Kinds of Animals
An animal that lives in the water when young and on land as an adult.
What is an amphibian?
An animal that hunts or captures other animals for food.
What is a predator?
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, features this kind of animal as the main character.
What is a dog?
Insects that feed on, compete with, or transmit diseases to humans and livestock
What are insect pests?
Any animal of the deer family which has solid, deciduous antlers
What is a cervid?
Invertebrate animals such as insects, spiders, and crustaceans
What are arthropods?
An organism that feeds on primary producers.
What is a primary consumer?
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Jupiter gains the attentions of Leda by transforming into this white bird.
What is a swan?
A relationship in which an organism receives nutrition from another living plant or animal, causing harm to it.
What is parasitism?
A species that is not native to the ecosystem
What is an exotic or invasive species?
An animal whose regulation of body temperature depends on external sources
What is an ectotherm?
An organism that obtains nutrition from organic matter made of dead plant and animal material
What is a detritovore (which feeds on detritus)?
This poem, featuring an animal of the genus Pantera, ends with a question to the reader as to what was the outcome.
What is "The Lady or the Tiger"?
Able to inflict a poisoned bite, sting, or wound
What is "venomous"?
Mammal species that traditionally have been hunted for their fur, which has commercial value
What are fur-bearers?
This family of animals has more members than all others combined.
What are insects?
Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
What are prey?
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the world flies through space on the back of this animal.
What is a sea turtle?
What is bioaccumulation?
A viviparous, nonplacental mammal whose babies are born incompletely developed and carried in a pouch
What are marsupials?
Animals that maintain a constant body temperature independent of the ambient temperature
What are endotherms?
The vegetation eaten by animals
What is forage?
In the nineteenth century masterpiece by Alexandre Dumas, the Count of Monte Cristo, the titular character who plays the role of both the hero and the villain gains the favor of the French court in many ways, including by saving the life of Madame de Villefort from two of this kind of animal.
What is a horse?
The practice of a bird's laying its egg(s) in the nest of a bird of a different species
What is brood parasitism?
Organisms without backbones which are large enough to see with the naked eye
What are macroinvertebrates?