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What is vertebrate?

TamakiTamaki

What is vertebrate?
Is Spine backbone?

Mr CatMr Cat

Yeah.
Spine is backbone.
The spine supports the body of the animal.


TamakiTamaki

Golly.

Mr CatMr Cat

Vertebrate has a spine.
Fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians are also vertebrates.
Human is similar to vertebrate than invertebrate
Crab, squid and insects are invertebrates.


Tamaki Tamaki

I knew the first time that human is a vertebrate.
Many times of invertebrates are vertebrate?

Mr CatMr Cat

Heck no!
There are only 5% vertebrate of the whole animal .


TamakiTamaki
What!?
Vertebrate It is precious!

Feature of vertebrate

Mr FrogMr Frog

There is a feature not found in invertebrates to vertebrates.


TamakiTamaki

Is it other than the spine?

Mr FrogMr Frog

They are representative.


TamakiTamaki

What is it?

Mr FrogMr Frog

Feature of vertebrates is that the brain and spinal cord.
                               And,they are protected by the vertebral and skull.


TamakiTamaki

Vertebrate is only animal that have a spine and skull.
I didn't know that.

Mr FrogMr Frog

In addition to it's got blood, including hemoglobin.
But few a fish does not contain the hemoglobin in the blood.


TamakiTamaki

What is hemoglobin?

Mr FrogMr Frog

Hemoglobin is the protein that is in the blood of some other animal of all vertebrates.
Blood is red because hemoglobin is red .


TamakiTamaki

Hemoglobin also included in my body,do you know?

Mr FrogMr Frog

By the way,Vertebrate have got to the semicircular canals of one at least.
Animal usually has a semicircular canals.


Tamaki Tamaki

Semicircular canals is organ to keep the sense of balance,isn't it?

Mr FrogMr Frog

Yes.
Do not have animals of small types of vertebrate.
And the largest water organisms blue whale and ,the largest terrestrial organisms African elephant  are vertebrate.


TamakiTamaki

Golly.
I was surprised to know that vertebrates have many features.
I don't forget it!

Mr FrogMr Frog

Hum.


the spine that do not know where the spine organisms .

TamakiTamaki

Mr Turtle!

Mr TurtleMr Turtle

What's the matter,Tamaki?


TamakiTamaki

I have a question.

Mr TurtleMr Turtle

What?


TamakiTamaki

Where are there spine of turtle?
Did you mean, Is shell spine?
Or, turtle not a vertebrate?

Mr TurtleMr Turtle

I'm vertebrate.
Spine of the turtle is not a whole shell.
I will show you a picture.
This is This is the spine of the turtle.


TamakiTamaki

Where is the backbone?

Mr TurtleMr Turtle

Spine is a bone, is stuck on the back of the shell.
That.


TamakiTamaki

Wow!

Mr TurtleMr Turtle

I'm glad to know me to you
In fact, people who know the position of the spine of the turtle is small.


TamakiTamaki

I got more information about turtle thanks to the teacher.

Let's go to next!

TamakiTamaki

I understand vertebrate thanks to the teachers.

Mr FrogMr Frog

Well done.


TamakiTamaki

But,I'm not understand mammals and reptiles and amphibians still.

Mr BirdMr Bird

You forget the birds and fish.


Miss FishMiss Fish

…I think that there is a need to explain from one to Tamaki I.


TamakiTamaki

Plaese teach me!



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