Animals

Friday, 18 July 2025
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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Mallard
It is a medium-sized water bird. Males are larger and heavier than females.
Body length ranges from 50 to 65 cm and wingspan is 81 to 98 cm. The weight of adults is between 0.7 and 1.6 kg.
Sperm whale
The birth of a young sperm whale is a social event, as both mother and calf need protection from predators.
Females become fertile at about 9 years of age (the oldest recorded pregnant female was 14). Pregnan ...
Giant panda
Females are slightly smaller than males (10 to 20%).
Adults are 120 to 190 cm (47 to 75 in) long, of which about 10 to 15% is the tail. The weight of an ...
Kiwi bird
The breeding season of kiwi birds lasts from late winter to early summer.
Sand lizard
They overwinter in their burrows, where they hibernate.
They burrow in about October and leave them in March or April. Their activity is closely related to the ambient temperature.
Rice's whale
Rice’s whales eat approximately 660 kilograms of food a day.
Shoebill
They are a vulnerable species.
The global population of Shoebills was estimated at 5000-8000 individuals in 2002. Their population ...
Turtles
Land tortoises are very slow they rarely exceed a speed of 0.5 km/h.
They have short, columnar legs that resemble the feet of an elephant.
Dolphins
Dolphins are very good parents. After the baby is born, it is taken care of, and its mother very willingly and often plays with it.
Depending on the species, baby dolphins do not leave their mother's company for 3 to 8 years.
Snails
One of the most beautiful and impressive snails are nudibranch. These are shellless snails with very colorful colors and a symmetrical body structure.
Some of them feed on cnidarians, whose toxins do not harm the snail. Instead, the eaten cnidarians a ...