Animals

Observations of platypuses have shown that they can be both sedentary and migratory animals.

They lay one to three eggs in single clutch.

Snails can reproduce sexually and hermaphroditic.

This insect is an excellent digger, as evidenced by its powerful front limbs.

Its name derives from curling into a ball while threatened or frightened.

The American mink is not closely related to the European mink, and these species cannot interbreed.

The largest crustacean is the Japanese spider crab. The span of its legs can reach 3.7 meters, the cephalothorax is 40 centimeters long and the weight of an adult is about 19 kilograms.

Their shells are equipped with an operculum, that closes when the snail feels threatened.

A characteristic feature of narwhal is a spirally twisted horn.

The genus Alces (moose) includes two species: the Eurasian moose (Alces alces) and the American moose (Alces americanus).