A baby kangaroo is called a joey. Marsupials have a very short gestation period (about four to five weeks), and the joey is born in an essentially fetal state. The blind, furless, miniature newborn, the size of a jelly bean, crawls across its mother's fur to make its way into the pouch, where it latches onto a teat for food. It will not re-emerge for several months, during which time it ...
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Baby turkeys are called poult or turklette. The turkey is a large bird which is native to the Americas. Turkeys have been known to be aggressive toward humans and pets in residential areas. Wild turkeys have a social structure and pecking order and habituated turkeys may respond to humans and animals as they do to another turkeys. Habituated turkeys may attempt to dominate or attack people ...
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Baby zebras are called foals. Although zebra species may have overlapping ranges, they do not interbreed. In captivity, plains zebras have been crossed with mountain zebras. The hybrid foals lacked a dewlap and resembled the plains zebra apart from their larger ears and their hindquarters pattern.
Attempts to breed a Grévy's zebra stallion to mountain zebra mares resulted in a ...
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Young swans are called cygnets. Swans usually mate for life, though "divorce" does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure, and if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight. Young swans are known as swanlings or as cygnets.
Swans are the largest extant members of the waterfowl family ...
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Frogs belong to a group of animals known as amphibians. Amphibian literally means “two lives”. This is because they begin their lives in the water as eggs and tadpoles. When they grow to become adults, they live primarily on land. There are more than 4,000 different types of amphibians on earth today. Frogs are cold-blooded creatures. Because of this, they have to externally ...
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A merlin is a type of bird. This shouldn’t be confused with a marlin - a type of fish - or the fictional wizard Merlin, from the tales of Camelot and King Arthur. The merlin is a falcon species, small and native to North America. They typically prey on smaller birds - sparrows and quails are the largest birds they’re known to hunt.
They are a well-known falconry bird, but ...
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