Animals

Their moves look like an underwater flight.

They leave their tail unburied to be able to protect themselves.

There are five genera and 33 species within the ridgeback family.

A mink can swim to an island and kill up to a hundred chicks in one night. A single individual can thus decimate a colony of several thousand birds.

This is influenced by poaching, hobby fishing and inadequate fisheries policy. Factors limiting reproduction also include water pollution and a decrease in available spawning areas.

They dig a hole with claws on their flippers and lay an average of 140 eggs, which then they cover with sand and leaves. After the process is done, females return to the ocean, leaving eggs behind.

Their diet consists of rodents, insects, reptiles, birds, and snakes.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, European women eagerly decorated their hats with the colorful feathers of these birds.

They are not monogamous and bond in pairs for only one mating season. If a male's territory overlaps ...