Animals

Sunday, 16 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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White-browed tit-warbler
White-browed tit-warbler is monogamous.
Both females and males tend to their young.
Great grey shrike
It expresses serial monogamy.
Pairs bond for a specific mating season. Typically, the next-year mate is different from the one from a year before.
Guinea pig
The guinea pig has teeth that grow throughout its life.
This type of dentition requires constant grinding. It consists of two pairs of incisors, two pairs o ...
Tigers
Tigers’ jumps are second to panthers in terms of height, and second to lions in terms of length.
They can jump up to five meters high, and cover eight to nine meters in distance.
Sloth
They are medium-sized animals with a cylindrical body, thick and strong limbs, and a small, round head.
The length of their bodies varies from 48,5 to 75,5 centimeters, the tail is vestigial (reduced in t ...
Sloth
Sloths are the general name for two families of the Xenarthra: a three-toed Bradypodidae and a two-toed Megalonychidae.
Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals. The group, differing in form and lifestyle, includes armadillos, glyptodonts, pampatheres, anteaters, tree sloths, ground sloths, and aquatic sloths.
Stingrays
Ancient Greeks used stingray venom as an anesthetic for dental procedures.
Crested gecko
There are many skin color groups occurring in wilderness, including various shades of yellow, orange, brown, grey or red, that form three color morphs – pattern-less, white-fringed and tiger.
Crested geckos bred in captivity have many color morphs absent in the wild, such as the harlequin.
Boa constrictor
They are solitary and group together mostly during the mating season.
They spend most of their time on the ground, although they can climb and are sometimes found in trees.
American flamingo
The vast majority of their plumage is pink.
Their wing covers are red, and the first and second-order ailerons are black. The legs and part of the mandible are also pink, while the end of the beak is black.