enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of feeding behaviours - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feeding_behaviours

    Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours A mosquito drinking blood (hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste) A rosy boa eating a mouse whole A red kangaroo eating grass The robberfly is an insectivore, shown here having grabbed a leaf beetle An American robin eating a worm Hummingbirds primarily drink nectar A krill filter feeding A Myrmicaria brunnea ...

  3. Ophiophagy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiophagy

    Ophiophagy (Greek: ὄφις + φαγία, lit. ' snake eating ') is a specialized form of feeding or alimentary behavior of animals which hunt and eat snakes.There are ophiophagous mammals (such as the skunks and the mongooses), birds (such as snake eagles, the secretarybird, and some hawks), lizards (such as the common collared lizard), and even other snakes, such as the Central and South ...

  4. List of herbivorous animals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_herbivorous_animals

    Herbivory is of extreme ecological importance and prevalence among insects.Perhaps one third (or 500,000) of all described species are herbivores. [4] Herbivorous insects are by far the most important animal pollinators, and constitute significant prey items for predatory animals, as well as acting as major parasites and predators of plants; parasitic species often induce the formation of galls.

  5. Forget eggs, frogs give birth to live tadpoles

    www.aol.com/news/2015-01-02-forget-eggs-frogs...

    This makes the species even more unique, as PLOS One said, because other frogs that skip the egg step typically give birth to froglets, or baby frogs, but these frogs still give birth to tadpoles.

  6. Pickerel frog - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickerel_Frog

    The masses superficially resemble those of wood frogs but at close inspection one can usually distinguish between the two. Pickerel frog egg masses are spherical and about the same size of a wood frog egg mass—roughly 5–10 cm in diameter—although pickerel frog egg masses contain more eggs, about 2000–3000. [4]

  7. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary...

    Stymphalian birds – man-eating birds; Tengu – has human and bird characteristics, name means dog; Three-legged bird (various cultures) Thunderbird (Native American) – (Native American, American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains) Thoth (Ancient Egyptian) – deity; Turul – mythological bird of prey

  8. Endangered frogs have yet to 'croak' as conservationists ...

    www.aol.com/endangered-frogs-yet-croak...

    The nearly 400 northern leopard frogs were collected as eggs by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and raised from tadpoles by Northwest Trek Wildlife Park and Oregon zoo staff ...

  9. Roseate spoonbill - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseate_spoonbill

    The bird feeds on crustaceans, bits of plant material, aquatic insects, mollusks, frogs, newts and very small fish (such as minnows) ignored by larger waders. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] In Brazil, researchers found roseate spoonbill diets to consist of fish, insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and seeds, all foraged from limnetic /freshwater habitats.