Animals

Sunday, 1 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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Moose
The oldest description of a moose in European literature does not come from northern areas, but from the Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar.
European drawings and cave paintings indicate that moose were hunted already in the Stone Age. Some ...
Leopard geckos
Their natural enemies include snakes, larger reptiles and foxes.
Foxes tend to prey on their eggs.
Spinosaurus
It was discovered by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer.
He found fossilized bones of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus on Egyptian land in 1912 and described them in 1915.
Malaysian trumpet snail
Females can give birth to 70 young at a time.
Coyote
It is a carrier of diseases and parasites.
Among North American carnivores, coyotes are probably the carriers of the greatest number of disease ...
Javan leopard
Javan leopards await their prey on the top of trees.
Their spotted fur allows them to camouflage better against the leaves.
Guinea pig
The guinea pig, compared to other rodents, is a fairly large animal.
It has a stocky body, a short neck, a short snout, and very short limbs; no tail, or a vestigial tai ...
Bird of Paradise
Birds of paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes.
Passeriformes are the largest order of birds, comprising about 6200 species - more than half of all ...
American flamingo
Because flamingos feed on food from salt water, they often drink seawater.
Their organisms have many mechanisms to help regulate osmosis—for example, salt glands on their beaks secreting brine, which is then removed through the nostrils.
Luna moth
Adult moths escape the pupal case by splitting it and pushing the top upwards.
Then it cuts its way from the cocoon with serrated chitinous spurs located on the thorax near the forewings bases. Cocoon opening typically occurs in the morning.