Your cat’s ideal home environment: 7 tips
29 October 2018

Looking at a cat is like looking at the fire, it is always enchanted. (Giorgio Celli) What should a cat have in your house to be happy? Well, I have [...]

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Vampire bats: nature and legends
8 August 2018

Premise on the vampire bats “Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles.” (Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897) In literature and legends, the [...]

Blitzen drawing of a stork delivering some tortoise eggs
Land turtle eggs: hatching and care
24 July 2018

Mother turtle wandered for days, visibly stressed, digging everywhere, but in the end she did it: she laid her eggs. And now, what to do? The eggs of land tortoises [...]

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5 types of wood for a DIY doghouse
21 July 2018

Do you want to make your own wooden doghouse? Well, then here is my personal ranking of the best woods to use (that’s what we use). Did you think to [...]

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How to build a land turtle enclosure in 5 steps
10 July 2018

Premise on the land turtle enclosure for land turtles Do not be fooled by their clumsy appearance: like Arsène Lupin, land turtles are masters of escape. Extremely curious, they can [...]

Drawing of a baby tortoise getting out a egg - Blitzen
Baby turles: what to do, in 6 steps
29 June 2018

How to take care of your baby land turtles In your garden there is something new: from the ground, the nose of a baby turtle appears. Wow! The birth of [...]

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Tortoise pyramiding in 5 steps
19 June 2018

Premise on the Tortoise Pyramiding (Pyramidal Growth Syndrome) The ancient Egyptians were not great lovers of turtles. Inside the tomb of Nenunenef, just to give you an example, the phrase [...]

Blitzen drawing of a vampire with bats
Installing a bat box: how to choose the best location
12 June 2018

A premise about installing a bat box Bats, once feared for their suspicious connections to Dracula, are enjoying great popularity today: as a matter of facts, they eat platoons of [...]

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Bats: why are they so important for us?
29 May 2018

I read an interesting ranking on the most lethal animals for man, expecting the snake, the crocodile or the lion in the first position. Contrariwise, on the top step of [...]

Tartarughe di terra maschio o femmina - Disegno con due tartarughe (maschio e femmina) che si tengono sul ciglio di una nave come nel film Titanic
Determine the sex of a turtle: male or female, in 5 steps
22 May 2018

Sexing land turtles In the drawing above, there is a happy turtle couple: the beautiful and charming tortoise, with flowing hair and lipstick, is in love with Mr. Jack Testudo. [...]

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