Animal Science
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It is said that one of the few animals which will survive a nuclear winter is the cockroach. Whether this is actually true is dependent on various factors, but it is certainly try that roaches have a great resistance to death. They are capable of surviving in adverse and extreme environmental conditions. Not...
Bees are social insects that live in large groups of up to thousands and that work together to ensure the survival of the hive. Each of the bees has a specific task within the honeycomb or hive. The worker bees are responsible for feeding the wash, building or repairing the combs, and collecting nectar...
Bats suck blood; bats attack people, bats are blind, bats have rabies … so many and so more. These are a few of the numerous myths surrounding the little flying creatures. These myths are so deep rooted in culture and history that till now many people regard bats as mysterious beings. Earlier, people used...
Ovoviviparous animals are the type of animals that are born from eggs that stay inside the mother until just before hatching. Therefore, this type of birthing is a mixture between oviparity - laying eggs to reproduce - and viviparity - developing inside the mother's body.
This class of animals are, in...
Reading the name of animals and their young ones often brings back the memory of our childhood. Those were the happy blissful days when our moms used to sit with us and lovingly read the names of animals and their young ones. Each time a unique name came up it caught our attention. Let’s relieve those...
One of the rarest pets that you can have is a pet hedgehog, or maybe you just have a hedgehog who has taken residence in your garden. Hedgehogs in the wild are in decline for a number of reasons, but they do seem to be growing in popularity as pets. It is a very strange yet interesting pet to have and you...
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Everyone knows that human beings are mammals. We belong to the group of vertebrate animals whose females have mammary glands to feed their young. Also belonging to this group are animals such as gorillas, chimpanzees, dogs and cats, as well as other larger and smaller animals.
When we think of mammals, most...
India has a number of dark dense forests. These forests are the best habitat for a number of wild animals, birds and reptiles. Among the reptiles, Indian forests are home to around 270 species of snakes. Among those 270, 60 species of snakes are highly venomous. Some of the most dangerous snakes of India are...
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