Animals

Wednesday, 25 March 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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Asian elephant
Asian elephants are gray, with pinkish patches on their trunks, around their ears and forehead.
Aye-aye
They mark their territory with a scent.
Aye-ayes rub their cheeks and necks against branches, leaving scents that deter other males from entering the territory.
Toco toucan
The Toco toucan is an easily recognizable bird, mainly because of its beak, which is the most prominent feature of the species. Sexual dimorphism is not pronounced. Females are slightly smaller than males.
It has contrasting plumage, mostly black. The throat, upper chest, and rump are white, and the under ...
Platypus
Platypuses spend about 12 hours a day foraging for food.
While diving they can stay underwater for about 40 seconds. Between one dive and another platypuses rest above the water surface for about 20 seconds.
Spiders
Spiders are predators.
Most of them feed only on meat, although there are species (Bagheera Kipling) whose diet consists of ...
Central bearded dragon
The female lays 11 to 30 eggs in a shallow nest dug in the sand.
The eggs are left unattended and after about 2 - 2.5 months the young hatch. The length of incubatio ...
Snails
Their shells may be right- or left-handed.
90% of snails have a dextral shell, the rest develop left-handed shells or both right-handed and lef ...
Coyote
The coyote keeps its tail down when running or walking.
The wolf keeps its tail horizontal.
Crustacean
After hatching from the egg, one of three types of development can take place, depending on the species.
Some crustaceans hatch in an adult-like form and grow with successive moulting (epimorphosis). Other ...
Viper dogfish
The viper shark has two dorsal fins with sharp spikes.