This document defines and provides characteristics of different types of animals including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects. Mammals have hair, give birth to live young, and feed their babies milk. Birds lay eggs, have feathers and wings, and can fly. Reptiles lay eggs, have scales, and may have no legs or four legs. Amphibians have wet skin, live both on land and in water, and lay eggs in water. Fish lay eggs, live only in water, breathe with gills, and swim with fins. Insects have six legs, lay eggs, and have segmented bodies with a head, thorax, and abdomen.

1. ANIMALS

2. MAMMALS
• Mammals have babies.
• Mammals have hair.
• Most mammals have 4 legs.
• Mammals breathe with their lungs.
• Mammals are vertebrates.
• Baby mammals drink their mother’s
milk.

3. THESE ANIMALS ARE MAMMALS

4. • Birds lay eggs.
• Birds are vertebrates.
• Birds can fly.
• Birds have 2 legs, 2 wings and
a beak.
• Birds have feathers.
BIRDS

5. THESE ANIMALS ARE BIRDS

6. REPTILES
• Reptiles lay eggs.
• Reptiles have scales.
• Reptiles have no legs or 4 legs.
• Reptiles are vertebrates.
• Reptiles slither.

7. THESE ANIMALS ARE REPTILES

8. AMPHIBIANS
• Amphibians have wet skin.
• Amphibians live on land and in water.
• Amphibians lay eggs in the water.
• Amphibians are vertebrates.

9. THESE ANIMALS ARE AMPHIBIANS

10. FISH
• Fish lay eggs.
• Fish live only in water.
• Fish have scales.
• Fish are vertebrates.
• Fish swim with their fins.
• Fish breathe with their gills.

11. THESE ANIMALS ARE FISH

12. INSECTS
• Insects have 6 legs, a head, a thorax,
an abdomen and 2 antennae.
• Insects are invertebrates.
• Insects lay eggs.

13. THESE ANIMALS ARE INSECTS