Fact or Fiction: Myths About Reptiles, Arthropods, and Others (Part 2)

Doctors have learned to reattach severed human limbs. For some animals, this is not a problem at all.

For lizards and newts, restoring lost tails or limbs is the simplest task. If you take any sea sponge and strain it through a fine sieve, thus dividing it into individual cells, and then leave it alone for a while, it will remerge into a single organism as if nothing happened.

First, mosquitoes are part of the food base for an innumerable number of animals, from fish to birds; second, in the larval stage, they participate in the formation of silt, and then soil; third, they are a living part of lakes, ponds, forests, and fields. The extermination of mosquitoes will lead to the complete collapse of all established chains in any ecosystem and landscape.

In fact, any garbage is food for them. And the favorite food of cockroaches, both black and red, is beer. Just moisten a cloth with beer, and they will gather in a crowd and start tasting the treat.

Many spiders use venom when hunting, which can be painful or fatal. But a spider never uses venom to attack. The spider catches its prey with the help of a web, which is the most efficient trapping network in nature. The spider uses venom to immobilize its caught prey.

A spider can also bite in self-defense. But usually, when meeting a person, spiders just hurry to hide.

Moreover, spider venom contains toxins that are medicinal drugs, and their study is extremely important for medicine.

More interesting facts about spiders can be found in our article ☛

All reptiles are cold-blooded animals. However, their body temperature almost does not differ from the temperature of the surrounding environment. Snakes, in particular, love to bask in the sun.

As for the slime... Reptiles' skin has almost no glands and is covered with dense smooth scales, quite pleasant to the touch. No wonder snake skin is used to make shoes, handbags, wallets, and clothing.

Frogs eat insects, fish fry, and even their own tadpoles. There are some amazing species of these animals that are true predators: they hunt birds, mammals, and large fish.

For example, the African bullfrog eats, in addition to insects, small snakes, rats, mice, small birds, fish, and other frogs.

The rattle at the end of a rattlesnake's tail is just old skin that peels off during molting. The rattlesnake hunts from ambush for small mammals mainly at night. To rattle at this time means to go without dinner. So what is its rattle for?

Relatively recently, zoologists found that the snake raises its tail and rattles because it literally trembles with fear. Wait a little, and the snake will slip away from the meeting place.

There are some snakes that glide as much as their anatomy allows. They live in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and are called "ornate tree snakes" from the colubrid family. These are the snakes that can glide, descending from great heights to the ground or jumping from tree to tree.

Before the jump, the snake coils into a spiral, then, quickly uncoiling, rushes into the air and, stretching out, quickly and smoothly glides to the branch below or to another tree. This creates the same effect as when a split hollow bamboo trunk or a light tube smoothly glides through the air.

The ornate tree snake can also move from branch to branch in a series of short jumps or make a longer "flight" from the tops of tall trees, during which it can "fly" up to 10 meters.

In fact, taste is determined by special receptors - taste buds, which can be located not only on the tongue. For example, in fish, taste buds are often located on the lips, gills, and even scattered over the entire body.

The most interesting places where taste organs are located can be found in insects: these are the head antennae in predatory beetles, mouth appendages in horseflies, and even the legs in flies.