Animals

Sunday, 31 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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Wolf spider
They are solitary creatures.
Wolf spiders live a lonely life and are seen with other representative of their species only during mating season which occur in mid-summer.
Llamas
Coat color
Alpacas have more uniform coloration while llamas are usualy more patchy.
Portuguese man-of-war
They have natural predators.
The two main ones are the violet sea snail and sea slugs from the genus Glaucus. They also fell prey to loggerhead sea turtles and ocean sunfish.
Javan hawk-eagle
Javan hawk-eagle is monogamous.
There are an estimated 325 Javan hawk-eagle pairs in the wild.
Siberian roe deer
The Siberian roe deer are nocturnal.
Their activity happens after dawn, while they spend most of the day sleeping.
Malaysian trumpet snail
The red-rimmed melania can transfer parasites dangerous to humans.
It hosts parasitic lungworms, such as the Chinese liver fluke and the oriental lung fluke, that can cause clonorchiasis and paragonimiasis.
Bull snake
In the wild, they live up to 12 years on average. Captive animals can live up to 30 years.
In the wild, they fall prey to most birds of prey, coyotes, foxes, weasels and other snakes.
Grey heron
They are carnivores, most often feeding on what they find near or directly in a body of water.
Their diet consists of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, snakes, small birds, and mammals. It happens that the heron hunts small ducks or other birds with a body size of up to 25 cm.
Bonobo
World Bonobo Day is celebrated on 14th February.
World Chimpanzee Day falls on 14th July.
Manatees
They have only six cervical vertebrae.