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Animals

There are many different type of animals part of the Animal Kingdom. Big, small, short, fat. Each animal has a very special characteristic about them. The families are huge. You would never think who would be related.

Animals are classified on a chart on the taxonomy system. There are seven different levels of classification that an animal is under to figure out what it is. Kingdom is the very first level. There are five different kingdoms that an animal can be classified as; Monera, Prorista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. Then every level from there is just dividing each up into more specific differences . Even though there are many species they are dying off really quick. There are about 100 species that die a die. We need to try to keep these animals from dying and keep the environment safe. One thing we can do is stop killing endangered species. Theres no need to kill animal thats about to go exstint. Doing that you just helping them get to there destination quicker.

A mollusk is in the Phylum Mollusca. This animal is just a soft body that is covered by a shell. They use there shell when they are about to be attack so it will make it hard for someone or something to break in. They dont have a real foot like humans they just have a muscular foot that helps them move around. Mollusk have many teeth and they are called minute teeth.

An arthropod is a very interesting animal. it lives with a exoskeleton meaning that their skeleton is located on the outside instead of the inside of the body like humans. Arthropods are from the phylum Arthropoda. Arthropoda means jointed feet. An arthropod body is a whole bunch of segments. Some examples of it is insects, crabs, and lobsters.

Echinoderms are found in the water. They are from the phylum echinodremata. The meaning of there name is spiny skin. There skin protects them. One example of a echinoderm is a star fish. A star fish has five sides. If it was to loose one of his limbs he could get it back because of regeneration. Regeneration is another way that they can reproduce. That is not the only way they can reproduce they can also just send their sperm cells and eggs out into the water.

Aves is the class that a bird is put in. There are many types of birds there are about 10000 species of them. Instead of birds having hair like mammals, they have fathers. Birds do not have arms like us. What subsitute arms are wings and thats what they use to fly around instead of walk around on their two feet.

One animal that i have took alot of interest into is a giraffe.