‘Animals’ Archives
Bat
Bat Bat is the only mammal that can fly. Bats have a furry body, and their wings are covered by smooth, flexible skin. Most species of bats live in attics, caves, or other sheltered places. Some species live in trees. Bats seem uncommon in many regions because they roost in dark places and come out only at night, when most people are asleep. [...]
Tiger
Tiger Tiger is the largest member of the cat family. People admire the tiger for its strength and beauty, but they also fear it because it has been known to kill and occasionally eat people. Yet wild tigers prefer to avoid human beings. Tigers that kill and eat people are most often sick or wounded animals that can no longer hunt their natural [...]
Mouse
Mouse Mouse is a small animal with soft fur, a pointed snout, round black eyes, rounded ears, and a thin tail. The word mouse is not the name of any one kind of animal or family of animals. Many kinds of rodents (gnawing animals) are called mice. They include small rats, hamsters, gerbils, jerboas, lemmings, voles, harvest mice, deer mice, and [...]
Insects
Insects Insect is a small, six-legged animal. Bees, ants, wasps, butterflies, cockroaches, ladybugs, fireflies, termites, and moths are insects. So are houseflies, dragonflies, mosquitoes, silverfish, grasshoppers, lice, crickets, walkingsticks, and fleas. The list could go on and on. If the scientific names of all the kinds of insects were [...]
Butterfly
Butterfly A butterfly begins its life as a tiny egg, which hatches into a caterpillar. The caterpillar spends most of its time eating and growing. But its skin does not grow, and so the caterpillar sheds it and grows a larger one. It repeats this process several times. After the caterpillar reaches its full size, it forms a protective shell. [...]
Brains of Dinosaurs
Brains of Dinosaurs It is interesting to compare the brain of a very large dinosaur with the brain of an equally large modern mammal like the whale. The largest dinosaurs weighed as much as 100 tons. Whales also weigh as much as 100 tons and are, as the dinosaurs were in their time, the largest animals alive today. The brain of a large whale is [...]
Electric Eel
The Electric Eel There are a number of different kinds of electric fish living in the various rivers and oceans of the world. They can generate electricity up to several hundred volts. The most powerful electric fish are the electric catfish and the electric eel. The electric eel lives in South America. Its special organs can generate a very [...]
Distance Regulation in Animals
Distance Regulation in Animals Comparative studies of animals help to show how man’s space requirements are influenced by his environment. In animals we can observe the direction, the rate, and the extent of changes in behaviour that follow changes in space available to them as we can never hope to do in men. For one thing, by using animals [...]
