Foraging

Foraging means searching for food.

Animal migration

Animal migration is when animals travel a long distance on a seasonal basis. Reasons for migration include climate, food, and mating.

Animalis

The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animalis. Animalis means "having breath".

Autotroph

An autotroph is an organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances by using heat or light as a source of energy. Plants and algee are examples of autotrophs.

Heterotroph

A heterotroph is an organism that cannot make its own food from inorganic materials. They must rely on organic substances for nutrition. All animals are heterotrophs.

Vertebrate

A vertebrate is an animal that has a backbone. Birds, reptiles, and mammals are some examples.

Invertebrate

An invertebrate is an animal that has no backbone. Some examples are worms and spiders.

Warm-blooded

Warm-blooded animals control their body temperature internally.

Cold-blooded

Cold-blooded animals have a body temperature that is regulated by the environment they are in. Reptiles are cold-blooded.

Reptile

Reptiles are animals that are cold-blooded, have scaly skin, and breathe through lungs. Reptiles include alligators, snakes, lizards, crocodiles, and others.

Ruminant

A ruminant is an animal that has a multi-chambered stomach, usually divided into four sections. Partially digested food is returned from the stomach to their mouth and chewed again. Some ruminants are giraffes, camels, cows, and sheep.

Primate

Primates are animals that have five fingers on their hands. They include lemurs, apes, baboons, monkeys, gorillas, and others.

Echolocation

Echolocating animals can emit calls out and listen to the echoes they return from the objects they bounce off.

Ungulates

Ungulates are hooved mammals.

Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the movement of animals in trees.

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a major change in body structure in an animal from birth to adult.

Scavenger

A scavenger is an animal that eats a dead animal that was not killed by them.

Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal that eats just plant matter and no meats.

Omnivore

A omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and meats.

Carnivore

A carnivore is an animal that eats meats and no plants.