Wildlife

2022-08-29 02:01:54 The tannid wasps (flower wasps) Thynnidae are a family of large solitary wasps whose larvae parasitize the larvae of beetles, especially scarabs.

Females, of course, are searching for beetle larvae. Males feed on nectar and are secondary pollinators.

In this video you can watch how orchids deceive male wasps by pretending to be their females! The male rushes to the flower, and... All covered with pollen! Then he flies to another deceptive orchid, and... Everything repeats again.

This is how this wasp Casanova transfers pollen from orchid to orchid... What a deception! Interestingly, from a human point of view, the similarity between a flower and a wasp is small - but wasps see in a different spectrum and everything is different for them! Open / Comment

2022-08-28 18:07:23 Even without a mask and fins! Open / Comment

2022-08-28 02:12:21 Speckled Marsupial marten (quoll) Dasyurus viverrinus is the size of a small cat - body length 45 cm, tail - up to 30 cm, weight - up to 1.5 kg.

The Latin name of the quolla translates as: "A ferret-like animal with a fluffy tail." Quoll has nothing to do with real European martens, but the first settlers of Australia were almost entirely convicts, among whom for some reason there were no biologists...

For this reason, we now have an Australian magpie, which is not a magpie at all - and many similar other curiosities.

The lifestyle of the Quoll is solitary and nocturnal. They usually hunt on the ground, but they are good at climbing trees. The main food of the quoll is insect pests.

After the colonization of Australia, they began to hunt poultry, rabbits, rats and mice and were exterminated by farmers for ruining poultry houses - and now the quoll is found only in Tasmania. 

The main food competitor of the quoll is the Tasmanian devil, as well as human-introduced foxes, feral cats and dogs Open / Comment

2022-08-27 18:08:31 Don't walk twice! Open / Comment

2022-08-27 02:06:09 Kakomycli Bassariscus sumichrasti is a small animal resembling a cross between a marten and a cat. It has excellent climbing skills and destroys a lot of rodents, because it was often tamed before. Now they are less common as pets, but in North America they are sometimes kept – they are kind and affectionate pets, unless not everyone can get used to their voice.

In fact, kakomitsli belongs to the raccoon family. This animal is 30-45 cm long and plus another 30-50 cm falls on its tail, but its entire length does not exceed 1300 g.

Some people are not fastidious in their diet and eat everything they find on their site. These are insects, small or large rodents - even rabbits, squirrels, and birds. In addition to animal food, kakomitsli also willingly eats persimmons, mistletoe, other fruits and plants.

These interesting animals live in the southern and southwestern regions of the United States at altitudes up to 2900 m above sea level, as well as in Mexico and Central America Open / Comment

2022-08-26 18:11:19 By the way, these gophers are wild Open / Comment

2022-08-26 02:08:27 Xiphosurida horseshoe crabs are one of the most ancient arthropods on Earth that have survived to the present day. All their relatives (scorpions, ticks, haymakers) settled on land more than 400 million years ago, and only horseshoe crabs remained faithful to the marine environment. 

They are so ancient that using the example of these arthropods, they study the behavior of trilobites, which completely died out a quarter of a billion years ago: how they shed, changing the old skin, or escaped from their pursuers.

Horseshoe crabs breathe through their gills, but they can also move on land, since the special structure of the gills allows them to absorb oxygen from the air while the gills retain moisture.
The horseshoe crab's blood is not red, but blue because of the high content of copper in it. Open / Comment

2022-08-25 18:05:16 When did it originate from dinosaurs Open / Comment

2022-08-25 02:11:54 The Malayan woolwing Galeopterus variegatus lives in Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and various islands of the Indonesian archipelago, including Sumatra, Java and Borneo.

Prefers, first of all, moist jungles in hilly areas, but is also found on coconut and banana plantations.

This kind of animal lives in trees and never voluntarily descends to the ground. These are solitary animals, occasionally you can meet several individuals on the same tree.

They use a gliding flight to move from one tree to another without touching the ground. More often they fly at a distance of up to 50-70 m, the record flight range was 136 m. The animals are active at night, spending the day in their shelter.

They are herbivores. They feed on flowers, leaves, buds and fruits.

The body length of the Malay woolwing is 30-40 cm, the tail is 15-20 cm. The span of the limbs is 70-120 cm, and the weight is 1-1.75 kg Open / Comment

2022-08-25 02:06:03 Flight of the woolwing Open / Comment