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Pharmaceutics Mendocino is the scientific name of the Quetzalcoatl, which means “large throat” is a spectacular feathered bird of the tron family.

Bird native to cloud forests of Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama, undoubtedly has a profound symbolic way, the Mayans considered a sacred bird, the kings wore headdresses with feathers removed of its tail, like the famous Aztec emperor Moctezuma plume.

The song of the quetzal Central is a whistle or shriek, often sung in pairs and sometimes repeating in a monotone.

Central is the Quetzalcoatl striking appearance, with the green body (with iridescence from green to blue purple gold) and red breast. Feathers upper tail coverts are green and very long, hiding the tail and in males at the nesting season are longer than the rest of the body. The upper wing coverts are also long and seem fringes.

They have a varied diet, including many fruits, insects and frogs. Their habitat. Usually lay two eggs (pale blue) per nest in a hole in a tree.

The “yurumí” has a heavy coat whose color varies from black to white through various shades of gray and lasts a long tail, full of hair up to 40 inches long, which give an aspect of range or flag. ” This species has units that reach 2 meters long, 80 cm which correspond to the tail. The weight of an adult male can reach 40 kilos. its snout is long and narrow, has no teeth and his tongue is long. He is armed with two powerful claws burrowing in the front legs.

• Name

“Yurumí” is the name given in Guarani, but also calls it “tamanduáguazú”, “large anteater”, “anteater flag” (for its attractive tail). Its scientific name is “Myrmecophaga tridactyla (Linnaeus). Belongs to the class of mammals, order and family Vermilingua Myrmecophagidae. This species has, since 1977, a symbol of the Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina.

• Habitat

From Venezuela and Guyana to some provinces in northern Argentina: the forest of Misiones, Formosa, Chaco and other areas impenetrable, east of Salta, Santiago del Estero northeast and probably north of Corrientes. In all these regions showing search areas covered or open savannah grasslands where there are termites or tacurús, fair-sized structures built by these invertebrates.

• Food

The diet of “yurumí is insectivorous, based mainly on ants and termites, which it extracts with its long sticky tongue. To achieve open gaps in the colonies of these insects, using the long, curved claws on its front legs.

• Their offspring

The gestation period of “yurumí” lasts about 190 days, after which it is born, usually in spring, a small farming weighs 1600 grams. The mother carries on her back for breeding from the first two or three weeks and for over a year.

• For what is at stake

There are three reasons that make us fear for the perpetuation of this species, altering their natural habitat, low reproductive potential and high vulnerability to man. As forests are cut down gradually to give refuge, secretly captures it for sale to zoos and private collectors.

The young spiderlings, or juveniles, are orange, brown and white; acquire their black color with age or with each molt. Its habitat is terrestrial, usually live near the ground and in warm and dark spots. However, it also prepares its caves on plants. The fabric of the widow can be found in crevices under rocks, on plants, in crevices or holes in dirt embankments and barns. Can also be found in the outdoor seating beneath wood chips, around stacked materials, abandoned burrows or rodent holes, even grape vines. This spider can find your site on clothing or shoes and occasionally try to enter a house to build her web, but not usually found within them.

When seeking refuge in a building, is due to cold weather and the need for a dry place. Moreover, in the eastern United States, the mactans associated with littered areas, or at the garages. In the arid parts of Arizona, this spider inhabits almost every crevice of the floor. In central Chile is known as red spider poto or wheat, and are recognized as aggressive pursuers of their attackers. In times of threshing, the spider is evident.

The Latrodectus mactans are timid, sedentary, solitary, and nocturnal cannibals. The only social life they show is to mate. During daylight hours, the spider spends his time at Silk tunnel, which is the base of the trap. The widow hanging upside down in her web, her red mark is a visible sign of danger. This chandelier will fall on your fabric with the slightest vibration and pretend to be dead.

The black widow is usually awkward when not in direct contact with the fabric. Their web is irregular and thick. You can recognize three structural levels: a complex of support wires, a central threads and a lower area of ​​the trap. Also, the black widow is very active in the months of autumn and the fabric is spread everywhere. Most of these spiders live only a year.

Are exclusively carnivorous and antagonism between them. Usually feed on insects, but also feeds on wood and other bugs arachnids. Normally the black widow hunt their prey with their material, fall and get tangled, use this to make an approach, he turns around and drop wire to ensnare their victims with the help of their hind legs, when it is subject, the spider about and deals a little bite their prey by injecting a lethal dose of poison, once the prey dead widow and will inject about gastric juices, causing it to absorb dissolved. The whole process of digestion occurs outside the body of the spider.

They are not aggressive and do not have the instinct to bite, their venom is neurotoxic, which means it blocks the transmission of nerve impulses. If the black widow spider is pressed against human skin is a natural reaction because biting for defense. The bitten man suffering from a painful stiffness in the abdominal muscles. Although the venom of this spider is serious, is rarely fatal. If properly and promptly treated, the victim fully recovers. The bite of a black widow spider is distinguished by a double wound. Children and adults who are not in good physical condition but the bite can suffer fatal consequences. It is reported that the mactans venom is 15 times more toxic than a rattlesnake.

The Latrodectus mactans are called black widows, they generally eat the male after mating, but sometimes the male escapes and manages to mate again. But usually the male remains in the fabric of the female to serve food and ensure a good start.