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Here, I write about animals and their small curiosities, feeding habits, and their role in the ecosystem!
Let’s dive a little bit into the energy metabolism of animals, and whether they can obtain energy from sunlight. Animals are generally heterotrophs as (most, but not all, – see below!) animal cells lack chloroplasts to perform photosynthesis. Animals get their energy from eating organic compounds in the form of other organisms like plants, other…
Stuck in a crossword puzzle or just interested in the many fascinating birds starting with the letter G out there? You have come to the right place! Some of the most common names of birds beginning with a g are “Grey”, “Green”, “Great”, or “Gold(en)”. See the lists below for more than a hundred birds…
There are many fascinating types of monkeys found all over the world and these monkeys can be divided into different categories based on their attributes, origin, and native environment. They all vary in size, coloration, and where they live in the world – many of which I will show you in this post! At the…
Clams are a type of Mollusk that have two shells and a soft body. They can be found in oceans, shallow water, and even on the coast during the tide. Clams eat microscopic organic particles floating in the water such as phytoplankton, zooplankton, algae, bacteria, and a variety of breakdown products from dead plants and…
Budgies are one of the most popular pet birds in America and for good reason: they can be very affectionate and are a good overall pet. If you just got one and are wondering how they drink water, then this blog post is for you! Budgies, like other parrots and parakeets, drink water using their…
Although octopuses can detect sound waves and vibrations in water, they do not have ears. The little hearing that octopuses do have is not particularly good. Detection of sound waves by octopuses and other Cephalopods is accomplished by the usage of an organ known as a statocyst. The statocyst is a small hard chamber that…
Squids are probably some of the most fascinating sea creatures on Earth. Squids are a group of marine cephalopod mollusks that are closely related to octopuses and cuttlefish. Some squids are (almost) on top of the food chain can get very large such as the legendary colossal squid, which has a length of up to…
There seems to be quite a bit of confusion around what wool types contain lanolin and which ones don’t, so let’s be clear: All wool-bearing animals produce some sort of grease to give their wool the beneficial traits of wool discussed here – there is no such thing as a natural wool type completely free…
The short answer is: yes, they do. Lizards will, by and large, eat any living insect as long as it isn’t dangerous, toxic, or too hard or big for the lizard to eat. Lizards can consume a variety of beetles such as darkling beetles resulting from mature mealworms and superworm etc. The kind of beetles…
Octopuses are cephalopod creatures that belong to the invertebrates group just like squid and cuttlefish. They are known for their intelligence and camouflage skills that allow them to deceive attackers and prey. Their soft bodies make them capable of fitting into narrow and small spaces, and the only hard object in an octopus body is…
