Animals

Quokkas are adapted for arboreal locomotion.

Despite a drastic decline in the wild population, axolotls are unlikely to become extinct.

A gestation period lasts for five months, after which one infant is born.

The equivalent of the kidneys in octopuses is the so-called nephridia.

Crayfish can regenerate lost legs.

A characteristic feature of crustaceans is two pairs of feelers, and three pairs of mouth legs, and all but the first pair of feelers are two-branched (they separate into exopodite and endopodite).

Dolphin meat is eaten in some areas of Japan.

It is the only land mammal found in Iceland.

The Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) is a parrot native to central and eastern South America.

The hair of the three-toed sloth grows in ventral to dorsal direction, undoubtedly due to the “hanging” lifestyle and the climate in which it lives.