Animals

Their job is merely to drop an egg into a stranger's nest. When the nest owner realizes that the egg has been tossed, he may throw it or leave the nest altogether.

Its diet includes rats, moles, hamsters, voles, forest mice, but also martens, polecats, weasels and young deer, roe deer, chamois and ground-dwelling birds.

They lack adhesive lamellae – plate-like structures – on their toes, which are quite common for other gecko species. Instead, their toes end up with claws.

They feed mainly on crustaceans and polychaetes, although they do not despise other mollusks. The octopus menu also includes shrimp and fish.

Their length ranges from 30 to 65 centimeters, and they weigh up to 3,5 kilograms.

As an adult, the basking shark usually reaches a body length of 6.70 to 8.80 meters, but can reach 1 ...

Temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius are not a problem for it, but above +10 degrees Celsius, it begi ...

At 14 °C, metamorphosis may take more than twenty days. After hatching from the cocoon, the fly stops growing and reaches its maximum size. A housefly pupa weighs between 8 and 20 milligrams.