Animals

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

These include freshwater ones from the Ampullariidae family and marine ones from the Strombus genus.

Whether a fly is large or small only indicates whether the insect fed adequately during the larval stage.

Most of them reach complete adulthood in the fourth year of life.

These birds reach sexual maturity after seven years.  This is quite late compared to other Arini (th ...

During an escape from a predator, a female quokka can drop joey carried in her pouch, so it attracts the predator with squeaking noises while she escapes.

Fishing for pike is usually done with a dead fish lure or spinning/trolling. Catching a large specim ...

This organ stores sepia, produced by a nearby gland. Octopuses use sepia to disorient a predator while escaping. They then spray a thick, characteristic black stain.

The first is Ramphastos toco toco, found in Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, northern and northeaste ...