Spinach Snail

This ocean snail called by Elysia chlorotica. The shape of its body as like a leaf and has chlorofile, meaning is this snail can be able to do photosynthesis. Surface of its body that resembles leaf and wide, making it easily to absorpt the sunlight for this photosynthesis process. This spinach snail is not like others animals, it doesn't need to hunt for its food as long as it has enough chlorophylls stocks in its body. Due to its needs for enough sunlight for doing photosynthesis process, these spinach snail most can be found in shallow waters, could be in the sea, swamps or rivers with depths 0 - 0.5m.

This snail most exists in EasSea of USA, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, New York, Connecticut, and Canadian waters. Most of the size of this snail 2 - 3 cm, but there is also size of 6 cm. In there they called animal half plant.


Changing Colors 
When the snail still kids, the color of its body was reddish-browned or more to grayish. Then, when teens, they still can not be able to do photosynthesis, the food supplement for them is green algaes. Once they fed-enough by the green algaes, the color of its body change into green. At the end, once the snail is adult already; they can be able to do photosythesis.
Expert says that the fact is that this spinach snail steal leaf chlorophyll producing genes from green algaes so that the reason they can be able to do photosynthesis.

So guys, don't get confuse yourself once you find this in sea. It is not spinach leaf. It's a snail. :-)
Then, if you want to know more about this spinach snail, join to this site because they always up-date the newest things about this snail : http://www.seaslugforum.net

New Scientific Invention for Our Goodness Universe.

Thank you to http://blog.lib.umn.edu

Electricity is made from Trashes 

Today, I was reading a bulletin magazine from Indosat. There was something interesting that I would like to share in this blog. I would just make it as a quick summary about this. 

We do know that so far we just recycling trashes in limitation only into compost or natural fertilizer and some can be recycling or being used as material art-crafts. 

Lately, Microbiology - Bio Tech Institute of Minnesota University under Daniel Bond And Jeffrey Gralnick as leaders of researh team for this scheme; found that bacterial organism are refered to Shewanella can be able to produce electricity and can be able to improve the energy productivity ability by collaborating with riboflavin ( in lay language is B-2 vitamin ). These Shewanella can be found in water and the ground soil. This bacteria can be able to to change lactid acid into electricity mass.

They also explained that the experts knew about this bacteria Shewanella for years now due its capability in producing electricity; but only lately the scientists can be able understand how this bacteria can be able to do it by collaborating with riboflavin.In the research showed that growing on the electrodes naturally and be able to produce riboflavin. 

Riboflavin able to carry electrons from living cells to electrodes, rates of electricity production could be increased up to 370 % once the riboflavin accumulated. Adding microbial fuel cells bu using similar type bacteria can generate electricity for cleaning the waste water. Bacteria could help to lower the costs of a waste-water management plant. 

However, for powering and couraging the needs of any households and bussiness, It is necessary finding more advanced bio-tech scientific invention and fuel-cell materials which should be cheaper.  

To Understand the way of this Bacterias can be able to produce electricity?

Naturally, the bacteria such as shewanella needs to and dissolve metals such as iron. With the ability to direct the electrons, making this bacteria having ability to change the chemistry and the availability itself. Bacteria already exist since millions years ago to change the chemistry in our environment. The ability to make iron into a soluble substances is a key in metal-cyle process environment and as an important role-play in earth life being. This process can be use reversed to avoid the metal exposed to corrosion, specially for sea-ships' metals.

Power Plant Waste Management in Bandung, Indonesia

Bandung,( West Java ) Indonesia ; ensure to build the power plant waste management in the area in sooner time-lines. The government collaborates with Bandung Institue of Technology start intensified socializing this work scheme to society by using and utilizing the city's trashes. The plan of this power plant has been through a feasibility study including the analysis of environmental impacts. The considerations that underlie the constructing this power plant is to destroy the trashes itself due the increasing numbers of trashes is getting more and more every time and the space for accomodating the trashes is getting limited due the people rising every time. And the electricity produced will be sold to the state. In the future, the management will charge the amount of garbage from the society. The costs of processing the trashes into electricity-ready to use depending on the technology used. However, the management expects the costs of processing this power plant by using trashes would be cheaper than other countries.

In addtion to this article, and to support why not us starting making classifications to our own garbages at home. Split them into categories; 

1. Cans 

2. Glass, Plastics Bottles, 

3. Papers 

4. Cooking trashes / Household ( put inside the big garbage bin usually at front of our house to throw and being picked-up by the junk man );  

For cans, glass, plastic bottles or papers ( specially thick card-board papers ) ; at my home we start doing this and give them separately to different junkman ( tukang loak - Indonesian red) since they are the one who will split it and destroy it or sell it to recycling used-vendors. 

For books as manual books for schools, give them to the public libraries or some needy people surround us who needs those books. If you still have blank papers, use them back and front, then burn it down and mix it to make compost.

Note :

Thank you for Indosat and Sorry if  my translate not so good. 

The Legend of Blue Tounge Lizards Skink

Blue Tounge Lizard

Have you seen the picture above? Wow... I was so amazed with this Lizard. We can find them in Australia and Papua Nuginea. In australia some people loves to make this blue tounge lizard as their pet. But hardly we can find in the pet shop. The blue tounge lizard same popular as Brazilian gecko or iguana. Blue tounge lizard is easy to find on the sidelines - even stones or between the grass. 

There is a legend about this blue tounge lizard due their closest friend with Aborigin. They have been friends for thousand years. The legend is that long time back, the lizard didn't have blue tounge, but one time the lizard made one of the Aborigin Tribal chairman piss-off, that time they were gathered in bonfire to keep warm from the cold. The Aborigin found a lizard and tried to get rid of it. But the lizard didn't want to go. While the lizard evaporated, the Aborigin threw the blue ground inside to its mouth, since then the lizard's tounge become blue color and they become friendship until nowadays even to human-beings. The blue tounge lizard is docile, calm and cool as our pet. 

Lizard is a cold-blooded animal, but they are nice animal. Not like serial killer. Hahhahahhahaa... They love to be get warm all the time and its annual activity is to do sun bathing in the morning before doing activities. as like hunting snail or eating grass. The Latin name of this Blue Lizard is Tiliqua sp. The function of this blue tounge is for bluffing and intimading its enemies: when they feel in danger, its body would be wide puff up, its mouth dropped open and its tounge become blue. This lizard is unique, its head is bigger than its body and the color of  its mouth is pink. The blue tongue's underbelly turning from a brilliant orange to a cloudy creamy white. All lizard all same including the blue tounge lizard can lose their tails as a defense mechanism. So, Never hold your blue tongue by the tail, or grab the tail if it's trying to get away. The tail can break or pull-off. 

Lizards have lived for as long as 20 - 30 years. The main predators that may cut a blue-tongued lizard's life short are lawn mowers, cars, and cats and dogs. Their predators are cats and dogs mostly. Cats are the worst. Dogs are often perplexed enough by the blue tongue and the threatening behaviour of the lizard to keep a distance. But cats are ambush predators and the lizard doesn't get a chance to show its scary tongue. Baby blue tongue lizards may also end up as dinner for currawongs, kookaburras, raptors or snakes.

So, teach your cats if you want to have blue tounge lizard as your pet at home. Start planning, making a small garden with rocks and enough food for the blue tounge lizards due their habitat and also they love snails and grass. Anyway they are good in semi-tropical climate. They are defender though and human's friendly pets mostly in common.

Here is link to find out more about the blue tounge Lizard : http://www.davidvella.com.au/BlueTongue_dvella.pdf

Happy  Sunday to All !!!

Bits About Dragonflies

Bits Introducing The Dragonflies' Anatomy

Respective Honor to www.irdg.org.uk for The Anatomy Picture of Dragon Fly

Dragonfly is one of insects. In category ordo Odonata. The special things about dragonfly are the eyes, 3 pairs of legs, and 2 pairs of wings. Take a look in below pictures :

(c) <a href="http://www.free-nature-photos.org/" title="Pictures of Nature">Free nature photos</a>

Basically, habitat of dragon fly are in the nearest areas where is the clean water exist as like in forests, kaleyards, farms, rivers or lakes. Dragon fly can be stay also in our house once in our house has clean water area as like in my house' small garden. We can also find dragon fly in the mountains in 3,000 metres heights or in the sea shore.

The life cycle os dragon fly, start from eggs to grown up as we see grown up dragon fly above is about 6 months of ages. They like to lay their eggs amongst the hydrophytes inside the water but some of them they can lay the eggs in the rushing waters areas. Most of the times they spent inside water when the dragon flies still in shape of nymphs. They become frey for frog tadpoles and fishes. However when they are grown up, dragon flies become predators for hunting smaller animals such as mosquitos, flies, or bees.

The Special Body Parts of Dragon fly

Respective Honor for www.dreamtime.com for the picture for the Multi Faceted Eyes picture

Respective Honor to www.asiadragonfly.net for the Thorax picture

Respective Honor to www.jakheath.com for the Abdoment Picture

1. Head, in the part of its head : there is multifaceted eyes. Don't we notice it that they have big eyes? In these multifaceted eyes have thousand lenses terms as like we can find in the bees. That's the reason why dragon flies can be able seeing from many directions and so sensitive. It is the reason too that hard sometimes to caught dragon fly even we try to caught them from its behind. Look above the picture of the eyes
2. Thorax. In this part, we can find the 3 pairs of legs and 2 pairs of  wings in it. At left and right side of the dragonfly's body. Although they have 3 pairs of legs, they can't walk properly. They just use their legs just to stand up and stick it in tree once they alighted in a tree when they don't want to fly. The one pair of front wings is bigger and longer than the second and the third wings. It is the reasons why dragon fly can fly with 97km/hour speed.
3. Abdoment areas. In this part, dragon fly has ten segments and long size that make up such as needle. This part is very important for dragon fly, in here located digestion tool, respiration tool, reproductive tool and heart.

Differences Between Dragonflies & Damselflies

They have 2 sub ordos :

• Anisoptera / Dragon flies, they have bigger body than damselflies and when they alighted in tree the wings would stretched out to the side.
• Zygoptera/Damselflies, they are smaller than dragonflies and the body is shape totally as like needle shape and when they perched to the tree, the wings closed together on its back fused.

Let's see the picture to see the differences :

Respective Honor to www.ballinderryanglers.co.uk For Dragon Fly Picture

Respective Honor to www.habitas.org.uk For the Damselflies Picture

 I hope with this quick summary of dragon flies and damsel flies we are more respect to them due their abilities for detecting at the beginning to the pollution of our water sources. They are our natural scientists in this scheme in the matter of facts. Once they were gone, this beautiful sources of universe specially our water would be in damage and not healthy for us anymore.

If you want to know more about dragon flies please kindly visit these articles :

http://www.asia-dragonfly.net/Articles/Articles.php

The Quick Summary of Dragonfly which can Be Detector for The Pollution In River, Lakes, Water Sources etc

" Dragon fly can be use for determine the River Polution ", said Prigi Arisandi : the Green Noble Goldman Environmental Foundation 2011 winner. He examined that dragonfly has been chosen refer to their lifestyle habitat around the the water areas. Because of it, dragonfly is sensitive to the pollution specially to water.

So far, US uses physic and chemical parameter for determining the pollution in the water, but there is weakness by using these 2 tools due the slack in detecting the environment once the pollution already worst happened. We can't find out soon and avoid the worst thing.

The reason of good thing by using dragonfly, Prigi Arisandi was explaining that we can involve the society easier to participating the program for detecting the pollution once before it happens more over. He and his team ( ECOTON ) practised how to doing it. They practise in Kali Surabaya and Brantas River, in East Java. More benefit by involving society, it doesn't need smart people, even just ordinary people can be participating in this program.

It was proven that the pollution in Kali Surabaya is included in the medium - high rank of polluted. In fact, society use this Kali Surabaya as their main drinking water source. His experiment gets attention from The White House USA. Nancy Sutley is interested to follow this way and more others countries start to do the same thing though.

It is very simple idea of  Prigi Arisandi and his team. They understand and pay attention the behaviour of the dragonflies that they can't stay without water. Even when they are breeding, they put the nymphs inside the water, and the main thing is that dragonflies just can live in clean water only. Once the nymphs get older and grown up, still they can not be far from water. It is already their habitat. As we should know also that dragonflies is the main food source for birds, fishes, frogs, and water beetles. So meaning is once we can't find the dragonflies around our river, pollution and the ecosystem got disturbance are happening in our areas. There is no more healthy fishes that sometimes we eat them, no more singing birds, frogs can not sing anymore even their voice is ugly and naughty water beetles who always fly here and there with buzzzzzzz voices.

So in here we should start paying attention to the nature itself. Don't we get the points of Prigi and His team try to teach us, that even a small creature as like dragon fly show us the sign of what would be happen if they are not exist. All creatures in the earth, in this universe have parts in every aspects of humans' life. Once I read the article in newspaper about this, I start realize that sometimes we forget the existence of things and just forget that it has contribution to make thing happens.

Lucky, I went to small city park near my area, still lots dragon flies here and there. But still it is not just feel lucky, once I realize this Jakarta needs to restore our small city park in Srengseng and make wider the watering system in there since it can help also once the rain season comes. Good drainages in the city, water catchment areas need to be build too. It is not enough only using dragonfly, it is need more efforts due the garbages also that so easy people throws them in anywhere they want including in the streets which can be run into the watering system of the city.

Start from ourselves, because we do already use too much chemical by the household garbages as like usage of soap when we wash our clothes, dishes, etc which contain strong chemicals through water flow, so reduce it by putting and throwing the physical garbages into the right place. This universe, is too nice for being wasted and spoiled.

Best Regards and happy Saturday !!!

The Fastest Animals in Hinterland

These are the Fastest Animals in hinterland : 


Cheetah 

Cheetah is the fastest creature who can run fast in the land mammal of earth. The speed of cheetah can reach 112km/hour - 120km/hour in the range of 460m areas. The accelarate ability of this cheetah can not be compare to any others animal even to human being. Cheetah can be reach the speed of 0km/hour - 110km/hour within 3 seconds. Aw Aw Aw...

Don't be curious between cheetah and leopard, okay !!

The difference between two of them is on their nose. If Pinocchio is getting long and long in the nose when lie but cheetah has a long tear-drop shaped on each sides of the nose from the corner of its eyes to mouth. LOL... ( Not related right between Leopard, Cheetah and Pinocchio ) LOL... But, I think you understand what I mean. I vote for cheetah because he looks awesome than Pinocchio with his nose and tan skin coated or buff color with spoted around 78mm but cheetah don't have spotts in the belly area. ( Do you dare to check his belly guys ? ... LOL )

These cheetah can be found in Asia and africa in 44 countries and were originally found in in all suitable habitats from the Cape of Good Hope to the Mediterranean, throughout the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East, from Israel to India, and through the southern provinces of the former Soviet Union. Today the Asian Cheetahs nearly to be extinct in India since 1952, and the last seen cheetah in Israel was in 1956. Only less than 100 can be confirmed in Iran that now they settle in small isolated populations. 

If you want to know more, check in this link : http://naturescrusaders.wordpress.com

They are so beautiful right !!! So, start appreciate them and give more even they are carnivore but at  the end they have rights to live !!!

Antelope

Antelope also having the a credit title as the fastest animal mammal in the land of earth. The maximum speed of antelope can not be measured accurately because every individual has different ability. But the Proghorn who lives in America can run up to 96km/hour, antelope also can be a very outstanding sprinter longer than others animal because they have the length of bigger lung and hearts. 

Majority of the antelopes are found in Africa, with a few inhabiting parts of Asia and America too.

We can find the Arabian Oryx and Dorcas Gazelle in Arabian Peninsula, while India is home to Nilgai, Chinkara and Blackbuck. Russia and Southeast Asia are inhabited by the Four-horned Antelope, Tibetan Antelope and Saiga Antelope.

For the physic appearance of antelope they look alike with deer, the different is in the horn. Antelope having permanent horn and strong.They use their horns mainly for the purpose of defending their antelope herd or fighting other antelopes.The physical characteristics of antelopes, all of them have even-toed hooves, horizontal pupils, ruminating guts, and (in at least the males) bony horns. Their longevity life is about 8 - 10 years old since they always hunted by others animals. 

If you want to know about antelope check in this link below ;

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/antelope.aspx

This is the picture of the sexy antelope :

Wildebeest ( Connochaetes taurinus )

This wildebeest is included in family of antelope and also categorized as one of the fastest animal in earth due the enemy who likes to hunt them. Wildebeest is a type of a social animal who love always in group member, that the reason the big cat like as like lion, spotted hyena, large cats or wild dog to hunt wildebeest. Even human being hunts them for their skin for those funny wallet or tra lala more even its tail for making fly swatters called chowries. The average speed of wildebeest is around 80km/hour. 

Generally we can find them  in central and southeastern Africa, from southern Kenya to South Africa and from Mozambique to Namibia and southern Angola. 

Anyway antelope having funny face.. Odd .. The have head as like ox, the mane and tail as like horse, and the horns as like buffalo. So, what are you antelope? LOL

Again here is the link to know more about antelope : 

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wildebeest/
Lion ( Panthera Leo )

Here is our courageous King Of Jungle on the line !!!! Yahuwwwwww... But, I just found out strange that female lion who is capable to hunt and run faster than male because the female who run and hunts for the food !!! They can run up to 80 km/hour. 

The lion was once found from northern Africa through southwest Asia (extinct in most countries within past 150 years), west into Europe (extinct 2000 years ago) and east into India (relict population in Gir Forest only). Nowadays, the majority of Africa’s lions can be found in east and southern Africa, with a small number in west Africa and stay in reservation areas. Estimation numbers that lions existence only around 30,000 - 100,000. How sad... I love them though... specially the Narnia Movie... They are gorgeous !!!! Even I plan to have their picture in big canvas on my wall because their lovely arrogance face and appearance...  

And Again, you should better check this link about their details : http://www.lions.org/lion-the-animal.html

Thomson Deer]
Here is the picture of its innocence and beautiful face of Thomson Deer :

This deer named Thomson was taken by its inventor, Joseph Thomson. We can find them lots in Africa. Thomson can run up to 80km/hour and it also build the ability of speed its has because they are hunted by big larger animal for their dinner, I think. The Thomson not also a runner, its also a jumper.. It can jump and run... As like in swan ballet dance. LOL...  It's Beautiful Creature !!

Again Punk Fishes Just Found!!!

I just browse the google today to find out something interesting in here. oh yes for sure i found something interesting at http://www.news.nationalgeographic.com, again so cute fishes just found in Australia and Tasmania. The family name of these fishes is Brachionichthyidae, taken from the Latin root name is bracchium which is meaning hand.

These fishes called by the handfish is not because they are really have hands, but it is the fins. They don't like swimming, they walk with their hands !!! The things which make them look so cute because they have shape at their head as like punkers' hair !!!!! Hhahahahahahhaha... They look so fun with the color hair on it with red, spotted balck & yellow, pink and now they found with purple color too.

Look at these how this universe so beautiful !!!

Brachionichthys
which has meaning The Flaming Red

Ziebells
This one so look like punkers right !! 

The Pink Ziebell
The Rare ones & Almost extinct

Brachionichthys hirsutus
The spotted Fishes & they have different types of spottes colors

These fishes has length 12 cms and they almost going to be extinct, it was noted in 1996 about it. In Australia & Tasmania they make nature reservation for them due the decreased numbers of sand where they love to stay and survive. Is it our fault , I guess. (-: And they ecome extinct too because their predators the star fish Asterias amurensis always chasing them for their meals.

This is so great value of mother earth right. At least I noted these fishes in my blog page. I love them when I just meet them in here in google. Check them out at : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/photogalleries/100524-new-species-handfish-walk-science-pictures/#/new-handfish-species-pink_20881_600x450.jpg