animals around the world

AROUND

THE

WORLD
ANIMALS
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T
here are an amazin
g
variety of
anima
l
s. Scientists sp
l
it t
h
em into
g
roups of animals that show similar
features. T
h
e
l
argest sp
l
it is
b
etween
ver

t
e
b
r
at
es
a
n
d
inver
t
e
b
r
at
es.
Intro
d
uctio
n
V
erte
b
rates
V
erte
b
rate
s
These animals have a backbone.

¥
V
erte
b
rates ma
k
e up
a
bout 5
p
ercent of the
a
nima
l

k
in
gd
om.
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T
h
e
l
argest group o
f

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er
t

e
b
r
at
es
a
re
t
he fish.
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Amp
h
i
b
ians were t
h
e first
v
ertebrates to live on land
,

some 370 mi
ll
ion years a
g
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I
nverte
b
rates ma
k
e up
about 95 percent of the

animal kingdom.
¥
Most inverte
b
rates are
found in the oceans
.
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S
ome inverte
b
rates, suc
h
as
c
orals, s
p
end their adult lives
in one p
l
ace.
I
nvertebrate
s
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Arctic winter (end

of December
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,
none of t
h
e SunÕs
ra
y
s reach the
N
ort
h
Po
l
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h
ere
i
s never any daylightÑ
i
tÕs a
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ways ni
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supply. Animals out searchin
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r
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h
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Camels survive in the desert through
storin
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foo
d
Ñnot
b
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b
uryin
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a stas
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,
b
ut
b
y eating when they can and converting
the food into fat
,
which the camel stores in its
h
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h
are t
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is surviva
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tip: both fat-tailed
g
erbils and Gila monsters
(
a species of
l
izar
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in t
h
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rest fact
s
F
R
A
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O
RE
S
T
S
R
a
in forests
h
e
l
p to c
l
ean t
h
e wor
ld
Õs
a
ir and water. Jungle plants give us
me
d
icines t
h

at ma
k
e us we
ll
w
h
en we
a
re ill.
R
ain
f
orests are very im
p
ortant
but are shrinkin
g
every day
Ð
c
h
oppe
d

d
own for
l
an
d
an

d
wood. We need to value these
amazin
g
forests, an
d
ta
k
e
c
are
o
f all the animals
th
at
l
ive in t
h
em.
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t, w
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T

here are about 60,000
musc
l
es in an e
l
ep
h
antÕs trun
k.
¥
A

l
ion can
d
evour 50
lb
(23 kg) of meat in one meal.
Th
atÕs a
b
out 350
h
ot
d
o
g
s.
Amazing mammals
a

n
d
m
a
m
m
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D
ifferen
t

di
W
hat do you prefer? Ve
g
eta
b
m
eat, fis
h
, or a
l
itt

l
e of ever
y
M
ammals eat all kinds of th
i
T
h
ey eat
b
ecause t
h
ey nee
d

j
ust like a car needs fuel to
g
K
eep on c
h
ewin
g
A
merican
b
ison are
h
er
b

ivores, w
h
ic
h

m
o
nly eat plants. They graze on grass.
T
rest. Then they chew on the grass even
Mak
e
min
e
A pac
k
of
g
ra
y
mau
l
t
h
eir
h
u
n
As one of the
w

best-known c
a
or meat eaters
b
o
d
ies are
d
es
i
h
untin
g
ot
h
er
T
hey have po
w
jaws and shar
p
W
ild mammals build
t
h
eir
d
ai
l
y routine

a
round findin
g

A mixed plate
Th
is A
l
as
k
an
b
rown
b
ear
,

l
i
k
e ot
h
er
b
rown
b
ears, eats a meat an
d

pl

ant, or
omnivorous,
d
iet. It waits to pounce on
any salmon swimmin
g
upstream, but also
chomps on plants, fungi, and large insects.
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