Rabbits became a menace in Australia because they breed so' quickly and eat almost any vegetable. Three pairs of rabbits were introduced into Australia in the 18th Century. They multiplied so rapidly that, with the addition of others which were br...

You would find a red Giant on the Sierra Nevada of California in North America. It is a huge redwood tree, called & giant sequoia. These trees, members of the conifer are the largest in the world and grow to a height of 300 feet. They have a very hard reddish ...

Groups of elephants have been, found buried together both in, Africa and Asia. The nearness of the animals to each other may be no more than a coincidence. The areas may be no more than sites, since elevated and dried, where elephants have been drowned in bogs or whil...

The ringhals is a king of cobra, and it has two methods of self-defence. When danger first threatens, the ringhals pretends to be dead. It turns its body over, and lies there with its mouth open. Sometimes this has the desired effect and the would-be pre...

Red squirrels, like their cousins the grey squirrels, eat a variety of food ranging from eggs raided from birds' nests to nuts and pine cones. Pine cone seeds from the major part of their diet. These are methodically stripped from the pine cone. The squirrel nibb...

Most plants have developed some way of avoiding being eaten. You only have to think, of stinging nettles, roses or brambles to be painfully reminded that any creatures interfering with them can be stung or scratched quite severely.

Many species of...

There are nearly fifty different kinds of sea snakes, all with one exception living in waters between the Persian Gulf and Polynesia. The Yellow-bellied Sea Snake lives in Africa and Mexico.

Sea snakes, with black rings or bars on its blue bod...

No, the various species of zebraBurchell’s mountain and Gravy’s-all have different coat patterns. (So also, do the various subspecies such as Chapman's.) Thus, although all zebras look superficially the same, scientists can tell them apart by compari...

Scales are the remnants of the bony armour which enveloped the very earliest fish. Fish have scales as a protective coating for the skin. In fact, not all fish have them. But we usually think of a fish as a cold-blooded, aquatic animal that swims by means of fins, breat...

A newly hatched crocodile is about eight inches long and can be found on the mud near the water's edge of marshes, rivers, estuaries and lakes around the tropical regions of the world. For it is here that the female days her eggs and buried them- to 70 at a time-in...