Wild Animals

The African fish eagle Papo is also called sea eagle. Its yellow beak with a black tip is hook-shaped, its body and wings are dark, contrasting with the white of the head and tail. Our eagle is ready to take flight and swoop down into the water to catch fish, its favorite meal, with its powerful claws. Thanks to his piercing sight He sees his prey from very high.

The Papo Spoonbill is a bird whose characteristic is to have a long, flat, black beak in the shape of a spatula or spoon widened at its end. Its beak allows it to stir the mud and filter the water to keep only what it likes. Its body has a white plumage which contrasts with the black color of its beak and its thin long legs.

The African buffalo is a wild animal, herbivorous, whose size can reach 1.7 m in height and 3.4 m in length and whose horns are often huge

The caterpillar is the larva of the butterfly. Among the four stages of successive development (egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly), the caterpillar is one of the two mobile stages and the one that provides most of the animal's growth, the reproductive function being reserved for the butterfly. The development of the caterpillar requires several moults, the last of which, called pupation, marks the passage to the pupa stage, called a chrysalis in Lepidoptera.

The stag beetle is the largest beetle in Europe! The males are easily recognized by their spectacular antler-shaped mandibles, which are the origin of the term "kite". After spending nearly a year underground as a larva, its life expectancy is only about 2 months.

The Papo forest snail is a mollusc with a head provided with tentacles bearing the eyes at their end. It likes damp places like the woods, hence its name. Its muscular foot secretes mucus to facilitate its movement and allow it all kinds of vertical acrobatics. Its beautiful yellow shell has brown streaks in the shape of a spiral allowing it camouflage in its place of life.

The gray heron is a species of wading bird in the family Ardeidae. It is the most common heron in Europe. The Gray Heron is characterized by a long neck, a long pointed beak and long legs.

The okapi Papo is an intriguing herbivore that hides in the mountains and forests of Congo. Discreet and solitary, it is first related to a zebra because of its stripes on its legs. In fact, it is one of the last ancestors of the giraffe with its hind legs shorter than the front ones, its thin muzzle and large small ears with developed hearing. Its species is threatened due to deforestation.

The Canada Goose is a species of large bird in the Anatidae family. She is the largest of the barnacles, or black geese. Measuring almost a meter long and with its wingspan between 150 and 180 cm, it is the largest goose in Europe.

Cub Papo finally came out of his den where he was protected from predators by his mother, the wolf. Fragile, he is born deaf and blind. He can now play with his brothers and sisters or imitate his mother to learn how to hunt and eat by catching small animals such as rodents. His brown coat looks more and more like that of his father the wolf.

The robin is a passerine species. It looks like a small plump bird with relatively short wings reaching painfully to the middle of its tail