Animals

Wednesday, 23 September 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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Grey heron
Both parents incubate the eggs.
About 25 days pass from laying the egg to hatching. After the young hatch, the male and female are a ...
Arabian oryx
The Arabian oryx is the first species to go from being classified as extinct in the wild to endangered by the world authority on endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Pterodactyls
Pterodactylus derives from Greek and means “winged finger.”
Bird of Paradise
Certain species of birds of paradise prefer particular fruits.
Trumpet manucode andcrinkle-collared manucode eat mainly figs, while Lawes's parotia eat berries.
Wombat
Southern hairy-nosed wombat is the smallest of the genera.
Its length ranges from 75 to 93 centimeters.
Housefly
Flies have a liquid diet adapted mouthparts.
It is used to ingest liquids and the solid fraction previously dissolved with saliva.
Spinosaurus
We are still unsure what was the role of its sail.
It might be useful to body heat regulation or make the animal more intimidating to opponents as it enlarged it optically a lot.
Earthworms
The body of these animals is composed of visibly separated segments with 4 pairs of bristles emerging from them.
American robin
They are very territorial birds.
Despite their competitive behavior, when faced by predator they can cooperate to fend it off.
Aye-aye
Their peculiar external appearance encourages the Malagasy people to consider them bad omens.
There is a saying “Mangatambo hita, miseo tsy tsara”, which means that seeing the “beast” brings bad ...