Animals

Monday, 4 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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Bird of Paradise
The feathers of birds of paradise are used by indigenous people of New Guinea to decorate ritual costumes, plumes, or funeral ceremonies.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, European women eagerly decorated their hats with the colorful feathers of these birds.
Alpaca
In the United Kingdom, alpacas are sometimes used as pasture guards.
Although they are rarely aggressive, they are attached to flocks of free-grazing sheep, where they w ...
Mallard
They most often fall prey to birds of prey, ravens, weasels, snakes, raccoons, foxes and large fish such as catfish and pike.
They are also subject to hunting; in Poland, the mallard hunting season runs from September 1 to December 31.
Quokkas
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus), also called a short-tailed scrub wallaby, is a marsupial of the Setonix genus.
It belongs to the macropod family and is the only representative of the Setonix genus.
Clownfish
Clownfish are most often traded marine fish.
Most of the global trade comes from the wild, but things are changing over time. Clownfish are easy breading in captivity so from year to year less of them are captured from the oceans.
Goblin shark
Goblin shark's body is adapted to slow movement.
Unlike many other sharks, the goblin shark has a rather slack and slender body and weak, poorly calc ...
Basking shark
Despite their enormous size, basking sharks are not a threat to humans.
They allow divers to approach them at close range. However, humans do pose a threat to basking shark ...
Hawksbill sea turtle
The pattern on their carapace is called tortoiseshell.
It is amber, with an irregular black and dark-brown pattern. It is unique because of its overlapping scutes—five central, and four lateral.
Leeches
Individuals grown under sterile culture conditions are used for the treatment.
Approximately 0.015 g of hirudin can be obtained from one individual.
Ball python
Ball pythons are listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN.