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Animals also called Metazoa are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material. Breathe oxygen can move and can reproduce these and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells.

The blastula during embryonic development Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described of which around 1 million are insects but it has been estimated. They have complex interactions with each other and their environments forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology.

Most living animal species are in Bilateria a clade whose members have a bilaterally symmetric body plan. The Bilateria include the protostomes containing animals such as nematodes, arthropods, flatworms, annelids, and mollusks, and the deuterostomes containing the echinoderms and the chordates the latter including the vertebrates. Life forms interpreted as early animals were present in the Ediacaran biota of the late Precambrian.

Many modern animal phyla became established in the fossil record as marine species during the Cambrian explosion. This began around 539 million years ago 6,331 groups of genes common to all living animals have been identified. These may have arisen from a single common ancestor that lived 650 million years ago.

Animals have several characteristics that set them apart from other living things. Animals are eukaryotic and multicellular. Unlike plants and algae which produce their nutrients animals are heterotrophic feeding on organic material and digesting it internally.

With very few exceptions example Henneguya zschokkei animals respire aerobically. All animals are motile and able to spontaneously move their bodies during at least part of their life cycle but some animals.

Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife was also synonymous with game those birds and mammals that were hunted for sport. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems.

Deserts, forests, rainforests, plains, grasslands, and other areas including the most developed urban areas all have distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors most scientists agree that much wildlife is affected by human activities.

Some wildlife threatens human safety, health, property, and quality of life. However many wild animals even the dangerous ones have value to human beings. This value might be economic educational or emotional.

Australia’s most famous native animals are by far its marsupials. Koalas, kangaroos, and wombats are some of the nation’s most globally recognized and loved animals. But did you know that more than 80 percent of Australia’s mammal reptiles and frogs are found nowhere else in the world?

We explore the facts about how Australia became home to a wide variety of biologically unique animals, including where you can spot them either in their wild natural habitat or in animal sanctuaries.

The dingo is Australia’s native wild dog and its largest carnivorous mammal.
Of the 828 bird species listed in Australia, about half are found nowhere else. The most popular is the large flightless emu, which stands nearly two meters tall.

Distinctive marine species include the predatory great white shark. This grows up to six meters in length giant filter-feeding whale shark. This can reach lengths of up to 12 meters and the box jellyfish is one of the most venomous animals in the world.

The golden snub-nosed monkey can be found high up in the trees in mountain forests. They’re very social animals and love to party.

That’s because golden snub-nosed monkeys gather in large groups.
Sometimes there can be up to 600 of them playing in the trees.