Friday 6 January 2012

Travel at zoo Malacca

Zoo Malacca is open in year 1963,opened by Prime minister in that time Tun Dr.Mahathir Bin Mohammad on 13 August 1987.The zoo is now houses of birds,amphibians,reptiles,mammals and insects.It is the second largest zoo after the National Zoo in Ulu Klang,Kuala Lumpur.

 
 

This zoo is first in Malaysia,it also keeps the local beauty such as white Rhinocerous,Asian Elephants,Red Panda,Malaysian Gaur,serrow,the squirrel Monkey,Molurus Python,Grey Wolf,Mongolian Wild Horse,Green Tree Python,Giraffe,Blue and Yellow Macaw,and Indochinese Tiger or Malayan Tiger.

 
Red Panda                                  White Rhinocerous
 
Mongolian Wild Horse                 Green Tree Python















Wednesday 4 January 2012

Rafflesia the special plant

The Rafflesia is a parasitic plant which absorbs food substances from the tree's phloem tissues by using haustorium,parasites normally do not kill their hosts but continue to live on or in the host to drive benefits from the living host.

 

It ussually found in the southeastern Asia,on Malay Peninsula,Borneo,Sumatere,Thailands and Philliphines,The name of rafflesia is take by the name of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles,he is the leader of expidition at indonesia,on 1818.


 

The plants not have steam and root and the weight of rafflesia is among 10 kg,there are many of species of rafflesia,its is about 28 species found.

 
 

Rafflesia is an official state flower of Indonesia,Sabah in Malaysia,as well at Surat Thani Province,Thailand.