Animals

Wednesday, 5 August 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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Great grey shrike
It is a predatory songbird from the family Laniidae.
Brown recluse spider
Brown recluse is often mistaken for wolf spider.
As a matter of fact, these two are not difficult to distinguish – brown recluse, apart from the violin-shaped marking, has also its legs uniformly colored.
Okapi
Europeans discovered okapi in 1901, previously they were known only to the local population.
Coyote
Vitiligo is extremely rare in coyotes.
Of the 750,000 individuals observed, only two were albino.
European tree frog
The mating season begins in May or even late April and lasts until late July.
Males then gather on the banks of bodies of water or directly on their surface and begin their trail ...
Octopus
Most octopuses have great eyesight.
Octopuses have two eyes, one on each symmetrical part of their body. Color discrimination in these animals varies depending on the species.
Bird of Paradise
Male birds of paradise also cross interspecies boundaries in their amorous conquests.
From eggs hybrids are hatched (quite a rare phenomenon in animals living in the wild). Ornithologists have counted over 20 types of such hybrids in birds of paradise.
Sperm whale
The most famous, although fictional, sperm whale in pop culture is Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
It was the primary antagonist in the novel written in 1851.
Viper dogfish
The viper shark has two dorsal fins with sharp spikes.
Zebra mussel
Following the mass introduction of zebra mussels in 1991 in Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron, changes were observed in the plant plankton communities and benthic fauna.
The amount of algae in the water body decreased by almost 60%, phosphorus concentration decreased by 42%, and water transparency increased significantly.