The animals of the world.

If you're used to getting up and lying down to singing birds, that's your option. A canary is the most suitable bird for home keeping. Its maintenance and care will not require much money and effort. Canaries have brought in Spanish and Portuguese sailors from the Canary Islands, as the name of these birds makes clear. The male canary is called kenar. Wild species of canary birds, from which all domestic canaries originated, is called Canary finch. The finches are grey with a green hue. Canaries,...

Chinchilla is a rodent from the chinchilla family. They appeared in Russia for more than half a century ago. Their homeland is the Andes. The name was given to them by one of the South American tribes that hunted them, made clothes and made various accessories out of skins. Due to their mass extermination by humans, they acquired the character of a disappearing species and received their salvation from complete extinction only due to domestication. In nature live colonies, which number from a few to a hundred individuals...

The Pipe family - their representatives are "amphibians" - is translated from Greek as two-life. While studying zoology at school, we learned that toads and frogs have two habitats at once. But there is a genus of Pipe Frogs, which is divided into four genera and 16 species, which live in the "fish" environment. It is an interesting fact - the representatives of this family quietly tolerate dirty ponds, which have little oxygen, but in the aquarium can not bear even a small concentration of chlorine...

The very first step on the way to acquiring an aquarium, strange as it may seem, is the fish themselves. Getting such pets, a person goes to the pet shop, where he chooses the right size of housing for them, all kinds of fillers and lotions, necessary for further comfortable habitation of fish, the necessary food.  Overflowing with happiness, the amateur pours water into the aquarium on the first day, lets the inhabitants out, pours them food there and watches over all the beauty, but after a few days, for some reason, the water begins to get cloudy, and the inhabitants lose their mood...

If you decide to buy an exotic pet like Triton, you need to be aware of its content. How does he get along with other inhabitants of the aquarium, what are the features of nutrition and temperature conditions? The pet shops will either not inform you or may provide you with incorrect information about the content. One store can tell you that he doesn't live with his aquarium neighbors, while the other can make fun of eating the same food as the rest of the fish. So, who are the Tritons - the tailed...