Animals

Tuesday, 27 January 2026
19 facts about snails
19 facts about snails
Also called gastropods
Snails are mollusks and are one of the most numerous animal species in the world. In terms of species diversity, they are second only to insects. Even ...

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Common kingfisher
The common kingfisher, also known as the river kingfisher or the Eurasian kingfisher, is a small bird in the family Alcedinidae.
The kingfisher family includes over 90 species of small birds with large heads, long, laterally flat ...
Shoebill
The plumage is blue-gray with a greenish tinge.
The back and neck are covered with blue-gray feathers with a greenish tinge, while the underside of ...
Otters
Otters' excrements have its own name.
It is called spraint and emits a smell, described by some scientists as similar to jasmine tea or violets. Otters use spraint to communicate with each other.
Platypus
The cervical spine of the platypus consists, as in most mammals, of seven cervical vertebrae.
It has cervical ribs and additional bones in the shoulder girdle, such as the interclavicular bone, ...
Stingrays
Their pups are born fully independent.
They are capable of foraging their own food, hence, they do not require parental care.
Bonobo
The statistical duration of sexual intercourse in bonobos is about 13 seconds.
Sex for these animals is primarily a means of interpersonal communication and not, as in most other ...
Yellow spotted lizard
Parthogenesis occur when no males are present.
All lizards born this way are females. There are some populations of yellow spotted lizards that contain no males at all.
Glass frogs
Most of them are small with adults rarely exceeding 30 mm (1,2 in) body length.
Some species on the other hand can grow much larger up to 80 mm (3 in).
Earthworms
Deprived of food, they can fall into a state of numbness that can last for several months.
The cause of numbness in these animals can also be excessive dryness of the soil or excessive heat.
Tigers
Within the last 100 years, their historical habitat has shrunk to 6%.
As recently as the 19th century, tigers were spread from eastern Turkey through the South Caucasus t ...