Animals

Thursday, 27 August 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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Coyote
Coyotes were probably partially domesticated by various pre-Columbian cultures.
A coyote can be easily tamed as a puppy, but not as an adult. Tame coyotes are playful and trusting of their owners, wary and shy of strangers. They learn to fetch and point.
Kiwi bird
Because of the high death rate, the kiwi population is managed.
In unmanaged populations, their numbers decline by roughly 2% a year, mostly because of the small survival rate of kiwi chicks in the wild.
Narwhal
The narwhal's closest cousin is Beluga whale.
Brittle stars
The mouth is located on the underside of a disc.
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.
Asian elephant
There are approximately 150,000 muscles in their trunk.
Asian elephants can both push over a tree with their trunk, or pick up and shell a peanut.
Tigers
The coloration of tigers depends on the season and the subspecies.
It ranges from yellow to red-orange with distinct black stripes. Their bellies and head sides are white.
Spiders
Spiders are predators.
Most of them feed only on meat, although there are species (Bagheera Kipling) whose diet consists of ...
Lemon shark
Lemon sharks practice polyandry.
It means that females mate with multiple males throughout their lives.
Tiger sharks
Tiger sharks are the only member of the genus Galeocerdo.
Giant panda
The giant panda is a species at risk of extinction.
Its status went up from endangered in 2014 when its population surpassed 1850. This was a 17 percent increase in numbers since 2003, when China's panda population was 1,600.