Animals

Tuesday, 24 February 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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Spiders
Digestion takes place both externally and internally. They only eat liquid food.
First, digestive juices are injected into the victim's body, which dissolves the victim's tissues, a ...
Spiders
Each crotch leg is composed of seven segments (starting from the body, these are: coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus).
The tarsus ends with claws, the number and length of which vary depending on the spider species. Web-weaving spiders usually have three claws, while actively hunting spiders usually have two.
European wildcat
Wildcat inhabits mainly deciduous and mixed forests.
It stays away from agricultural areas and human settlements.
Alligator snapping turtle
They need to resurface every 45-50 minutes to breathe.
Dolphins
Dolphins communicate both verbally and non-verbally.
They can send messages by moving their tail, swimming, or adopting certain poses. In addition, they ...
Axolotl
Despite a drastic decline in the wild population, axolotls are unlikely to become extinct.
They are popular additions to house aquariums, where breeding is relatively easy – all that is neede ...
Hawksbill sea turtle
Females chose the same place they hatched as their nesting grounds.
They dig a hole with claws on their flippers and lay an average of 140 eggs, which then they cover with sand and leaves. After the process is done, females return to the ocean, leaving eggs behind.
French Bulldog
They are one of the most popular companion dogs in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the U.S.
Quokkas
Australian law is very strict with human-quokkas interactions.
They are not to be petted, cuddled, hugged, or fed. There was a case of a tourist who threw a quokka off a boat to see if it could swim. Although quokkas do swim, the man was jailed.
Tiger sharks
It is the second largest predatory shark, surpassed only by the great white.