Animals

Friday, 4 September 2026
15 facts about Javan leopard
15 facts about Javan leopard
Panthera pardus melas
The Javan leopard is one of the endemic animals of the island of Java in Indonesia. Due to habitat fragmentation, leopards are forced to breed within ...

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Brittle stars
Bristle stars do not have eyes but some of them can sense light using lens-like structures made of calcite.
Hammerhead sharks
Hammerhead sharks use their heads to tire down prey.
Fleas
Fleas are successful acrobats.
The first mention of a flea circus dates back to 1578, and a watchmaker Mark Scaliot, who created a ...
Hippopotamus
Hippos have been known to historians since ancient times.
The first images of these animals were cave paintings in the mountains of the central Sahara. One of ...
Javan hawk-eagle
It is carnivorous.
Its diet consists of birds, bats, lizards, snakes, and small mammals, which are their prey of choice, especially squirrels, rats, and tree shrews.
White-browed tit-warbler
It belongs to the family Aegithalidae.
It contains 13 species.
Spiders
They usually have eight eyes equipped with lenses. This distinguishes them from insects that have compound eyes. Most spiders' eyesight is not particularly well developed.
However, this is not a rule, as there are families of spiders with six (Haplogynae), four (Tetrablem ...
Hammerhead sharks
Hammerhead sharks swim at a slight angle, due to differences in their fins length.
Their pectoral fin is shorter than their first dorsal fin, and tilting allows them to use longer fin to swim efficiently.
Cane toad
Despite their chemical warfare, cane toads have many predators.
They are being hunted by broad-snouted caimans, eels, killifish, rock flagtails, bullet ants, and some species of catfish and ibis.
Hippopotamus
The culling of Escobar's hippos was considered but was opposed by the public.
Enrique Zerda Ordonez, a National University of Colombia biologist, believes that neutering these an ...