Our favorite animals

A horse is a mammal of a group of unparnocootic horse families. The ancestor of a domestic horse is considered a wild horse tarpan. Tarpans met in the steppe strip of Eastern Europe and Asia back in the 19 century. The horse was domesticated more than 6,000 years ago. Today about 200 different breeds have been brought out. There are horse rocks, stubborn, heavy-duty and others. The pure-blooded horse racer develops a speed of up to 60 km/h, and a powerful heavy truck is capable of carrying cargo weighing more than 20 tons...

Yegg is a small, amusing resident of mountainous places, forests and fields. The head and neck of the hedgehog are covered with hard brownish-white fur, but the main "dress" is a barbed coat of needles with yellowish tips. On the body of the hedgehog between sharp, two-meter needles, growing beams, looks hard fur. There are large longitudinal furrows on each of the needles growing at almost right angles on the 22 – 24 of the skin. The needles are slightly curved in the neck at the base, so that...

The African buffalo is rightly considered one of the most dangerous animals on the African continent. According to statistics it is these wild huge animals that are responsible for the greatest number of human deaths. The weight is about a ton. Most of the day, these herbivores graze peacefully. But it is worth the buffalo to scare or anger how he will attack both any predator and man without thought. Most often, buffalo victims are locals who value these animals for an unusual form of horns. Hunting for African buffalo is not prohibited, but is extremely dangerous...

For the first time he identified Fish in a separate constellation by astronomer Claudius Polemey in "Almagesta" (catalogue of star sky). The fish constellation includes countless stars, only 75 of which are visible in the telescope and ranked fourteenth in the table of largest constellations. According to one Greek legend, the monstrous Tiphon, who held even the gods in fear, forced them to flee to Egypt and to get rid of his persecution, Aphrodite and her son Erot sought help from the fish in the river, two of them responded and turned to the fish they ascended to heaven...

The animal kingdom is rich in animal species, all of which are different, all living and feeding in their own way. Each family has its own definite task that they perform. For example, insect predators clean the world of pests, in turn pests eat in order to then turn into useful insects as caterpillars, which turn into butterflies and pollinate flowers. Animal world science is called Zoology, and it is also another offshoot of Biology science. The animal kingdom is divided into families: insects, birds, animals, crustaceans, spiders, worms and fish...