Black Phoebe

Black Phoebe
Photo by Fracesco Veronesi
Buenaventura Lodge - South-Ecuador
Agustus 2011

Black Wolf

A black wolf is a melanistic color variant of the grey wolf (Canis lupus).[1] Black specimens are recorded among red wolves (Canis rufus), but these color variants are probably extinct.Genetic research from the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles revealed that wolves with black pelts owe their distinctive coloration to a mutation which occurred through wolf-dog hybridisation.
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Serigala Abu-Abu ; Timber Wolf (Canis lupus)
Photo by Malik Braun
Maret, 2009





Serigala Hitam (Black Wolf)
Photo by numbphoto
Brownings, Columbia NJ
Desember, 2009


Gallery Foto Serigala Hitam lainnya bisa dilihat di Dan Newcomb

Black Woodpecker

Black Woodpecker (Burung Pelatuk Hitam)

The Black Woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, is a large woodpecker, 45–50 cm (18–20 in) long with a 64–84 cm (25–33 in) wingspan.Body weight is approximately 300-400 grams (10.6-14.2 oz) on average.It is easily the largest woodpecker in its range.This species is closely related to and fills the same ecological niche in Europe as the Pileated Woodpecker of North America.

It lives in mature forest across the northern palearctic. It is the sole representative of its genus in that region. Its range is expanding in Eurasia. It does not migrate.

The plumage of this crow-sized woodpecker is entirely black apart from a red crown. In males, the entire crown is red, but in females only the top hindcrown is red with the rest of the body all black.It has a very long beak of 2.5 inches (6.3 cm).

The sexes differ even as nestlings.




The woodpecker feeds by using its bill to hammer on dead trees to dig out carpenter ants and wood-boring grubs.

Their voice is remarkable in that it has two different calls. One is a short single high-pitched note done only twice in a row. The other is a screech-like shrill while in flight.

Unlike other woodpecker species, the Black Woodpecker does not have a dipping, bounding flight.

The woodpecker digs a nest hole, usually in a live poplar or pine tree where it lays four or more eggs.

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Photo by Francesco Varonesi
Debrecen Hungary
April 2010

Black Alpaca

Alpaka ialah seekor binatang menyusui dari Amerika Selatan yang menyerupai llama. Alpaka berukuran lebih kecil daripada llama, dan alpaka tak digunakan sebagai hewan pengangkut, namun untuk diambil bulunya. Serat alpaka digunakan untuk membuat barang rajutan dan jahitan, seperti wol domba.

Alpaka biasa ditemukan di Argentina bagian utara, dari keluarga Camelidae. Alpaka digembalakan untuk merumput di Pegunungan Andes di Ekuador, Peru selatan, Bolivia utara, dan Cili utara pada ketinggian 3500-5000 m dpl.

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Alpaka

Photo by Mistvan
Zoo Olomouc, Czech Republic
September, 2007



Alpaka
Photo by Decoetzee
Cougar Mountain Zoological Park
Issaquah Washington

Ada dua jenis alpaka, yaitu suri dan huacaya. Setelah 11 sampai 12 bulan, alpaka akan melahirkan cria (anak alpaka) dengan berat sekitar 6,8 kg sampai 9 kg. Umur Alpaka berkisar antara 15 sampai 20 tahun.