Two types of camouflage exist, one that makes animals difficult to see—crypsis—and one that disguises them as something else—mimesis. Crypsis, the most common type of animal camouflage, is often achieved because the animal’s colors resemble its environment. However, this is not the only way that animals can blend into the background. Some camouflage animals will…
We have come across many stories of people stumbling on whale vomit worth millions. The ambergris, as whale vomit is known, is often described as one of the world’s strangest natural occurrences. It is produced by sperm whales and has been used for centuries, but for many years its origin remained a mystery. While scientists…
Ants don’t sleep. Yes, you read that right. They do not sleep their entire lives, but they are still very active. Ants take very brief naps. Let’s get to know more about the sleep (or the lack of it) schedule of this tiny creature. 1) Ants take approximately 250 naps daily, with each nap lasting…
Kitti’s hog-nosed bat is the smallest species of bat and arguably the world’s smallest mammal. Kitti’s hog-nosed bat was unknown to the world at large prior to 1974. Its common name refers to its discoverer, Thai zoologist Kitti Thonglongya. The mammal has a reddish-brown or grey coat, with a distinctive pig-like snout. Colonies range greatly in…
Spider, and Their Amazing Hydraulic Legs A big, hairy Spider skitters across the floor of your room; its eight, long, rangy legs moving almost robotically. It stops. Horrified, you picture its fangs clicking together, and its many eyes jerkily twitching to and fro. Suddenly, the spider scuttles under your bed. Though you wait five minutes…
How do Dolphin’s Sleep? Dolphin’s sleep in a very different way to the way we humans do as they must still continue to surface to breathe. Humans have prolonged periods of unconscious sleep and we are not aware of our surroundings for periods of time while sleeping. Humans have a breathing reflex and when we…
5 Species That Went Extinct This Year Climate change has been making a radical impact on the planet with every year, a host of species vanishing from the earth. This year too, we lost a few. Here’s a list. Climate change has accelerated the decline of the world’s biodiversity over the last few decades. The…
The World’s Deadliest Snakes Few animals strike as much fear into people as venomous snakes. Although the chances of running into a venomous snake, much less being bitten and dying from the toxin injected into one’s body, are miniscule compared to dying from cancer, heart disease, or an automobile accident, this seemingly unreasonable fear remains…
Dog Training 101: How to Completely Train Your Dog Are you ready to start training your dog or puppy? Proper training and socialization are among your dog’s basic needs. It’s important to start training your dog as soon as possible to sit, stay, come, go to their crate, and to go potty outside. And believe it or not, it’s…
The last day of the dinosaurs The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. This conclusion was drawn by an international team of researchers after having examined thin sections, high-resolution synchrotron X-ray scans, and carbon isotope records of the bones of fishes that died less than 60 minutes after the…
