Animals

Friday, 20 March 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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Glass frogs
Their translucent bodies help them avoid predators.
Glass frogs spend a lot of time on leaves and it turns out that their transparent skin makes them less visible to birds who often prey on them.
Brazilian wandering spiders
These spiders are known in Europe mainly from the fact that they sometimes appear in bananas sold in markets.
Although they are dangerous to humans, it should be remembered that not every spider found in a bunc ...
Arabian oryx
The Arabian oryx was already known to the ancient Egyptians.
Images of oryxes were found in Sakkara on the facade of the burial chapel of an official of the roya ...
Common kingfisher
Common kingfishers' nests are tunnels drilled into the slopes of rivers or the banks of ponds.
Both males and females dig the burrow with their beaks. The tunnel can be up to six centimeters wide ...
Kiwi bird
It takes approximately 10 to 14 days for a chick to forage its own food.
Spiders
The pedipalps consist of six segments.
They lack the metatarsus segment. In males, the last segment (tarsus) is used for reproduction, while the first (coxa) in both sexes is modified to make it easier for the spider to eat.
Brittle stars
The nervous system of brittle stars has a simple structure.
As its most important elements are the nervous ring around the mouth and the radial nerves that run in the animal arms.
Insects
Not all insects undergo a complete transformation.
There are three developmental stages of an incomplete transformation: egg, larva and adult (imago). ...
Dolphins
The average lifespan of dolphins is 15 years
The longest-living specimen in captivity was Nana, living in the Shimoda Aquarium in Japan. This dolphin lived to the ripe old age of 47.
Bird of Paradise
Carl Linnaeus in 1760 named the largest of the birds of paradise Paradisea apoda, meaning "legless bird of paradise."
At the time, no one in Europe had ever seen this marvelous bird alive. Linnaeus possessed only skins ...