Animals

Spawning takes place in late spring and early summer. In addition to the male attached to the female, there may be other males around the copulating pair who are also involved in egg fertilization.

Their mythology features the figure of charming woman Lamia, who gods transformed into a manatee as ...

This organ stores sepia, produced by a nearby gland. Octopuses use sepia to disorient a predator while escaping. They then spray a thick, characteristic black stain.

The size of the territory depends on the sex, males have areas of up to 440 ha, and females 8-20 ha.

The list of woodpeckers is still under discussion and is being developed. It currently includes 236 species in 36 genera. There are about 20 subspecies of the great spotted woodpecker.

It is amber, with an irregular black and dark-brown pattern. It is unique because of its overlapping scutes—five central, and four lateral.

Their numbers, however, are not known.

Enacted in 1972, it prohibits the take and import of marine mammal species.