Table of Contents TLDR The reptiles of Nauru number eleven: seven on land (four geckos, two skinks, one blind snake) and four in the surrounding ocean (three sea turtles and…
Table of Contents TLDR Nobody has ever run a dedicated study on what Herbert’s rock-wallaby (Petrogale herberti) actually eats. What we know comes from its close Queensland cousins and general…
TLDR The highland mangabey — better known as the kipunji — is a fruit-heavy omnivore. Ripe and unripe fruit make up the bulk of its diet, backed up by leaves,…
Table of Contents The Quick Answer Hairy-nosed otters (Lutra sumatrana) eat mostly fish, followed by crabs, water snakes, mollusks, frogs, and the occasional waterbird. Fish dominates almost everywhere they’re found,…
Table of Contents TLDR No single breed guarantees a safe household — supervision and training do the heavy lifting. That said, if you’re starting from zero: Labrador Retrievers and Golden…
A koala eats eucalyptus leaves — nothing else, almost all day, every day. An adult gets through 200 to 500 grams of leaf a day, chewed down to a paste…
TLDR Animals that eat poisonous plants survive one of four ways: their gut bacteria break the toxin down before it reaches the bloodstream, their liver enzymes filter it out, they…
Table of Contents The Quick Answer The desert bandicoot (Perameles eremiana) ate ants, termites, and beetle larvae, dug up with its long snout and clawed front feet, rounded out with…
Gilbert’s potoroo eats fungi. Not “mostly plants with some mushrooms mixed in” — actual underground fungi, the kind you’d need a shovel to find, make up more than 90% of…