Animals

They urinate backward and vigorously curl their tails during defecation to spread their excrement as far as possible.

The oldest surviving traces of sloths date back to the Pleistocene. At the time, there lived the Meg ...

Currently, the number of wild individuals ranges from 500 to 1,000. It is mainly due to the increasi ...

They are found in the provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. However, the range of these mammals has decreased significantly due to the drastic deforestation that occurred in the 20th century.

The plumage color is creamy brown with a lighter throat. Through the eye is an orange-colored beak with black spots. The male has a yellow beak, rust-colored breast, and black supernumerary lids.

Their skin color is made up of patches of brown, gray, and cream. The dark brown patches are less pronounced near the head and become more intense the closer they are to the tail.

Frogmouths are not owls, but due to their similarities to those birds and nocturnal activity many people wrongly assume so.

Males typically reach a length of 47 centimeters.

The gestation can last for 93 days but can be delayed up to 156 days until the conditions are suitable enough to give birth to cubs.

There are four subspecies of the common cuckoo.