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1 GARDEN INSECTSA
Insects like moth, locust,etc. are common in agarden. But a garden has many other little creatures too.
There are about a million species of insects across the world.
Can you name these insects?

" moth locust" caterpillar " firefly goliath beetle cicada " hoverfly
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-gothrough can attracts

a gregarious phase. They can fly backwards, sideways, the female of the species by
Congregate into ravenous up or down.They are found singing. The male of the species
swarms and devastate crops and throughout the world except in makes the loudest sound in the
cause major agricultural damage. Antarctica. insect world.

has 2000 can hear

to 4000 muscles. is the heaviest insect. ultrasonic sound.
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is also known
as aglow worm. After a larva reaches
adult stage, it usually stops feeding and
survives on the nutrients built during
the larva stage. Even when it eats, it is

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mainly nectar or dew, for moisture.

FACT

The average caterpillar has 248 muscles in the head alone.

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 1 1.2 MAMMALS
Mammals are warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, whose young feed on mit
that is produced by the mother's mammary glands. Unlike other vertebrates, mammals have a
diaphragm that separates the heart and lungs from the internal organs, red blood cells that lack
nucleus and usually hair or fur.
Name these mammals.

dolphins " servals gibbons steller's sea cow " oryx

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Originally, have long
.species powerful legs that are
were found in all of important for jumping,
Africa's arid regions. Their They have been known to
ringed horns are up to 30 jump as high as 3.6 m
inches long, making them (12 ft) to catch birds in
formidable weaporns. mid air.

.sleep by
. . . are the resting one half of their
smallest of the apes. brain ata time so that one
eye is always open.

is a large extinct sirenian mammal. Within

27 years of discovery by Europeans, this slow moving and easily captured
mammal was hunted to extinction.

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FACTS
An adult male gorillastands 1.8 m talland weke
about 180kg. It has an arm span of up to 2.75 m.
Blue whale is the largest living animal. Its mouth when fully
expanded can hold up to 90 tonnes of food and water. Despite
the size of its mouth, the dimensions of its throat are such that a
Blue Whale cannot swallowan object wider than a beach ball. OPERIV
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 1 1.3 DIFFERENT ANIMALS
Match the columns.

A B

1. The largest flightless a. dugong

bird of South America

2. A flying mammal b. rhea

3. Along snake-like fish c. kookaburra

rhea 4. A bird in which the d. bat bat

male species grows black
feathers on its head
during mating season
5. An insect-eating animal e. kiwi
whose sense of smell allows
it to detect a worm under
the ground
6. A sea-loving mammal f. eel
which is very close to
extinction dingo
dugong
7. An Australian bird whose 8. dingo
callis like loud, echoing
human laughter
8. A flightless bird of h. American
New Zealand robin

9. An Australian wild dog i. puma

10. A mnountain lion found j. hedgehog
in America
kookaburra hedgehog
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FACTS
Electric eels produce more electricity than any
other living creature. Some large ones have an electric
RIWNKLE charge powerful enough to disable acow, light aneon
lamp and drive a small motor.
Polar bears are allleft-handed.

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 1 1.4 SEA ANIMALS

Read the descriptions about these sea animals.

Albatroscs are the largest sea Seaotters spend up to 48% of Seahorses are among the only
birds which have a wingspan of the daylight hours grooming species in the entire animal
about 3 to 4 metres. their fur. kingdom in which the male
bears the unborn young.

Dugongs are marine Seaanennones are stinging Sea cuciumbers are

herbivorous mammals. They polyps that spend most of their echinoderms. When threatened,
can stay underwater for six time attached to rocks on the they violently contract their
minutes before surfacing. They sea bottom or on coral reefs muscles and jettison some of
sometimes breathe by standing waiting for fish to pass close their internal organs out of
on their tail with their head enough to get ensnared in their their anus. The missing body
above water. venom-filled tentacles. parts are quickly generated.

Sea urchins have a ball-shaped Seagulls can be found around

bodycovered with long
movable spines. They have five
teeth in the middle of their back.
These teeth continue to grow
throughout the sea urchins' life.
the ocean worldwide with
the exception of some central
pacific islands, and some areas
in Southeast Asia.
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 1 1.5 TOPPERS OF ANIMAL WORLD
Match the columns.

1. snake with the longest a. arctic tern

fangs
2. smallest bird b. bee
hummingbird
peregrine falcon
flying fox 3. largest living animal C. python
4. highest flyer d. ostrich

5. largest moth e peregrine

falcon

6. largest snake f. flying fox

7. heaviest snake g. atlas moth
arctic tern giant squid
8. largest bat h. capybara
9. largest spider i. blue whale

10. tallest animal j. anaconda

11. largest rodent k. giraffe

12. deepest diver 1. tarantula
bee hummingbird
bar-headed goose
13. fastest diver m. gabon viper

14. tallest bird n. bar-headed

goose
15. greatest traveller 0. giant squid
16. largest living invertebrate p. emperor
tarantula
capybara penguin
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FACTS The fastest water animal is the sailfish.

OPERIWNKL Piranhais the most ferocious fish. A school of piranha

attacks with such ferocity that they strip an animal off its
flesh within a matter of minutes, even taking bites out of
each other in the process.

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