Animals

Monday, 22 December 2025
27 facts about turtles
27 facts about turtles
The only vertebrates so armored
The first turtles appeared on Earth at the end of the Permian about 240 million years ago. Although the first ones had neither plastron nor carapace, ...

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Siberian roe deer
They are herbivores.
Their diet consists of over 600 species of plants.
Boa constrictor
Albino varieties of Boa constrictors also exist.
They are not common in the wild, but are popular with breeders who cross them with other individuals to create new color varieties.
Gila monster
Although its bite is painful, there are no reported deaths of humans.
Great spotted woodpecker
Both parents are responsible for hatching eggs and feeding the chicks.
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.
Black-headed python
Although this is not their natural habitat, they can also be found in trees.
They are good climbers although they do not often use this ability.
Stingrays
Their pups are born fully independent.
They are capable of foraging their own food, hence, they do not require parental care.
Brittle stars
The nervous system of brittle stars has a simple structure.
As its most important elements are the nervous ring around the mouth and the radial nerves that run in the animal arms.
Arabian oryx
Unlike other oryx species, Arabian oryxes are characterised by marked aggressiveness of adult males toward humans.
At Riyadh Zoo, three adult males are kept indoors and are only allowed outdoors during the mating se ...
Hippopotamus
The ancient Greeks thought the hippopotamus was related to the horse (hippos means horse).
Until 1985, naturalists grouped hippos with domestic pigs by suggesting the structure of their teeth ...
Rice's whale
The reproduction takes place every two to three years.