Animals

For centuries, oryxes were part of the environment that ensured the survival of the indigenous popul ...

Mating is preceded by aggressive fights among males who answered a female call.

Active during the day, they spend nights in burrows of their own making. They hunt in the noon and s ...

IUCN classifies those animals as LC (least concern).

The offspring of a male lion and tigress is called liger, and of a male tiger and lioness is called tigon.

They feed mostly on moths, spiders, snails, slugs but they will not despise other insects.

They usually travel in herds, with six or seven female relatives, led by the oldest called the matriarch.Males are rather solitary but can be found wandering in small herds.

Their organisms have many mechanisms to help regulate osmosis—for example, salt glands on their beaks secreting brine, which is then removed through the nostrils.

The radula is made of chitin and its task is to crush food that has entered the mouth.