Wildlife

17 Dec 2023 00:03

Meeting with a curious young cassowary on the beach. Everything worked out this time!

The cassowary Casuarius casuarius looks completely harmless, but it is original and "elegant" - but sensing a threat (or just seeing a person on the territory of its possessions), this flightless inhabitant of the rainforests of New Guinea and northeastern Australia immediately attacks.

The main weapon of this bird is huge legs and powerful long claws. Cassowaries can reach speeds of up to 50 km / h, so a person cannot hide from such an enemy. It is man who is the only potential enemy of cassowaries.

It is worth noting that under normal conditions these birds prefer to eat fruits, mushrooms, snails, insects, frogs, snakes and other small animals. Nevertheless, in 2004, the cassowary was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most dangerous bird on Earth.

Wildlife

16 Dec 2023 00:01

Fact of the day: little turtles get tickled when they are brushed with a toothbrush.

Wildlife

12 Dec 2023 16:28

If you were hoping that you could swim away from the tarantula.

Wildlife

11 Dec 2023 16:24

Eastern sialia sialia sialis belongs to the thrush and lives in eastern North and Central America. There it inhabits fields, open forest landscapes, forest edges and parks.

The body length is about 18 cm . The plumage of the upper body is bright blue, the throat, chest and sides are chestnut brown, the belly and underside are painted white.

Sialia feeds on insects, spiders and berries. 

This is the national bird of the states of Missouri and New York, there are even many songs about it

Wildlife

10 Dec 2023 16:24

Fawns can stand on their feet immediately after birth.

Wildlife

09 Dec 2023 00:00

Despite its short legs, the wombat can reach speeds of up to 40 km/h.

Wildlife

08 Dec 2023 00:29

The beautiful song of the New Zealand kiwi bird.

Wildlife

07 Dec 2023 00:09

Surprised by a lynx on a cactus?
Look further

Wildlife

06 Dec 2023 00:20

The wasps chose a very unusual place for the nest.

Wildlife

05 Dec 2023 00:12

Polar terns drive polar bears away from their nesting sites.

This small bird belongs to the seagulls. Body length 36-43 cm, wingspan 74-84 cm. White in color, with a black cap and a gray mantilla, a forked tail, strongly carved. In spring and summer, the beak turns red. Paws are short, which is why he walks waddling. 

The Polar tern breeds in the polar regions, on the islands and peninsulas of Northern Europe, Greenland, Siberia, Alaska, Canada. But it winters in the Southern Hemisphere in the subantarctic and Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean and its surroundings.

No, just imagine! From one pole to the other! From polar bears to penguins!

Due to these flights between the Arctic and Antarctica, the polar tern observes two summers every year (Arctic and Antarctic) and sees more daylight than any other living creature on Earth.

Wildlife

04 Dec 2023 00:06

What really happens in the dishwasher.

Wildlife

02 Dec 2023 00:18

Drepanis coccinea belongs to the finches and is distinguished by a very long curved pink beak used for drinking nectar. They also eat small arthropods.

The body length of this bird is about 15 cm . The contrast of red and black plumage with the surrounding green foliage makes this bird (also called the scarlet honeyeater) one of the most notable native birds of Hawaii.

The bird is often mentioned in Hawaiian folklore. In the Hawaiian song "Sweet Lei Mamo" there is a line "A bird and a friend too".

But after the terrible fires that swept Hawaii this year, I have no idea if these wonderful birds have survived...

Wildlife

01 Dec 2023 00:17

When I saw myself in the mirror in the morning.

Wildlife

30 Nov 2023 00:29

The closest relatives of bears are dogs, wolves and foxes.

Wildlife

29 Nov 2023 00:14

The Pyrenean (Iberian) lynx Lynx pardinus differs from the ordinary lynx in a lighter color and pronounced spots, giving its color a resemblance to the color of a leopard. In winter, the fur fades and becomes thinner. It is half the size of an ordinary lynx and therefore hunts mainly small game - hares and rabbits, which make up about 90% of its diet, and only occasionally attacking baby deer.

There are very few of these stunningly beautiful animals left in the wild. Of course, huge efforts are being made to preserve and increase the population of the Spanish lynx, but according to various estimates, only about 150 adults remain in the wild.

Nowadays it is very difficult to meet the Pyrenean lynx in the wild. The main habitat is the mountainous regions of Spain. Also, a small number of individuals have been preserved in the Coto De Donana National Park.

But just 120 years ago, the habitat of the Spanish lynx was the entire Iberian Peninsula and the south of France.

Wildlife

16 Dec 2023 16:24

No, it's not a Pokemon, it's a giant flying squirrel. The average body length of these squirrels is 42 cm, and they live in the northern part of South Asia, in southern China and in Southeast Asia.

Wildlife

14 Dec 2023 16:22

Orphneca tarantulas found in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

Wildlife

12 Dec 2023 00:10

Eye drops: The gecko version.

Wildlife

11 Dec 2023 00:18

Saffron toucans in the Brazilian jungle

Wildlife

09 Dec 2023 16:34

Bears only seem clumsy. At short distances, they are able to reach speeds of up to 55 km/h.

Wildlife

08 Dec 2023 16:40

Owls bask in the sun with pleasure.

Wildlife

07 Dec 2023 16:15

Meerkats dig burrows up to 1.5 m deep or use the burrows of the African ground squirrel.

Wildlife

06 Dec 2023 16:34

Striped kittens. 

Turn on the sound.

Wildlife

05 Dec 2023 16:28

All cats are the same.

Wildlife

04 Dec 2023 16:40

Lion cubs are born blue-eyed, and only by the age of two months the color of their eyes changes to amber or brown.

Wildlife

02 Dec 2023 16:44

The mating dance of male yellow-bearded lapwings, during which birds imitate feeding chicks to interest potential wives.

Wildlife

01 Dec 2023 16:29

The surprised chick does not understand why the food itself does not jump into his mouth, because that's how his mother fed him from birth.

Wildlife

30 Nov 2023 16:28

The Siberian saber–toothed musk deer boasts excellent eyesight and hearing, which cannot be said about the sense of smell - it is less developed in the animal.

Wildlife

29 Nov 2023 16:24

Face to face.

When the tip of a hummingbird's tongue gets into the liquid, it splits like a snake's, but not to catch odorous molecules, but to collect sweet nectar. 

And the tongue itself can protrude far out of the beak thanks to the long legs of the sublingual apparatus, which wrap around the skull, just like woodpeckers

Wildlife

28 Nov 2023 16:32

Probably the most memorable mating ritual.