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8 Animal’s World

Animals are amazing things; all of us are unique and sometimes very
unusual in our behaviour. Animals are of different shapes, sizes and

colours. It is estimated that there are 6.5 million animal species on land

and around 2.2 million species in the oceans.

Let us read the given descriptions to know about some amazing wild
animals of the world.

This fish is called as Mudskipper fish. It Spider Crabs are found in the Pacific
can climb a tree with the help of its leg- Ocean bottom in Japan. It is believed that

like fins and a sort of suction cup on its they live upto about 100 years. They are
belly. known as the largest arthropods.

Markhor belongs to the goat family. It is These snake-like fish are found in seas,
found high up in the woodlands of the oceans, lakes and rivers. These fish are
Himalayas. They are herbivores. They kill called Eels. They can swim forward as
snakes, but do not eat them. well as backward in water.

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