Animals

Friday, 17 October 2025
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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Maine coon
Maine coons are one of the best domestic breeds to keep around children.
Hummingbirds
They are the only birds that can fly backwards.
They owe this to the special design of their wings, which also allows hummingbirds to stop their flight at any time and hover in place.
Leeches
The first cases of hirudotherapy were recorded in Ancient Egypt.
They are known from wall paintings dating back to the 18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BC). The medical use o ...
Spotted hyena
The spotted hyena was the first described in 1777 by German naturalist Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben.
It was once thought that the mottled hyena’s name Crocuta came from the Latin word “crocutus,” which ...
Leeches
The body of leeches is elongated, obovate, or dorsoventrally flattened and may range in length from a few millimeters to over 30 cm.
Their bodies are contractile and distinctly segmented, tapering towards the ends ending in one or tw ...
Tiger sharks
The average lifespan of a tiger shark is 27 years in the wild.
Laughing kookaburra
Laughing kookaburras are carnivorous.
Their diet consists of rodents, insects, reptiles, birds, and snakes.
Hammerhead sharks
Hammerhead species tend to swim in schools.
It is uncommon for sharks, however. During the day, hammerheads prefer company, but they hunt solitarily at night.
Sea lamprey
Being an invasive species, sea lamprey found no natural predators, competitors, parasites, or pathogens in the Great Lakes.
Without proper population control, their numbers multiplied and became detrimental to the local ecosystem.
Octopus
Octopuses of the species Amphioctopus marginatus collect coconut shells and use them to build their hiding places.