While Cuba is home to impressive marine life, colorful birds, and eccentric mammals, reptiles also inhabit the waters and lands of the island. Snakes are common to Cuba, and several species can be found there. One of the best-known snakes of Cuba is the Cuban boa, the largest species in...
Bohemian waxwingBohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) eating fruit. Animalsthat live in forests have highly developed hearing, and many are adapted for vertical movement through theenvironment. Becausefoodother than ground plants is scarce, many ground-dwelling animals use forests only for shelter. In...
eating birds thatcachepart of their food but neglect to recover everything or that drop units on their way to a hiding place. Best known in this respect are thenutcrackers(Nucifraga), which feed largely on the “nuts” ofbeech,oak,walnut,chestnut, andhazelnut; thejays(Garrulus), which ...
do, however, transport the very sticky (viscid) fruits ofPisonia, a tropical tree of thefour-o’clock family, to distant Pacific islands in this way. Small diaspores, such as those of sedges and certain grasses, may also be carried in the mud sticking to waterfowl andterrestrialbirds. ...
Bohemian waxwingBohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) eating fruit.(more) Animalsthat live in forests have highly developed hearing, and many are adapted for vertical movement through theenvironment. Becausefoodother than ground plants is scarce, many ground-dwelling animals use forests only for shelt...