Animal world around us are very diverse and rich. They are diverse in species, body size, color ... Some species live primarily in marine life, the others live in salt-water, freshwater, land and parasites in the body of other animals, until the yearly polar ice. Some species have enormous size like blue whale (weighing 150 tons, 33 meters long), jellyfish tentacle length (nearly 30 meters long), elephants Africa ... but also some species are very small, so microscopic in size as the protozoa. So based on the character of life, lifestyle, and environment of life, scientists have divided the animal kingdom into three categories: birds, mammals, reptiles.
Birds are collection of species of vertebrates, warm-blooded, walking on two legs and lay egg. Modern birds carry the typical characteristics such as a feather, beak and no teeth, high metabolism. Heart has four chambers. Skeleton is lightweight but strong. All birds have foreleg which turn into wing and most can fly, apart from some kinds as the species of penguins, the ostrich. Likewise, they also have unique digestive and respiratory system that serve for flight operations. Some birds, especially the crow and the parrot are among the most intelligent species of the animal kingdom. Birds are herd animals, they communicate with each other through singing. They participate in many activities of the herd such as cooperation for breeding, hunting, moving and attacking to fight against the enemies. In short, birds also play an important role in human’s life. Most of them are used as food through hunting or raising.
Reptiles are found almost everywhere in the world, except South Pole. Reptiles are animals adapted to life in completely dry. So they have dry horns, long neck, eardrum in the ear cavity, weak limb but sharp claws. Lung has multiple partitions. Blood is mixed-blood, has two circulations. Reptiles are animals lay eggs that covered by thick membrane or limestone. Besides, reptiles are also called Poikilotherm and they very rich ovules. They have many benefits in life. For instance, in agriculture, farmer use snakes to kill mice. Being valuable food as turtles, tortoises; made medicine as python, snake; valuable products such as scales innovation, crocodile skin. Besides, they also bring some harmful effects such as toxic of snake when they beat people. In nutshell, reptiles are useful animal in human’s life.
Mammals are the species which are the highest in organization of vertebrate animals. They have a high and stable body temperature. Nervous system is highly developed, especially of the brain gray crust. Giving birth and raise their child by their own milk. This kind of animal has three tiny bones in the ear, teeth and brain develop more advanced than the other species, the heart has four chambers, and hot blood. Mammals have three main forms adapted to the environment: a first form, his neck and tail distinction clear, this form accounts for most of the species in mammals, these species are mainly terrestrial for example cat, rabbit, buffalo, cows. Second form is having wings, this form adapted to the air environment, able to fly. Between the fingers of the genus, with skin, like the wings of birds, for example: bat... The last form adapted swimming: There may be more change into fins. The skin becomes smooth, shine for example: whales, dolphins, and others. In general, mammals are the most developed in all other animals.
Birds, mammals and reptiles are the species which are disposed widely and popular over the world especially in tropical country as Vietnam. Not only does it provide us food but it also serves in many different fields as agriculture, business,…Nowadays; however, some kinds of animals become extinct because of human’s illegal hunting, and it makes a lot bad effects such as imbalance in wildlife. So we need to pass a strict law to protect these kinds of animals.
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