Zoology

Do wild cheetahs attack, kill, or eat human beings? This article answers this question and provides more information about these extraordinary animals.

The Nilgiri tahr is an endangered animal native to India, where they compete for food, risk loss of habitation, poached for their meat, and die due to disease.

Learn about the Downy Woodpecker’s habitat, nesting habits, food preferences and more, plus view pictures to help you identify it and find out how to attract it to your yard.

The Malayan tapir is an unusual animal with an extensible and mobile proboscis, or mini-trunk. Despite its size and bulk, this endangered animal can move fast.

This article examines the deadly Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. It provides an analysis of the snake's behavioral traits, characteristics, and overall venom toxicity.

Orangutans are endangered, mainly because their rainforest habitat is being replaced by oil palm plantations. We can help the animals in multiple ways.

A two-faced animal is one individual. The disorder is known as disprosopus or craniofacial duplication. Cats with two faces are called Janus cats. Frank and Louie was a famous example.

This article explores the 10 most dangerous snakes in the United States and Canada. It analyzes each of the chosen snakes through an analysis of their venom toxicity, level of aggression, and overall threat to humans.

Draco lizards are sometimes known as flying dragons. They have a skin fold on each side of their body that extends to form a wing-like structure and enables them to glide through the air.

The great horned owl is an avian apex predator, and perhaps the finest predator to have ever lived. In this article, I will detail just about everything you need to know about these magnificent raptors, including what they look like, what they eat, and how they live.

Some animals absorb chloroplasts or algae, which make food inside the animal's body. The exoskeleton of one type of insect makes electricity from solar energy.

Siberian tigers are muscular and have large heads and powerful forelimbs, huge paws and canines with 33 razor-sharp teeth that shred their prey making it easy to feast on their dinner!

Slow lorises are intriguing animals and the only venomous primates. They need our help. A protein in the venom closely resembles an allergenic protein in cat dander and saliva.

This articles examines the deadly and highly venomous, Inland Taipan. It provides an analysis of the snake's behavioral traits, characteristics, and venom toxicity.

The Ethiopian wolf lives in Africa at high elevations. It's the most endangered member of the dog family, or the Canidae. The animal faces some serious threats.

Tigers are territorial and generally solitary animals, except for during mating season. They are also charismatic megafauna, which means they are large animals with popular mainstream appeal in society.