What are animals

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What are animals ? Animals are living
things that move, eat,
breathe grow, and change. Are you an
animal ?
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Deep in a pond a fish goes swimming by. A frog
hops to a lily pad. It flips its long tongue to
catch a fly. Overhead a bird flies swiftly across
the blue sky. A squirrel runs up a tree. A snake
slips silently over the ground. How are they all
alike ?
3
The fish, the frog, the bird, the squirrel,
and the snake do not move in the same way. They
are not the same size, color,
or shape. But in one way they are alike. They are
all animals.
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How many kinds of animals are there ? More than a
million ! Animals are almost every size,
shape, and color you can
imagine.
5
Some animals are several colors. Other animals
are mostly one color. What colors are these
animals ? Many animals have spots or
stripes. The skunk and the zebra both have
stripes How are their stripes alike ? How are
they different ? People are different colors,
too. What colors are you ?
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What shape are animals ? Are they round as a
ball ? thin as a rope ? tall as a tree
? Animals are almost every shape you can
think of.
How many of these animals can you name just
from their shapes ?
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Animals eat many kinds of foods. Many animals eat
only plants. Cows and horses eat grass and
grain. Rabbits eat plants, too.
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Some animals eat other animals Hawks and owls eat
snake They eat mice and other animal
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Animals move, eat, breathe, grow, and
change. How do animals grow and change ?
Some animals grow from eggs that the females
lays outside her body. Can you name an animal
that lays eggs ?
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Some animals grow from eggs inside the
females body. Can you name an animal that grows
from this kind of egg ? All baby animals
grow and change. Are you growing ? Are you
changing as you grow ?
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In what ways are all these animals alike ? In
what ways are they different ?