Biology · page 41 2 3 4 5301Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls16 sentences · There are about 250 kinds of owl, and they live on every continent except Antarctica.302How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths20 sentences · An owl is a hunting machine built for the night.303Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea18 sentences · There are about 400 kinds of parrot, most of them in warm places, with the most kinds in Australia and South…304Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants20 sentences · A 2022 study estimated there are about 20 quadrillion ants on Earth (a 2 with 16 zeros after it), about two…305Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees18 sentences · When people say «bee» they often picture a honeybee hive, but there are about 20,000 kinds of bee and most o…306Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs18 sentences · About 400,000 kinds of beetle are known, more than any other group of animals, and there may be a million mo…307Beetles of every kind: stag beetles, dung beetles, fireflies, bombardiers and weevils16 sentences · With hundreds of thousands of kinds, beetles have tried almost every way of living.308Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog15 sentences · Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, and they come in amazing shapes: frogs that stick to glass,…309Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad16 sentences · In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with black eggs: common frog spawn.310Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead21 sentences · Sharks are not all the same monster from a film.311Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks17 sentences · Not every shark is a big grey hunter like the one in Jaws.312Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke17 sentences · The biggest whales have no teeth.313Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales16 sentences · Toothed whales hunt one animal at a time instead of sieving the sea.314Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers18 sentences · Bats are the only mammals that truly fly.315Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up18 sentences · On a summer evening in Britain, a tiny shape flits round and round a street lamp.316Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth19 sentences · Mice, rats, squirrels, hamsters, beavers and capybaras are all rodents, the biggest group of mammals: over 2…317Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice19 sentences · Rodents have spread into almost every way of life: some glide between trees at night, some live in huge town…318Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer20 sentences · Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping…319Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world15 sentences · There are only eight kinds of bear in the whole world: the brown bear, the American black bear, the polar be…320Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety19 sentences · A bear lives by its nose.321Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get18 sentences · Pythons, boas and anacondas are the giants of the snake world.322Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes21 sentences · Some snakes have venom, a poison made in glands in the head and pushed into a bite through hollow or grooved…323Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes16 sentences · Eagles are big birds of prey: hunters with hooked beaks, huge feet and amazing eyes.324Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures19 sentences · Birds of prey come in many shapes, each made for its own job.325Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first17 sentences · It is a living animal that needs food, care, company and a vet for many years, often for most of your school…326A puppy at home: the first weeks17 sentences · A puppy's first weeks in a new home are like a baby's first weeks at nursery: everything is new, a bit scary…327A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play18 sentences · A kitten is a tiny hunter in training.328Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye17 sentences · A dog that bounced around when you started school may have a grey muzzle, stiff legs and cloudy eyes by the…329Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands17 sentences · Tortoises, lizards and geckos are reptiles, and reptiles cannot make their own body heat.330Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs20 sentences · Not every pet has fur.331Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies15 sentences · A dog's body and a cat's body are built differently from yours, so some foods you eat happily work like pois…332Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house17 sentences · A lost pet cannot tell anyone where it lives, so people have given pets ways to "speak" for them: a tag you…333The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds15 sentences · In spring a garden wakes up like a house on a school morning: everyone gets moving at once, and each has its…334The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day15 sentences · A summer garden is a busy little town of deals and hunts: some animals farm, some hunt, and some just grow f…335The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts19 sentences · Autumn is the garden packing its bags: trees pull useful stuff back out of their leaves, birds stuff their l…336The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where15 sentences · A winter garden looks empty, but fresh snow tells on everyone: in the morning it is like a page where the ni…337The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice14 sentences · A park pond is a small world that changes with the seasons, and if you visit it every month you meet the sam…338The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs17 sentences · A vegetable patch is a place where you eat different parts of plants: the seeds of a pea, the swollen underg…339Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart18 sentences · Trees in a park are like people in a crowd: once you know a few clues — the shape of the face, the clothes,…340Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain16 sentences · A weed is not a kind of plant; it is a plant growing where somebody does not want it.341Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt21 sentences · Milk is baby food.342Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside18 sentences · A box of six eggs is almost a week of work for one hen.343Where meat and fish come from, told honestly20 sentences · A sausage at a barbecue is mostly minced pork, and pork is meat from a pig.344Honey and the beekeeper's year21 sentences · A beekeeper's year follows the bees.345Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world21 sentences · Three plants feed a huge share of the world.346Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow19 sentences · A fruit is the part of a plant that grows from a flower and holds its seeds.347Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats21 sentences · Every sweet treat starts as a plant.348Nuts, beans, seeds and spices18 sentences · Nuts, beans and many spices are seeds or other plant parts that plants pack with food or guard with strong t…349A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding18 sentences · A farm's year turns with the seasons.350Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres19 sentences · A farm is a great place to count, and every number tells a story.351Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth14 sentences · You get two sets of teeth in your life: a small set of baby teeth for a small jaw, and a big set of grown-up…352Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist14 sentences · Acid does not come from sweets directly.353Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn16 sentences · Your skin is an organ, like your heart or lungs, and it is the biggest one you have: a waterproof, germ-proo…354Skin: fingerprints, scabs, scars, bruises and blisters17 sentences · Press an inky finger onto paper and you get a pattern of ridges that nobody else in the world has, not even…355Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey16 sentences · Each hair grows from a tiny pocket in the skin called a follicle; only the root down in the follicle is aliv…356Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath17 sentences · Nails are plates of keratin, the same tough stuff as hair, growing out from a root under the skin to guard y…357Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs14 sentences · The skull looks like one big bone, but it is 22 bones fitted together with zigzag seams called sutures, as t…358Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands14 sentences · Your arm is a chain of bones from the shoulder to the fingertips: the collarbone and shoulder blade at the t…359Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby15 sentences · Your legs carry your whole weight all day, so their bones are the biggest you have: the femur in the thigh i…360Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles17 sentences · Bones cannot move themselves; muscles move them, and a muscle can do only one thing: shorten and pull.361Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger18 sentences · Growing up is not one smooth climb: you grow slowly and steadily for years, then shoot up fast as a teenager…362Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness16 sentences · Your eyes and ears are not just windows and holes: they are clever machines with lenses, wipers, drains, pip…363Sleep and dreams in people15 sentences · Sleep is not the body switching off: it is a busy night shift when you grow, mend muscles, fight germs and s…364The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo19 sentences · Burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo make everyone giggle, but each one is the body doing a useful j…365Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede16 sentences · The record breakers of the animal world for their size are not lions or elephants but beetles, fleas, bugs a…366Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish14 sentences · Some animals look as if a child drew them for a joke: a bird with a shoe for a beak, a mole with a pink star…367Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers17 sentences · Animal colours come in two kinds: pigments, which are coloured stuff in the body like paint, and structures,…368Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards17 sentences · Cities are not only for people: wild boar dig up parks in Berlin, deer bow to tourists in Japan, coyotes cro…369City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings16 sentences · A city is full of bird homes if you look like a bird: roofs and wall gaps are caves, church towers are cliff…370Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches16 sentences · Your home is a small wild world: spiders hunt in the corners, silverfish nibble old books, woodlice hide und…371Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal21 sentences · On the way home from school a scruffy street dog starts trotting behind you.372Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears19 sentences · Deep in a Ukrainian reserve a huge dark shape stands among the trees, as heavy as a small car: a European bi…373Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova21 sentences · On a grassy hill in eastern Ukraine a sharp whistle rings out, and a fat furry animal standing up like a pos…374Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies16 sentences · Mud carried by the great river piles up at its mouth, so this delta builds new land into the sea year after…375White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa18 sentences · On top of a pole in a Ukrainian village sits a nest as wide as a kitchen table, and on it stands a white bir…376The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued19 sentences · In 1986 a reactor at the Chornobyl power plant in Ukraine exploded and spread radiation, and people had to l…377Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses19 sentences · In July a Ukrainian field turns into a yellow sea of sunflowers taller than a grown-up.378China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders22 sentences · High in the snowy mountain forests of central China, a troop of monkeys with golden fur, blue faces and almo…379China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon21 sentences · The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia, about 6,300 kilometres, with hundreds of millions of people along…380China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies20 sentences · Bamboo is a giant grass, and some kinds grow close to a metre in a single day: if you sat beside a shoot wit…381Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed20 sentences · In a school box, small white caterpillars munch mulberry leaves so loudly that the tray sounds like soft rain.382The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs18 sentences · On a Chinese zodiac poster there are twelve animals: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, mon…383Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises18 sentences · Imagine one piece of a snake's backbone bigger than your fist.384Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus19 sentences · Picture an animal so tall that a giraffe could almost walk under its belly.385Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses21 sentences · About 15,000 years ago, at Mezhyrich in Ukraine, people built round huts from mammoth jaws, skulls, tusks an…386Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds17 sentences · In 1741 sailors stranded on cold islands in the far north Pacific saw huge gentle animals grazing on kelp ne…387Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory18 sentences · A chimpanzee picks a grass stem, strips off the leaves, pokes it into a termite mound, waits, and pulls it o…388Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs19 sentences · A honeybee's brain is about the size of a grain of sand, yet in tests bees learned to count landmarks up to…389How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans20 sentences · Put a sticker on your forehead, look in the mirror and you pull it off at once: you know the face in the mir…390How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air15 sentences · It is asleep, but only with half its brain: the other half stays awake to steer, come up to breathe and watc…391Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses19 sentences · Your dog is fast asleep on the rug, but its paws are paddling, its lips twitch and it gives tiny muffled woo…392Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade20 sentences · In the park you spot a bush covered in shiny berries, red and juicy like sweets.393Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets20 sentences · A walk in the woods is full of treasures: mushrooms pushing up through the leaves, a snake sunning itself on…394How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting19 sentences · You watch a snow leopard creep across a cliff for three thrilling minutes.395Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real21 sentences · In a nature film a tiny ant marches across a leaf with loud crunchy footsteps, and an eagle swoops down with…396Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker18 sentences · Scooby-Doo shakes with fear, Garfield wolfs a tray of lasagne, Sonic zooms round loops faster than sound.397Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice21 sentences · Mum opens the cupboard and finds tiny dark droppings like grains of rice and a chewed hole in the cereal pac…398Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals20 sentences · Your pet rabbit bends down and eats something straight from its own bottom.399Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches19 sentences · A summer night, an open window, and in the morning your arm is covered in itchy red bumps.400The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 39918 sentences · This is the big quiz for the last hundred lessons, so it gathers the main ideas once more: counting legs, to…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/4/