National Fox Day 2023
National Fox Day – September 17, 2023
– Arctic Foxes are well adapted to living in frigid-cold environments in the Arctic & Polar region in the Northern Hemisphere.
Iguana Awareness Day 2023
Iguana Awareness Day – September 08, 2023
– Iguanas are excellent swimmers and can swim in both saltwater and freshwater.
World Amazon Day 2023
World Amazon Day – September 05, 2023
– Amazon Rainforest is known to be home to 427 mammal species, 1,300 bird species, 378 reptile species, and 400 amphibian species.
National Hummingbird Day 2023
National Hummingbird Day – September 03, 2023
– Hummingbirds are birds native only to the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.
International Vulture Awareness Day 2023
International Vulture Awareness Day – September 02, 2023
– The Hooded Vulture has a wide distribution throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
World Primate Day 2023
World Primate Day – September 01, 2023
– The Mantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) is a New World monkey that is located from Central and South America.
International Puma Day 2023
International Puma Day – August 30, 2023
– The Puma has the widest distribution of any New World mammal, with a range extending from southeastern Alaska to southern Argentina and Chile.
National Honey Bee Day 2023
National Honey Bee Day – August 19, 2023
– Honeybees fly at a speed of over 25km per hour and beat their wings over 200 times per second.
World Armadillo Day 2023
World Armadillo Day – August 13, 2023
– The word Armadillo means “little armored one” in Spanish.
International Owl Awareness Day 2023
International Owl Awareness Day – August 04, 2023
– The Great Gray Owl is the largest species of oel in the world.
National Alpaca Day 2023
National Alpaca Day – August 01, 2023
– Baby Alpacas (Lama pacos) are called ‘Cria’.
– The word “cria” translates directly as “breeding” in Spanish.
World Mangrove Day 2023
World Mangrove Day – July 26, 2023
– Mangrove forests grow only at tropical and subtropical latitudes near the equator because they cannot handle the freezing temperatures outside these regions.
World Snake Day 2023
World Snake Day – July 16, 2023
– Snakes are the 2nd largest group of reptiles; lizards are the largest group.
Don’t Step on a BEE Day 2023
Don’t Step on a BEE Day! – July 10, 2023
– Bees have two stomachs – one stomach for eating and the other special stomach is for storing nectar collected from flowers or water so that they can carry it back to their hive.
Capybara Appreciation Day 2023
Capybara Appreciation Day -July 10, 2023
– Capybaras can always be found living near bodies of water due to their semi-aquatic lifestyle.
World Porcupine Day 2023
World Porcupine Day – July 02, 2023
– A baby Porcupine is called a ‘Porcupette’.
International Day of the Tropics 2023
International Day of the Tropics – June 29, 2023
– In the tropical region where sunlight is usually intense, climate variation is not significant.
World Rainforest Day 2023
World Rainforest Day – June 22, 2023
– Rainforests cover only about 6% of the Earth’s surface, but they are home to over half of the world’s known plant and animal species.