Animal – A kingdom of complex multi-celled organisms that do not produce their own food. This kingdom contains all living and extinct animals. Examples includeelephants, whales, and humans. Plants – Complex and multi-cellular autotrophic organisms, meaning they produce their own food through pho...
in his quest to classify the natural world, he created a kingdom of minerals. He also created a scientific name forHomo anthropomorpha, a proposed species that included all human-like mythical creatures, which he believed truly existed. These included the...
It has been demonstrated that a radial basis function network could effectively distinguish between six individual sperm whales22; and similarly, Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and GMMs have performed the automatic identification of individual killer whales (Orcinus orca)23. In addition, ANNs have been ...
Mammals, including humans, have lungs, but they also have a diaphragm, a muscle that helps control the flow of air into and out of the lungs. Some species, such as whales and dolphins, have adapted to extract oxygen from the air while underwater by holding their breath. What are the ...
Finding out how different species are related to each other helps us to make sense of the animal kingdom. It also helps us to understand how animals evolved. Animal classification is like putting together a huge ‘family tree’ containing every species – even those which are now extinct, suc...
Order Cetacea Whales are divided into two groups: toothed whales and baleen whales Toothed whales and dolphins use echolocation Baleen whales filter invertebrates from the water with a net of baleen in their mouth Largest creature on Earth, the great blue whale, is a baleen whale ...
parameciaandamoebae•Fungi:mushroomsandotherfungi Kingdom •TheKingdomanimaliaincludesallanimalsrangingfromatinygnattohugewhales.Becauseofthisdiversitywehavetofurthersubdivideintophyla.Phyla •TheprimarydivisionsofthekingdomAnimalia•Thekingdomanimaliaisdividedintotwenty-sevenphyla.
Order Cetacea (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) More than 80 species in 11 families. Order Perissodactyla (odd-toed hoofed ungulates) 17 species in 3 families, including horses, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and kin. Uranotherians The following three ungulate orders (Sirenia, Proboscidea, and Hyracoidea...
Species of several classes are found from the high Arctic or Antarctic to the tropics around the Earth; they are missing only from interior Antarctica and Greenland and from the North Polar ice pack. In size, vertebrates range from minute fishes to elephants and whales (of up to 100 tons)...
Taxon, any unit used in the science of biological classification, or taxonomy. Taxa are arranged in a hierarchy from kingdom to subspecies, a given taxon ordinarily including several taxa of lower rank. In the classification of protists, plants, and anim