Animals

Sunday, 12 July 2026
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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Red panda
It is the only species in the genus Ailurus in the family Ailuridae.
Amur leopard
The first mention of the Amur leopard dates back to 1857.
Hermann Schlegel, a German zoologist, discovered its pelt while on a survey in Korea.
Leeches
The cephalic segment of the leech is made up of a prostomium and four segments.
Eyes are located on the prostomium. There may be from one to ten pairs of different shapes and sizes. Eye positioning varies between species, and there are even ones that do not have eyes at all.
Javan leopard
It is solitary.
It forms groups only for mating purposes.
Siberian roe deer
They undergo embryonic diapause.
Doe can delay the implantation of an embryo, so she will not give birth during winter.
Adelie penguin
Both parents take their part in egg incubation.
Female lays two eggs which hatch after 32 to 34 days. While one parent incubates the egg, the other ...
Hippopotamus
According to scientists, there are currently about 80 hippos in the region.
Their population has almost doubled since 2012.
Hyacinth macaw
The legs of this parrot are gray.
There are four toes on each leg - two pointing forward (third and second) and two pointing backward ...
Tigers
Most tigers live in tropical forests, in areas covered with grasses, reeds, and bamboo.
Northern pike
Juvenile fish have green skin and yellow stripes run along the body.
As the fish grows, the color changes to olive green and the stripes divide into smaller pieces that form a speckled pattern.