Animals

Tuesday, 12 May 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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Hummingbirds
Some species of hummingbirds can reach speeds of up to 80 km/h in flight.
The Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) is considered the fastest moving species of hummingbird. It is ...
Quokkas
Their breeding capability begins at 18 months of age.
Zebra mussel
They originated from the Caspian Sea and the Black sea region.
In the 19th century, it was introduced to Europe made its way to North America in the 1980s.
Sloth
Sloths live in forests of Central America and northern regions of South America.
The oldest surviving traces of sloths date back to the Pleistocene. At the time, there lived the Meg ...
Crustacean
Their body can consist of two or three parts (tagm) and in some cases, it is simply impossible to distinguish the individual parts.
Some crustaceans have a head torso and abdomen, but there are some in which it is impossible to distinguish these elements. In this case, the structure of their body is divided into head and body.
Bonobo
Bonobo herds are loosely connected.
They live in large groups of 40 to 120 individuals, which often divide into smaller subgroups of 6 t ...
Snails
Most snails are herbivorous, but there are also carnivorous and carrion-eating species.
Terrestrial animals feed mainly on plants, although there are predators among them. Predatory land snails hunt other slowly moving organisms, so they prey on other snails or earthworms.
Malaysian trumpet snail
Malaysian trumpet snails spend most of the day buried under the substrate.
They venture up the substrate once the light goes off.
Quokkas
Quokkas are native to Western Australia.
They inhabit small islands of the Western Australia coasts, particularly Bald Island, and Rottnest Island, and the south western parts of the mainland.
American mink
They live near forest waters, marking the boundaries of their territory with the secretions of their perianal glands.
The size of the territory depends on the sex, males have areas of up to 440 ha, and females 8-20 ha.