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CARNIVORES are animals which eat flesh e.g. Tigers, Lions, Hyenas, Jackals, etc.
PRIMATES ARE animals belonging to the family of apes and monkeys, they have hands and feet with fingers like human beings. Their sight and small is good and they have colour vision.
A RODENT is basically a mammal and largely a herbivore like a rat, squirral, etc.
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Some rodents also eat insects.
THE LARGEST AMPHIBIANS are the ‘Goliath Frog’ of Africa, ‘Marine Toad’ of S.America and ‘Giant Salamander’ of Chine.
THE BIGGEST ANIMAL on Earth in the ‘Blue Whale’ one of the biggest so for was over feer long and weight 125 tons.
THE LARGEST CARNIVORES include the ‘Polar Bears’ which are over 7.5 ft. tall and weight over 850 kgs and the Siberian Tigers which are over 10 ft. long.
THE FASTEST LAND ANIMAL is the Cheetah which can run at a speed of over 100 kms per hour.
HOOVED ANIMALS are plant eating mammals like horses. They walk on all four legs having toes made of enlarged nails called ‘Hooves’.
ANIMALS OF THE POLAR REGIONS include Polar Bears, Penguins, Seals, Sea Wolf, Reindeers etc. and a host of other birds.
ANIMALS OF THE MOUNTAINS are big Horn Sheep, Mountain Lion, Ibexes, Snow Leopards, Yaks, Llamas, Bears and birds like the Golden Eagle, Osprey and various types of Vultures.
THE FLYING MAMMALS are Bats. They fly a night and feed upon insects, some ‘Vampire bats’ feed upon the blood of other animals or on small creatures like lizards.
THE EGG LAYING MAMMALS are the Anteater and the Duckbilled Platypus. Mammals generally conceive their young inside their bodies and after birth nourish them with milk from their mammary glands.
ANIMALLS HIBERNATE by going into a deep sleep in the winters, this saves energy and they survive on the far stored in their body.
THE ANIMAL WHICH RESEMBLES MAN THE MOST is the Ape, it has a skeleton like man, it uses its hands and even sits like humans.
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