Animal Kingdom

WELCOME TO THE AMAZING ANIMAL WORLD!!

There are many different types of animals in the world. Many animals are quite similar to each other. Others are quite different. Animals can be classified based on their similarities.

What are vertebrates?

You are right! Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone or spine. Just like you!

Here you have some vertebrate animals:

Mammals

People are mammals. So are dogs, cats, horses, duckbill platypuses, kangaroos, dolphins and whales. What do all these animals have in common, you ask?

The answer is – MILK! If an animal drinks milk when it is a baby and has hair on its body, it belongs to the mammal class.

Resultado de imagen de MAMMAL

Birds

Birds are animals that have feathers and that are born out of hard-shelled eggs.

All birds have feathers. The feathers on a bird’s wings and tail overlap. Because they overlap, the feathers catch and hold the air. This helps the bird to fly, steer itself and land.

Fish

Fish are vertebrates that live in water and have gills, scales and fins on their body.

There are a lot of different fish and many of them look very odd indeed.

There are blind fish, fish with noses like elphants, fish that shoot down passing bugs with a stream of water and even fish that crawl onto land and hop about!

Reptiles

Reptiles are a class of animal with scaly skin. They are cold blooded and are born on land.

Snakes, lizards, crocodiles, alligators and turtles all belong to the reptile class.

Amphibians

Amphibians are born in the water. When they are born, they breath with gills like a fish. But when they grow up, they develop lungs and can live on land.