Jv Chamary

1 week ago | discoverwildlife.com | Jv Chamary

Electricity is the result of interactions between objects with electric charge – and batteries aren’t the only things that can be charged. Like the top and bottom of a battery, the inside of a living thing can have a negative charge while the outside is positive, or vice-versa, making it electric. How an electric eel works and the maximum shock it delivers...

2 weeks ago | discoverwildlife.com | Jv Chamary

Almost all animals have eyes to sense light in their environment – even in dark habitats such as the deep ocean, where the only source might come from the odd burst of bioluminescence. The weirdest eyes in the animal kingdom: From creepy to cute, here are the eyes that take ordinary to extraordinaryBut although species across the animal kingdom have evolved various structures for sight, they all need special cells called photoreceptors.

1 month ago | discoverwildlife.com | Jv Chamary

Animals can go for days without water and weeks without food, but a continuous supply of oxygen is vital for survival. This is why vertebrates have evolved a variety of respiratory systems, with organs such as lungs or gills, to extract oxygen from air or water, which have enabled them to occupy diverse habitats. How frogs inspired ventilators in critical care medicine, giving the breath of life to patientsWhy do we and other animals hiccup?

1 month ago | discoverwildlife.com | Jv Chamary

Many ants, bees, termites and wasps form societies in which members belong to social groups (castes) with different roles, such as reproduction or foraging. The individual living things – organisms – in a colony often work together in such a coordinated way that they appear to be one entity, or ‘superorganism’. Why are honeybees like the human brain? What's the largest ant colony in the world? Ant queens eat their own babies then recycle them to make new ones.

2 months ago | discoverwildlife.com | Jv Chamary

Detecting chemicals in the environment enables an individual to identify molecules secreted by predators or prey, potential poisons and sexual partners. This benefit to survival and reproduction helps explain why smell – olfaction – is probably the oldest sense and evolved 500 million years ago, around the origin of animals. Which animal has the biggest nose? How do butterflies smell? And what about moths? Which animal has the best sense of smell?