Winter's tales

31/03/2021

Astianax fish, when a predator approaches, often try to stun their less efficient relatives and swim away, leaving the victim to be torn apart.
The swimming speed of the Greenland polar shark does not exceed two kilometers per hour.
A deep-sea fish called the black gulper is capable of swallowing prey twice its length and ten times its weight.

29/03/2021

With the help of a roar and roaring roar, tigers communicate with each other at a great distance. Angry tigers never growl - they hiss.
The pattern of stripes is present in the tiger not only on the coat, but also on the skin. If the tiger is completely shaved, the new coat will grow back in exactly the same pattern as before.

27/03/2021

Castles are not only built by architects - sometimes nature itself does this job better. A striking example is the cotton castle of Pamukkale. The combination of snow-white salt formations and the azure of the purest thermal waters that fill the salt baths create stunning views. In addition to admiring the beauty of these places, here you can significantly improve your health by plunging into one of the warm thermal pools.

26/03/2021

It is thanks to the forests on our planet that there is an atmosphere suitable for life, containing enough oxygen for breathing, and it is the trees that process carbon dioxide.
About 50% of all species of land animals live in forests.
The total area of ​​forests on Earth is 38 million square kilometers, or almost a third of the surface of the entire land, but until 200 years ago, forests occupied twice as much space.

25/03/2021

25/03/2021

On the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in Russia, the sun is shown for only 12 days a year. The story of the discovery of this land is described in Kaverin's artwork "Two Captains". The archipelago is located at the junction of the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea near the coast of Taimyr. From Severnaya Zemlya to the Pole 990 km. About half of the territory is glaciers, icebergs, the rest is stones and quite a bit of tundra with rare vegetation. No people live here, only polar bears, wolves, arctic foxes, deer. The climate is arctic. In summer, the thermometer's scale rises to +6 ° С, but strong winds do not make it possible to feel the warming. In winter, frosts down to -47 ° C.

24/03/2021

Predators (for example, your cat sleeping peacefully on the keyboard) have eyes located in front to see their prey in time. And herbivores have eyes on the sides, in order to see the approaching predator in time and have time to be horrified.

22/03/2021

Due to the intervention of people, many species of animals that traditionally inhabited these forests began to disappear from the taiga, and new inhabitants, for example, black grouse and common hamsters, take their place.
The Eurasian taiga is one of the most important ecosystems on the planet, since the amount of carbon and oxygen in the atmosphere closest to the Earth depends on it.