CLASSIFICATION

Vertabrate
class: Mammalia
defining characteristics: have hair covering their bodies, feed their young

1) giraffe
order: Artiodactyla

family: Giraffidae
specie: Giraffe camelopardaliae
The giraffe's tongue can reach a length of 18 in. long.

2) kangaroo
order: Marsupialia
family: Macropodidae
specie: Macropus giganteus
A kangaroo can reach a length of ten feet and a weight of 200 pounds.

class: Aves
defining characteristics: They have light boned fore limbs which aid them in flight.

1) condor
The Andean condor is the the world's largest flying bird.

2) vulture
family: Cathartidae

specie: Coragyps atratus

class: Reptilia
defining characteristics: are lizardlike, egg-laying and meat eaters

1) crocodile
family: Crocodylidae
specie: Crocodylus niloticus
Crocodiles are the largest modern reptiles, they constitute the last living link with the dinosaur like reptiles of prehistoric times.

2) turtle
order: Chelonia
family: Testudinidae
Turtles can reach a weight of 300 to 500 pounds.

INVERTEBRATE
phylum: Arthropoda
defining characteristics: have external skeleton, segmented body, and jointed apendages

1) tse tse fly
The tse tse fly carries the disease trypanosome , or African Sleeping Sickness.

2) mosquito
genus: Anopheles
Mosquitos transmit malaria in a very complicated process by the sucking of human blood.

3) beetle
order: Coleoptera
The Coleoptera is by far the largest of the insect orders. At last count, it consisted of 290,000 different species.

4) tick
order: Acarina
Mites are distinguished from spiders in having the abdomen fused with the head and back. They have four pairs of legs, but at birth they have only three.

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