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Starting with the many, many different kinds of animals scientists group the most similar together. At times they use information about how species evolved. Some species can be differentiated because they they cannot breed together.

Consider camels, for example. (Please see the link.) There are two species of camel. In many ways they are very similar; they differ in that one specied has a single hump, the other two.

Since they bear their weight primarily on their third and forth toes, have hooves, are herbivores and live on land they are grouped with pigs, hippopotamuses, llamas and other animals that have similar characteristics.

They bear live babies and the mothers feed them their own milk, so they are mammals like us.

They have backbones, so they are grouped with the vertebrates, like us.

And finally they are animals.

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