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Who am I ?
Which group do I belong to?
我是誰？
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Peacock
Birds
 Male will display his elongated upper tail
with green blue “eyes” before the female
during courtship.
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Clownfish
Fish
 Its name comes from its wadding way of
swimming and the clown-like marking.
 It lives with anemone, benefiting from each
other.
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Amazon horned frog
Amphibians
 It is often called “mouth with legs” because its
mouth size is about half of the body.
 Amazon horned frogs are indiscriminate about
what they eat. When anything smaller than their
own bodies happens by, they spring from the
mud and swallow their prey whole.
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Chameleon
Reptiles
 It can change its body colour when it moves
from one colour environment to another.
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Starfish
Invertebrate Echinoderms
 It has no front or back, that’s why it can
move in any direction without turning.
 Often exhibit a five-armed symmetry
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Shark
Fish – cartilaginous fish
 No bones, just cartilage.
 No swim bladder, it has to swim all the time to
make them buoyant because unlike bony fish, it
has no swim bladder.
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Penguin
Birds
 It has a thick layer of blubber (fat)
below its skin to keep warm.\
 The ‘wing ‘ is modified for swimming
rather than flying
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Moth caterpillar
Invertebrate Arthropods
 This catepillar is well camouflaged.
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Gorilla
Mammals
 They are on the verge of extinction and only
about 600 gorillas are left.
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Lionfish
Fish
 Its spines are poisonous and its body is crossed
with red bands which can frighten the enemies
away.
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Leopard
Mammals
 It climb trees very well.
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Hong Kong Newt
Invertebrates
Amphibian
This interesting freshwater vertebrate looks like a reptile but in fact
it is an Amphibian.
It is the only local Amphibian that keep its tail in the adult stage.
Striking warning colour pattern is seen on the ventral surface,
but the dorsal side looks dark brown, a camouflaged colour that
blends well with the substratum.
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Polar bear
Mammals
 It paddles with the front feet only, hind feet
are held flat and are used as rudders. It is a
unique feature of four-footed land animals.
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Puffer fish
Fish
 When frightened, it spines become visible as
it swells its body.
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Bat-eared fox
Mammals
 It uses the big ears to help release heat from the
body during the daytime.
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Crocodile
Reptiles
 Females are gentle mothers which build nests for
their young. They will protect them against
enemies, including their father.
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Sea anemone
Invertebrate Coelenterates
 It looks like plants but it is an animal. It can
sting the prey with its tentacles and then put it
into the mouth.
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Coral
Invertebrate Coelenterates
 They look like sea anemones, except that sea
anemones are entirely soft-bodied while corals
can build up hard skeleton.
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Sea slug
Invertebrate Molluscs
 Soft-bodied, marine molluscs which shed their
shell after their larval stage.
 They are noted for their often extraordinary
colors and striking forms.
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Sea snake
Reptiles
 Sea-snakes are cold-blooded reptiles, so they live
mostly in warm tropical waters. Sea-snakes are
fully adapted to breathe, feed, breed and grow in
the sea. For air-breathing animals, sea-snakes are
remarkable divers. Some species can dive to 100
metres or more, and remain submerged for up to
80 minutes.
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Green turtle 綠海龜
Reptiles
 After hatching, it is carried by current to an
unknown place, then returns to the birth place,
having travelled as far as 3000 km.
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Killer whale 殺人鯨
Mammals
 It is an intelligent killer. Fortunately it does not
have a taste for humans -- there are no records of
humans attacked by them.
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Dolphin
Mammals
 They are highly intelligent and curious. They
locate prey by using the echo of ultrasound
emitted from their head.
Whale shark
Fishes
 The largest of all fishes.
 These gentle giants feed on planktons only.
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Vulture
Birds
 They mainly eat dead and decaying flesh. They
can fly at a speed of up to 150 km/hour and as
high as 300 m.
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Cuttlefish 烏賊
Invertebrate Molluscs
 They are excellent at camouflage and can
match many different backgrounds.
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Scorpion
Invertebrate Arthropods
 It uses claws to hold the prey and swing the
telson up and over its backs to inject venom into
the prey’s body.
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Jellyfish
Invertebrate Coelenterates
 Its body is hollow and usually has stings
which can cause painful red lesions.
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Giant tortoise
Reptiles
 They are the largest living tortoise which can
weigh over 250 kg. They move very slowly and
their birth rate is extremely low.
 Only found in some remote islands e..g the
Galapagos
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Flying squirrel
Mammals
 Despite it’s name, the flying squirrel does not
actually fly. Instead, this little mammal
stretches the loose skin between its fore and
hind legs to glide from tree to tree. Coasting
like a parachute, the squirrel controls its
gliding by adjusting its tail and legs.
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Axolotl – a salamander
Amphibians
The Axolotl remains in its larval form throughout its life. This
means that it retains its gills and fins, and it doesn't develop
the protruding eyes, eyelids and characteristics of other adult
salamanders. It grows much larger than a normal larval
salamander, and it reaches sexual maturity in this larval stage.
Axolotl is has amazing healing and regeneration abilities. The
axolotl is fully capable of complete limb re-growth.
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tyrant leech king
Invertebrate Annelids
A new leech king of the jungle, Tyrannobdella rex—or "tyrant
leech king"—was discovered in the remote Peruvian Amazon,
National Geographic News reported in April.
The up-to-three-inch-long (about seven-centimeter-long) leech
has large teeth, like its dinosaur namesake Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Glass frog
Invertebrate amphibian
the abdominal skin of some members of this family is
transparent. The internal viscera, including the heart, liver, and
gastrointestinal tract are visible through this translucent skin
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a ‘walking’ anglerfish
Fish
This curious creature, seen in Indonesian waters has not yet
been definitively identified by scientists.
Scientists think is a deep sea anglerfish. Anglerfish are
named for their characteristic mode of predation, wherein a
fleshy growth from the fish's head acts as a lure; this is
considered analogous to angling.
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Yoda Bat
Mammals
This tube-nosed fruit bat—which became a Web sensation as "Yoda
bat"—is just one of the roughly 200 species encountered during two
scientific expeditions to Papua New Guinea in 2009, scientists
announced in October.
Though seen on previous expeditions, the bat has yet to be formally
documented as a new species, or even named. Like other fruit bats,
though, it disperses seeds from the fruit in its diet, perhaps making the
flying mammal crucial to its tropical rain forest ecosystem.
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Dust mite
Invertebrates Arthropods
Dust mites feed on organic detritus such as flakes of shed human
skin. House dust mites are a common cause of asthma and allergic
symptoms worldwide.
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Glass-wing butterfly
Arthropods -- insect
Glasswing butterfly. The wing membranes of this butterfly
are predominately transparent. This adaptation is a defence
against predators, who find it difficult to recognise the insect
as butterfly when it is either in flight or feeding. It is found in
Cental America.
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Self-Cloning Lizard
Reptiles
Self-Cloning Lizard
You could call it the surprise du jour: A popular food on Vietnamese
menus has turned out to be a lizard previously unknown to science,
scientists said in November.
What's more, the newfound Leiolepis ngovantrii is no run-of-the-mil
(ordinary) reptile—the all-female species reproduces via cloning, wit
the need for male lizards.
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Squid Worm
Invertebrate Annelids
Squid? Worm? Initially, this new species—with bristle-based
"paddles" for swimming and tentacles on its head—so perplexed
Census of Marine Life researchers that they threw in the towel
and simply called it squidworm.
Found via remotely operated vehicle about 1.7 miles (2.8
kilometers) under the Celebes Sea in 2007, the ten-centimeterlong creature turned out to be the first member of a new family
in the Polychaeta class of segmented worms.
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Pink Handfish
Fish
Pink Handfish
Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor, the
pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a
scientific review of the handfish family released in May.
Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (ten-centimeter) pink
handfish have ever been found, and all of those were collected from
areas around the city of Hobart, on the Australian island of Tasmania.
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Flounder -a flatfish
Fish
In its life cycle, an adult flounder has two eyes situated on one
side of its head, where at hatching one eye is located on each side
of its brain. One eye migrates to the other side of the body as a
process of metamorphosis as it grows from larval to juvenile stage.
As an adult, a flounder camouflages itself by lying on the bottom
of the ocean floor as protection against predators. As a result, the
eyes are then on the side which faces up.
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Gastric Brooding Frog
Amphibians
Gastric Brooding Frog
A type of gastric brooding frog, the likely extinct Rheobatrachus
vitellinus had—or has—a unique mode of reproduction: Females
swallowed their eggs, raised tadpoles in their stomachs, and then
gave birth to froglets through their mouths (pictured above).
Last seen in 1985, the Australian frog is one of the ten species
that conservationists most hope to find during a first ever global
search for lost amphibian species.
In addition to massive habitat loss, amphibians have declined
rapidly due to the spread of the usually fatal chytrid fungus.
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Star Nosed Mole
Mammals
The star nosed mole is a tenacious creature, able to
withstand severe cold and burrow easily through ice
to make its home and find food. It lives in Canada and
the East Coast of the United States. It favors a high
protein diet of clams, snails, small rodents, mollusks
and worms.
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