Animals

The average size of a hatchling is 15 centimeters long. It is fully independent, which includes the ability to use its venom straight away.

The biggest of the genus is the great hammerhead. The record holder is a female caught in 2006 who weighed almost 581 kilograms. The reason for her unusual weight, however, was pregnancy.

It all depends on the occasion – the range of calls vary whether its purpose is to show aggression, find other family member or raise an alarm.

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

It was first scientifically described in 1929 by German zoologist Ernst Schwarz, who named it Pan satyrus paniscus.

It is smaller than the gray wolf (Canis lupus) and slightly smaller than the eastern wolf (Canis lyc ...