Living Organisms

Dennis Raphael G Martinez

VII-St. Benedict
Dogs
Dogs are man’s best friend. The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis
familiaris) is a domesticated canid which has been selectively bred for millennia for various
behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes. Dogs perform many roles for people,
such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and military,
companionship, and, more recently, aiding handicapped individuals.
Cats
The domestic cat (Felis catus or Felis silvestris catus) is a small, usually furry,
domesticated, and carnivorous mammal. They are often called housecats when kept as indoor
pets or simply cats when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines.
Cats are often valued by humans for companionship and their ability to hunt vermin.
Penguins
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic,
flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, especially in
Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white
plumage, and their wings have evolved into flippers. Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid
and other forms of sealife caught while swimming underwater. They spend about half of their
lives on land and half in the oceans.
Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread
species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos taurus. Cattle
are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy
products, and as draft animals (oxen or bullocks that pull carts, plows and other implements).
Butterfly
Butterflies are part of the class of insects in the order Lepidoptera, along with the
moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous,
fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, along with two
smaller groups, the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies
(superfamily Hedyloidea). Butterfly fossils date to the Palaeocene, about 56 million years
ago.
Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is
an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has
evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Hyracotherium,
into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000
BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC.
Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up
to 3.38 m (11.1 ft) over curves and exceptionally weighing up to 388.7 kg (857 lb) in the
wild. Its most recognisable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur
with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard,
jaguar and snow leopard. Tigers are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as
deer and bovids.
Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the five big cats in the genus Panthera and a member
of the family Felidae. The commonly used term African lion collectively denotes the several
subspecies found in Africa. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the
second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and
in Asia. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread
large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from
western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru.