Animals

Over 60 species of brittle stars are bioluminescent.

The chelicerae is composed of two or three segments.

Hawksbills live for an average of 50 to 60 years.

Their signature trait is a black spot around their mouths and eyes.

Observations of platypuses have shown that they can be both sedentary and migratory animals.

Males are equipped with a large and variably colored resonance sac.

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.

Minks were imported to Poland in 1953 for breeding purposes.

It is believed that dodo chicks were fed so-called bird’s milk.

Alpacas have the splitted upper lip characteristic of camelids and continuously growing teeth that must be trimmed.