount area, especially where river is near by. Becaus Bangkong is nocturnal, therefore in day they just sleep.

Classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Amphibia

Ordo: Anura

Family: Megophryidae

Genus: Leptobrachium

Tschudi, 1838

Spesies: L. hasseltii

Binominal Name

Leptobrachium hasseltii

Tschudi, 1838.

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NOCTURNAL ANIMALS

Animals live at night or nocturnality is an animal that sleep in the day, and active at night. Such as the opposite of human behavior (commencing their diurnal computation).  Nocturnality generally have the ability to hearing and smell and seeing that sharply lower. In the zoo, nocturnal animals placed in special cage which is insulated from light to divert their sleep cycle, so they still active during the visit.

Nocturnal animal usually develops hearing ability and smell, and have adaptations in the eye to carry out the activities in a situation in which has little light. Some animals such as cats have eyes that can adapt to a little light and a light. Other animals such as galago and some types of bats can only be exercising at night. Many animals such as nocturnal tarsier and the owl have eyes that relative large compared to their own sizes to give their ability as a return of high light in the night

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TARSIER

Description

Tarsier is a primates from genus Tarsier . It is a genus monotipe from family Tarsiidae, the only relative who survive from the Tarsiiformes. Although the group was long ago have spread wide, all species that live now found in the islands in Southeast Asia.

Classification

The position phylogenetics of tarsier which alive now had been argued many time at last century, and tarsier classified by turns on the Strepsirrhini subordo prosimia, or as a group of simia (=Anthropoidea) in infraordo Haplorrhini. Indicated that tarsier, which are included in genus Tarsier, in fact it is being classified in two (group Sulawesi and the Philippines and the West) or three different genera (group Central Sulawesi, the Philippines and the West). Taxonomy in level of species is complex, with a limited morphology is often used compare to vocal. Various shapes of some vocal may represent taxa that have not yet been described, which is taxonomist separated from spectral Tarsier (=spectrum) (such as tarsier from Minahasa and the islands Togean), and many other tarsier from Sulawesi and the islands in the area (Shekelle & Aman Mostavan, Dea 2004).  This may also a case of population in Philippines which are isolated, less than known  such as the population of Basilan, Leyte and Dinagat from the group T. syrichta. Confusion more appear on the validity of certain names. Among other things, T. dianae, that is often used, has been shown as synonymous with junior from T. dentatus, as the same as the T. spectrum is now considered synonymous with junior from T. spectral. Moreover, T. spectral has been argued as synonymous with senior from T. spectrum that is used widely.

• Infraordo Tarsiiformes
• Famili Tarsiidae: Tarsius
• Genus Tarsius
• Grup T. syrichta (Filipina-Barat)
  • Tarsius Filipina, Tarsius syrichta
  • Tarsius Barat, Tarsius bancanus
• Grup T. tarsier (Sulawesi)
• Tarsius Sulawesi, Tarsius tarsier
• Tarsius Dian, Tarsius dentatus
• Tarsius Lariang, Tarsius lariang
• Tarsius Peleng, Tarsius pelengensis
• Tarsius Sangihe, Tarsius sangirensis
• Tarsius Siau, Tarsius tumpara
• Tarsius Kerdil, Tarsius pumilus

Anatomy and Phisiology

Tarsier has tiny body with larger eyes. Each eyeball's diameter is around 16 mm, it is almost the same as its brain. Its back legs is also very long. Bones tarsus in his legs is long and from this bones is how tarsier get this name. Its head and body lenght is 10 to 15 cm, but its back legs almost twice, they also have a slim tail as long as 20 to 25 cm. Its finger are also long, and the third finger has lenght approximately the same as length of its upper arm. In the tip of his finger there are claw but in second and third finger of his feet have claws which they use to treat the body. Feathers Tarsier is very smooth and similar brown velvet that usually gray, when it is young, chocolate or yellow-orange is dominant.did  Tarsier does not have a comb teeth, and the order its teeth is also unique :

2.1.3.3 

1.1.3.3 

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