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Crocodile
Land snail

Toucan

Butterfly Octopus Crab There are 27 diverse orders that make ranging from carnivores, bats, and seals, (warm-blooded), suckle their young with milk, and most have hair. No other class of animals shows these last two features.

Tarantula up the class Mammalia (mammals), to primates (including humans) and kangaroos. Despite their diversity, all mammals are endothermic

Angelfish CLASS
Python 5.

Dragonfly Frog Sea lion

Kangaroo
Bat

Polar bear

Parrot

At the top of the classification hierarchy is the animal kingdom, which contains more than 30 phyla. The other highly diverse phyla aside from the chordates are usually grouped together as “invertebrates” because they have no backbones, although this term has no meaning in classification. They include arthropods (insects, spiders, and crabs), mollusks, and worms. Animals are grouped into phyla according to their main features. Mammals and related classes—including fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians—belong to the phylum Chordat

7. KINGDOM 6. PHYLUM called a notochord. Most chordates are vertebrates—animals whose notochord grows into a backbone. Orang-utan Tiger

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