Animals

Thursday, 25 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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Crested gecko
Due to the crest of skin over its eyes, crested gecko has been nicknamed “eyelash”.
French Bulldog
There are nine standard colors of the French Bulldog.
These are white, white and brindle, brindle, brindle and white, white and fawn, fawn, fawn and white, fawn brindle, and cream.
Aye-aye
Aye-aye was classified as a lemur in the mid-1800s but later reclassified in its own group by itself.
Aye-aye
Aye-ayes are listed as endangered.
Their population decreases mainly due to deforestation and excessive hunting.
Salamanders
Respiration
While lizards have only one organ responsible for respiration-the lungs, salamanders rely on skin, gills or lungs (or, in some species, the combination of skin and lungs altogether).
Butterflies
The larval form of the butterfly is the caterpillar.
Their food is most often soft parts of plants. However, there are also carnivorous and even cannibal caterpillars. The caterpillar is the only developmental stage of the insect in which it grows.
Guinea pig
Male guinea pigs reach sexual maturity in 3-5 weeks, females similarly - they can be fertile as early as 4 weeks old.
A female can have five litters in a year, although six are theoretically possible. Unlike the offspr ...
Black Caiman
The mating season of black caimans happens between September and December, depending on the country.
The sole reason is for the eggs to hatch at the beginning of a wet season.
Sea otter
Sea otters are known to use rocks as tools.
They dive for stones, select the most suitable one, and use it to crush the shells of their prey (su ...
Amur leopard
Despite the efforts to preserve the species, they are endangered by inbreeding.
There are so few Amur leopards living in the wild, the small genetic diversity in the gene pool may lead to inbreeding depression.