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On the class' first "normal" field trip to the zoo, they wonder how the animals could live in the city. Ms. Frizzle then turns them into various city animals (Tim, Arnold, and Phoebe into foxes; Ralphie, Wanda, and Keesha into opossums; Dorothy Ann and Carlos into peregrine falcons, and herself into a raccoon), but the bus mistakes itself for a ...
Binomial name. Katharina tunicata. Wood, 1815. Katharina tunicata (Wood, 1815) is commonly known as the black Katy chiton, black Leather chiton, black chiton, or leather chiton, (Kasuqix in the indigenous Aleut language), [1] is a species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae. Dorsal view of Katharina tunicata. Museum specimen.
On Growth and Form is a book by the Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948). The book is long – 793 pages in the first edition of 1917, 1116 pages in the second edition of 1942. The book covers many topics including the effects of scale on the shape of animals and plants, large ones necessarily being relatively ...
The Jungle Book at Wikisource. The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Most stories are set in a forest in India ...
The oldest described chameleon is Anqingosaurus brevicephalus from the Middle Paleocene (about 58.7–61.7 mya) of China. [31] Other chameleon fossils include Chamaeleo caroliquarti from the Lower Miocene (about 13–23 mya) of the Czech Republic and Germany, and Chamaeleo intermedius from the Upper Miocene (about 5–13 mya) of Kenya.
Adaptation is the evolutionary process whereby an organism becomes better able to live in its habitat or habitats. [25][26][27] 2. Adaptedness is the state of being adapted: the degree to which an organism is able to live and reproduce in a given set of habitats. [28]
The peregrine is renowned for its speed. It can reach over 320 km/h (200 mph) during its characteristic hunting stoop (high-speed dive), [5] making it the fastest animal on the planet. [6] [7] [8] According to a National Geographic TV program, the highest measured speed of a peregrine falcon is 389 km/h (242 mph).
The platypus has frequently appeared in Australian postage stamps, most recently the 2015 "Native Animals" series and the 2016 "Australian Animals Monotremes" series. [ 129 ] [ 130 ] In the American animated series Phineas and Ferb , the title characters own a pet bluish-green platypus named Perry who, unknown to them, is a secret agent.