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Animal Classification Overview

This document provides classifications for different types of animals including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and fish. Mammals are warm-blooded animals that grow hair/fur and feed their young with milk. Reptiles have scales and shed skin. Amphibians need water and absorb it through their skin. Birds are warm-blooded and have feathers, beaks, lay eggs, and have strong skeletons. Fish live in water, have gills, and lack limbs with digits.

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Animal Classification Overview

This document provides classifications for different types of animals including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and fish. Mammals are warm-blooded animals that grow hair/fur and feed their young with milk. Reptiles have scales and shed skin. Amphibians need water and absorb it through their skin. Birds are warm-blooded and have feathers, beaks, lay eggs, and have strong skeletons. Fish live in water, have gills, and lack limbs with digits.

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ANIMAL

CLASSIFICATION
MAMMALS
REPTILES
AMPHIBIANS
BIRDS

FISH
a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is
distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion
of milk by females for the nourishment of the young,
and (typically) the birth of live young.

are air-breathing vertebrates covered in special skin


made up of scales, bony plates, or a combination of both.
They include crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, and
tortoises. All regularly shed the outer layer of their skin.
are small vertebrates that need water,
or a moist environment, to survive. All can breathe and
absorb water through their very thin skin. Amphibians also
have special skin glands that produce useful proteins.

are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting


the class Aves, characterized by feathers, toothless beaked
jaws,
the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate,
a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight
skeleton.
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals
that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are
the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony
fish as well as various extinct related groups.

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