🌿 Herbivores
They eat grass, leaves, seeds, or fruit. Examples: cow, giraffe, rabbit.
1. What Animal Groups Are There?
Animals are classified into groups by shared characteristics. Click an animal group to explore body structure, habitat, diet, and reproduction.
Which animal group normally has six legs?
2. Animal Habitats
A habitat provides food, water, shelter, and suitable temperatures. Click the habitats to see typical animals.
Which habitat is especially dry?
3. What Do Animals Eat?
🥩 Carnivores
They eat other animals. Examples: lion, eagle, shark.
🍎 Omnivores
They eat plants and animals. Examples: human, pig, brown bear.
🍂 Decomposers
They break down dead material. Examples include earthworms, woodlice, fungi, and bacteria.
Interactive Food Check
Choose an animal:
What is an omnivore?
4. How Do Animals Behave?
🐺 Social behavior
Wolves live in family groups. Bees form colonies. Other animals live alone.
🦊 Hunting and escape
Predators stalk, wait, or chase. Prey animals flee, hide, or warn others.
🐦 Migration
Migratory birds, whales, and wildebeest travel long distances to find food or breeding grounds.
🐻 Winter rest and hibernation
Animals save energy. During hibernation, body temperature and heart rate drop greatly.
🦚 Courtship
Animals attract mates with colors, dances, calls, or gifts.
🐒 Communication
Animals use sounds, smells, body posture, touch, or colors.
Which behavior fits?
Why do some animals migrate?
5. Reproduction and Development
🥚 Eggs
Birds and many fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects lay eggs.
🐘 Live young
Most mammals give birth to live young.
🦋 Metamorphosis
Some animals change their body form dramatically, such as butterflies and frogs.
🪺 Parental care
Parents warm, feed, carry, or protect their young.
Development of a Butterfly
🥚→🐛→🟤→🦋
Egg → caterpillar → pupa → butterfly
What does metamorphosis mean?
6. How Do Animals Adapt?
🎨 Camouflage
Color and shape match the surroundings. This protects from enemies or helps with hunting.
⚠️ Warning colors
Bright colors can mean: “I am poisonous or dangerous.”
🧊 Protection from cold
Thick fur, feathers, or a fat layer keep animals warm.
🏜️ Saving water
Desert animals are often active at night and lose very little water.
🦆 Body shape
Webbed feet, fins, claws, beaks, and teeth suit an animal’s way of life.
🦇 Senses
Some animals hear, smell, or see much better than humans.
What is camouflage for?
7. Food Chains and Ecosystems
In nature, many things are connected. Plants use sunlight, herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, and decomposers break down remains.
A Simple Food Chain
☀️→🌿→🐇→🦊→🍄
Sun → plant → rabbit → fox → decomposer
Producers
Plants make food using sunlight.
Consumers
Animals obtain energy by eating plants or other animals.
Decomposers
They turn dead material into substances plants can use again.
Balance
If one species disappears, the entire food web can change.
What is at the beginning of many food chains?
8. The Big Animal World Quiz
Answer all questions. At the end, you receive points, stars, and a rating.