Animals are a major group of mostly multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently. All animals are also heterotrophs, meaning they must ingest other organisms for sustenance.
Most known animal phyla appeared in the...
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- If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
- An eagle does not catch flies.
- Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
- Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
- The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
- The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
- The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.
- Four legs good, two legs bad.
- The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.
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