Bats as Flying Rats Unique Among Mammals.

1. Bats as Flying Rats Unique Among Mammals.

2. Bats as Flying Rats Unique Among Mammals.

3. Bats as Flying Rats Unique Among Mammals.

4. Bats as Flying Rats Unique Among Mammals.

5. Bats as Flying Rats Unique Among Mammals.

Bats are often considered as flying rats, but they are more closely related to primates, including humans, than they are for rats. Bats are unique among mammals because they are flying. Like most other mammals, bats body covered by hair, with the exception of its wings.

Although bats have the same basic arm and hand bones found in humans and mammals in general, hand and finger bones of bats is very long and slender and there are only four digits. Smooth-looking skin between the arms, fingers, body, legs and feet look smooth, but very resistant to torn by sharp objects.

Size can vary greatly among species throughout the world for more than 900 bats, ranging from 0.5 ounces Bumblebee Bat by 6-inch wing span to the Flying Fox with 3.3 lb 80 inch wing span.

Nine-Banded Armadillo Strange to See Mammals

1. Nine-Banded Armadillo Strange to See Mammals

2. Nine-Banded Armadillo Strange to See Mammals

3. Nine-Banded Armadillo Strange to See Mammals

4. Nine-Banded Armadillo Strange to See Mammals

5. Nine-Banded Armadillo Strange to See Mammals

Armadillo is strange to see mammals. Covered in protective shell, this is a slow mover until in danger, and then take that step. This is usually most active at night, but when the cold temperatures will hunt for food during the day is warmer.

Gopher Snakes Coastal Dunes and Coniferous Forests

Gopher Snakes Coastal Dunes and Coniferous Forests

Gopher Snakes Coastal Dunes and Coniferous Forests

Gopher Snakes Coastal Dunes and Coniferous Forests

Colubridae family members, a common, large, gopher snake is usually between 36 and 96 inches long. Gopher snakes range from cream-yellow color to green-gray to brown, with large patches of black, brown or reddish on their backs and smaller along their sides. Most specimens have a dark line between the eye and the other from behind the eye to the angle of the jaw. Sometimes striped individuals, with or without spots, was found.

The Desert Horned Viper Distinctive Features

The Desert Horned Viper with its Anvil Shaped Head, Satanic Horns and Cat Like Eyes

The Desert Horned Viper with its Anvil Shaped Head, Satanic Horns and Cat Like Eyes

The Desert Horned Viper with its Anvil Shaped Head, Satanic Horns and Cat Like Eyes

The Desert Horned Viper with its Anvil Shaped Head, Satanic Horns and Cat Like Eyes

Size and shape: Usually just under two feet long, strong and cylindrically depressed body, narrow neck, abdomen thick, tapering tail.

Head: Broad, flat and round-snouted, with the center-toothed (or keeled) scales; forward-set eyes big enough with a vertical pupil (like the people of southwestern rattlesnakes); special supraorbital horns (which are not always present in all populations or even individuals); hinged hollow fangs that snap into position when the snake opens its mouth to bite.

Color and pattern: yellow, brown, reddish-gray in color, often matching the color of the soil surface; darker and more or less rectangular patch along the back.

The American Copperhead Characteristics

The American Copperhead Venomous Snakes that Include Cottonmouth Water Moccasins and Rattlesnakes

The American Copperhead Venomous Snakes that Include Cottonmouth Water Moccasins and Rattlesnakes

The American Copperhead Venomous Snakes that Include Cottonmouth Water Moccasins and Rattlesnakes

Size and Weight: The adult copperhead, which has a relatively thick body, usually the size of 2-3 meters long and weighing one and a half to three-quarters of a pound.

Head: copperhead has a rather flat and roughly triangular-shaped head covered with a solid copper color. Color intensity varies with the subspecies and location. On each side of the face, the nostrils and eyes, copperhead - like other pit vipers - has two special organs, such as heat-sensing pit. Her eyes have vertical elliptical pupils. Like other snakes, it has a forked tongue. From newborn to adult, has a hollow space, folding fangs in front of the mouth. canine adults typically measure about half an inch in length.

Body : In general, authorities said Bree Herrmann, copperheads have a "reddish brown, copper body with crossbands chestnut brown ..." This man has a longer tail than the female, while females have a longer length overall.

Western Coral Snake Red and Black and Narrow Yellow and White Rings.

Western Coral Snake Red and Black and Narrow Yellow and White Rings.

Western Coral Snake Red and Black and Narrow Yellow and White Rings.

Western Coral Snake Red and Black and Narrow Yellow and White Rings.

Western Coral Snake Red and Black and Narrow Yellow and White Rings.

Small Western Coral Snake has a small line head. Growing up only 13-22 inches long with a thickness of a pencil-sized. Coral snakes are remarkable for the broad bands of red and black and narrow yellow and white rings completely encircle the body.

A few other snakes mimic this staining, especially Scarlet Kingsnake, but the Western Coral Snake is the only snake with red bands bordered by white or pale yellow.

Worldwide, there are about 65 species of coral snakes, all members of the cobra family (Elapidae). Is a large genus Micrurus coral snakes in America. Micruroides is a genus of the U.S. (and Mexico north) Coral snakes belong to the genus and is unique to the northern forms.