what characteristics do all animals share?
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An animal is defined as a multicellular, eukaryotic organism that has to eat food to obtain energy and does not have chitinous cell walls. These characteristics set animals apart from all the other kingdoms of life: plants (which have cell walls, but make their own food), fungi (which have cell walls), protists (unicellular), monera (prokaryotic, unicellular).
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Ok, Anthropoids include New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans. Some of the general characteristics are:\n-Larger brain.\n-Smaller olfactory/nasal regions (worse sense of smell because our noses don't stick out as, say, a dog's.).\n-Better manual dexterity (meaning they can manipulate things with their hands, like humans do, instead of batting things around with paws, like cats do).\n-Fully Binocular vision (both eyes focus on the target, instead of each eye doing its own thing).\n\nAs for impacts on humans... Hmmm... I'm just making this part up as I go along, but possible influences and negative effects could be given as (+ = positive impact, - = negative impact):\n+Larger brain lets us process more information, so we're smarter, so we can make use of our other skills and have more meaningful interactions; such as communicating while hunting, or creating new tools.\n-Smaller olfactory regions would mean worse sense of smell, so it would be harder to track things be scent, or smell predators.\n+Better manual dexterity lets us make and use tools, build shelter, and process food (like harvesting and preserving crops for winter).\n+/-Full Binocular vision limits us to tracking only one thing at a time, but it also lets us judge distances for things like jumping, and track movement so we can catch things.
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Those are the charactistics by which a species is defined by taxonomists, the people who classify plants and animals.\n\nGenerally, a species is defined by those characteristics that the entire species has, not those that vary greatly among individuals.  They must also be characteristics that are different from other species.  So, for example, you might count the number of bones in a particular body part, or the position of the eyes relative to the rest of the face, or whatever.  Sometimes it is a behavior characteristic, but usually it is one shaped by a physical characteristic.  \n\nTry it on dogs, to see for yourself.  There are many breeds of dogs, and their hair, their shape and size, etc., vary greatly.  You can't use those.  They have four legs and a tail, but so do lots of animals other than dogs.  But dogs have a unique ventilation system, in that instead of sweating all over, they hang out their tongues and pant to get rid of excess moisture.  I am not enough of a taxonomist to give you all the details, but you could look them up.  Be prepared to discover, as I did when I read a book all about dogs, that several animals which have different names are also dogs in the scientific sense of being members of the species.  (Dang!  My cheap new dictionary does not give the Latin names.)
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Animals and humans are practically one and the same, animals want to eat procreate, protect there young, humans are the same except for one thing, The ability to reason and ask a simple but important question..WHY? \n\nAsking that question has enabled humans to explore and expand,whether evolution or god had a say in that, is another question. But instinctly animals and humans are more similar than some people might like to admit to. \n\nOur behaviour can often be predicted following models based on animals. But the knowledge of our mortality and questioning of it, separates man from beast.
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All animals move at some point in their life.  However, animals like sponges, hydras, anemones and coral are stationary in their adult form.
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Yes.  A whale is a mammal, and one characteristic of all mammals is that they reproduce sexually.
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living things have these characteristics:\n\n1. irritability (ability to respond to stimuli)\n2. life cycle\n3. growth and development\n4. motion (for animals)\n5. reproduction\n\nnon- living things dont have these charateristics...
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Every animal has a language, whether visual or verbal. Think about the hundredth monkey theory.
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That they are in the same kingdom, phylum and class? So they share similar traits the way we share traits with other primates.
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All living things have 7 characteristics. They form the acronym GRIMNER.\n1) Growth - permanent increase in size\n2) Reproduction - ability to produce offspring\n3) Irritability - the ability to detect and respond to stimuli (changes\n         in the environment)\n4) Movement - ability to change the position of the whole or part\n         of the body\n5) Nutrition\n6) Excretion - rmoval of metabolic waste\n7) Respiration - ability to release energy from food
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1. Warm blooded\n2. Give birth to live young.\n3. Have mammary glands and nurse their young\n4. Have hair (yes, ehales and dolphins in utero have hair and some remains shortly after birth)\n5. Breath with lungs (while not a mammal exclusive trait it separates them from fish)\n\nOther marine mammals include seals, sea lions, manattees and sea otters.
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All of the terrestrial vertebrates have four limbs (and thus, they are sometimes referred to as tetrapods, which literally means 'four feet').\n\nNot only that, but they all have the same basic structure of limb bones - pectoral girdle consisting of scapulae, with the humerus as the single upper arm bones, radius and ulna as the two lower arm bones and a wrist made up of carpal bones, followed by metacarpals and digits made up of phalanges.  The lower limb girdle is also nearly identical, with a pelvis, femurs, tibia/fibulla, tarsals, metatarsals and phalanges.\n\nThis incredible similarity of structure in limb bones between incredible diverse groups of organisms - chickens, frogs, salamanders, whales, lions, humans, seals, plesiosaurs, iguanas, horses, mice and platypus all have this same exact limb structure, is evidence that all of these organisms share a common ancestor that also had this limb arrangement.\n\nStrangely enough, the remaining vertebrate group, the fish, do not all share this limb bone arrangement.  Most of them have the same set-up of pectoral and pelvic limbs, but after that, there's a whole variety of totally different skeletal anatomy.\n\nThere is one group of fish that does have this limb arrangement though.  Most of them are only known as fossils today, but there is one living species of this group.  The sarcopterygians, or lobe-finned fish were the first known group to show this particular limb pattern.  The coelacanth also possesses the pattern.\n\nStrangely enough, the earliest known fossils of amphibians look amazingly similar to sarcopterygian fish with larger limbs.\n\nThis conservation of characters amongst all living terrestrial vertebrates is pretty powerful evidence for evolution having taken place, and that all of these diverse organisms developed through common descent from a single ancestor that first evolved this character.
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If you're really paying attention, you can tell one animal from another, too....they each have unique characteristics.
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Marsupials\n\nYou can find more details here http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/marsupial/marsupial.html
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Personality\nLooks\nBrains\nand Being Unique
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In order to survive, animals need air, water, food, and shelter (protection from predators and the environment); plants need air, water, nutrients, and light. \n\nEvery organism has its own way of making sure its basic needs are met.
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Yes.  All animals have feelings, they aren't as strong or  prominate as humans but they feel some emotions.  For example cats.  When I was a kid we had two cats named precious and rocky.  And everday when I left for school they would stand with me until the bus came.  Then when I would come home they would be waiting for me.  Other evidence:\n\n-Elephants bury the bones of deceased\n-They adopt abandoned baby elephants after their mothers die\n-Cats nuture each other, I've seen our cats clean eachother\n-Dogs are loyal and have saved others lives