Animals

Questions

1. What is your favorite animal?
2. What animals are there in your country?
3. Are there any dangerous animals in your country?
4. What is the most dangerous animal you have ever seen?
5. What animal would you like to come back as after you die?
6. What natural animal ability or talent would you like to have?
7. What animal best represents your character?
8. What animals have the best life?
9. What is the cutest animal in the world?

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Videos

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Can animals be deceptive?

TED-Ed | Eldridge Adams

A male firefly emits a series of enticing flashes. He hopes a female will respond and mate with him. A female from a different species mimics his patterns: by tricking the male, she lures him in — and turns him into a meal.

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Where else do we see this kind of trickery in the animal kingdom? Eldridge Adams details the surprising complexity of how animals manipulate predators, prey and their rivals.

Lesson by Eldridge Adams, directed by The Duke and the Duck.

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Category: Nature & Environment | Psychology

Keywords: Animals | Deception

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How Is That Not Killing You?

SciShow

When Hank watches nature documentaries he always comes away with one big question: how is that not killing you? In today’s episode of SciShow he looks at three unusual ways that animals manage not to get killed by nature.

Category: Nature & Environment

Keywords: Animals | Death

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How Whales Became The Largest Animals Ever

Science Insider

Whales are the largest living animals that have ever existed on this Earth. A blue whale can grow to a whopping 110 feet in length, outweighing even the dinosaurs. But curiously their story begins from rather humble beginnings.

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Here is the story of how whales became the giants of the sea.

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Category: Nature & Environment

Keywords: Animals | Big | Oceans

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The Most Extreme Milk In The Animal Kingdom

Science Insider

When it comes to the animal kingdom’s most extreme milk, cows don’t make the cut. Hooded seal milk contains more fat than ice cream, while wallaby milk contains more sugar than coca cola. Nine banded armadillos

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produce milk with ten times the calcium as cow milk, and flamingos produce a pink, nutritious, fluid called crop milk.

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Category: Food | Nature & Environment

Keywords: Animals | Milk

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The Tallest Lifeforms Of All Time

Science Insider

If you doubled in size, your weight would be eight times greater. That’s the trouble with growing tall. Gravity’s pull is keeping us all down. But there are a few earthly giants that have fought gravity and won.

Category: Nature & Environment | Science

Keywords: Animals | Height | Length

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Why elephants never forget

TED-Ed | Alex Gendler

It’s a common saying that elephants never forget. But the more we learn about elephants, the more it appears that their impressive memory is only one aspect of an incredible intelligence that makes them some of the

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most social, creative, and benevolent creatures on Earth. Alex Gendler takes us into the incredible, unforgettable mind of an elephant.

Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Avi Ofer.

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Category: Nature & Environment | Psychology

Keywords: Africa | Animals | Memory