Animal world
The oversized mine
The bird with this oversized beak every time you eat fruit looks awkward to miserable. His neck must be strong to support the heavy beak, but knowing how to do it when c…
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The grouse changes color
The color-shifting grouse is a forest bird with the scientific name Lagopus mutus, often living on trees and bushes in highland forest areas. At a young age they ate bot…
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Birds cross the road
The bird that likes to cross the street has the scientific name Geococcyx californianus and is called the long-tail pheasant. Although they are birds, but they have shor…
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Diving shrews
In Europe there is a very strange type of shrews: They are fully adapted to aquatic life, although they are still predominantly terrestrial animals with the scientific n…
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African Civet
The scientific name is Civettictis civetta often live alone. This type of dog only hunts at night, and during the day it is hidden in a cave. This wild scent dog eats an…
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Teeth in the throat
Most other types of snakes usually only eat soft-shelled eggs (such as lizard eggs, solid eggs), because they do not have a 'specialized tool' to break hard eggshell. Bu…
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New research on orangutans
Scientists say they have demonstrated for the first time a decline in the number of orangutans as a direct result of human destruction of the environment. Research by Br…
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Saddlebirds
The scientific name is Pharomachrus mocinno, also known as quetzal bird. In ancient times in Central America, only priests and people of the upper class were allowed to…
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Improving internal stature
The National Institute of Animal Husbandry has studied the method of buffalo breeding with Murah buffalo (India) to increase the size of the buffalo herd that tends to d…
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Action plan to protect elephants
All countries with Asian wild elephants had their first meeting to discuss the viability of this species. The goal of the seminar in Kuala Lumpur is to reach an agreemen…
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Electric fish killed by electricity
Some fish know to cause or kill prey with electrical impulses, which are electric rays and electric eels. Electric catfish is also called catfish, causing an enchantment…
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Keep waist for penguins
Emperor penguins at the Asahiyama Zoo, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, are starting a special exercise to avoid fat accumulation in the winter. Every day, t…
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Gorilla also suffers from menopause
Research on 30 gorillas at 17 North American zoos has yielded the first conclusion about menopause in this animal. The results can help zoos improve the care of old fema…
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Squirrel knows how to bark
North American steppe dog squirrels include Cynomys gunnisoni, Cynomys ludovicianus, Cynomys mexicanuss, Cynomys parvidens and Cynomys leucurus. They are all rodents, sq…