Animals

During the wet season territorialism is most noticeable. To fend off potential competitor glass frogs make squeaking sounds.

It sucks up about eight liters of water. Asian elephants have to drink at least once a day.

Trumpet manucode andcrinkle-collared manucode eat mainly figs, while Lawes's parotia eat berries.

Only males possess the toxin.  Females pose no threat because their spurs disappear before the first ...

In Colombia’s Guajira region live the Wayuu Indian people. According to their legends, manatees were ...

One of the world's oldest hippos, the 55-year-old "Hippolyte", died in 2016 at the Silesian Zoologic ...

It resembles a dog (thanks to its muzzle), a weasel (due to its ears), a cat (due to clawed paws), and a monkey (thanks to a tail that makes up approximately half of the fossa’s length).

The rest of the body may be yellow, light or dark brown. It is covered with irregular stripes that v ...

This endemic species lives in New Zealand around the South Island and west of the North Island. The largest individual measured so far was 150 cm long and weighed 57 kg.