Zoo virtual tour EP - 1

Animals are classified by their diets into carnivorous animals, which survive entirely by eating meat, and omnivorous animals, which consume both plant foods and meat.

Carnivorous big cats

• Lions are carnivores that live for ten to fifteen years and sleep for nearly twenty hours a day.
• A group of five to ten lions forms a family called a pride, and a baby lion is called a cub.
• Tigers are the largest animals in the cat family and hunt quietly at night for prey such as deer, antelope, and buffalo.

Omnivorous bears and pandas

• Bears [karadi] eat meat, fish, and plants, and they have the ability to climb trees and swim in water.
• Polar bears are an exception among bears because they live in extremely cold regions and grow up eating only meat.
• Baby pandas are pink and only about fifteen centimeters long, growing larger and turning black and white as they mature.
• Adult pandas eat twelve to thirty-eight kilograms of bamboo each day, but they are considered omnivores because they also eat fish.

Monkeys and humans

• Monkeys are omnivorous animals that feed on green plants as well as meat, with about two hundred and sixty-four known species.
• Monkeys can live from ten to fifty years, can count numbers, and were described by the scientist Charles Darwin as being like our brothers.
• Humans are also classified as omnivorous mammals because human diets include meat as well as plants and herbs.

Turtles, tortoises, and birds

• Turtles and tortoises are slow-moving omnivorous reptiles that first appeared on Earth roughly two hundred million years ago.
• Moving slowly helps turtles and tortoises avoid wasting energy, and their diet changes depending on whether they live in water or on land.
• In water, turtles and tortoises eat jellyfish and algae, while on land they consume greens and plants.
• Peacocks are male birds and peahens are female birds, capable of flying only limited distances and feeding on seeds, grains, insects, and butterflies.