Animals - Mosinee School District

Animals
By Jayde
Mammals
• Have hair or fur
• Have lungs to breath
• Babies are born alive
• Drink milk from their
mothers
Horse
• Every wild horse leader
is a stallion
• When every male becomes
a colt the stallion drives it away
• The last pezewalski’s horse was
seen in Mongolia in 1968
Reptiles
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Have scales
Tough shells
Don’t need to live in water
Use lungs to breath
Some have claws
Cold blooded
Tuatara
• Tuataras are not lizards
You could find them in New Zealand
Tuataras look like lizards
They are green
A tuatara is bumpy
Birds
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Have feathers
Warm blooded
Lay hard shelled eggs
Skeletons are hollow
Have lungs to breath
Have bills (beaks)
Have tails
Have wings
Most can fly
Mandarin drake
• They are relate to the North American
wood duck
• They nest in a tree or in a hole
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They are fast swimmers
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They are very colorful
Fish
• Live in water
• Have gills to breath
• Cold blooded
• Most lay eggs
• Have scales
• Have fins
• Move there tails
Back and forth to
swim
Clown fish
• Clown fish can sting
• They lay more
than 1,000
eggs
• Clown fish live
to be 10 years
old
Insects
• have three body par ts
• Head
• Thorax
• Abdomen
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Have an exoskeleton
Lay eggs
Have six legs
Most have antennae
Some have wings
Lightning bug
• Lightning bugs have other names , too
• Glowworms
• fireflies
• There are 2,000 lightning bugs species
• Lightning bugs love moisture
• Some lay there eggs on the grownd
Amphibians
• Babies live in water
• Lay jelly like eggs
• Moist skin
• Covered in mucus
• Cold blooded
• Have gills as
babies and lungs
as adults
• Can live on land and in water
Poison dart frogs
• Strawberry poison dart frogs are less
venomous to humans
• Blue poison dart frogs
Are highly toxic
• There skin is warning
to predators Not to eat them