Animals

Sunday, 30 November 2025
19 facts about snails
19 facts about snails
Also called gastropods
Snails are mollusks and are one of the most numerous animal species in the world. In terms of species diversity, they are second only to insects. Even ...

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Turtles
They use sounds to communicate.
They most often make sounds during courtship and mating however, some species also make sounds to stay "in touch" during migration.
Clownfish
When clownfish lacks anemone, it can occupy soft coral or large polyp stony coral.
Sometimes they even prefer those corals over anemones. This happened in our editorial reef tank when ...
Grey heron
Their breeding season begins at the end of February and lasts until early June.
In the beginning, males look for a convenient location to build a nest, most often in the branches o ...
Housefly
Housefly eggs are about 2.5 mm in diameter.
They are most commonly laid in pig feces, where up to 15,000 larvae may hatch in one kilogram of a s ...
Hammerhead sharks
Juvenile scalloped hammerheads can get a tan.
Since they swim close to the water's surface, they are exposed to sun rays, and, as a result, turn from light beige to brown.
Llamas
Coat structure
Llamas have coarse coat with fine hidden underneath. Alpacas are fluffy with a fine hair all over their bodies. Their fleece is very dense and fast-growing.
Sloth
Sloths are herbivores, and their diet consists of leaves, flowers, fruit, and shoots.
Their stomachs are multichambered and inhabited by cellulose-eating bacteria. Digestion is very slow. Sloths descend to the ground to defecate, but it happens only once a week.
Amur leopard
It is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUNC.
The main reason behind their small numbers is excessive poaching and loss of their habitat. Fortunat ...
Insects
The blood system of insects is open.
This means they have no veins, but hemolymph (which functions as blood) is forced by arteries into t ...
Red panda
They are listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List.
They suffer from habitat loss, climate change, and excessive poaching. Currently, their population in the wild is estimated at no more than 10,000 individuals.