fauna

On Garut Sheep

October 1, 2009
By Rie Yanti
On Garut Sheep

By Rie Yanti When you’re hard to sleep, try to count the sheep that jump on the cattle’s fence. Why it has to be a sheep? I don’t know. For me, a sheep is just an animal. It only gives us meal and fur to the sweaters. So I thought this animal is not special....
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11 Facts about Komodo National Park

July 16, 2009
By Brahmanto Anindito
11 Facts about Komodo National Park

By Brahmanto Anindito The Komodo National Park (Taman Nasional Komodo or TNK) is one of the 7 New Wonders of Nature’s nominees. And these are the 11 facts you probably didn’t know. TNK is populated by roughly 2,400 komodo dragons, the greatest lizard in the world. TNK comprises the islands of Rinca, Padar and Komodo. The Indonesian government...
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The Singer that Alerts Mentawai to Any Disaster

March 23, 2009
By Brahmanto Anindito
The Singer that Alerts Mentawai to Any Disaster

By Brahmanto Anindito This primate exclusively lives on Mentawai, the islands with 16,000 inhabitants, West Sumatra Province. Bilou or Mentawai Gibbon (Hylobates klossii) is from Hylobatidae (gibbon) family. It is similar to siamang with the same black fur, but is considerably smaller and lacks the siamang’s typical throat pouch. Bilou reaches 44 to 63 cm...
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Journey of Turtle from East Java to Australia Reveals Oceanic Superhighway Mistery

February 4, 2009
By Brahmanto Anindito
Journey of Turtle from East Java to Australia Reveals Oceanic Superhighway Mistery

Meet Ana, a female green turtle. Her extraordinary journey from Indonesia into Australian waters is helping conservationists to track the migratory route of this species to the Kimberley-Pilbara coast, one of the few relatively pristine coastal areas left on Earth.
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Living Fossil Has Been Hunted

January 2, 2009
By Brahmanto Anindito
Living Fossil Has Been Hunted

By: Brahmanto Anindito The Coelacanths were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until the first specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa in 1938. In Indonesia, the ancient fish was firstly founded on September 18, 1997 on Sulawesi island. Unfortunately, the local fishermen have hunted them...
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