Animals

Monday, 9 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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European mole cricket
They can be found in commerce.
Some people breed them in terrariums to study their lives, while others use these insects as bait for catfish or pike.
Kiwi bird
Freshly hatched chicks are fully feathered.
They are also fully independent, feeding on nutritious yolk in sacks, which are attached to their bellies.
Adelie penguin
They used to feed mainly on fish, but that changed about 200 years ago.
Today, krill forms the basis of their diet. They also feed on fish and cephalopods. The change in di ...
Great spotted woodpecker
During the breeding season, the pair remains in a monogamous relationship.
Before the next breeding season arrives, they often change partners.
Viper dogfish
It is ovoviviparous.
Blue tang
It is royal blue, with a yellow tail, and a dark blue or black palette-like pattern on its body.
Juveniles are yellow, with light-blue edging on dorsal fins.
Goblin shark
It is distributed in all three major oceans.
It can be found in the Indo-Pacific and Oceania, Japan, South Africa, Gulf of Mexico, Suriname, French Guiana, southern Brazil, France, Portugal, Madeira and east of Senegal.
White-browed tit-warbler
They do not have natural predators in their environment.
It is mainly because of the elevation they prefer to nest.
Turtles
The plastron is also made of bone tissue, specifically the modified clavicle and abdominal ribs.
It is formed by exactly nine bones, of which the two anterior bones are precisely the transformed clavicles.
Brittle stars
They live on many depths, can be even found 6 kilometers underwater.
Most of them live in shelf waters (over 1300 species), bathyal zone (over 1200 species). In the abyssal waters (below 4000 m) so far 100 species have been found.