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Animals and Their Habitat | Animals in Their Natural Habitat

Place where  certain animals live, called as habitat.

There are some common habitats where animals live:

Animals that live in both land and water are called amphibian. Amphibian animal are crocodile, frog, and turtle.

Animals that can give birth and produce milk for their babies are called mammals. Some mammals are cow, goat, dog, sheep.

Some animals which have more than 4 legs and usually have antennas called as insects. Some insects are butterfly, cockroach, fly, dragonfly, spider, ant.

Animals and their homes:

Chicken: barn

Bear: cave

Spider: web

Bird: nest

Dog: kennel

Cat: basket

Horse: stable

Rabbit: hutch

Animals have been adapted specifically to their nature habitat, so they can live in the entire world, from the cold pole to the hot desert.    

Tropical rain forest around equator area has become a home for at least half of animal and plant species in the entire world. 

AUTUMN FOREST   

Autumn forest which has friendly and humid climate is found a lot at south of conifer forest. Subtropics autumn forest is sprout up with wide leaf trees which topple their leaves at autumn season, like oak, maple, and beech. This forest looks arid and dead at winter season. But at summer, this forest is rich with wild life animals such as deer, fox, and bird. 

CONIFER FOREST 

The wide conifer forest area could be found at North America, Europe, and Asia. Most of the trees have needle leaves, like pine and casuarinas. Animals live here will have enough food and protection. 

DESERT 

Desert is the driest place at the earth. There are a lot of sand, stone, and pebble there. Only the strongest animals can withstand to live there. Some animals develop many adaptation methods to live at desert. Many animals can withstand without water for quite a long time, other animals only get water from their food. There is also nocturnal animal which hunt their victim only at night time. 

MOUNTAIN     

Mountains can be found at the entire continent, at hot or cold area. Highest areas have colder temperature. Mountains have many habitats such as forest, grassy plain, and stony land. Some mountains pass are covered with ice and snow all the year. Animals which live there should be able to endure to cold and sharp wind of mountain weather. 

POLE 

Two poles are Arctic, which is in the North Pole and Antarctica, which is the South pole. These two poles are unfriendly habitat because of long and dark winter season, wind as cold as ice, and freeze temperature. No wonder, there is only few animals live there. 

SAVANNAH 

Savannah is an open wide plain with limited rainfall just enough to grow the grass. This bioma reserves food for some animals such as antelope, zebra, bison, and lion. Savannah covers more than quarter of earth surface.  

SEA 

More than 2/3 of earth surfaces are covered with sea. Sea life is the most various with animals like fishes, sponges, and shells live around coral reef in tropical sea.