Nature

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In the list of the largest and most beautiful water streams in France and Spain, the Garonne River is not the last. In this material, we will get to know her a little closer, her geographical location, historical facts, ancient cities located in her valley

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The Mukhavets River in Belarus is the largest tributary of the Western Bug in the country. A description of this river, as well as a list of cities located on it, you will find in this article

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The flying squirrel is lucky: the delicate, chinchilla-like fur with which it is covered is too fragile to give a valuable skin and make its owner an object of fishing. Therefore, flying squirrels are still widespread both in Europe and in Asia

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Snakes are cold-blooded reptiles. Their habitat is scattered across all continents, with the exception of Antarctica. The catalog containing the name of snakes has about three thousand species. On the territory of the Russian Federation, their number is limited. According to official data, only ninety species live on our territory

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The biggest snake - anaconda - thanks to Hollywood thrillers, has long become a byword. Say, this insatiable monster feeds on people, moves perfectly on land, and breaks all the bones of its victim, or even swallows it alive whole. Let's try to separate the truth from the myths and tell what this reptile of the boa subfamily with the official name eunectes murinus is

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The world of wildlife is surprisingly beautiful and unusual. It contains many beautiful animals. One of them is the skunk. This animal is a small predatory mammal

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Osiria is a bicolor hybrid tea rose. As a separate class, flowers of this species were isolated in 1976. Rose Osiria has a distinctive feature - it is continuous flowering. Therefore, many gardeners grow it on their plots

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Nature has a special meaning in the life of mankind. It not only gives beauty and good mood, but also something without which life would be impossible. Nature should be treated with respect. Should be protected if necessary

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The house mouse is a species of rodent that has spread throughout the planet, becoming one of the most common mammals. This happened due to their ability to coexist next to a person

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What is a school of fish? This is exactly what this article is about. Among the fish there are those who spend their whole lives alone, they are individualists, but there are also representatives who gather in flocks at specific periods of life. Thus, a school of fish is a large accumulation of individuals of the same species

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The cat takes care of babies from their very birth. She feeds, licks and practically does not leave the kittens in the first days of their life. Over time, their mother teaches them to hunt by bringing them half-dead prey

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Few would agree with the expression that brown flowers are quite popular. This shade is extremely rare in gardens, flower shops or various greenhouses. It is often impossible to find flowers with a brown tint, even with a strong desire

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The arsenal of traditional medicine has long been the gifts of coniferous forests. Young pine branches, needles and cones have long been used in the form of infusions and decoctions. These remedies can heal not only the body, but also the soul of a person

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Conifers of all kinds are not uncommon in Russia. In the end, entire hectares of Russian territory are occupied by forests of spruce, pine, fir and other representatives. Coniferous trees are quite undemanding to growing conditions. They survive on sandstones, in low rainfall areas, in places where the soil layer is very poor, where constant winds blow, destroying almost any plant

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When walking through the forest and noticing an old stump, an inquisitive person will certainly stop and pay attention to the mossy cut of the tree. What does he remember? What would you say if you had a voice?

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African women carry on their shoulders all the housework, housekeeping, look after the children and follow the fashion trends in their tribe. How do they do it? They are trained for work from an early age

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Beech is a unique plant that has no analogues in the world. The tree hardly takes root in areas where it does not grow in natural conditions. It took Russian breeders almost a century and a half to ensure that it could grow on the territory of our country, at least in a collection form

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This is a fairly large snake, one of ten varieties of the genus of climbing snakes. In our country, she is better known as the Pallas snake, which was given to her in honor of the famous Russian traveler and scientist-encyclopedist - P. S. Pallas, who described many plants and animals in his writings

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The harlequin frog is an endangered amphibian found in Panama and Costa Rica. Belongs to the family Real toads and the genus Panama harlequin. This is a large genus of tailless amphibians. Despite the status of an endangered species of frogs, there are about 110 varieties of it in the genus

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Water scorpion is a type of bug that lives in water bodies where there is no current or it is insignificant. A favorite place is an aquatic environment with abundant vegetation. Plants for water scorpions are a kind of islands on which these insects and their larvae reside. Moreover, adults have tenacious paws for secure holding on plants

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Walking through the autumn beech forest, you can find a real gift of nature, which is the chinarik nut. The product looks like small seeds that are enclosed in a prickly shell. Let's find out what chinariki are, what useful properties they have

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The white-tailed deer is the most common subspecies in North America. Among other representatives of the deer species, this one is the largest. The animal is very interesting, worth a closer acquaintance

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The water lily is an aquatic herbaceous plant, otherwise called the yellow water lily. Belongs to the water lily family. It grows wild in Europe, Russia, Asia. A large number of useful substances and applications have led to the fact that the plant began to be kept and propagated in aquariums around the world

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What is meant by the term "racing horse"? What qualities should she have? What do these animals look like? What race breeds are considered the best and why? The article answers these and other questions

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The first horse on the list is, of course, the Arabian. A real Arabian horse has several distinguishing features: a slightly concave bridge of the nose, large wet eyes, like all oriental beauties. The main sign of purebredness is as follows: all horses of the Arabian breed in the gait hold their tail very high

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What is a horse article called? What is the body structure of an animal? What parameters are paid attention to when evaluating the exterior of horses? The answers to these questions can be found in our article

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A lot of authors wrote novels and songs about horses. These animals are mentioned in many poems, books, films, serials, they played a very important role in them, served as an excellent background. What is so magical about this word - a horse, that many are not able to talk about these animals indifferently? Little beloved pony - this horse is the dream of almost every girl. Well, almost every boy in childhood wants to become an excellent rider

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Currently, the ecological state of the capital's water artery is so terrible that many people doubt whether there are fish in the Moscow River. There is an opinion that the entire ichthyofauna in the urban part of the channel died long ago due to the increased concentration of chemicals. However, according to the results of the research, it was found that there are a lot of fish in the river, but the species diversity leaves much to be desired

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Lake Aydarkul is a large reservoir of artificial origin, located in the north-eastern part of Uzbekistan and has become a real natural landmark of this country. Its area is 3478 km² and currently continues to increase. These vast expanses of water are spread in the middle of the desert, which is why Aydarkul is otherwise called "the sea in the sands"

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Psekups is a large mountain river of the North Caucasus, flowing through the territories of the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygea. The length of this waterway is 146 km, and the basin area is 1430 km². In the river valley of Psekups there is a large resort town of Goryachiy Klyuch

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Usually, at the mention of the word "shark", an image of a large formidable predator arises in the head, a meeting with which is dangerous for a person. However, in this superclass of cartilaginous fishes there is a unique group of truly miniature species (up to 50 cm). In the list of sharks with the smallest sizes, the second place is occupied by the dwarf (lat. Euprotomicrus bispinatus). The length of her body is only 22-27 cm, that is, the predator can be placed in the palm of your hand

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Currently, the ichthyofauna of the Far East occupies a leading position in the fishing industry in Russia. This region accounts for more than 60% of the state industrial catch. The fish of the Far East has a huge number of species, among which several dozen are of great commercial importance. A special role is played by the extraction of representatives of the salmon family, famous for the excellent quality of meat. In the common people, this large delicacy "herring" is conditionally called red

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Zusha belongs to the water basin of the Oka and flows through the European part of Russia through the territories of the Tula and Oryol regions. The length of the river is 234 km, and the catchment area is 6950 km². Zusha ends its journey on the border with the Bolkhovsky district, where it flows into the Oka as a right-hand tributary

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In fact, in the genus burbot (lat. Lota) there is only one species, and it is found exclusively in fresh water. However, there is a marine fish that looks very similar to this freshwater inhabitant. Its official name is menek (lat. Brosme brosme), but along with this it is also called sea burbot. From a scientific point of view, this is fundamentally wrong, but it is quite common among fishermen

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Until recently, the deepest cave in the world was considered the Krubera cave, which goes down to 2,196 meters. However, in August 2017, it lost this status, giving way to the almost unexplored cave S-115, which was later named after the speleologist Alexander Verevkin. This expedition made a real sensation in the world of researchers, turning a hitherto unremarkable geological object into a world record holder

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Cow fish (Uranoscopus scaber) is a benthic representative of the ichthyofauna belonging to the stargazer family (lat. Uranoscopidae). This species has several interesting appearance traits, which are the origin of its names. In addition to international Latin, the fish has 2 Russian names: sea cow and European stargazer

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Ponoi is a river in the European part of Russia, flowing through the territory of the Murmansk region. This is the largest water artery of the Kola Peninsula. Its length is 391 or 426 km (depending on the point considered as the source), and the catchment area is 15.5 thousand km², which corresponds to the 66th position in Russia. Within the Murmansk region, the Ponoi River is the fourth largest basin

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Chukhloma Lake is a large reservoir of glacial origin, located in the taiga zone of the European part of Russia. It occupies 48.7 sq. km of the Kostroma region. This is the second largest lake in the region and is considered a real natural landmark and valuable wetland

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Gneiss is a coarse-grained rock of metamorphic origin with a characteristic structure in the form of alternating layers of various minerals. As a result of this arrangement, it has a striped appearance. The term "gneiss" is not associated with a specific mineral composition, since the latter is highly variable and depends on the protolith (precursor). This rock has many varieties

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Impala (lat. Aepyceros Melampus) is an African artiodactyl mammal belonging to the bovid family (Bovidae). Currently, it is ranked among the group of antelopes, although earlier some scientists mistakenly attributed it to the gazelles because of the graceful constitution of the body. The second species name of the impala is the black-fifth antelope. This name is due to the black tufts of wool growing on its hind legs