Photo: Melissa Burovac / Shutterstock Groundhogs, also called woodchucks, are the largest rodents in the ground squirrel family. Since they are relatives of the squirrels and chipmunks we see...
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Photo: Johan Kusuma / Shutterstock Grabbing, digging, climbing… animals use claws for a lot of different purposes. For most of them, it’s an indispensable tool, and life would be very...
Photo: Charlotte Bleijenberg / Shutterstock Humans aren't the only animals with big foreheads! In fact, we share this quality with some of the biggest (literally) names in the animal kingdom....
Photo: Clea Calderoni / Shutterstock Your housecat isn’t the only animal with whiskers, and people are generally unaware that mammal species without whiskers are actually a minority. These tools...
Photo: Shashidharswamy Hiremath / Shutterstock Even though it might be a shock to us, there are many animals that eat their young in the wild. It’s important to recognize the difference between...
Photo: PhotocechCZ / Shutterstock Lakes are inexhaustible resources of food for many species, which is why there are so many animals that live in a lake. Smaller fish attract bigger fish, those...