Animals

They are brownish-reddish in color, compound and consist of about four thousand ommatidia.

They do not open their eyes until they are three weeks old. The chicks have special pads on the bott ...

Primarily, they use gills to filtrate oxygen from water taken in by their mouths, however, while hun ...

Sloths do not regulate their body temperature like most mammals by changing their metabolic rate but ...

The bristles covering them have the ability to detect sounds, smells, vibrations, and air movements.

Adélie penguins are hunted primarily by leopard seals. Their eggs fall prey to south polar skuas and sheathbills. Orcas may also hunt them, but they usually prefer larger catches.

A joey is born after a month of gestation. The tiny youngster resides in mother’s pouch for about si ...