Animals

Sunday, 28 June 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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Spiders
Cannibalism also occurs in newly hatched spiders.
These, in turn, eliminate the weakest siblings, thus gaining an advantage over others and giving themselves a greater chance of reaching adulthood.
Brittle stars
Serpent stars have very different body colors.
There are individuals black, white, brown, blue, red with dotted and striped patterns.
Common cuckoo
Cuckoos never raise their own chicks.
Their job is merely to drop an egg into a stranger's nest. When the nest owner realizes that the egg has been tossed, he may throw it or leave the nest altogether.
Blue tang
The royal blue tang reaches sexual maturity at 9 - 12 months of age.
Platypus
Platypuses live up to 11 years in the wild and up to 17 in captivity.
Wombat
The wombats include two contemporaneous genera.
Vombatus, whose only representative is the common wombat; Lasiorhinus, containing two species: northern hairy-nosed wombat, also called yaminon, and southern hairy-nosed wombat.
Bonobo
Bonobos are threatened with extinction.
Scientists predict that the species will become completely extinct within the next 100 years. The re ...
Aye-aye
On average, they grow up to 90 centimeters and weigh slightly over 2 kg.
European wildcat
The European wildcat is found in Europe, the Caucasus and Asia Minor.
It is found in Scotland (where it has not been extirpated like the Welsh and English populations), I ...
Narwhal
Narwhal was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Karol Linnaeus in his work "Systema Naturae".