Explore the Outdoors!
Here, I write about animals and their small curiosities, feeding habits, and their role in the ecosystem!
Like all other reptiles, snakes have hearts that makes their blood circulate. Blood circulation is vital to snakes because it brings around the nutrients and oxygen that the cells of the snake need to survive! A snake’s heart is located about one fourth body length down from its head. For snakes that live on the…
Flamingos start out as grey fluffy chicks that in a matter of months grow real feathers that slowly turn pink! The diet that they eat is essential for their optimal development and for them to obtain their recognizable pink feather coat. The first few weeks after hatching, baby flamingos eat ‘crop milk’ produced by their…
There are many different animals that can be found living in bushes. Some of these animals are mammals, such as mice and other rodents, but most are insects and the birds that eat them! Animals that can be found in bushes include caterpillars, spiders, beetles, flies, and other insects such as roaches and bees,…
The American goldfinch is a small garden bird commonly found in large flocks throughout the US, southern Canada, and central Mexico. Their natural habitat is open meadows, but they often flock to bird feeders in suburban areas. Even though American goldfinches do occasionally eat smaller insects such as aphids and ants, goldfinches do not eat…
Tadpoles are amphibian animals that hatch from eggs and eventually turn into frogs. They live in freshwater where they feed mostly on algae and other microorganisms. They are herbivores and decomposers, which means that they feed on both living and dead plant and animal matter in the water. Whereas tadpoles mostly eat microorganisms and smaller…
Magpies, like other birds of the Corvid family (including crows and ravens), are omnivores and eat a variety of food items. This includes their babies, that mostly eat insects in their first weeks of life. Adult magpies feed on a broad diet of smaller animals, eggs, seeds, and carrion and they will even attack larger…
Tadpoles are the larvae stage of frogs and they are too small to eat insects like grown up frogs do. Therefore they eat a variety of smaller particles floating around in the water or attached to surfaces that they can lick off! Tadpoles eat mostly microorganisms and they majority of these are algae and bacteria.…
A tadpole is the larvae stage of the frog life cycle. They do not swim around all the time to look for food as their body needs rest to recover and conserve energy. Tadpoles get most of their sleep at night. Like most small aquatic animals, tadpoles sleep in small bursts during night and day…
Cardinals have a varied diet that includes seeds and nuts such as peanuts. Whereas they prefer unshelled peanuts, they are often seen carrying away whole peanuts from bird feeders. Cardinals can indeed eat whole unshelled peanuts because they are able to open the shell and reach the peanuts inside. They do this with their short,…
Cardinals are common backyard birds in North America that gladly come to eat at your bird feeder. They eat smaller seeds, nuts, and even suet and fruit. You might also have trees in your yard that the cardinal enjoys sitting in, and it can eat the seeds of some trees when they ripen in fall.…