Animals

Friday, 14 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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Bull snake
Female lays about 12 eggs in a hole and leave them without protection to hatch.
Bull snake eggs are 70 mm (2,7 in) in diameter, has an elliptical shape and leathery shell.
Adder
They are oviparous animals.
This means that the young remain in egg membranes inside the mother’s body and hatch just before, during, or immediately after laying their eggs.
Butterflies
There are over 150,000 species of butterflies.
Butterflies include both diurnal species and moths, which make up 90% of all butterflies.
Southern cassowary
They make weird and low sounds.
The booming sound emitted by a cassowary is the lowest known call of any bird and lies just at human hearing limit.
Quokkas
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus), also called a short-tailed scrub wallaby, is a marsupial of the Setonix genus.
It belongs to the macropod family and is the only representative of the Setonix genus.
Bird of Paradise
Some species have unusual black feathers, which are considered the darkest material found in nature.
They are so dark that they almost completely absorb light (99.95%). This feather blackness is not fa ...
Southern cassowary
Cassowaries are crepuscular animals.
This means that they are most active during dusk and dawn. They spend the day basking in the sun.
Shoebill
The Shoebill resembles a stork in appearance.
Its trunk is massive, and its legs are long and slender. The neck is slender and although it appears long, it is actually shorter than that of other wading birds (heron, crane).
Hummingbirds
They are the only birds that can fly backwards.
They owe this to the special design of their wings, which also allows hummingbirds to stop their flight at any time and hover in place.
Northern pike
Juvenile fish have green skin and yellow stripes run along the body.
As the fish grows, the color changes to olive green and the stripes divide into smaller pieces that form a speckled pattern.