Animals

They are equipped with five toothed jaws and are used for both food intake and excretion. Each jaw is made of skeletal plates and one of them hosts the madreporite.

Courtship begins as early as December. They breed one brood per year, the eggs being laid in the first weeks of May. A female can lay 5 to 7 white eggs, 26x19 mm in size.

Most often it is a mixture of brown, reddish-brown, red, yellow, white, and orange. Their body is co ...

It belongs to the macropod family and is the only representative of the Setonix genus.

A larger number of hunters can only be seen when a body of water dries up and all that is left is a small morass full of trapped fish.

Both females and males have the same coloration, do not differ in appearance, live in permanent relationships and raise offspring together.

Chicks hatch out with downy feathers and are being fed by both parents. After 25 to 35 days juveniles become fledlings and are ready to leave the nest.

Willem de Vlamingh, captain of the Dutch fleet, upon arriving on the island in 1696, thought quokkas ...

They occupy mostly the eastern shores of both the Americas, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, and the western coast of north and central Africa.