Animals

Sunday, 7 June 2026
27 facts about turtles
27 facts about turtles
The only vertebrates so armored
The first turtles appeared on Earth at the end of the Permian about 240 million years ago. Although the first ones had neither plastron nor carapace, ...

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Bonobo
The statistical duration of sexual intercourse in bonobos is about 13 seconds.
Sex for these animals is primarily a means of interpersonal communication and not, as in most other ...
Rice's whale
Along with vaquita, it is considered one of the most endangered cetaceans.
Axolotl
Axolotls are carnivorous.
They feed on mollusks, insects, arthropods, and small fish. They locate their prey using their sense of smell, and since having vestigial teeth, their primary feeding method is suctioning.
Crustacean
Coconut crabs have the strongest grip of all animals.
Hence their name, their pincers are capable of splitting a coconut. The grip strength of an adult male is about 300 N, in comparison, the grip strength of a coconut crab's pincers is more than 1700 N.
Javan hawk-eagle
The Female lays a single egg that hatches after 48 days of incubation.
The young fledge around 2.5 months after hatching.
Otters
They are very sociable and playful.
Otters are known for rubbing against each other, which refreshes their coats. They also wrestle with ...
Common cuckoo
It lives in wooded or shrubby areas.
It is not comfortable in dense forests, so it usually chooses forest edges, parks, gardens, trees in fields and meadows, marshes and dunes.
Sea otter
In the wild, they typically live from 10 to 20 years, while females tend to live 5 years longer than males.
Maximum recorded life span of sea otter is 23 years in the wild. The longest-lived specimen in captivity was 28 years old female.
Sand lizard
The sand lizard belongs to the family of true lizards.
It is an extensive family with about 300 species divided into 39 genera.
American mink
Females reach sexual maturity after about a year, males after 18 months.
Minks live for 4 to 6 years.