The Basset Hound is a breed of beagle dogs, despite having short legs. Originally used when hunting foxes and badgers, they are second only to bloodhounds in terms of smell. The name of the breed comes from the French “bas” - low and “hound” - hound. Abstracts Like all hounds, they are stubborn and difficult to train.

Among 42 thousand of all arachnids on earth, there is a special family - wolf spiders. You can see the poisonous tarantula of photos of spiders of this species in today's article. Tarantula One of the versions of the origin of this word says that in Italy near the city of Taranto there is a particularly dangerous Apulian spider.

Zorilla or "Zorilla" comes from the Spanish word "zorro", which translates as "fox". But in reality these are not foxes, but representatives of the marten family. They are also called striped or African ferrets. Striped ferrets live in Africa. They are common from the Sahara to Senegal, Nigeria and South Africa.

Gamper is a large fighting dog breed intended for guard and shepherd service. The second name is the Armenian wolfhound. This dog is considered quite a serious home guard, whose education should be approached very responsibly. It is not without natural aggression, so its working potential should be directed in the right direction.

The Javanese warty snake belongs to the family of warty snakes, squamous order. The local population of the coastal areas of Thailand calls the reptile "elephant trunk" for the impressive thickness of the body, covered with folded skin. The slowness of the Javanese warty snake is quite deceptive. In a collision, this water reptile behaves quite aggressively.

The Atlantic and Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans, as well as continental water bodies make up the World Ocean. The hydrosphere plays a crucial role in shaping the planet’s climate. Under the influence of solar energy, part of the water of the oceans evaporates and falls in the form of precipitation on the territory of the continents.

Domain: Eukaryotes Kingdom: Animals Subdomain: Eumetazoi Without rank: Two-sided symmetrical Without rank: Second-type Type: Chordate Subtype: Vertebrate Infratype: Maxillary Supraclass: Four-legged Class: Mammals Subclass: Beasts Infraclass: Placental Unorder Gorizards: Garch squad: Euarch : Mice-like Family: Nezomyids Type: Gambian rat The Gambian rat is one of the largest species in the rodent family, but one of the friendliest.

Ara (Ara) belongs to the genus of birds and the family of parrots. This is a large parrot, characterized by a very bright and beautiful plumage in green, blue, red and yellow colors, popular in home content. Description of the parrot Ara Large-sized, very bright bird, characterized by the presence around the eyes and on the sides of the head of hairless patches completely devoid of feathers or with a slight, rare plumage.

Every living creature on our planet has its own means and methods of protection, which nature has endowed with them. Today we will tell readers about the amazing hedgehog fish, which many probably saw, but not everyone knows about them. Description of the hedgehog fish The mouth of the hedgehog is large and wide. The upper and lower jaws are covered with cutting plates that are not separated by a seam, therefore, outwardly, the mouth of these marine inhabitants may resemble the beak of a parrot.

Styracosaurs are an extensive group of herbivorous horned dinosaurs. These dinosaurs lived at the end of the Cretaceous, about 77-70 million years ago, in North America. The largest horn of the Styracosaurus was in the bow, 1.5 meters long. There was a “collar” on the back of the head, framed by six long horn-shaped spikes.

The Bavarian vole belongs to the species of mammals from the genus of gray voles, the hamster family, and the order of rodents. It lives on the territory of the Italian, Austrian and Bavarian Alps, from where its name came from. For living, he prefers wet meadows near streams with abundant grass, located at an altitude of six hundred to thousand meters above sea level.

Madagascar short-winged Buzzard (Buteo brachypterus) belongs to the order Falconiformes. External signs of the Madagascar short-winged buzzard Madagascar short-winged buzzard is a medium-sized bird of prey about 51 cm with a compact body. Its silhouette is the same as that of other species of buzzards living in Europe or Africa.