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What animal is featured in the Mozilla Firefox browser logo?

The name of the Mozilla Firefox browser is not associated with a fox, since firefox in English is a small panda, an animal of the panda family a little larger than a cat. However, the logo of the browser does not depict a panda, but a fox, because the designer considered it impossible to embody the recognizable image of a small panda in a small form.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What do turtles eat?

Turtles have many unusual features, but they eat fairly routinely. In truth, most turtles eat just about anything. This depends, of course, on the specific type of turtle. The caiman tortoise, meeting with which does not bode well, is a fairly good hunter. She eats mostly fish, frogs and even ducks! The water turtle, which people themselves were not averse to feasting on, feeds best under water. She eats insects, tadpoles and fish.

The tortoise of the kistudo family, which in English is called the "box turtle", because it can completely hide in its shell, like in a box, and which is the link between water and land turtles, prefers to spend most of its time on the land. But on hot summer days, she really likes to cool off in the water. When she is on the ground, she moves through the forest in search of mushrooms and berries, which she feeds on.

The land steppe tortoise digs a deep hole for itself in the dry, barren ground and sits in it during the day. When the sun goes down, she gets out and goes in search of her favorite food - fruits and green vegetation.

But what do turtles do in winter when their food supplies are depleted? Like all other reptiles, turtles living in temperate zones hibernate. The duration of their sleep depends on the climate. But most turtles can go without food and sleep without waking up from October to March! Aquatic turtles usually burrow into the mud at the bottom of a river or pond. Land tortoises usually hide in the ground to survive the winter.

Land tortoises breathe with lungs, and their shell is a "bone box" covered with horny plates or soft skin. This armor is made up of two parts. One covers the back, the other - the lower body of the turtle, its abdomen. In the gap between the two parts, the turtle can stick its head, neck, tail and paws. Turtles have good eyesight, taste and touch, but their hearing organs are very poorly developed.

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