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The Agami heron lives from south Central America to Peru and Brazil.
It is sometimes called the chestnut heron, and in Brazil it is sometimes called Soco beija-flor, which means "hummingbird heron" because of its unique coloring.
It has short legs for a heron and a thin beak that is much longer than the head. Thin pale blue feathers adorn the crown, the sides of the front of the neck and the lower part of the back. The legs, beak and bare spot on the face are dull yellow. During the breeding season, the spot on the face may change color to reddish.
Despite its stunning plumage, this reclusive species prefers shade and overhanging vegetation, which means it is rarely seen.
Agama herons track their prey (fish, frogs, small reptiles and snails) in shallow water in muddy water in forested areas. Often they stand motionless on perches or right in the water, or move very slowly. They rarely wander in open water
See how the cunning heron does not eat bread, but makes long-term investments in order to increase profits - in short, uses it to catch fish!
It looks like it's Butorides striatus, but in this case it doesn't matter - there are similar videos with white herons, we just chose the most beautiful of all: with kids and black swans!
At the age of 4-6 years, bald eagles reach sexual maturity. They create couples for life. The mating games of these birds of prey consist in carefree flight.
Performing in the air together may be an opportunity for a future couple to assess each other's condition. A healthy eagle can move at a speed of 65 km per hour in horizontal flight and at a speed of 160 km per hour in a vertical throw to the ground. For several minutes, the eagles fly, hovering in the clouds. This is where the courtship ends.
The Tasmanian devil (marsupial devil or marsupial devil) Sarcophilus harrisii lives, of course, on the island of Tasmania near Australia.
It is the largest of modern marsupial predators, a dense and squat animal the size of a small dog, resembling a miniature bear. Body length 50-80 cm, tail 23-30 cm. The tail is short and thick; fat reserves are deposited in it, and the tail of a sick or starving animal becomes thin.
Very voracious (its daily food allowance is 15% of body weight), the marsupial devil feeds on small and medium-sized mammals and birds, as well as insects, snakes, amphibians, edible roots and tubers of plants. He often wanders along the shores of reservoirs, finding and eating frogs and crayfish, and on the coast - small inhabitants of the sea, washed ashore.
Being alarmed, Tasmanian devils, like skunks, emit a strong unpleasant smell. Despite their ferocity, even adult marsupial devils can be tamed, and they can be kept as pets.
The puffin Fratercula arctica is a seabird from the puffin family that lives in the Atlantic Ocean. On the ground, the dead end moves, holding the trunk vertically and comically rearranging its short legs, and when it comes in for landing, it desperately flaps its small wings, trying to stay in the air and stretching its paws like a landing gear. Puffins live in colonies, they are very curious and tame birds that can make unexpected pirouettes in flight.
The beak of the puffin is triangular, when viewed from above - narrow. The half of the beak at the tip is orange-red, and the one at the head is slate-gray. The exact proportions of the beak vary depending on the age of the bird.
Over time, the beak deepens, the upper edge bends and a fracture develops at its base. The beak is of great importance for attracting a partner during the breeding season, when a characteristic bright orange color appears on it.
The breeding area of this species includes the coasts and especially the islands of the North Atlantic
The wandering fiddle mantis Gongylus gongylodes, found in India and Sri Lanka, is a type of praying mantis characterized by extremely thin limbs and extensive appendages imitating leaves.
It is not considered a particularly aggressive species. From time to time, the mantis swings its body back and forth, imitating the swinging of a stick in the wind.
The violin mantis specializes in catching flying insects. He can grab a fly right in the air!
This type of praying mantis specializes in eating flying insects. As a rule, he will not chase crickets or other creeping insects.
This is one of the few mantis species that can be safely kept in groups for life. They prefer to eat flying prey and therefore leave each other alone
The Magellan penguin Spheniscus magellanicus belongs to the spectacled penguins and is named after Fernand Magellan, who discovered its habitat. Its main distribution area is South America from Argentina (Patagonia) to Chile, the Falkland Islands and around Cape Horn. He weighs 4-6 kg with a height of up to 70 cm .
One of the most important bird nesting sites in the world is the Falkland Islands. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Magellanic penguins were on the verge of extinction, but thanks to the introduced legislative restrictions, it became possible to preserve the habitat of these birds and somewhat restore their numbers.
These penguins arrive on the islands in September to hatch chicks. They live in burrows dug at a depth of a meter and a half. Interestingly, when entering a burrow or for negotiations with birds swimming near the shore, the Magellan penguin emits a loud and sharp cry, for which he received the unpleasant nickname "donkey" from the locals.
The Brazilian (giant) otter Pteronura brasiliensis is not at all the cute tame animal from Europe that you are used to. The Brazilian otter is not afraid of anyone and nothing and terrorizes everything around.
It is a freshwater animal with a body length of 130-150 cm, plus a tail up to 70 cm, that is, only about two meters. There is a characteristic white or light brown spot on the neck of this otter species.
Unlike its distant relative, the European otter, the giant otter is active during the daytime and is not very fearful. Along the shores of South American rivers, it can be found in groups of five to eight individuals, occasionally even up to twenty. The family settles in a large burrow, the length of which can reach 10 meters or more. Each family controls its own plot.
In the water they hunt for fish, snakes (including anacondas) and water birds, on land they do not disdain rodents and bird eggs. Hunting is organized in groups (the participants of one such hunting group drive fish towards each other)
The Pandion haliaetus osprey is one of 6 species of birds with a cosmopolitan distribution. A characteristic feature of this bird is that it feeds almost exclusively on fish.
An adult bird reaches 55-58 cm in length, while having an absolutely incredible wingspan - in human height, up to 170 cm! The flight feathers of the first order in the planning flight look like splayed fingers.
The osprey has a typical hooked predator's beak, and on the back of its head is a short tuft that it can lift. Osprey paws are fishing gear. They are surprisingly long and armed with sickle-shaped claws, the fingers on the inside are covered with spikes, and the outer one is clearly protruding backwards. The valves protect the nasal openings from water ingress.
During hunting , the osprey slowly flies over the water at an altitude of 10 to 40 m . Having found the target, the bird hovers for a moment, then rushes forward, holding its claws outstretched in front of its beak. It can dive to a depth of up to 1 m
Unique videos of spotted deer feeding freshwater vegetation with immersion under water were received by researchers of the Land of the Leopard National Park in the Far East. For this type of ungulates, such a method of obtaining food and the use of such feeds in general have not been previously described by modern science.
The video of the deer divers was obtained using an automatic forest camera installed near the lake. The footage shows how ungulates are almost completely submerged under water for a long time, and then float up with prey.
From the bottom of the reservoir, animals get so–called hydrophytes - aquatic plants rich in useful substances and minerals. The record holder among hoofed "divers" was a deer that lasted 18 seconds under water at once.
The spotted deer, or flower deer, is a hoofed animal found on the Korean Peninsula, in China, Japan and in the south of the Primorsky Territory of Russia.
Guidac Panopea generosa is the largest mollusk in the world. It's pronounced "sticky duck". And he looks like... Mmm... Well, you have eyes yourself.
This marine mollusk is unique to the Pacific Northwest and difficult to get. But the Taylor Shellfish Farms team in Bow, Washington, has its own methods. Most Geoduck are shipped to East Asia, where they are a delicacy. How do they taste? Imagine the sweetness of scallops combined with the salinity of squid...
These large (up to 1.5 kg in weight) organisms have very long fused siphons (up to 1 m in length) and a relatively small (up to 20 cm) fragile shell. Guidac is considered the largest burrowing mollusk. The name "geoduck" ("gweduck") is borrowed from the Indians and means "deep digging".
This mollusk is famous as one of the longest-lived animals: the average life expectancy of guidaks is 146 years, and the age of the oldest individual found was 168 years. If it weren't for greedy, insatiable people...
Here you can see the unsuccessful hunting of polar wolves Canis lupus tundrarum for musk oxen.
Only every tenth hunt of the pack is successful - especially since only two took part in this one. Sometimes polar wolves go without food for many days, but then they eat up to 10 kg of meat at a time.
The polar wolf lives in the vast expanses of the polar regions, in winter in the conditions of the polar night. To survive, the wolf has adapted to eat any food that comes across.
He is well adapted to life in the Arctic: he can live for years at subzero temperatures, not see sunlight for months and stay without food for weeks.
The Polar wolf still inhabits the entire territory historically accessible to its kind. The reason for this is weak competition with humans.
This is a large predator: length without tail 130-150 cm, height at the withers: 80-90 cm. Weight up to 85 kg, females are smaller. Life expectancy is about 7 years
Achrioptera fallax is a species of colorful stick insects native to Madagascar. These insects do not attack or bite people. Their diet consists mainly of leaves - especially blackberries, raspberries, eucalyptus and oak.
The length of females is 20-26 cm; males are 14-17 cm. The imagos of the females are light brown in color and resemble a dry branch in their appearance (in this video, of course, it is the female).
Chest and legs with lots of spikes. A pair of spikes is also found on the head. The wings are very short, red in color. Both sexes are not capable of flight. Life expectancy is about 9 months.
To scare off a predator or a potential enemy, Achrioptera fallax clamp it with their hind prickly legs, spread their brightly colored wings and with their help make a loud enough, creaking sound. Males also often fall to the ground at the same time
Honduran white bats cling to the leaf in small colonies of 1-15 individuals, such a house reliably protects them from rain and predators.
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Meeting with a curious mountain goat on the Bridger Ridge, which is located at an altitude of 3000 meters.
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The gray fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus, native to America, is sometimes called a "tree fox" or "cat fox" for a good reason: hooked claws allow it to easily climb trees, escaping from predators, finding food and playing.
The gray fox has a dense build, with shorter paws compared to the red fox, so it is smaller, but its long fluffy tail looks more luxurious than that of its rival.
However, its undercoat does not save from the cold as well as that of the red fox, so the gray fox cannot live in a particularly cold climate.
Gray foxes are monogamous and live with a partner for the rest of their lives. From 4 to 10 foxes can be born to the mother, who have been leaving their parents for 11 months. Perhaps it is because of this ability to fecundity that this species was not on the verge of death.
The annual extermination of the gray fox, for example, in Wisconsin, because of its soft fur, reduced the population of the species to half
The water buffalo is a relative of the feisty African, but unlike that, it is much more good-natured.
His other names are Asian (Indian) buffalo and Arnie. The latter is not in honor of the famous bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, just the Latin name of this horned miracle is Bubalus arnee.
Adults reach a length of more than 3 m, a height at the withers of up to 2 m, and a weight of up to 1000 kg. The horns reach up to 2 m, they are directed to the sides and back and have a semi-lunar shape and a flattened section.
Wild Asian buffaloes live in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, as well as in Ceylon.
The lifestyle of the Indian buffalo is closely related to reservoirs, preferably with stagnant or slow-flowing water. In the morning and in the evening, buffaloes graze in the cool hours, and aquatic vegetation sometimes makes up to 70% of feed, and during the hot part of the day they lie submerged up to their heads in liquid mud
The great kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros lives in Eastern and Southern Africa and is found primarily in savannas, which are a transitional form between forests and bare steppe.
Kudu wool usually has from six to ten vertical stripes. Kudu has large rounded ears and sometimes a rather long tail. Males have large screwed-up horns growing on their heads, reaching up to 1 meter in size.The larger they are, the higher the social status of the male.
Males form separate groups of bachelors, or live alone and join females only during mating periods. As a rule, one cub weighing about 16 kg is born during the rainy season.
Depending on the habitat, kudus are active during the day or at night. Their food consists mainly of foliage and young branches, while they are not very picky. Large kudus also feed on plants, which are avoided by other animals because of their venom
Antelope-jumper (klippspringer) Oreotragus oreotragus is a small cute creature about 50 cm tall and weighing only 9-18 kg.
Males have widely spaced wedge - shaped horns about 10 cm long . This antelope lives in Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, as well as along the western coast of Namibia and in southwestern Angola.
Antelope jumpers are very demanding of food. They feed on evergreen shrubs and grasses, fruits, bean seeds, flowers and lichens. They can migrate to places with better vegetation.
Antelope jumpers are able to go without water for a long time, since they get most of it from food.
Couples maintain intimacy throughout their lives. While the female feeds the cubs, the male always stands guard and protects her. During the dry season, jumping antelopes gather in groups of 6-8 individuals. With the beginning of the rainy season, such groups disappear