Other representatives of the fauna

Recently, a fashionable trend has emerged: along with familiar pets, people are increasingly acquiring exotic animals, one of which is turtles.

These reptiles have inhabited our planet for over two hundred million years and, depending on their habitat, are divided into aquatic and terrestrial. This article will focus on terrestrial turtles.

On earth, we often encounter creatures with which nature seems to have played a cruel joke. Their appearance is often impressive, but more often it evokes unpleasant associations and misunderstandings. One such unusual species is the pipa frog, also known as the Surinam frog. At first glance, the Surinam pipa resembles a lizard that has been run over by a steamroller.

One of the most famous snakes on the African continent and in the world at large is the black mamba. Its nerve-paralytic venom places it among the top ten most dangerous snakes in the world, along with the viper and cobra. The name of this reptile, a member of the elapid family, comes from the word "mamba," which in some dialects means "arboreal" or "tree-dwelling."