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Some animals frighten off predators with coloring that makes them look much bigger. Foe example, peacock butterflies have big eye spots on their wings.
The kea of New Zealand is a parrot that eats flesh as well as fruits. It was once wrongly thought to be a sheep killer.
Termites are champion builders. They make mud nests up to four times taller than a man. There many are as many as 5 million termites in a single nest!
Butterflies and some insects cope with the cold and lack of food in winter by going into a kind of suspended animation called diapauses.
Some animals frighten off predators with coloring that makes them look much bigger. Foe example, peacock butterflies have big eyespots on their wings.
The army ants have no home. They keep on moving and eating everything they get in their way. The thing can include even humans. A swarm of army ants can be up to 20 million strong!
Some animals use camouflage to hide in the surroundings. Zebras have stripes that make easy to see them. But when they move, the stripes blur their outlines and confuse predators.
Squirrels bury dozens of stories of nuts in autumn to feed on during winter. They have a remarkable memory, as they are able to find each store when they need it.
In the USA there is a sea hospital where injured manatees are given lifejackets to wear. They help them to stay afloat while they get better.
In china there lives an endangered river dolphin. It is almost blind and uses sound to find its food. The sounds of boats in the river confuse it and it swims the wrong way – many times into the fishing nets!
Attempts to breed pandas have largely. For example, Washington Zoo's giant panda. Ling birth too many cubs in the 1970s and 1980d, but the cubs died very soon after the birth.
Squids can change their color to blend in with new surroundings.
Meerkats stand on their hind legs and give a shrill call to alert other Meerkats to dangers
Armadillos curl up inside their body armor
Hedgehogs, porcupines and echidnas protect themselves with sharp quills
Skunks and stinkpot turtles give off foul smell to keep away predators
Plovers pretend be injured to lure hunters away from their young
Kangaroo rats and rabbits thump their feet to send out warning signals
When in danger, an octopus sends out a cloud of inky black fluid. Some times the ink cloud is the same shape of the octopus and fools a predator to chase the cloud.
The lubber grasshopper oozes a foul smelling fluid from its mouth and thorax to keep the predator away
When attacked, swallowtail caterpillars whip out a smelly forked gland from a pocket behind their head and hit their attacker with it
When a danger threatens a gorilla troop, the adult male stands upright, pounds his hands against his chest, and bellows loudly
1 新西兰的食肉鹦鹉是一种既吃肉类也吃果类的鹦鹉。它曾经被误认为是一种绵羊杀手。
2 白蚁是冠军建设者。 他们作出泥巢的高度是一名男子身高的四倍。 一个的泥巢住着多达5百万的白蚁
3蝴蝶和一些昆虫为应付冷和缺乏食物在冬季进入一种称为滞育（昆虫生长的停滞期）的假死状态。
4一些动物利用让它们看起来很巨大的颜色吓跑捕食者。例如，孔雀和蝴蝶的翅膀上有大大的像眼睛一样的斑点。
5 军蚁没有家。 他们不停的行走和吃掉路上得到的一切。 他们甚至还吃人。 一窝蜂的军蚁可以达到两千万倍强！
6.一些动物使用伪装隐藏在周围的环境中。 斑马具有条纹，很容易被看到。 但当他们搬迁时,模糊的条纹让掠食者混淆。
7 松鼠在秋天储存许多坚果，在冬季进食。 他们有很好的记忆，所以他们能够找到每份存储当需要它的时候。
8在美国，有一个海边的医院给受伤的海牛穿救生衣。 救生衣能帮助他们在康复的时候也能漂浮着。
9在中国存活着一种濒危的河豚。它的视力很差，靠声音寻找食物。河里船只的声音迷惑了它所以会游到错误的地方--很多时候到了渔网里面。
10繁殖大熊猫的尝试很强烈。比如，华盛顿公园的大熊猫。在二十世纪七八时年代它生了很多的幼仔，但幼仔出生很快就死了。
11鱿鱼可以转换体色渗透到新的环境中。
12南非）海岛猫鼬用后脚站立，用尖叫提醒同类有危险。
13犰狳会蜷缩身体到护甲里面。
14刺猬，豪猪，针鼹鼠用尖尖的刚毛自卫。
15臭鼬，麝龟发出恶臭抵挡捕食者。
16珩科鸟假装受伤引诱猎人离开他们的幼仔。
17袋鼠，鼠兔在危险时噔脚发出预警信号。
18章鱼则散发出云状的黑液体。 有时黑液体是和章鱼同样形状，误导让捕猎者去追逐墨云。
19大蚂蚱从它的嘴和胸部渗出一种恶臭的液体来驱赶捕食者。
20在受到攻击时，燕尾毛毛虫从脑袋后面的口袋射出恶臭的叉状的腺液、同时用头击打袭击者
21当一个危险威胁着一个大猩猩部队，成年男性的大猩猩直立站起来、双手击打他的胸部，并大声的叫喊。
