Animals

Saturday, 17 October 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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Fossa
A fossa is an endemic mammal of Madagascar.
It resembles a dog (thanks to its muzzle), a weasel (due to its ears), a cat (due to clawed paws), and a monkey (thanks to a tail that makes up approximately half of the fossa’s length).
Lemon shark
It reaches an average length of 3 meters.
The largest shark ever caught was 3,7 meters long and weighed 184 kg.
Corn snake
Their average lifespan in the wild is 13 years, and typically up to 25 years in captivity.
The record holder lived for 32 years.
Kiwi bird
Kiwi are sexually dimorphic.
Females are approximately 20% larger than males.
Laughing kookaburra
They have pale heads and chests, with dark patches over their eyes.
American flamingo
They are wading birds that are helped in their search for food by their long legs.
They use their feet to chase down aquatic creatures, then fish them out with their beak. Flamingos o ...
Stingrays
Stingrays are related to sharks.
Both sharks and stingrays belong to the Elasmobranchii subclass of Chondrichthyes.
European wildcat
In Europe, the wildcat is protected under the Bern Convention.
They are being hunted if mistaken for domestic cats. They are also endangered by crossbreeding with them.
Grey heron
It lives in Eurasia and Africa.
He constantly resides in the British Isles and from France to Germany. In Asia, from India to the So ...
American flamingo
Flamingos usually raise one brood a year.
They usually lay one egg - sometimes two. The egg measures 78 x 49 mm and weighs about 115g. It has ...