Animals

Tuesday, 23 December 2025
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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Southern cassowary
Cassowaries are crepuscular animals.
This means that they are most active during dusk and dawn. They spend the day basking in the sun.
Mallard
They make their nests on the ground or in trees, usually near the shore, although this is not the rule.
They build them mostly of grass and pad them with feathers.
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.
Great spotted woodpecker
They are quite contrastingly colored - black and white with a red underbelly.
The top of the head, back, wings, tail and rump are black. The underside is white with a characteris ...
Quokkas
Australian law is very strict with human-quokkas interactions.
They are not to be petted, cuddled, hugged, or fed. There was a case of a tourist who threw a quokka off a boat to see if it could swim. Although quokkas do swim, the man was jailed.
Common Surinam toad
The habitat of ridgebacks is exclusively water -they never go on land.
They inhabit shallow, coastal parts of rivers, their tributaries with calm currents densely overgrow ...
Laughing kookaburra
They are territorial, marking their territory by singing as a chorus.
Tiger sharks
The average lifespan of a tiger shark is 27 years in the wild.
Hawksbill sea turtle
They are solitary.
They group solely for mating purposes.
Hedgehogs
They can venture several kilometers while searching for food.