The black munia is a small bird about 10 centimeters long with completely black plumage. It lives in grassy areas of New Guinea and feeds on seeds.
The black munia differs from related species by its completely black color without light spots. It helps spread plant seeds and serves as food for local predators.
Legendary longevity: over 100 years. Galapagos tortoises, Greenland sharks, ocean quahogs celebrate with family once every 4 years
Offspring
Tropical moist forest
pecking
Worker
Elders
Bro
birth time
Taxons
Picking small food items from foliage, ground, or other surfaces.
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Dogs, dolphins, lynx hang out for 9-25 years and party on their birthday three times a year
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Human
birth date
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very hot and very humid all year round, rain almost every day
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Career from 7 to 15 months. Dwarf hamsters, voles, field crickets celebrate their birthday twice a month
The basics
How old you would be if you lived as {name}
Neotropical realm
climbing
Theoretical maximum lifespan estimated from the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) mathematical model. This value reflects a biological potential derived from metabolic parameters, not from direct observation — real recorded lifespans are often significantly shorter.
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Non-stop carnival: they only live a few days. Mayflies, rotifers, midges celebrate their birthday more than twice a day
beak
surface
adult
Maturity
primary food sources
South and Central America, hot and humid, huge forests
Potential Habitat
About health
When your next birthday would fall if you lived as {name}
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In husbandry
On the go from 1.3 to 3.5 years. Forest mice, anoles, rainbow fish party on their birthday once a month
Repro interval
results
Mass
Mosquitoes, fruit flies, small crustaceans hustle for up to 7 months and throw a birthday party every week
terrestrial
Gestation
plain
islands and part of Australia, many unusual animals and plants
Colors
Sex
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Upcoming jubilees
Gremllins
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Food is gathered directly from leaf surfaces.
Uses jaws or beak to break hard-shelled or tough food items.
Always hot
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Trophic type
Filters
seeds of cereals and meadow grasses
Eyes color
grain
On the map
grass seeds
all life stages
Female ♀
always hot and humid, huge trees and vines
Upcoming birthdays
Breeding structure built or used for laying eggs and raising offspring.
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
Potential habitat modelled from GBIF occurrence data. Map © Zveriki.com, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Truly long lives: 40-100 years. Bowhead whales, albatrosses, giant tortoises recall their birthday at most once a year
Lifespan
leaf
birth year
Maturity
rains almost always, very humid
Age (juvenile)
terrestrial habitat, land surface outside water
Age (from birth to death)
sq mm
yr
Beak color
Age (embryo)
Wanderers
Food items are collected from exposed outer surfaces of substrates.
How similar?
world of Australasia
Jubilee = every 10th birthday
Male ♂
until the celebration
baby / chick
age as {name}
How do they breed?
On the go from 3.5 to 6 years. Hedgehogs, crows, lizards treat themselves to birthday snacks 6 times a year
Legs color
What if eaten?
Neither
Earliest developmental stage inside an egg or womb.
Business sausages
Moving up vertical surfaces like trunks or rocks to reach food.
Young offspring still dependent on parental care.
nest
Lifespan average
What do they eat?
Where do they live?
seed
Plumage color
forests on land — tropical, temperate, boreal
What do they look like?
Maturity
water often floods the land, lots of grass
emergence (insects)
end of lifespan
How do they live?
fertilization / egg laying
How do they behave?
birth / hatching
metamorphosis / end of larval stage
end of acceleration
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Duration
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Mature, fully developed individual capable of reproduction.
Always hot and wet
gleaning
This is me
from 11 to 16 grams, 1.5 – 12 centimeters
Actively hunting and capturing live prey.
Always very wet
Gamers
crushing
Pets
How are they built?
mm
Theoretical lifespan
Repeatedly strikes or probes substrate with beak to obtain food.
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Stars
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My age?
wk
My size?
terrestrial
Feeding occurs primarily on land or in vegetation.
{name} jubilee
Asexual
swap
cm
Old-timers
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active predation
turns
islands and part of Australia, many unusual animals and plants
Rabbits, falcons, red-eared turtles hang out for 6-9 years and party on their birthday four times a year
Rascals
Where do they take shelter?
terrestrial forest
Flooded grasslands
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insect
grains of cereals — wheat, rice, millet, maize
When you would have been born if you lived as {name}
very hot all year round, frequent rains, but sometimes dry
Litter size
Daddies
Lifespan maximum
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
world of Australasia
How to care for them?
Living from 25 to 40 years. Orangutans, bald eagles, African elephants celebrate their birthday twice a year
foraging
°C
Not specified
Hermaphrodite ⚥
Actively searching habitats to locate food items.
Strawberry
Egg color
Where are they found?
embryo
Hard, projecting mouthpart used to probe, pluck, or crack food.
herbivore
Length
kg
Observations
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