Animals

The March of the Red Crab
A Moth Find a New Home
Suicidal Birds
A leopard and A cheetah
The Spectacular Hornbill
The Antelope with an extraordinary nose
Masquerading Males
Tiny But Powerful
Electric Fishes
Paternal Care
Hairless Cat
Passionate Parrot
Calling Out To Mother
Hot Wheels
Discs On Their Wings
Two-humped Camels
Frozen Frog
Silken Chambers
Earth Pig
Swordsman of the Sea
The Ostrich Trick
Electrifying Meal
Bizarre Turtle
Grey Whales
The Flying Lemur
The Winged Fishing Creature
Llamas
A Different Sort of a Parrot
The Tailless Cat
The Ancestor Of The Rhino
Acquisitive Wood Rats
The Butterflyfish
The Amazing Jumper
The Largest Deer
The Devil’s Coach-Horse
The Porcupine With A Prehensile Tail
The Irritating Fencing
The Acrobatic Otter
The Busy Termite Colony
Superb Mimics
The Canary
Snow Monkey
Jumping Spiders
Glass Lizard
Beetle Rhino
The World’s Smallest Bear
Hygienic Ants
Flat as a Pancake
The Carpet Shark
The Centipede Walk

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Calling Out To Mother

Crocodiles and alligators have a variety of calls which they use to communicate with others of their kind - threatening calls, mating calls and distress calls.
They begin to call even before they’ve hatched from their eggs. When one egg in a nest starts to call, the others join in! The noise carries to the mother who approaches the nest and carefully opens it using her front legs and jaws.
The vibrations she creates stimulate the eggs to hatch. The female tenderly scoops the hatchlings up in her jaws and carries them to the safety of the water.
The baby crocodiles form a crèche—a small group that the mother will defend vigorously. After several weeks or months, the young crocodiles split up and disperse to try and find their own habitat.

Scientists believe that the mother crocodile recognises her own offspring with the help of chemical signals. The young ones also use several types of distress calls to solicit her protection.

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Last updated on :8/14/2006