INTRODUCTION The term Wild Life was coined by William Hornady in 1913 in his book “Our vanishing Wild Life”. Wild Life is meant by all biotic elements on the Earth including all species of plants and animals and microbes of the world excluding man, domestic animals and cultivated plants. Therefore the wild life means the […]
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The oldest existing zoo, according to the Wikipedia, is the Vienna Zoo in Austria which was founded in 1753. Yet as early as 3,000 years ago, the Chinese were known to already have at least one zoo. And in ancient Egypt, baboons and lions were kept and cared for inside temples. Indeed zoos have been […]
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Physical Characteristics The Brazza monkey is 20 to 23 inches long with a 23 to 31 inch long tail. It weighs 15 to 18 pounds. His skin is mostly gray with a blue-white upper lip and chin. He also has a thin white thigh bone. It has a long and non-prehensile tail. The male scrotum […]