The leatherback sea turtles are highly migratory species. They tend to migrate longest distances among all marine turtles. They are known to swim around 3,700 miles each way from the foraging ground to the breeding site. Leatherback Sea Turtle Habitat Leatherbacks are essentially pelagic turtles but they also frequent coastal…

Leatherback sea turtles are voracious creatures and they tend to eat twice as much as their own weight. They have scissor-like jaws but feed mainly on soft-bodied animals like tunicates, siphonophores, cephalopods and salps. However, they usually feed almost exclusively on jellyfish which is strange because the jellyfish are made…

For nesting, a female leatherback swims ashore. After digging a hole on a sandy beach, she deposits around 100 to 120 eggs. In every nest, there are about 80 fertilized and 30 unfertilized eggs. Each egg measures about the size of a billiard ball. The eggs are incubated for about…

Tigers do not live in Africa they never had and they probably never will! Lately however, conservationists are making deliberate attempts to introduce tigers in Africa. The tiger’s evolution began in the northern Asia but scientists believe that tigers could have possibly arrived in Alaska over the last 100,000 years.…

The loggerhead turtles have powerful jaws enabling them to crush even the hard-shelled prey like sea urchins and whelks. They are mostly carnivores but they eat vegetation as well. Generally, the diet of the adult loggerheads consists of fish, jellyfish, sea anemones, sea cucumbers, sea stars, sea pens, bristle worms,…

Do you have any idea what does a snowy owl look like? The snowy owl has unmistakable white plumage with mottled dark brown appearance. The dark spots are spattered over the white plumage of snowy owls. These dark markings change with age and sex of the owl. Let’s talk about snowy owl…

Snowy owls seek out their prey during anytime of the day and use ‘sit-and-wait’ hunting method. But most commonly, they hunt at dawn and dusk. They are highly nomadic species and so they migrate long distances in search of their favorite food: lemmings. Snowy owls are silent but extremely patient…