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Posted on 8th Feb 2011 | in
Animals
Have you ever gone on a hiking trip in a forest? A forest has a variety of plants and animals not seen in your usual neighborhood. However, a temperate rainforest is different from a tropical rainforest. A temperate rainforest serves as a habitat for plants and animals that can stand colder temperatures whereas a tropical [...]
Posted on 28th Jan 2011 | in
Animals
If you have already gone to a zoo, you would have seen different animals like lions, tigers, giraffes, elephants and zebras. One thing that is common among these animals is that their natural habitat is the grasslands and the savannas. In a zoo, these animals are given artificial homes, which try to replicate what is [...]
Posted on 20th Jan 2011 | in
Animals
Have you ever observed a snail travel from one point to another? Isn’t it very slow? This is because it does not have feet which are like yours. It does not have the support and strength provided by your skeleton. A snail is just one of the many kinds of mollusks you might have already [...]
Posted on 20th Jan 2011 | in
Animals
Have you ever been asked the question “What makes a monkey, an elephant, a blue whale and a human similar to each other?” The answer is simple: all of them belong to the class Mammalia. About 5,400 species of mammals have been discovered. Mammals can be very small (example: a bumblebee bat only measures 30-40 [...]
Posted on 29th Nov 2010 | in
Animals
Honey Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollinationand for producing honeyand beeswax. Honey bees are a subset of beesin the genus Apis (mellifera), primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. Honey bees [...]
Posted on 6th Nov 2010 | in
Animals
Frogs are amphibians. This means they are cold-blooded vertebrates – vertebrates have a backbone – have no scales and generally breed in water.
Posted on 6th Nov 2010 | in
Animals
If you have watched any of the Jurassic Park movies, you might find dinosaurs scary. The most popular dinosaur is perhaps the Tyrannosaurus Rex or simply T-rex. It is a large dinosaur with big and sharp teeth and seems always ready to eat you up. However, Jurassic Park is just a science fiction movie. In [...]
Posted on 5th Oct 2010 | in
Animals
The word animal comes from the Latin word animal meaning “with soul”. Animals are similar to people with individual personalities, likes and dislikes. More scientifically, an animal is a multicellular, eukaryotic organism (living thing) that is divided into two kingdoms. Animalis or Metazoa. What makes animals different from plants is that they are heterotrophic. This [...]
Posted on 4th Oct 2010 | in
Animals
Earthworms have been around for a very long time. 120 million years in fact. Earthworms are the most highly developed worms. They are divided into segments or parts. They are found in salt and fresh water as well as in the soil. Earthworms are helpful to man as bait for fishing and more importantly, because [...]
