Animals

Monday, 16 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 tree frog
They can change their skin color, often doing so to adapt to their surroundings.
It takes these amphibians about 20 minutes to change color from light green to almost dark.
Otters
Depending on the species, otters can hold their breath underwater for five to eight minutes.
Their lung capacity is approximately 2.5 times larger than other mammals of similar size.
Tigers
Most tigers live in tropical forests, in areas covered with grasses, reeds, and bamboo.
Glass frogs
Their translucent bodies help them avoid predators.
Glass frogs spend a lot of time on leaves and it turns out that their transparent skin makes them less visible to birds who often prey on them.
Arabian oryx
All Arabian oryxes alive today are descended from just 1,970 animals.
Tasmanian devil
Sometimes adult devils eat younger representatives of their species.
Usually, acts of cannibalism occur when food is scarce. Probably for this reason, juveniles have evolved the ability to climb trees and shrubs, which they lose with age.
Common Surinam toad
The Common Surinam toad feeds on all small aquatic organisms.
It hunts primarily invertebrates, especially insects and their larvae, which it digs out of the silt with its thin fingers and rapidly places in its mouth.
Hyacinth macaw
It was first described and cataloged in 1790 by the English physician and naturalist John Latham.
He described it under the binomial name Psittacus hyacinthinus.
Black Caiman
Black caimans love the heat.
They bask in the sun, and their black scales help them absorb the heat.
Cabbage White butterfly
Life cycle of the Small white butterfly starts with an egg, then passing through 5 larval stages and transitions through a pupa to an adult organism.
It takes them about 30 days, depending on environment temperature, to reach an adult stage from an egg.