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Golden Retriever

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Description
The Golden Retriever is a sturdy, medium-large sized dog. The skull is broad and the muzzle is straight, tapering slightly with a well defined stop. The nose is black or a brownish black. The teeth meet in a scissors bite. The medium to large eyes are dark brown. The relatively short ears hang down close to the cheeks. When pulled forward the tip of the ear should just cover the eye. The tail is thick at the base with feathering along the underside. Dewclaws may be removed. The water-resistant coat is dense with a firm, straight, or wavy outer coat. There is an untrimmed feathering on the underbelly, back of the legs, front of the neck and underside of the tail. Coat color comes in cream to a rich golden.

Temperament
These are lovable, well-mannered, intelligent dogs with a great charm. They are easily trained, and always patient and gentle with children. Charming, devoted and self-assured, they are a popular family dog. Energetic and loving, Golden Retrievers enjoy pleasing their masters, so obedience training can be very rewarding. They excel in competitions. Friendly with everyone, including other dogs, the Golden Retriever has very little, if any, guarding instincts. While unlikely to attack, Goldens make good watchdogs, loudly signaling a stranger's approach. This breed needs to be around people who display leadership to be happy. The Golden Retriever may become destructive and/or high-strung, over-exuberant and distractible if he is lacking in daily mental and physical exercise. Be sure to remain this dogs firm, but calm, confident, consistent pack leader to avoid behavioral issues. Some of the Golden's talents are hunting, tracking, retrieving, narcotics detection, agility, competitive obedience, and performing tricks. These dogs also love to swim.

Height, Weight
Height: Dogs 22-24 inches (56-61cm.) Bitches 20-22 inches (51-56cm.) Weight: Dogs 60-80 pounds (27-36kg.) Bitches 55-70 pounds (25-32kg.)

Health Problems
Prone to cancer, hip dysplasia, Von Willebrand's disease, heart problems and congenital eye defects. Skin allergies are common in Golden Retrievers and often require veterinary attention. Gains weight easily, do not overfeed.

Living Conditions
This breed will do okay in an apartment if sufficiently exercised. They are moderately active indoors and will do best with at least a medium to large yard.

Exercise
The Golden Retriever needs to be taken on a daily, brisk, long walk, jog or run alongside you when you bicycle, where the dog is made to heel beside or behind the person holding the lead, as instinct tells a dog that the leader leads the way and that leader needs to be the human. In addition, they like to retrieve balls and other toys. Be sure to exercise this dog well to avoid hyper activity.

Life Expectancy
About 10-12 years

Grooming
The smooth, medium-haired double coat is easy to groom. Comb and brush with a firm bristle brush, paying particular attention to the dense undercoat. Dry shampoo regularly, but bathe only when necessary. This breed is an average shedder.

Origin
Originating in the Scottish Highlands in the late 1800s, the Golden Retriever was developed by Lord Tweedmouth, by crossing the original yellow Flat-Coated Retriever, with the now extinct Tweed Water Spaniel. He later crossed in the bloodhound, Irish Setter, and more Tweed Water Spaniel. The dogs were called the Golden Flat-Coat and only later were they given the name Golden Retriever. The Golden Retriever is one of the most popular breeds known today, not only as family companions but for obedience competitions, hunting and tracking, as a bird dog on both land and in the water, narcotics detection, service dog for the disabled, a guide for the blind and as a therapy dog. The Golden Retriever was first recognized by the AKC in 1925. Group Gun Dog, AKC Sporting

Recognition
CKC = Continental Kennel Club
FCI = Fédération Cynologique Internationale
AKC = American Kennel Club
UKC = United Kennel Club
KCGB = Kennel Club of Great Britain
CKC = Canadian Kennel Club
ANKC = Australian National Kennel Club
NKC = National Kennel Club
NZKC = New Zealand Kennel Club
APRI = American Pet Registry Inc.
ACR = American Canine Registry
DRA = Dog Registry of America, Inc.
NAPR = North American Purebred Registry, Inc.

Amphibians

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Amphibians are the smallest group among vertebrates, with only 3,000 the number of species. Such as fish and reptiles, amphibians are cold-blooded. This means that amphibians can not regulate its own body temperature. To that end, amphibians need the sun to warm the body. Initially started amphibians living in the waters and make use of gill breathing. Along with the growth of lung and legs develop and amphibians can walk on land.

Amphibians are found worldwide except at the poles. They occupy a number of different habitats such as rain forests, ponds, and lakes. They also exist in the grassy area on the slopes of high mountains, even in the desert.

Although adult amphibians can survive for long periods of drought, its general they require moist places such as rivers and ponds. Region of humid tropical rain forests, many frogs can survive without a permanent water source. As cold-blooded animals, amphibians are not active in cold conditions. In this condition they do hibernate, usually in the mud at the bottom of the pool.

The crowd trouble distinguishing frogs and toads. In general, smooth-skinned frogs and more are in the water. Frogs and toads prey on insects and other small animals. They stay quiet place to wait for passing prey. Some species use a long, adhesive tongue to capture prey.

Amphibian breeding season often lasts a mess. Amphibians males and females gather together in large numbers. After an egg, usually no longer care for the eggs of amphibians. Only a few species of amphibians that protect the eggs.

Largest amphibious salamander-like giant Chinese and cane toads are not a lot of enemies. Generally, a small amphibian species rely on camouflage or escape predators when threatened. There are also amphibians that rely on flashy skin to frighten the enemy.

There are types of amphibians that have poison. Poisonous frogs from South America has a striking color as a sign of danger predators. Very strong poison frogs 'poison' gold owned dart frogs from Colombia for example, can be killed around 1,000 people at once

Arthropods

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Arthropods (in Latin, Arthra = vertebra, books, segment; podos = foot) is characteristic of animals that have segmented legs and segmented. Segments are also found on his body. Arthropod body is bilateral and relatively tripoblastik selomata.

Characteristic body
Arthropod body traits include size, shape, structure, and function of the body.

The size and shape of the body
Arthropod body size is very diverse, some of which have a length of more than 60 cm. , But most are small. Similarly, the form of arthropods were varied.

Body structure
Arthropods segmented body with varying number of segments. At each body segment was there a pair of segmented legs. Segments combine to form part of the body, which is Kaput (head), thorax (chest) and abdominal (stomach). Another feature of arthropods is the presence of hard cuticle that forms the framework of the outside (exoskeleton). Exoskeleton made of chitin in excretion by skin cells. Exoskeletons attached to the skin to form a strong body protection. Exoskeleton consists of plates which are connected by flexible ligaments and soft. Exoskeleton can not grow following the growth of the body. Therefore, the growth stage is always followed by an exfoliation Arthropods old exoskeleton and forming a new exoskeleton. Release phase is called molting exoskeleton or ekdisis. Animals that normally do ekdisis eg crab, shrimp, and spiders. Arthropods nervous system in the form of a rope ladder nervous system amounted to a pair that is along the ventral side of his body. At various places on the body segments, there is enlargement of nerves called ganglia rope ladder. Ganglia serves as a central reflex and control of various activities. Ganglia of the anterior part of a larger function as the brain. Arthropods digestive system consists of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, intestine, and anus. Equipped mouth with a diverse range of additional tools, such as the mandible and maxilla in grasshoppers. Arthropods breathe with gills, trachea, or lungs books. Metabolic waste liquid form issued by the organs of excretion-called channel / Malpighi tubules, gland excretion, or both. Arthropods are open circulatory system. Circulatory system consists of the heart, blood vessels shorter, and the space around the organs called the sinus or hemosol. Arthropods also called hemolimfa blood.

Way of life and habitat
Arthropods are very diverse ways of life, there are free-living, parasitic, commensal, or symbiotic. Our environment, often encountered this group of animals, such as mosquitoes, flies, ants, butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and bees. Habitat is very wide spread of Arthropods. There are at sea, freshwater, deserts, and grasslands.

Reproduction
Arthropods reproductive system generally occurs sexually. But there is also an asexually, by parthenogenesis. Parthenogenesis is the formation of a new individual without fertilization (conception). The resulting individual is sterile. Male and female reproductive organs on separate arthropods, each of which produces gametes in individuals who are different that are dioseus (married two). The results of egg fertilization.

Bird

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Bird is a member of the group of vertebrate animals (vertebrates), which have feathers and wings. The oldest bird fossil discovered in Germany and known as Archaeopteryx.

Birds reproduce by eggs. The eggs of birds, reptiles such as eggs, only more difficult, because the coating of limestone. Maleo Some species of birds such as birds and birds charred, hoarding their eggs in sandy soil mixed with litter, warm sandy beaches, or near a hot spring. Instead of brooding, the birds leave the natural heat of decaying leaves, sun or geothermal incubate the eggs, like most reptiles.

But most of the birds nest and incubate the eggs in the nest with mengeraminya it. Nests may be just a bunch of twigs, grass, or stones, or simply kaisan in sandy soils with a slightly curved so that the eggs are not easily reversed. But there's also the kind of birds that nest in a complex and beautiful, or unique, such as the known types Tempu Manyara, hornbills and namdur swallow.

birds born babies are still generally low, must be heated and fed with food from its parent. In addition to the types of charred birds, where the children live independently in the bird looking for food and protection. Son of charred birds can be executed some time after hatching, although some are already able to fly.

The species of birds in general have a ritual in pairs, respectively. This ritual is a process to identify and attract a partner, usually performed by male birds. Some specific categories, such as peacocks and paradise, the males do a dance to attract females. While the birds mate with attractive males report a half ago her nest Manyara. When the female is ready to continue the construction of nests by the males to be perfect, but when women are not satisfied, it is discarded or abandoned nests.

Bird provided enormous benefits to human life. Many species of birds such as chickens, turkeys, domestic ducks and geese for a long time and are an important source of protein, meat or eggs.

In addition, people also keep the birds for fun and competition. Examples are birds, pigeons, doves, song thrush and other rock. Eagles are often required for the performance and prestige, sports and hunting. many bird species are increasingly rare in nature because people are hunting for commercial purposes.

Apart from the bird population continues to decline due to habitat destruction caused by bird to human activities. Therefore, some of the many species of protected birds, either by law or international regulations of Indonesia. Some nature reserves and national parks are also built to protect the birds

Fish

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Fish is a member of vertebrates poikilotermik (cold-blooded) that live in water and breathe with gills. The fish are more different species of vertebrates more than 27,000 worldwide. In the standings, the fish belonging to the paraphyletic group relationship is still debated, generally divided into fish without jaws fish (class Agnatha, 75 species of fish including Harpies lampreys), cartilaginous fishes (class Chondrichthyes, 800 species, including sharks and rays ), and the rest are classified as hard bony fish (class Osteichthyes).

Fish can be found in almost all the "puddle" of water that are large both freshwater, brackish water or salt water at varying depths, from near surface to several thousand meters below the surface. However, hyper-saline lakes like the Great Salt Lake do not support fish. There are several species of fish cultivated for maintained to be exhibited in the aquarium.

Fish are an important food source. Other aquatic animals, such as molluscs and crustaceans also sometimes regarded as a fish when used as a food source. Catch fish for food in small quantities or sports are often referred to as fishing. Results of fishing the world each year approximately 100 million tons.

Mammals

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Another term for the mammal is a lactating animal. Includes class vertebrates (have a backbone) and mammary glands in females. Mammals belong to warm-blooded animals or keep their body temperature, such as humans. In general, mammals bear their offspring in a way midwives or childbirth.

But there are some mammals that lay eggs, like a guppy fish and hammerhead sharks. This is because they do not deliver is not the main feature of mammals. But it is all about breastfeeding and have mammary glands in females was a central feature. Mammals have several characteristics, such as have heart with four chambers, his body covered with feathers, the tips of his ears was sharp(taper), have the sweat glands, and breathe through lungs.

Consists of 5487 mammal species from 46 orders. Known today almost 25 percent of mammal species threatened with extinction. At least 1141 species in severe decline. The population of most species are declining Asian primate species, such as elephants. It happened because of the destruction of the forests where wild elephants live. On the other hand, mammals are animals that are known to survive most of the changes in the environment so long. This is due to the varied character of this animal.

Not only spread as land animals, water, and air. Diverse in size, the smallest (2.5 to 12 centimeters) to the largest (33 meters) have so it can stay in place with various characters and weather. Starting from caves, holes, narrow places, the sea, to the desert, to prairie. Some other animals including mammals include tiger, orang utan, deer, whales, rats, sharks, rabbits, kangaroos, bats, tapirs, and camels. Known six of the 10 most intelligent animals came from a group of mammals.

Pet

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Pet is an animal kept for companionship and enjoyment or a pet, as opposed to wild animals, animals, laboratory animals, working animals or sport animals, which are held for reasons production or economic.

The nature of the very popular pets by humans is loyalty, or funny behavior of their songs. Saving pets can relieve stress and even some types of pets that are used as medical therapy, particularly the psychological health problems.

Common types of pets :

- Mammals

- Fish

- Bird

- Arthropods

- Amphibian

- Reptiles

- Wild

- Mollusk