Animals

Tuesday, 30 June 2026
15 facts about fleas
15 facts about fleas
External parasites
Fleas are one of the most hated insects by pet owners. Once they find their way onto a dog or a cat, they are very hard to remove. Reproducing at a ve ...

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Guinea pig
The guinea pig was first domesticated as early as 5000 BC for food, by tribes in the Andean region of South America (today's southern parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia).
Archaeological excavations in Peru and Ecuador have uncovered statues dating from around 500 BC to 5 ...
Black Caiman
Black caimans reach sexual maturity at the age of 5 to 15.
Coyote
Coyotes are known to attack humans.
They are generally rare and do not cause much injury due to the animal's relatively small size, but fatal attacks do happen. Most cases of coyote attacks on humans are reported in California.
Goblin shark
Their snout is equipped with special electroreceptors called Ampullae of Lorenzini.
It has been observed, that this receptor is able to detect pressure, touch, salinity, temperature, e ...
Quokkas
Female quokka's body can determine whether her offspring survived the encounter with a predator.
If not, the dormant embryo clambers into her pouch, and another joey is born a month after. In the case of the first joey’s survival, the embryo disintegrates after five months.
Sea lamprey
Sea lampreys live in the northern hemisphere.
They live in the western and northern Atlantic, near seashores of Europe and North America, the Blac ...
Tiger sharks
They are common in tropical and temperate waters worldwide.
Most can be found around the Pacific islands. However, there are none in the Mediterranean Sea.
Sperm whale
Sperm whales hunt using echolocation.
The sounds (clicks) they make are among the most powerful sounds in the animal kingdom. It has even ...
American flamingo
Flamingos living in the Galapagos differ from those living in the Caribbean.
They are smaller, lay smaller eggs, and exhibit more significant sexual differences.
True seals
When feeding their young, female seals do not eat anything and sometimes do not even drink.
Usually, the feeding areas are hundreds of kilometers away from the breeding sites. The seal's milk ...