Animal Life
Category : 5th Class
Animal life
Synopsis
Animals |
Body coverings |
Functions |
1. Snail, turtle and tortoise |
Shell |
Protects the body from injury and from the attack of enemies |
2. Fish and reptiles |
Scales |
Protect the body |
3. Birds |
Feathers |
Help them in flying and in keeping their body warm |
4. Mammals |
Hair and fur |
Protect their body and keep them warm |
Tit bits
TUATARA
There is no other reptile like the tuatara. While other reptiles are basking in the sun to get warm, the tuatara sleeps and comes out only at night, to feed on spiders and beetles. It is active at temperatures as low as , twenty degrees cooler than any other reptile. As it is so cool the tuatara moves and functions very slowly.
It breathes only once every seven seconds when. It is moving, and once an hour when it is resting.
Feeding habit |
Animals |
Adaptations |
Herbivores |
Cow, sheep, goat, rabbit |
Sharp front teeth and large flat back teeth |
Carnivores |
Lion, wolf, frog, lizard, snake, owl, eagle |
Sharp pointed front teeth, strong back teeth, sharp strong claws and hooked beak |
Omnivores |
Humans, bear, rat |
Well - developed teeth. |
Sucking |
Butterfly, leech, honeybee, sun-bird |
Proboscis in butterfly, honey bees, suckers in leech, long beak in sun-bird |
Insectivores |
Chameleon, frog, lizard, |
Long tongue in lizard chameleon |
Animals |
Organs |
Mammals, birds amphibians and reptiles |
Lungs |
Frog while in water and earthworm |
Moist skin |
Grasshopper, cockroach |
Spiracles or air holes |
Fish, tadpoles and prawns |
Gills |
Animals |
method of moving |
Adaptation |
Cheetah, horse, deer, zebra and fox |
good runners |
strong hind and fore limbs |
Rabbit, hare, kangaroo and frog |
hop |
stronger and longer hind limbs and tail |
Snakes and worms |
curving and crawling |
cylindrical body and scales |
Crocodile, lizard and turtle |
crawling |
short legs |
Insects |
walk and fly |
six legs and wings |
Birds except ostrich, emu and penguin |
fly |
wings, hollow bones and light body |
Fish |
swimming |
fins |
Water boatman |
swim |
legs as oars |
Monkey, ape and gorilla |
arboreal |
opposable thumb |
Prawn and tadpole |
legs |
swimming |
Frog |
swim |
webbed hind legs |
Turtle and penguin |
swim |
flippers |
Arctic tern |
fly |
Wings |
Some animals like Arctic tern, eels, butterflies and Siberian cranes migrate long distances to escape the cold weather.
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