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News Fruit Flies Likely Enjoy Sex, Offering Clues Into Drug Addiction

Deciphering the brain mechanisms involved in pleasure may help scientists learn how to help people addicted to heroin and cocaine.

Follow Video Lion Cubs Affected By Paralysing Disease Caused by a mineral deficiency, the paralyzing disease normally affects sheep, cattle, and goats.

Follow Photos ANIMALS ARE SHRINKING AND FREEZING TO DEATH IN A CHANGING ARCTIC

Event WELCOME TO SAFARI LIVE

Jump on the back and join a LIVE African Safari. Twice a day our expert guides invite you to come along and drive through the African bush in search of the Big Five as well as smaller animals.

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News Prehistoric Toothless Whale Among Oldest of Its Kind

Fossils unearthed in New Zealand belonged to an ancestor of minkes and humpbacks that lived about 27.5 million years ago.

Follow Video Taiwan's Cat Village The free and well-loved cats of Houtong, Taiwan, have given a second life to the former coal town.

Follow Photos The Croc That Ate A Boat - Outback Wrangler 3

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News See the Last Footage of Rare Tree-Climbing Lions

National Geographic explorer Alexander Braczkowski spent six months following a pride of tree-climbing lions before they were poisoned.

Follow Video Head-Banging Tortoise Gopher tortoises are caught in a population decline due to human impact.

About Animals

Animals are members of Kingdom Animalia, also known as Metazoa. All animals are multicellular and motile, meaning they can move impulsively and independently.

For all they have in common, different animal species vary in spectacular ways. Some are more active at night (known as nocturnal) while others are most active during the day (known as diurnal). Some are merely a few cells; whiles others can weigh several tonnes.

The five most well-known classes of fauna are mammals (such as lions and monkeys), birds (such as ducks and emus), fish (such as sharks and snapper), reptiles (such as snakes and crocodiles) and amphibians (such as frogs and salamanders).

The exact number of animal species existing on Earth is still not known, with around 17-18,000 new species being discovered every year.

Scroll through the videos, photos and articles below to find out more about animals.

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