Animals

The population is distributed from central Mexico through Panama. They prefer moist and wet forested areas.

The record holder lived 6 years, 11 months and 2 days, but there are reports that the cuckoo can live up to 15 years.

Despite living in relatively hot and dry regions of the world, they prefer cooler parts. Thus, they spend most of the daytime inside burrows, emerging once the temperature drops.

Alpacas are shorn once a year, yielding 3 to 5 kilograms of fiber.

They mark their territories with urine, excrement, and scent glands.

These animals are not commercially reared, they are intended to be eaten during periods of various h ...

Females are approximately 20% - 30% larger than males.

The last extinct species is Chelonoidis abingdonii, whose last representative died on June 24, 2012. ...

Their northernmost area of distribution is Costa Rica. Their range covers much of South America up to roughly the 25 °E parallel, or northern Argentina.