Some studies have estimated that service to be worth over 3.7 billion dollars per year, and possibly as much as 53 billion dollars per year. This value does not take into account the volume of insects eaten by bats in forest ecosystems and how that benefits industries like lumber. It also doesn’t take into account …
Black panthers are just leopards or jaguars with excess black pigment
Jaguars are in the Americas and leopards are in Africa and Asia. ‘Panther’ is a name given to the genus Panthera which includes lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars.
A group of porcupines is called a prickle
North American porcupines are found in forests in Canada, the northeastern and western United States and northern Mexico.
Sea angels are one of the smallest and vicious marines animals at under 5cm
Sea angels are a type of gelatinous, transparent slug. Sea angels will grab their prey and eat them through the protrusions on their head. The protrusions, called buccal cones, have hooks and a kind of toothed-tongue on the inside. Their organs are colorful and can be seen through their transparent bodies.
Wallabies are known to get high on opium and create crop circles in poppy fields
Wallabies are native to Australia and are not the same as Kangaroo’s. Australia produces a lot of the world’s raw material for morphine and related opiates. In 2009, a lawmaker was quoted telling press “We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles, then …