Page 19 - One Million Things: Animal Life - The Incredible Visual Guide

Lungs are where
Heart pumps
oxygen enters Backbone
blood along Aorta (the largest artery)
the bloodstream surrounds Kidney removes
arteries carries oxygen-rich blood
spinal cord
from the heart to the body waste from blood
to produce urine
Large vein called the
inferior vena cava carries
oxygen-poor blood from
body to heart
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Bladder stores urine
before it is released
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4

Hair grows
3
from skin
and helps
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Ovary insulate
2 produces rabbit
eggs

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Uterus is where
Ribs protect Liver aids
baby rabbits grow
the heart and digestion
and develop
lungs, and aid and cleans
breathing the blood
Large intestine
carries leftovers of
Stomach churns and digestion to outside
stores food after
swallowing

Claws give extra
grip during
movement
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REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
9 MUSCLES
Vertebrates have either male or female reproductive
Cecum, part of the systems. Females, like this rabbit, have ovaries that produce
Muscles contract (get shorter) when
large intestine, is eggs, while males have testes that release sperm. If sperm
very long in rabbits, instructed to by the nervous system.
and contains and egg meet, offspring are produced. In mammals, They extend across movable joints
bacteria that break offspring are produced inside the uterus (womb) and are between bones, and when they contract
then pushed outside during birth.
down plant cellulose
the bones move. The muscular system
to release nutrients
also maintains the body’s posture.

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