Animal Life

Animals are found in many places

  • Air
  • Water
  • Land
  • In your house

They live in different habitats

  • Cold
  • Hot Etc.

Body Coverings

  • Animals such as turtles have shells which protects their soft bodies.
  • Fishes have scales which are soft.Reptiles have leathery scales.
  • Birds have feathers which protect their wings.
  • Mammals have hair which therefore keeps them warm.
  • Animals which live in the cold regions like polar bears have thick fur which protects them from the cold.

Eating Habits

Different Methods Of Breathing

  • Humans breath from lungs ever thought how different animals breathe?
  • Mammals breath that way
  • Fishes breath through their gills. They take in air which is present in the water and give out CO2
  • Grasshoppers breath through Holes called spiracles.

Movement of animals

  • Various types of animals move in different ways
  • Snakes slither as they move because they do not have any backbone.
  • A tiger,cheetah or any animal that has 4 legs moves with the help of it's hindlimbs and forelimbs.
  • Birds move with the help of their wings which are actually their forelimbs.
  • Fishes swim with the help of their fins and tail.

Migration

  • Artic tern travels 17,000 km every year from the Artic in winters to the Antartic where it is summer at that time.
  • Some eels travel more than 7000 km to lay there eggs then they die.Young eels then swim back to their original homes.

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