An Animals 3

Why do camels have humps?

Answer:

A camel's hump is its own built-in food cupboard. By living off the fat stored in its humps, a camel can go for as long as two weeks without eating. Camels need their humps because they live in deserts, where food and water are hard to find.

*Arabian camels have one hump.

*Bactrian camels have two humps.

*A thirsty camel can drink ten buckets water in just 10 minutes!

Why do elephants have trunks?

Answer:

An elephant's trunk is a helpful tool. It can be used to pull down leaves and branches to eat. It also makes a good hose elephants can squirt dust or water over themselves to keep cool.

*Elephants say "hello" to friends by shaking trunks with them.

*An elephant's trunk a bit like a hand. Using its tip, an elephant can pick up something as small as a button.

Why do giraffes have long necks?

Answer:

A giraffe's long neck makes it tall enough to eat the leaves at the top of tree. Other animals cannot reach as high, so the giraff has a lots to eat. A giraffe's tongue is half a metre long!

About Animals 2

Why do animals have skeletons inside their bodies?
Answer:
Not all animals have skeletons, but most large ones do. This is because the bigger an animals is, the more it needs a strong sturdy framework to hold its body together and carry its weight. Skeletons also protect soft inside parts, like brains and heart.
*Most animals' skeletons are made of bone, but a shark's skeleton is made of gristle. This isn't as hard as bone, but it's still tough. You are some at your nose tip.
*Animals without backbones are called invertebrates. Insects, spiders, snails, worms, jellyfish, prawns and crabs are all invertebrates.
*Animals with backbones are calls vertebrates, and so are amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Which animals have skeletons on the outside?
Answer:
Most smaller animals have tough skins called exoskeletons. These outside skeletons do the same job as insede ones. They protect and support the animals' soft bodies.
*Insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and milipedes all have tough exoskeletons. Lobsters, crabs and some beetles have really tough exoskeletons that work like armour, to protect them from attack.

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Which is the biggest animals?

Answer:
The biggest animal that has ever lived is the blue whale- it is even larger than the biggest dinosaurs were. Blue whales can weigh as much as 150 cars!

What's the difference between rabbits and hares?

Answer:

Hares have longer legs and ears than rabbits. Their whiskers are longer, too.

Hare:

Rabbit:

What's the difference between alligators and crocodiles?

Answer:

Crocodiles have longer, more pointed snouts than alligators. Crocodiles also have one very large tooth sticking up on each side when they close their mouths.

Alligator:

Crocodile:

What's the difference between monkeys and apes?
Answer:
The big difference between these animals is that monkeys have long tails, but apes don't have tail at all. There are a lots of different kinds of monkeys, but the only apes are gorillas, orang-utans, chimpanzees and gibbons.

Monkey:

Apes:

What the difference between sharks and dolphins?
Answer:
Although sharks and dolphins look alike, they belong to two very different animal groups. Sharks are a kind of fish, but dolphins are members of another groups, the mammals.

Shark:

Dolphin:

What the difference between frogs and toads?
Answer:
Frogs usually have smooth skin and long legs for leaping. Most toads have lumpy skin and move their short thick bodies about by crawling.

Toad:

Frog:

About Babies Animal 5

Which baby hides in the forest?
Answer:
A young deer, called a fawn, is very wobbly on its legs. It couldn't outrun a hungry cougar or wolf! So when it sense danger, the young animals freezes and stays completely still until the danger has passed. The fawn's speckled coat helps it seem almost invisible in the forest's dappled light.










Which babies hide in a circle of horns?
Answer:
Adult musk oxen make a circle around their calves when danger threatens. They stand close together, with their heads, lowered, facing the enemy like a raw of shields. It takes a brave and hungry wolf to attack the wall of long, curved horns!









Which mother pretends she's sick?
Answer:
If a hungry hunter threatens a plover's nest, the mother bird pretends to be wounded. She flaps a wing as if it is broken and flutters weakly along the ground, moving away from the nest. She wants the enemy to think that she is injured and would be easy to capture. That way, the animal will go after her, not her babies.









Which Baby is always being washed?
Answer:
A mother cat licks her kitten from the moment they're born. Licking roughly around the new-born kitten's mouth make it gasp and start breathing. The mother's tongue dries the kitten's fur too, to keep the kitten warm.









Who enjoys a good groom?
Answer:
A baboon make sure her babies are well groomed. Working slowly, section by section, she parts the baby's fur and picks carefully with her fingers. She will remove pieces of dead skin, insect and dirt-and most of what she finds, she eat.

About Babies Animal 4

Which is the ugliest baby?
Answer:
One of the ugliest-looking babies is the vulture chick, with its big hooked beak and bare head and neck. But then its parent aren't very beautiful either. Maybe it comes from eating all that rotting meat.












Why do pandas have one baby at a time?
Answer:
A mother giant panda gives her cub so much love and attention that she can only cope with one at a time. By looking after her cub for a year or more, she is helping to make sure that her baby survives. There aren't many pandas left. Zoo keepers fly their pandas around the world so they can meet other pandas-and hopefully have babies.












Which animals lay hundreds of eggs?
Answer:
Most frogs and toads lay hundreds of eggs in a big frothy mass called spawn. Many of the eggs are eaten, but some of them survive and hatch into tadpoles.











Which family is always identical?
Answer:
Each time a nine-banded armadillo gives birth, she has four identical babies. They are either all female or all male. This is because a single egg inside the mother splits into four, and all four parts begin to grow-into identical quadruplets!









Which baby drinks the creamiest milk?
Answer:
A mother harp seal's milk is too thick and rich that it looks more like mayonnaise than milk. It's about 12 times creamier than cow's milk, and is such good food that can almost see the harp seal pup growing fatter as it feeds!

About Babies Animals 3

Which baby is born under the snow?
Answer:
Polar bear cubs are born in an underground den, which their mother digs deep in the snow. Warm air is trapped inside the den, making it a surprisingly snug place to spend the winter months.











Which nests are 100 years old?
Answer:
American bald eagles fly back to the same nest year after year. They make a few repaira, than they lay their eggs. Some nests are over 100 years old, and are bigger and heavier than a car.












Who's at home in a bubble?
Answer:
Baby froshoppers are often called spittlebugs, because they make a bubbly froth very soon after they're born. They hide in this 'cuckoo spit' while they feed and grow.












Which is the biggest baby in the world?
Answer:
The baby blue whale is a real whopper, weighing up to 3,000 kilograms- that's as much as 1,000 human babies! As soon as it is born, its mum nudges it to the surface to take a first breath of air.











Which is the tallest baby?
Answer:
A baby giraffe is about two metres tall-that's taller than most grown-up people. The mother giraffe is taller still, and gives birth standing up. Her new baby hits the ground feet first. Ouch! It's a long way to fall.

About Babies Animals 2

Which baby has lots of aunties?
Answer:
As well as having a mother, a baby elephant has lots of aunts. That's because female elephant live in a large family groups of up to 50 animals. In fact, a new calf not only has plenty of aunts,it has grannies, sisters and cousins, too!

Which babies stay in a nursery?
Answer:
Mara lives in South America.They're kind of long-legged guinea pig. Mara parents never join their babies in burrow. They whistle down the hole and the young come scampering out.
Mara parents leaves thier babies under ground. To make sure they aren't lonely, lots of families share the same burrow. When a mother drops by to feed her young, she checks up on the other mara babies, too.













Which is a biggest nursery?
Answer:
Bracken Cave in the United States is home to over twenty million bats. The mothers leave their babies in a nursery, huddled together for warmth. The bats are so tightly packed, there may be a thousand in a space the size of a doormat.
A bat mother has such sharp hearing that she recognises her baby's call from millions of others in the cave.












Why do birds turn their egg?
Answer:
Birds turn their eggs so that every part of the eggs gets its fair share of warmth. The baby birds need warmth to grow-That's why a parent has to sit on the nest.

Which babies have the comfiest nest?
Answer:
Baby rabbits have a nest that is really cosy. Their mother biults it inside a burrow, plumping dry grass stalks into a cushion, and then covering it with her own soft fur.