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The philipine crocodile

The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) is a crocodile found in the Philippines. It is also known

as the Mindoro crocodile and the Philippine freshwater crocodile. It became data deficent to critically

endangered in 2008. In the Philippines, it is strictly prohibited to kill a crocodile, but its status is critically

endangered from exploitation and unsustainable fishing methods, such as dynamite fishing.

Conservation methods are being taken by the Dutch/Filipino Mabuwaya foundation,[4]the Crocodile

Conservation Society and the Zoological Institute of HerpaWorld in Mindoro.

Anatomy

The Philippine crocodile is a freshwater crocodilian endemic to the Philippines. They have a

relatively broad snout and thick bony plates on its back(heavy dorsal armor). This is a fairlysmall species, reaching breeding maturity at 1.5 m (4.9 ft) and 15 kg (33 lb) in both sexes and a

maximum size of approximately 3.1 m (10 ft). Females are slightly smaller than males.

Philippine crocodiles are golden-brown in color, which darkens as it matures.

The philipine whale shark(butanding)

The whale shark,Rhincodon typus, is a slow-moving filter feeding sharkand the largest extantfish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of 12.65 metres (41.50 ft) and a

weight of more than 21.5 tonnes (47,000 lb), and there are unconfirmed reports of considerably

larger whale sharks. Claims of individuals over 14 metres (46 ft) long and weighing at least 30tonnes (66,000 lb) are not uncommon. The whale shark holds many records for sheer size in the

animal kingdom, most notably being by far the largest living non-mammalian vertebrate, rivaling

many of the largest dinosaurs in weight. It is the sole member of the genusRhincodon and thefamily, Rhincodontidae (calledRhiniodon and Rhinodontidae before 1984), which belongs to

the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. The species originated approximately

60 million years ago.

The whale shark is found in tropical and warm oceans and lives in the open sea with a lifespan of

about 70 years. Although whale sharks have very large mouths, as filter feeders they feed

mainly, though not exclusively, on plankton, which are microscopic plants and animals.However, the BBC programPlanet Earthfilmed a whale shark feeding on a school of small fish.

The same documentary showed footage of a whale shark timing its arrival to coincide with the

mass spawning of fish shoals and feeding on the resultant clouds of eggs and sperm.

The species was distinguished in April 1828 after the harpooning of a 4.6 metres (15.1 ft)

specimen in Table Bay, South Africa. Andrew Smith, a military doctor associated with Britishtroops stationed in Cape Town, described it the following year. The name "whale shark" comes

from the fish's physiology, being as large as many whales and also a filter feeder like many

whale species.

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