Vertebrate
What is vertebrate?

What is vertebrate?
Is Spine backbone?

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

Golly.

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.

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

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

What!?
Vertebrate It is precious!
Feature of vertebrate

There is a feature not found in invertebrates to vertebrates.

Is it other than the spine?

They are representative.

What is it?

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

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

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

What is hemoglobin?

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

Hemoglobin also included in my body,do you know?

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

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

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.

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

Hum.
the spine that do not know where the spine organisms .

Mr Turtle!

What's the matter,Tamaki?

I have a question.

What?

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

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.


Where is the backbone?

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

Wow!

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

I got more information about turtle thanks to the teacher.
Let's go to next!

I understand vertebrate thanks to the teachers.

Well done.

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

You forget the birds and fish.

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

Plaese teach me!
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