Tag: Funny animals
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: The best nature photos of the year
The Audience Prize in the London Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is awarded for the image of a dreaming polar bear. Other images in the finale…
Parrots in Europe chirp in different languages - knowledge
What do humans and monk parakeets have in common? They speak different languages depending on where they were born and raised. “Similar to humans, monk parakeets communicate differently in Verona…
How do bats actually mate? – Knowledge
Male broad-winged bats have huge penises, so reproduction requires no penetration. Researchers have now observed for the first time how this works. Jan Jeucker and Nicolas Fasel must be real…
Photography: These are the most beautiful nature photos of the year
A shimmering golden horseshoe crab, orca whales lurking underwater and voracious tadpoles: the Natural History Museum has named the “Wildlife Photographers of the Year 2023”. source site
Police in Lower Franconia take in leopard gecko – Bavaria
The police have a new employee: Gecko Harald. As the officials announced on Monday, residents of an apartment building in Bad Neustadt an der Saale (Rhoen-Grabfeld district) called on Sunday…
Birds build nests from metal spikes to prevent nest building – for bird control – knowledge
Man makes life difficult for many animals, but there are also species that do not give up, that even manage to use the omnipresence of humans for their own purposes.…
Birds build nests out of metal spikes to prevent nest building – knowledge
Man makes life difficult for many animals, but there are also species that do not give up, that even manage to use the omnipresence of humans for their own purposes.…
Munich: Fire brigade saves five ducklings from shaft in Milbertshofen – Munich
Because a mother duck is croaking excitedly, a local resident calls the rescuers. They send “the slimmest firefighter” to get the chicks to safety – but then Mama Duck is…
Storks are the secret heraldic animal of Bavaria – Bavaria
Bavaria’s heraldic animal is of course the lion. But storks would fit much better. They show what is going on in society. This is shown, for example, by the Ramspau…
Biology: why cicadas shoot with urine – knowledge
Certain leafhoppers have an immense throughput of food. Day after day, they hurl up to around 300 times their body weight in small droplets of urine from their rear end.…