Animals

They use a few sharp sounds depending on the situation: the call for flight is a short, sharp whistl ...

Although they spend most of their time in the water, they also need land to live, which is why they are found in coastal areas.

There are between 900.000 and 1,2 million during the breeding season. The mallard is probably the most numerous duck species.

This type of dentition requires constant grinding. It consists of two pairs of incisors, two pairs o ...

It makes their eggs, in proportion to their body size, one of the largest of all birds.

Females have only four nipples capable of producing food. As martens grow, they begin to consume meat, but not earlier than five weeks after birth.

They seek habitats with lots of plants and shrubs. Dik-diks can live on an open plain where the gras ...

The body length of a european marten averages 53 cm (21 in) and the tail length is 25 cm (10 in). Adult martens can weigh between 1.5 and 1.7 kg (3,3 to 3,7 in).

The main part of the mallard's diet consists of snails, beetles, dragonflies and flies, earthworms, ...