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Animal Globe | Adélie Penguin | Pygoscelis adeliae or Adélie Penguin live in Antarctica, surrounding coastal islands. Adélie Penguin is one of the three species in the genus Pygoscelis. In turn, the Adélie Penguin split off from the other members of the genus around 19 million years ago. There are 38 colonies of Adélie Penguin, and there are more than 5 million Adelies in the Ross Sea region.
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Animal Globe | Aardvarks | Orycteropus afer or Aardvarks live in Africa, south of the Sahara. Aardvark means “earth pig”, the name comes from earlier Afrikaans. A glimpse of the Aardvark’s body and long snout brings the pig to mind yet is not even closely related to the pig. Aardvark has a short neck connected to a huge, almost hairless body with a strong curved spine. The legs are short, the hind legs longer than the front. The closest living relatives of the Aardvark are the elephant shrews, along with the elephants, sirenians, Tenrecs, and hyraxes.
Animal Globe | American Crocodile | Crocodylus Acutus or most known as the American Crocodile is a spesies of crocodilian found in the Neotropics.American Crocodile is larger than some other crocodile species, with some males can reaching lengths of 6.1 metres/20 ft live in Central and South America.
American Crocodile Considered as an endangered species in nearly all parts of its North, Central, and South American range. Most of American Crocodile are found in southern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Their habitat of choice is the fresh or brackish water of river estuaries, coastal lagoons, and mangrove swamps.They lives within many river system on Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola. Within the United States, the American crocodile is only found within the southern half of Florida, which has an estimated population of about 2000. The habitat of the American crocodile consists largely of coastal areas.
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Animal Globe | King Cobra | Ophiophagus hannah or aslo known as King Cobra is considered a very dangerous species, it can reach up to 18 feet (5.5 meters) in length and also known as the world’s longest venomous snake. The King Cobra is distributed across South Asia, Southeast Asia and southern regions of East Asia (South China), where it is not common. It lives in dense highland forests.
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Animal Globe | Burmese python | The largest subspecies of the Indian Python and one of the 6 largest snakes in the world, The beautifully colored Burmese python, native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas of Southern- and Southeast Asia. Python molurus bivittatus is their Trinomial name. Burmese python is a solitary animal, seen with other snakes only during the spring mating season. Females lay clutches of up to 100 eggs, which they incubate for two to three months. To keep their eggs warm, they continually contract, or shiver, their muscles.They are often found near water and are sometimes semi-aquatic, but can also be found in trees. Wild individuals average 3.7 metres (12 ft) long, but may reach up to 5.74 metres (19 ft).


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