Amazing Animals Notes

FEEDING HABITS

•           Different animals eat different types of food.

•           Based on their feeding habits, animals can be classified into:

Herbivorous animals/Herbivores:

•           Animals that eat only plants are called herbivores.

•           Herbivores have teeth adapted to chewing plants.

•           Their big molars are designed to help them grind up leaves, seeds and twigs.

ORGANS FOR BREATHING

•           Different types of animals have different organs for breathing.

1.         Lungs:

Figure 10: Human lungs

•           An adult frog breathes through its lungs on land and it breathes through its moist skin in water.

•           Birds, reptiles, and mammals also breathe through lungs.

MOVEMENT

•           Different types of animals have different organs for movement.

•           Land animals have four limbs.

•           Lizards and crocodile move by crawling, but they do have limbs.

•           Snakes do not have legs. They crawl.

Figure 14: Snake crawl