Animals

Thursday, 22 January 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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Housefly
The female lays about one hundred eggs in a single batch.
The laying process can take several days, and over a lifetime, a female housefly can lay up to 2,000 eggs, although this number does not usually exceed 500.
Otters
Otters can close their nostrils and ears while diving, preventing water from getting in.
Tawny frogmouth
Eggs are incubated for around 30 days.
Chicks hatch out with downy feathers and are being fed by both parents. After 25 to 35 days juveniles become fledlings and are ready to leave the nest.
Brittle stars
There are over 2000 discovered species distributed around the world.
Scientists estimate that there might be over 3000 species in total.
Turtles
The largest turtle species alive today is the leatherback turtle.
Representatives of this species reach a body length of 220 cm and a maximum weight of 700 kg. The re ...
Leeches
Blood-sucking leech species carry pathogenic viruses and blood parasites.
By parasitizing fish, they cause significant damage to fish farming.
Blue-Tongued Lizard
They are not poisonous, but color of their tongues may fool a predator.
Bites can cause pain and leave a bruise but are not dangerous to humans.
Coyote
The largest coyote ever recorded was a 34-kilogram specimen.
It was a male shot near Afton, Wyoming, in 1937. It measured 1.5 meters from snout to tail.
Javan leopard
It is one of the leopard subspecies.
There are eight subspecies of leopards in total: African, Indian, Javan, Arabian, Amur, Indochinese, Sri Lankan, and Panthera pardus tulliana (native to Turkey and the Iranian Plateau).
Octopus
Octopuses are very intelligent.
During studies on these animals, the presence of both short and long-term memory was found.