If provided with water, tarantulas can survive for up to 2 years without food! Source: Baerg WJ. (1958). The Tarantula. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS.
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Fun Fact Friday
When you google image search “baby crow,” the first picture that pops up of an adorable, fluffy bird is not actually a crow! It’s a buff-banded rail, a species not even closely related to the crow. Real baby crows are born altricial, meaning they are under-developed, unable to feed themselves, and featherless. The buff-banded rail,…
Fun Fact Friday: Albatross Migration
Gray-headed albatrosses make journeys of up to 7,767 miles at a rate of 590 miles per day. Source: Croxall et al. (2005) Science 307: 249-250
Fun Fact Friday
Monarch butterflies use the sun to navigate on their long seasonal migrations. Know what body part they use to sense the sun’s location in the sky?