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Despite the name and appearance, the maned wolf is not a relative of either foxes or wolves.
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You can meet the Kea parrot in nature only in one place on the globe – on the South Island of New Zealand.
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The fox is capable of producing about forty different sounds.
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If the shrews are disturbed, they will leave their nest in an unusual way.
The family is built in a line, the first kid grabs his mother by the tail and so on. This is due to the poor eyesight of the animals.
Murmansk Region never gets a very hot summer, but it’s not a reason not to surf and enjoy other activities on the Barents Sea!
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Unlike humans and other birds, whose number of cervical vertebrae does not exceed seven, owls have twice as many.
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The tardigrade will survive up to ten years without water, at -271 ° C in liquid helium and at +100 °C in boiling water, withstands 1000 times a higher dose of radiation than a person.
She even went into outer space, and then returned to Earth alive.
The feet of a brown bear while walking are pointed with their toes inwards and their heels outwards.
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Big pandas can't stand up like Poe did in the cartoon.
But they climb trees perfectly, starting from the age of seven months.
The beaver fells a tree with a diameter of 40 cm and cuts it up overnight, so that by morning only a stump and a bunch of shavings remain at the animal's place of work.
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The crake Crex crex is a medium–sized bird of the shepherd family, the crake received such an unusual Latin name because of its specific cry. Birds scream in May and the first half of summer, the rest of the time they behave silently, especially in wintering grounds.
These birds reluctantly rise into the air (as a rule, only in case of extreme danger), fly a few meters and again descend to the ground. However, the clumsiness and slowness in the air of the crake are successfully compensated by fast running and agility on the ground. The bird not only runs perfectly and confuses tracks, but also skillfully hides, not allowing hunters to find their resting place.
When the bears are comfortable, they begin to purr (rattle).
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The Irish Wolfhound is one of the largest dogs in the world. These dogs were used as greyhounds for the baiting of big game - wolves and deer. The character is calm, kind.
The first written evidence of these dogs is found in the Roman consul in 391. A pair of Irish greyhounds was a valuable gift for the royal courts of Europe, Scandinavia and others in the Middle Ages until the XVII century. Thus, these dogs got to England, Spain, France, Sweden, Denmark, Persia, India and Poland.
The change of the name of the dog to the wolfhound occurred, obviously, in the XV century, at that time each county was obliged to keep 24 wolfhounds to protect farm herds from wolf attacks.
Today, the Irish Wolfhound has regained the reputation it had in the Middle Ages, and is of great interest as a living testimony to Irish culture and as a legacy of the Celtic past.
The three-wattled bellbird from Central America lives up to its name.
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The big booze Botaurus stellaris is a bird from the heron family. Her cry consists of a soft singing and a very loud, as if mumbling sound, which is issued by the bird's esophagus - it inflates and reacts as a powerful resonator. The drink got its original name in Russian precisely because of its voice. The name comes from the related words "howl" or "howl".
Like many herons, the deer stands motionless for a long time, waiting for prey and grabbing it with a sharp lightning movement. During the day, she can stand motionless in the thickets, usually on one leg, with her head pulled in and her shoulders hunched. It is very difficult to notice it at this moment: it looks more like a bunch of dry cane stalks.
Seeing the enemy, the beast freezes with its neck stretched vertically and its head raised. In this case, it is even more difficult to notice it. In direct danger, the bird opens its beak wide and regurgitates the swallowed food.
The vulture Neophron percnopterus has become a symbol of a scavenger who lives by eating rotting corpses. Associations are not the most pleasant, but you can look at it from the other side: unlike predators, vultures cause much less damage to other species, while bringing much more benefit.
In Egypt, the vulture has been known since ancient times as the "chicken of the pharaohs". They have been revered in this country since ancient times, and were not even expelled from the pyramids, where they often nested. And today, killing a vulture there is punishable by law.
The vulture is a fairly large bird, the adult reaches 60-70 cm in length, its wingspan exceeds one and a half meters, and its weight reaches 1.6–2.3 kg. The plumage is white, and there are very noticeable black feathers on the edges of the wings. Near the throat, the feathers are yellow.