The hippopotamus is, without doubt, one of the strangestlooking animals in the world.The ancient Greeks named this large animal "hippopotamus, " which means "river horse." But hippos are not related to horses. Found only in Africa, hippos come in two varieties.The small pygmy hippo lives in...
阅读理解 The hippopotamus is without doubt one of the strangestlooking animals in the world.The ancientGreeks named this large animal "hippopotamus " which means "river horse." But hippos are not related to horses. Found only
阅读理解 The hippopotamus is, without doubt, one of the strangestlooking animals in the world.The ancient Greeks named this large animal hippopotamus, which means river horse. But hippos are not related to horses. Found only in Africa, hippos come in
Three years of research and painstaking field work has resulted in a thorough, intimate view of the platypus. We get the usual underwater shots of feeding, of course, but the crew's patience gives us the cute mating dance wherein the male grasps the female by the tail and they swim arou...
Animal:Flying Snake (Chrisopelea) Location:Southeast Asia Size:2-4 feet long Food Source:Lizards, frogs, birds, and bats Fun Fact:Flying snakes can travel up to 300 feet in the air and are better gliders than the flying squirrel. They achieve flight by dangling their bodies into a "C"...
One group of the animals moved to Asia. These animals developed into camels of today. Another group went to South America. This group developed into the llama, an animal in the same family as the camel. There are two types of camels, the dromedary and Bactrian. The dromedary has one ...
Clever use of transmitter technology allowed location of a nesting burrow, so that access holes could be carefully drilled for infrared cameras to be fed in. The photography inside is very revealing of their behaviour. I have to believe that David Attenborough has been a great inspiration to thi...
The Ghost Bat has a terrifying appearance, as they are covered in white fur and live in the tropical rainforests in Central and South America. They are a solitary animal that hide in the daylight, but hunt for insects and moths at night....
We found what looked like somebody had put a bomb in some kind of animal - no evidence of an actual explosive, I'm just trying to give you the same picture I have in my head: a totally indecipherable heap of flesh and fur, probably about the size of a German shepher...
The largest egg produced by a living animal belongs to the ostrich. It is 20 times heavier than a chicken's egg and measures roughly 15cm tall and 13cm wide. In contrast, the smallest bird's egg is that of the tiny bee hummingbird: it measures less than 7mm, the size of a garden ...