Biology · page 21 2 3 4 5101The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes16 sentences · At the zoo the African savanna area is one big grassy paddock where giraffes, zebras and antelopes wander to…102The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas16 sentences · The second half of the African area is full of animals that cartoons get wrong: the hippo is no ballerina, t…103The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes13 sentences · In the Australian walkabout there is no fence between you and the animals: you walk along a path while kanga…104Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus14 sentences · Most of the strange animals in this part of the zoo are marsupials, mammals whose tiny babies finish growing…105The polar zone: polar bears15 sentences · Stand at the underwater window of the polar zone and a polar bear glides past, paddling with front paws as b…106The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer16 sentences · The polar zone shows how animals beat the cold: the arctic fox has small ears, short legs and a short nose,…107The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears13 sentences · The giant panda sits like a person on a sofa, holds a bamboo stem in its paw and munches for up to 14 hours…108The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters16 sentences · A two-toed sloth hangs upside down from a branch and does not seem to move for an hour; it is not lazy but t…109Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers15 sentences · Long before the gates open, at about 7 in the morning, the keepers walk round the zoo and the first job is s…110Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital14 sentences · A big zoo has its own animal hospital with X-ray machines, scanners, a lab and an operating room, and the zo…111Feeding times and the zoo kitchen15 sentences · Behind every zoo is a busy kitchen where keepers prepare hundreds of meals a day, and each one is planned fo…112Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy17 sentences · A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, digging, climbing, sniffing and chasing.113Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos18 sentences · If only a few snow leopards are left in zoos, they could soon all be cousins, and when close relatives have…114Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature17 sentences · Some animals were wiped out in the wild and survived only in zoos, like the last books of a story kept safe…115Why zoos exist and what critics say16 sentences · Zoos began as collections for kings to show off their power: for about 600 years English kings kept lions, a…116Famous zoos in the USA and the UK13 sentences · London Zoo built the first public aquarium and an early reptile house, and a black bear there called Winnipe…117Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right17 sentences · Australian zoos often look after Australia's own odd and wonderful animals: Taronga in Sydney has giraffes w…118Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?17 sentences · In every episode of Tom and Jerry a grey cat crashes round a big kitchen after a cheeky mouse, gets flattene…119How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing17 sentences · Watch a cat with a toy mouse: it crouches low, its pupils go huge and round, its bottom wiggles, and then it…120How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding16 sentences · Almost everyone wants to eat a mouse: cats, owls, foxes, weasels, snakes and hawks.121Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?17 sentences · In Tom and Jerry, Spike the bulldog chases Tom up trees and guards his puppy Tyke, and it looks as if cats a…122Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote16 sentences · In Looney Tunes the Road Runner zooms off in a cloud of dust, says «meep meep», and Wile E.123Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks16 sentences · Bugs Bunny munches a carrot and asks «What's up, Doc?», but a real wild rabbit fills up on grass, clover and…124The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life18 sentences · In The Lion King, Simba stands on Pride Rock, Mufasa roars across the plain, and the lionesses go hunting; m…125Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs16 sentences · A real meerkat would never live alone: meerkats live in mobs of up to about 50, sleep piled together in burr…126The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills15 sentences · In The Lion King the hyenas are cackling, lazy thieves, Rafiki is a wise old mandrill on the savanna, and Za…127Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa15 sentences · In the film Madagascar, King Julien dances at a lemur party, tiny Mort clings to his feet, and the hungry fo…128Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes16 sentences · In Madagascar, Marty the zebra dreams of running free, Gloria the hippo floats gracefully, and Melman the gi…129The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps15 sentences · In Madagascar, four penguins plot clever escapes, flap their flippers and fail to fly, and dream of reaching…130Ice Age: real woolly mammoths20 sentences · In the film Ice Age, Manny the mammoth plods through the snow in shaggy fur, with small ears, a short tail a…131Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos16 sentences · The film Ice Age is a cartoon, but many of its animals really lived: sabre-toothed cats, woolly mammoths, wo…132Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones15 sentences · Clownfish really do live inside sea anemones, whose waving tentacles are full of stings that kill other smal…133Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures17 sentences · Dory, Crush, Squirt, Bloat and Mr Ray are all based on real sea animals, but the film changes some things fo…134Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls15 sentences · Bruce the great white promises that fish are friends, not food, but a real great white is a hunter of fish,…135Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas14 sentences · A panda is a true bear with a meat-eater's gut, so it gets little goodness from bamboo and must eat a huge a…136Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes18 sentences · Tigress and Crane are fighters in the film, and their real animals are just as amazing: a tiger that loves a…137Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys16 sentences · The Furious Five are named after real kung fu styles, and those styles were named after real animals that pe…138Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like12 sentences · A real pig walks on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, and its flat snout is a strong,…139Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos17 sentences · Peppa's friends are cartoon animals that talk and go to school, but each one is based on a real animal with…140Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs17 sentences · The Paw Patrol pups drive diggers and fly helicopters, which no dog can do, but real dogs do have rescue job…141Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits16 sentences · In Zootopia, Nick Wilde the fox is a sly trickster and Judy Hopps the rabbit is a brave police officer, and…142Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey14 sentences · In Zootopia, Flash the sloth stamps papers so slowly that a whole queue waits, and Mr Big, a tiny shrew, rul…143Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls16 sentences · In Bambi, a spotted fawn wobbles on thin legs, Thumper the rabbit thumps his foot, Flower the skunk blushes…144Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs14 sentences · In Babe, a polite little pig learns to herd sheep and wins a sheepdog trial, while a duck crows at dawn to b…145Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules13 sentences · In Shrek, Donkey never stops talking, digs his hooves in when he is scared, begs for waffles and carries Shr…146Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire16 sentences · In Shrek, a dragon as big as a castle breathes great flames, flies and guards a castle full of treasure.147Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs14 sentences · Spider-Man shoots webs from his wrists, swings between skyscrapers on a single thread and stops a runaway tr…148Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites15 sentences · A real bite gives nobody powers, but real spiders do have amazing versions of all three.149Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?17 sentences · In cartoons, a huge elephant screams and leaps onto a stool at the sight of a tiny mouse; in Dumbo, a whole…150Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?16 sentences · It is not true.151Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?17 sentences · In cartoons a scared ostrich pushes its head into the sand and thinks it is hidden, with its fluffy bottom s…152Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?17 sentences · People joke that a goldfish swimming round its bowl sees the same castle every few seconds and thinks «oh, a…153Myth check: are bats blind?18 sentences · People say «as blind as a bat», but every bat can see, and big fruit bats have large eyes that work well in…154More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats18 sentences · Cartoons love animal tricks: a bull goes mad at a red cape, a camel unscrews its hump and pours out water, a…155The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas17 sentences · The Amazon is the biggest river on Earth by the water it carries, and every rainy season it rises so high th…156The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens16 sentences · High above the Amazon floor the tree tops join into a green roof called the canopy, full of sunlight, fruit,…157The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider17 sentences · Under the canopy the forest floor is dim, hot and damp, and so busy that a fallen tree can vanish in a few y…158Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru18 sentences · The Amazon has real giants: the green anaconda, the heaviest snake on Earth, lies in a swamp with only its e…159The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants17 sentences · The Congo rainforest in the middle of Africa is the second biggest rainforest on Earth, a dark green world o…160The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds18 sentences · The Congo is the deepest river known: in places it plunges more than two hundred metres, deeper than a tall…161Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes13 sentences · Borneo is a huge island in Southeast Asia covered in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth, where trees gro…162Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris15 sentences · Sumatra is a long island in Indonesia where a tiger, a rhino, an elephant and an orangutan all live in the s…163Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa15 sentences · Madagascar is a big island off the coast of Africa that broke away from other land so long ago that its anim…164Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted14 sentences · Madagascar is a laboratory of the strange: about half of all the world's chameleon kinds, a gecko that is a…165The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads15 sentences · The outback is the huge dry middle of Australia: red sand, low bushes, rare rain and heat that can bake the…166Australia's venomous animals and why few people die17 sentences · Australia has some of the most venomous snakes, spiders, jellyfish and sea creatures in the world, yet only…167Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings16 sentences · Along Australia's wetter east coast and on the island of Tasmania there are rainforests and tall eucalyptus…168The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings16 sentences · The tundra is the flat, treeless land around the Arctic Ocean: frozen and dark for months in winter, and in…169The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth16 sentences · The Arctic Ocean lies around the North Pole under a lid of floating sea ice that grows in winter and shrinks…170Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins15 sentences · Antarctica is a frozen continent around the South Pole, colder and windier than anywhere else on Earth, with…171The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice14 sentences · It looks empty and icy, but in spring tiny drifting plants turn the water green, tiny shrimp-like krill eat…172Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams14 sentences · A coral feels like stone, but it is a city of tiny animals called polyps, each like a little sea anemone, an…173Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers13 sentences · A coral reef is a busy town where many animals make deals: you help me and I help you, like two friends wher…174Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles15 sentences · Manta rays fly through the water on wings wider than a car is long and sometimes leap right out of the sea,…175The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth17 sentences · Dive down and the light fades like evening: below about two hundred metres it is a dim blue twilight, and be…176The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls15 sentences · Far below the twilight zone the sea is black, freezing cold and squeezed by huge pressure, and food is so ra…177Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight13 sentences · On the dark sea floor there are cracks where water, heated by hot rock deep below, gushes out full of minera…178Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers14 sentences · Most trees die if you pour salty sea water on their roots, but mangroves grow with their feet in it, along w…179Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave15 sentences · Walk a little way into a cave and the daylight disappears; deeper in, it is pitch black all day and all year…180The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions16 sentences · The Galápagos are volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean on the equator, far from the coast of South America,…181Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs15 sentences · An island is like a small world cut off by the sea: only the animals that can fly, swim or float there arriv…182Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants15 sentences · A desert is a place where very little rain falls, so the hardest problem for every living thing there is wat…183Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders14 sentences · The higher you climb a mountain, the colder it gets and the thinner the air becomes, so each breath brings l…184Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal15 sentences · A great river is a long road of water through the land, and wherever it spreads into swamps, lakes and flood…185Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest15 sentences · Fastest at what?186Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest15 sentences · A giant sequoia called General Sherman is so wide that a family car could park across its trunk, and it has…187Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived15 sentences · The loudest animal is not a lion but a sperm whale clicking in the deep sea, and one of the noisiest is a sh…188Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous14 sentences · Venomous and poisonous are not the same: a venomous animal pushes its venom into you with a bite or sting, l…189Masters of camouflage15 sentences · Camouflage means looking like your surroundings so that hunters, or the animals you hunt, do not notice you,…190Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers15 sentences · You might think every animal on Earth has already been found, but scientists describe thousands of new kinds…191Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more17 sentences · Cartoons and old sayings are full of animals doing things real animals never do: an elephant leaps onto a ch…192Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds18 sentences · In the park a tiny chihuahua and a huge Great Dane sniff each other hello.193How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces19 sentences · On a walk your dog stops at a lamp post and sniffs for ages while you tug the lead.194Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe15 sentences · A dog cannot say «I'm scared» or «let's play», but it says both all day long with its tail, ears, eyes, mout…195Training a dog with rewards and patience15 sentences · A dog does not understand our rules; it learns from what happens right after it does something.196Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs15 sentences · Many dogs have real jobs.197Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming14 sentences · A pet cat is a small hunter that lives on your sofa, and almost everything about its body is built for creep…198Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry17 sentences · Even a fat, sleepy pet cat is a hunter inside.199Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet15 sentences · Cats are quieter than dogs, but they talk all the time with their tails, ears, eyes and paws, and once you l…200Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing15 sentences · Bugs Bunny munches a carrot in every cartoon, so many people think carrots are what rabbits should eat.1 2 3 4 5← previousArtsnext →Books↑ back to the schoolThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/page/2/