If you're in a vast expanse of desert, unless you can find water straight away, you'll be lucky to meet a camel. And it's not just the traditional image of the 'desert boat' that makes this animal so interesting - as a herbivore, they are almost never known to have natural predators in nature.

It happens to be the season when mosquitoes and flies go wild, but it is true that there are not as many flies as there are mosquitoes today. This has a lot to do with our improved sanitation today, after all, flies need to lay their eggs on manure pits and rotting food, while many rural toilets have now been converted to squatting, and the shorter disposal cycle for waste has greatly reduced their hatching.

Tigers usually rest on the ground. As tigers living in temperate zones, the ability to keep their abdomen warm in winter is a critical factor, so the Northeast tiger has the longest abdominal hair among all tiger subspecies.