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ANIMAL KINGDOM

• What is an animal?        The word animal comes from Latin, meaning "breath" or "soul".  It includes mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, frogs, clams, lobsters, insects, worms and jelly fish.
• What is the modern system used for identifying animals?        The modern system of identifying each animal is by a two part Latin name made up of genus and species.  This system is known as "Carolus Linnaeus".
• Who devised this system?        This system was devised by Karl Von Linn'e (Swedish).
• What are invertebrates?        They are a division of the animals which have no vertebral column.
• Which is the biggest cell?        The egg of the bird Ostrich.
• Which animal is the biggest?        Blue whale which has been known to have a length of 30 metres and have an average weight of 6500 kg.
• Which is the tallest living animal?        The tallest living animal is Giraffe with an average height of 20 ft.
• Which is the biggest land animal?        The biggest living land animal in the world is the African bush elephant.
• What is a mammal?        Mammal is a warm-blooded vertibrate animal which suckles its young ones.  Montremes are mammals that lay eggs.  Marsupials keep the young ones in pouches and Placentals give birth to the young ones.
• How many species are there in mammals?        There are forty thousand species.
• What is Pangolin?        Pangolin is a mammal which does not have teeth.  It lives on eating ants.  It is known as anteater.
• Which are the mammal that lay eggs?        Spiny anteaters and the duck-billed platypus are the only mammal that lay eggs.
• What is an Oviparous animal?        Oviparous animal is an egg-laying mammal.
• What is an Ovoviviparous animal?        Ovoviviparous animal is one which after laying eggs, keeps them within its body to hatch and incubate later.
• What is a Viviparous animal?        A Viviparous animal is one that gives birth to young ones.
• Which is the mammal that has wings for flying?        Bat.
• What helps the bat in flying?        While flying, the bat produces high frequency sound waves (about 1,00000 hertz) from its mouth which are ultra sonic waves.  This sound helps the bat in flying.
• What is a flying fox?        A flying fox is a kind of bat, whose head and face are like those of a fox.  It has well developed eyes and can find its way by sight without the help of sound waves.
• What is a flying Squirrel?        It is a squirrel which can fly having parachute-like membranes connected to each side of its fore and hind limps.  It usually sleeps during the day time.
• Which is the animal that never drinks water?        It is known as Kangaroo rat.  It manages to get on by the small amounts that are released as a by product of digestion.
• Which is the largest marsupial?        The largest of all marsupials is the red Kangaroo (Macropus rufus)
• Which is the smallest Massupial?        The smallest known Marsupial is the very rare Ingram's planigab (planigab-ingrami), a flat-skulled mouse.
• Which is the rarest Marsupial?        The rarest Marsupial is probably the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the "Tasmanian wolf".
• What is Herbivores?        Herbivores is the term used to describe plant eating animals.
• What are carnivores and omnivores?        They are meat eating animals and those that eat both.
• How do mammals communicate?        They communicate by sounds, touch, visual clues and odour.
• Why do animals have hair?        They help to retain the internally producing heat.  It is made up of a sulphur-based protein called keratin.
• How far can a Kangaroo jump?        It can cover a distance of 7 to 9 metres just in one jump.  It can travel 40 miles per hour for short distances.
• Which is the animal that has a tongue longer than its body?        Chameleon is the animal, whose tongue is longer than its body.  Its body is only 45cm long but the tongue is up to 2 metre and coiled inside the mouth.  To catch insects, it uses its long tongue.
• Which is the longest-living animal?        Tortoise is the longest living animal.
• Which is the mammal that can differentiate between different colours?        Except man, the ape is the only mammal which can differentiate between different colours.
• Which animal has the biggest brain?        Sperm whale.  It can weigh more than 9 kg.  Its head contains nearly 2300 litres of pure oil.
• Which are the cats that have no tail?        The Manx and the Siamese.
• What kind of animals live under ground?        Birds, bees, badgers, earth worms, turtles and toads.
• Which animal is the fastest on foot?        Cheetah is the fastest runner with a speed of 70 miles/hr.
• Why does the egg happen to be larger in size when compared to the other cells?        Because the food for the growth of the embryo is stored in egg.
• The aquatic animal with the most developed intelligence:         Dolphin.
• The average life span of Dolphin:        30years.
• The average length of Dolphin:        1.3 metre.
• How long does a Dolphin sleep?        From 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
• Why do desert animals look so pale?        The pale tones are part of a desert animals cooling system, for light colours reflect the suns heat and dark colours absorb them.  This is used for camouflage also.
• Which animal can produce double milk?        The red Kangaroo is the animal which can produce two different kinds of milk at the same time from adjacent teats to feed both younger and elder Joeys.
• How many vertibrae are there in a giraffe's neck?        There are only seven vertibrae.  (The man too has seven).
• Dog lies down to sleep only after observing the surroundings Why?        The dog lies against the direction of the wind so as to detect the approach of the enemy.

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