German Cockroach
The most common type of urban roach
The most common type of urban roach
Can lay up to 7500 eggs
Lazarus Lizards can communicate through chemical and visual signals.
Rat snakes are constrictors from the Colubridae family of snakes.
Male robins are so aggressive and territorial that they will attack their own reflections.
Dog ticks feed on dogs and other mammals
The owl can rotate its head some 270 degrees
Has up to 45 eggs per egg case
Females glue egg cases to furniture
Can live its entire life indoors
The tradition of hiding your face with a napkin or towel while eating this bird was begun by a priest who was a friend of the great French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.
They can eat up to 250 bees per day!
European adders are the only snake that lives above the Arctic Circle.
The Eurasian jay has the ability to mimic other sounds
Many hawk moth caterpillars eat toxins from plants, but don’t sequester them the way milkweed butterflies do. Most toxins are excreted.
The woolly rhinoceros roamed the earth between three and a half million and 14,000 years ago.
Pupae are able to undergo diapause to survive poor fruit yield years and winter.