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Every year from November to March in Michoacan, Mexico, you can see a real miracle: the migration of monarch butterflies.
Lunch of the African giant snail, whose shell can reach the size of an adult's fist.
Among all stork marabou, it is distinguished by the most impressive size. The marabou is divided into three subspecies: Indian, African, and Javanese. Here we see the African marabou Leptoptilos crumeniferus. These birds have a memorable appearance, but prosaically they often live near large landfills, where they look for food, and a bare neck and head without feathers helps to keep their bodies clean. The African marabou reaches a height of more than one and a half meters and weighs 8.5-10 kg. There is a peculiar sac in the neck area that connects to the nostrils. It can inflate and reach 40 cm in diameter. In young individuals, it is practically absent, its growth occurs during the growth of the bird. Previously, it was believed that birds put food in it in reserve, but it turned out that this outgrowth is used only during mating games and so that the bird can put its head on it at rest.
The pigment luciferin is responsible for the bioluminescence of fireflies. This pigment is oxidized by a certain enzyme, resulting in the release of excess energy in the form of light. The efficiency of this light radiation in fireflies is extremely high and ranges from 87% to 98%. For comparison, in an incandescent lamp, only 5% of the energy goes into the light, the rest goes into heat.
In China, the little panda is considered a fire fox. So Mozilla developers have placed the image of a panda, not a fox, as the Firefox logo.
Although squirrels live longer in captivity than in nature, they do not reproduce.
Brazilian jabiru __Jabiru mycteria__ is in search of a delicacy, and it's a marbled marsh eel! The yabir belongs to the storks and is distributed in tropical America from southern Mexico to Uruguay and northern Argentina, but in this vast area there are only small patches of individual nesting sites of birds. Yabiru chooses coastal areas of rivers, lakes, ponds and wetlands as habitats. In their habitats, yabiru form large colonies consisting of several hundred birds. The body length of this stork reaches 1.2 m, and the wingspan is 2.6 m, the beak is up to 30 cm. The plumage is predominantly white, contrasting with black legs, beak, black bare scalp and part of the neck. It is noteworthy that the eye color of the females is yellow, and the males are black. The Brazilian yabiru is able to inflate the air bag on the neck with a bulky bubble. Yabiru feed on fish, shellfish and amphibians, sometimes reptiles and small mammals also fall into their menu.
Fact of the day: little turtles get tickled when they are brushed with a toothbrush.
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.
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.
It is almost impossible to tame a wild otter. But a captive-born animal can still make friends with a human
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
Meerkats dig burrows up to 1.5 m deep or use the burrows of the African ground squirrel.
Bears only seem clumsy. At short distances, they are able to reach speeds of up to 55 km/h.
Lion cubs are born blue-eyed, and only by the age of two months the color of their eyes changes to amber or brown.
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.