- Pan Chimpanzee • Chimpanzee lives in the rain forests of tropical West Africa. Chimpanzee is most
intelligent of all apes and possesses high level of curiosity.
• It is more nearly like man than any other living mammal.
• It is easily tamed when young and trained to perform simple acts.
• Body is upto 1.2 metres in height.
• It lives on trees and on ground and is frugivorous.
- Gorilla Gorilla • Gorilla is the most powerful ape and the largest living primate, nomadic in the
deep equatorial African forests of Cameron, Gabon and Congo.
• Massive and strongly built body is 1.8 metres tall, 250 kg in weight, with large
canines, arms longer than legs and big toe larger than the rest.
• Gorilla gorilla is almost entirely terrestrial, ferocious and untamable, but more
quiet and retiring than the chimpanzee.
Rodentia
- Rattus Rat • Rats are the most harmful and well-known rodent pests, living in holes and
burrows in the houses and in cultivated fields all over the world.
• They are very cunning, gregarious, nocturnal and prolific breeders.
• They are host to ratfleas which carry the bacillus Pasteurella pestis causing
bubonic plague in man.
• White laboratory rat is an albino mutant of wild grey form.
- Mus musculus House
mouse
• Common house mouse is a miniature replica of the house rat in general built
and appearance.
• It is also common throughout the world in association with man, and is active
mainly at night.
- Hystrix Porcupine • Old World porcupines from Africa and Asia are large, thickset and short-legged
rodents having a short, non-prehensile tail.
• Body and tail are covered dorsally with long, sharp, erectile black and white
spines or quills for defense, in addition to coarse hair.
• Porcupines do not attack by throwing their spines as generally believed.
• It spends most of the day time in its burrow, but emerges at night to feed on crops,
vegetables and plant roots. It produces grunting sounds like that of a pig.
- Cavia Guinea pig • It digs its own burrow or occupies deserted burrows of other animals.
• It is crepuscular, vegetarian, coprophagus and easily domesticated.
• Like white rats, guinea pigs are also used extensively for research.
Lagomorpha
- Oryctolagus
cuniculus
Rabbit • It is cosmopolitan in distribution.
• It occurs in fields, grasslands and open woodlands.
• It is a fossorial, gregarious, herbivorous, crepuscular and coprophagus
animal.
• It is polygamous and parental care is present.
Cetacea
- Balaenoptera
musculus
Blue whale • Whales are the largest animals in existence.
• They are the inhabitants of the open ocean. They are gregarious and
carnivorous.
• It swims with the help of powerful tail and flippers (forelimbs).
• The skin lacks hair, except a few hair present on the lips.
• The skin does not have sweat and oil glands.
• Pinnae are not found in whale. Oil extracted from its blubber has great economic
importance.
