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  1. Animals. Animal Pictures and Facts. Learn all you wanted to know about animals with pictures, videos, facts, news, and more. Composite photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo...

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    The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest animal that has ever lived, weighing up to 190 tonnes and measuring up to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long. The largest extant terrestrial animal is the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), weighing up to 12.25 tonnes and measuring up to 10.67 metres (35.0 ft) long.

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    There are many different types of animals. The common animals most people know are only about 3% of the animal kingdom. When biologists look at animals, they find things that certain animals have in common. They use this to group the animals in a biological classification. Several million species may exist, but biologists have only identified about...

    The animal mode of nutrition is called heterotrophic because they get their food from other living organisms. Some animals eat only plants; they are called herbivores. Other animals eat only meat and are called carnivores. Animals that eat both plants and meat are called omnivores. Some animals get their energy from photosynthetic protiststhat live...

    In scientific usage, humans are animals. But in everyday use, humans are often not regarded as animals.

    Ethology, the study of animal behaviour
  3. Weird But True: Marine Animals. Penguin facts and photos. Penguin facts and photos

  4. The meaning of ANIMAL is any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (such as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (such ...

  5. animal, Any member of the kingdom Animalia ( see taxonomy ), a group of many-celled organisms that differ from members of the two other many-celled kingdoms, the plants and the fungi ( see fungus ), in several ways. Animals have developed muscles, making them capable of spontaneous movement ( see locomotion ), more elaborate sensory and nervous ...

  6. Animal - Multicellular, Heterotrophic, Eukaryotes: A characteristic of members of the animal kingdom is the presence of muscles and the mobility they afford. The muscles that distinguish animals from plants or fungi are specializations of the actin and myosin microfilaments common to all eukaryotic cells.

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