Animals

They primarily feed on small rodents, but also eat unguarded eggs, amphibians, and other reptiles. They bite their prey, and coil around it to subdue it, then swallow it whole, starting with the head.

They eat a lot of small fish, squids, fish larvae, crustaceans, jellyfish and salps. From time to time, they vary their diet with eelgrass. As their food may lack nutrients, they need to eat a lot.

A mink can swim to an island and kill up to a hundred chicks in one night. A single individual can thus decimate a colony of several thousand birds.

The subspecies was first described in 1828 by two German scientists: zoologist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and naturalist Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich, giving it the name Ursus syriacus.

It was the primary antagonist in the novel written in 1851.

Hatching lasts about 12 days from the day of laying the last egg. After hatching, the chicks remain in the nest for at least three weeks. The young are fed even after leaving the nest.

During the day, however, they can be found basking in the sun for energy. After dark, they go out in ...

They lack adhesive lamellae – plate-like structures – on their toes, which are quite common for other gecko species. Instead, their toes end up with claws.

It is a shade of cyan. The term was used first time in 1873.