All rodents have incisors that grow all their lives.
In capybaras, in addition to incisors, cheek teeth also have this property.
A beaver can knock down a tree with a trunk diameter at the base of about 40 centimeters in one day.
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The pennant-winged nightjar Macrodipteryx vexillarius lives in Central and Southern Africa from Angola, southern Zaire and northwestern Tanzania to northeastern Namibia, northeastern Botswana and the extreme northeast of South Africa.
The length of the bird's body together with the tail is only 23-26 cm, but during the mating season, the male flight feathers on the wings grow up to 78 cm long, forming long black and white ribbons, more than twice the length of the bird.
When observing this nightjar in flight, it may seem as if it has two wings on each side. With the end of the mating period, elongated ribbon-like feathers fall out.
It is active at dusk and at night, spends the daytime sitting on the ground - or, if the ground is wet, on low termite mounds and branches. It feeds on insects, which it catches on the fly in a continuous flight resembling the flight of a hawk
While walking or running, the lynx's hind legs tread exactly on the prints of the front paws.
Читать полностью…The body length of a newborn kangaroo is about 25 mm.
After birth, the female still bears offspring in a bag for 6-8 months.
In Los Angeles, a tree has sprouted through the sidewalk and lives inside a stop sign.
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