Animals

Tuesday, 10 February 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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Capybaras
Capybaras are aquatic and terrestrial animals.
This is largely dependent on the climate in which they naturally occur, characterized by transitiona ...
Quokkas
Quokkas are relatively small for macropods.
They grow up to 40 to 55 centimeters long, and their weight ranges from 2,5 to 5 kg. Their tails rea ...
Quokkas
Australian law is very strict with human-quokkas interactions.
They are not to be petted, cuddled, hugged, or fed. There was a case of a tourist who threw a quokka off a boat to see if it could swim. Although quokkas do swim, the man was jailed.
Sloth
Sloths are herbivores, and their diet consists of leaves, flowers, fruit, and shoots.
Their stomachs are multichambered and inhabited by cellulose-eating bacteria. Digestion is very slow. Sloths descend to the ground to defecate, but it happens only once a week.
Dolphins
Dolphins also suffer from ocean pollution and hunting.
Pesticides, heavy metals, plastics, and other industrial and agricultural pollutants that do not dec ...
American robin
There are seven subspecies of this bird:
the Eastern robin, the Newfoundland robin, the Southern robin, the Northwestern robin, the Western robin, the San Lucas robin, the Mexican robin.
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).
Adder
Not every adder bite results in an injection of venom.
Venom is injected in about 50 percent of bite cases.
Hedgehogs
From 1950s to 1980s, hedgehogs were an unofficial symbol of NATO.
Many countries consider hedgehogs a perfect symbol due to their peaceful nature, yet the ability to defend themselves when the need arises.
Sloth
The biggest threat to sloths is the deforestation of South America.
South American Indians also hunt them for their meat.