Croatia gets sold as beaches and walled cities, and the wildlife gets left out of the brochure. That’s a mistake. This is a country where a blind salamander lives in…
The phrase “exotic cat” hides a fault line that trips up almost everyone shopping for one. On one side: domestic cats bred to look wild — spotted, rangy, gold-eyed, but…
Japanese serows eat leaves, buds, shoots, acorns, and conifer foliage. They’re browsers, not grazers, and despite what a few sites claim, they are strict herbivores — not omnivores. A serow…
Search “yellow animals” and you’ll drown in canaries, goldfish, bumblebees, and bananaquits. Search “yellow mammals” and the same lists show up — birds and bugs wearing the answer to a…
Black cats with long coats get all the dramatic lighting. They look like they walked out of a gothic novel and then promptly knocked your water glass off the table….
Table of contents TL;DR “Small” and “black” are two separate traits. A cat can be petite and black without being a rare “black breed,” and in shelters the most likely…
TL;DR Cuvier’s beaked whales mostly eat deep-sea squid. Fish and octopus can also show up in the mix, but squid is the main event. They hunt by making long, deep…
TL;DR Wildcats mostly eat small, easy-to-catch prey. For the African wildcat diet, that usually means rodents, birds, lizards, insects, and occasionally small hares or other tiny mammals. They’re stealthy, mostly…