Animals

An alpaca's gestation period is approximately 335-340 days, and usually one offspring is born, weigh ...

Hatching lasts about 12 days from the day of laying the last egg. After hatching, the chicks remain in the nest for at least three weeks. The young are fed even after leaving the nest.

Representatives of sea turtles can make migrations of thousands of kilometers, land turtles much sho ...

They primarily feed on small rodents, but also eat unguarded eggs, amphibians, and other reptiles. They bite their prey, and coil around it to subdue it, then swallow it whole, starting with the head.

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.

They can cross a river 6-8 kilometers wide with the current even about 30 kilometers.

They fall into water below a leaf. Equipped with strong tails and fins they handle fast-flowing waters easily. Tadpoles are omnivorous, they eat algae, moss, mosquito larvae and other little insects.

It is where its name derives from. As the tiger grows, the pattern fades.

Their territory covers an area of 1,6 square kilometers. They gather only for mating purposes.

The modern binomial name is derived from the Latin alcedo “kingfisher,” and Atthis, a beautiful youn ...