Do you like animals?     What is your favourite animal?
   Do you know, how many animals species are there on the world?  No? Well, sit down then.
   People know more than one million of animals species (or different animals) on the world, but scientist discover a lot of new species every year.
  So nowadays we know that there are at least
     - about 60.000 vertebrate animal species and
     - about 1,200.000 invertebrate animals species.

    But don´t worry that we are not going to talk about all of them. We are going to start with theVERTEBRATE ANIMALS (those that have a backbone and skeleton); and later on we will see theINVERTEBRATE ANIMALS (those that have not got a backbone nor an internal skeleton).

WELCOME  TO  THE   VERTEBRATES´  WORLD  ! ! !!

   Vertebrate animals have got a skeleton made up of bones.
  There are five groups: mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and amphibians.
 Click on the next program to learn basic things about invertebrate animals
(their body cover,  how they feed, how they breathe or how they reproduce) 

    1. MAMMALS
1.1. Watch next 2 VIDEOS to know more about different kinds of mammals.
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(Try to read meanwhile you listen to this video)
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1.2. Characteristics of mammals   (Click on the drawings to learn more)    
1.3. Monotreme mammals
Do you know that mammals are viviparous (they born alive from their mother´s  womb), but there are a very few exceptions of strange mammals that are oviparous?
Well you can watch next VIDEO about them (echidna, platypus)
1.4. Do you know a mammal that can fly? 

2.  BIRDS
2.1. Watch next 2 videos to know more about birds. 
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2.2. Characteristics of birds.  (Click on the drawing to learn more about birds)
The amazing migration of some birds
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Penguins, birds that can´t fly...
... but can swim very well !!
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 3.  REPTILES


  4.  FISH

 


5. AMPHIBIANS