Animals and Hominids

Animals: BIRDS - REPTILES

HOMINIDS

Have ape-like characteristics

Homo Sapiens

• King penguin

• Emperor penguin

Homo Erectus

• Same body:

Ovals

Controls fire

Homo habilis

• Indian peafowl

Bigger brain

Australopithecus

• Less curved beaks, weight

• Rattlesnake

Upright walk

• Small legs, body color

• Feathers, Four limbs, beak

Birds and Reptiles

• Conclusion: The class of the birds have some things in common with the reptiles and it’s own species, like some of this: Don’t have arms, have bones, vertebrates, eat meat, etc. That both classes come from an ancestor, like birds: Dinosaurs and Reptiles: Digging Lizards.

• Characteristics in common:
• Vertebrates
• Lay amniotic eggs in shells
• They all eat meat
• They all come from the dinosaurs
• Time of life (10-25 years)
• Oviparous
• Have bones
• Have eyes in the sides.
• Don’t have arms.

• Origin of the class: Origin of the birds: The first classification of birds was developed by Francis Willughby and John Ray in their 1676 volume Ornithologiae, Birds are categorised as the biological class Aves in Linnaean taxonomy. Aves and a sister group, the order Crocodilia, contain the only living representatives of the reptile clade Archosauria. They came after dinosaurs. (Samuel mona’s thought). Origin of the reptiles: It takes you to the
• Pliocene era, 6 millions of years ago. The ancestors were the Digging lizards, they lived below soil.