Animals

Most octopuses lead solitary lives, but we also encounter species that live in larger communities.

Although it is representative of carnivorous bears, the species became a food specialist about 2.4 million years ago and feeds almost exclusively on bamboo shoots and other plants. Occasionally, pandas also eat small mammals and fish.

Females build nests and care for the chicks without the involvement of males.

Male birds of paradise are not monogamous. They use their colorful, fancy plumage to attract successive females.

The fossa can climb up the trees and jump from branch to branch.

In 2018, a Syrian sleeping bear was killed by Iraqi forces on the Iraq-Syria border.

The science that deals with turtles is chelonology.

Sperm whales are a cosmopolitan species.

The female usually lays three to five eggs in the clutch, although there may be from two to even seven.

The first photograph of Saola was taken in 1999.