Animals

Friday, 6 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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Common Surinam toad
The incubation period lasts about 130 days.
After this time and complete resorption of the tail, the young leave the pockets in the mother’s ski ...
Cabbage White butterfly
Larval stage of cabbage white is considered a serious pest and can do a lot of harm to agriculture.
They are very voracious and feed mainly on cabbages, kale, radish, horseradish, and broccoli. Annual damage done by caterpillars is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
European mole cricket
European mole crickets build a complex system of tunnels that they inhabit throughout the year.
Such a network can reach deeper than a meter below the surface of the ground and is composed of inte ...
White-browed tit-warbler
It prefers dry shrublands of 2,000 to 5,000 meters.
American flamingo
The record holder in life expectancy was a female living at the Adelaide Zoo, Australia.
She was about 60 years old; unfortunately, due to deteriorating health, it had to be euthanized in 2018.
Wolf spider
Wolf spiders are beneficial to ecosystem.
Thanks to their hunting skills they are excellent pest insects exterminators. So if you spot wolf sp ...
Pink river dolphin
They do not have natural predators, except for humans.
However, they can occasionally fall prey to anacondas, caimans, and jaguars.
Guinea pig
From around 1200 until the Spanish conquest in 1532, indigenous peoples used selective breeding of guinea pigs to develop many varieties that have become the basis for some modern domestic breeds.
Guinea pigs are still a source of food in the region. Many farms in the Andean highlands raise these animals, feeding them vegetable scraps.
Crustacean
Crustaceans are arthropods that include lobsters, crabs, crayfish, shrimp, krill, centipedes, and whiskers, among others.
To date, about 67.000 species of these animals have been described.
Great grey shrike
It can be sighted in most European countries, northwestern and northeastern parts of Africa, and eastern Asia.