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The Difference Between
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How do you tell the difference between a beaver house and a muskrat house?
A beaver lodge's its home. A beaver dam slows the water down.
How do you tell the difference between a male and female grey squirrel?
You can identify male and female squirrel very easily if you can see a black round little down the tail then its a male if it is not there its a female.
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I'm not sure where the user that posted the above answer got that one, but male squirrels are built just like dogs. When they stand up on their hind legs, if you see genitalila on the lower third of the body, it's a male. If you see nothing, it's a female.
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Absolutely correct! Just like dogs.
How can you tell the difference between a female or male tarantula?
In most cases it is impossible to sex a tarantula externally. One waits until molt, and the shed exoskeleton (molt) can be examined. Only the Mature male of some species can be identified visually by the presence of mating hooks on the first pair of legs after the ultimate (final) molt.
What is the difference between zooplankton and zooxanthellae?
Plankton is broken down into the three trophic level groups listed below.
Zooplankton: animals, so they consume oxygen (respiration) in the water
Phytoplankton: plants, so they consume oxygen (respiration) in the water, but they also consume CO2 (during photosynthesis). As a result of the process of photosynthesis (autotrophic organisms) they only appear/live in the water where it reaches the solar light (not in the depth of sea).
Bacterioplankton: bacteria and archaea that remineralize organic material.
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How is a bug different from a beetle?
Strictly and formally, bugs and beetles are two different kinds of insects.
- A true bug (Hemiptera, meaning half wing) has a snout or beak that can pierce and suck. Bugs suck sap from plants and blood from animals.
- A beetle (Coleoptera, meaning sheathed wing) has two hard wings at the front which protect a second pair of wings, or the rest of the insect's body.
Informally, the word bug is used to describe arthropods (insects, spiders and crustaceans), so informally a beetle is just a kind of bug.
How can i tell if it my coat is sable or mink?
A mink coat will normally cost $3000 to $15,000. There are American and European minks.
A sable coat will cost much more, typically $30,000 on up to around $300,000 +.
The sable is the most valued and rare of all furs. It is native to Russia and the most valuable fur is that of the winter coat when the fur is darker and longer.
Sable fur is unique among furbearers because it retains its smoothness no matter in which direction it is stroked. The fur of other furbearers on the other hand will give an impression of roughness when stroked in the opposite direction of the grain.
Only extremely wealthy people or some world stars like Madonna have sable on their shoulders. Only top designers like Chanel or Ferre dare to use it in their collections. Generally, sable is combined with high quality fabrics and used for small pieces giving an aristocratic look, such as stoles or for trimming.
What is the difference between a ragdoll kitten and persain?
Although the Birman breeds and Ragdoll breeds share many similarities, they have differences as well. They both share long coats. Birman cats are more playful than the relaxed Ragdoll breed. Birman cats are very intelligent and have been around longer than Ragdolls. Ragdolls tend to be compared to dogs due to their companionable nature. Both are very affectionate.
What is the difference between a lamprey and a hag-fish?
a Hangfish has:
a single nostril at the tip of its snout
and has sensory tentacles around its mouth
as well as slime glands and 1 pair of gill openings.
A Lamprey has :
a mouth lined with teeth
a single nostril at the top if his head
7 pairs of gill openings
and no slime glands
Whats the difference between sharks and dolphins?
Sharks
Eggs
No spinal bones
Fish
Eat people (0riginal answer)- This is moronic to say. Sharks are highly afraid of people and will do what they can to avoid them. The majority of shark attacks are due to the animal being provoked or a case of mistaken identity such as a surfer which looks very much like a sea turtle when looking up from beneath. The sea turtle is a natural food source of most sharks. There more fatalities a year due to lightening striking a person than shark attacks. Ar person is more likely to die from a toaster than a shark or a vending machine fall on them.
Dolphins
Live Birth
Spianl bones
Animal (original answer)- Sharks are also considered animals; therefore this is not a true difference. The classiification for Sharks is as follows: Kingdom:Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous). The classification for the Dolphin is as follows: Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum:Chordata, Class: Mammalia. As you can see, the difference splits at their Class.
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Sharks are cold-blooded, and filter the water around them to get the oxygen out of the water, but dolphins are warm-blooded, therefore mammals, who surface to take a breath of air. Not through their mouth or nose like humans, but through their blowholes, a hole in front of their dorsal fin that closes tightly shut when the dolphin dives back down into the water.
dolphins are mammels and need air to survive. However, sharks are fish and have gills. unlike the dolphin who has lungs.
Sharks are cold-blooded, and are a species of fish; Dolphins are warm-blooded, and are mammals.
A shark has big sharp teeth and dolphin has got little and not sharp teeth
a sharks top fin is straght up with ridges and a dolphins top fin is curved
How much more powerful is a dogs nose than a humans?
A dogs sense of smell is 10,000 more stronger then a humans.
Birds can differ from each other in many ways. Different species differ in both size and appearance along with instincts and ways.
Birds of the same species can differ from each other just the same way as humans. E.g each person is different in their own way due to attitude, colour and thought. It's exactly the same.
Many birds have hooked beaks, many have beaks for siphoning water and others have beaks for catching insects. Their diet varies beyond group species as do their appearance. Many birds may look the same but they each differ in thought, language, colour, size and diet.
What the difference between ant and cockroach?
Grasshoppers go through an incomplete metamorphism. Unlike the normal insect life cycle of egg, larvae, pupa then adult, a grasshopper starts as an egg then hatches as a nymph. The grasshopper grows by molting five times from a nymph to an adult.
What are the differences between dinosaurs and modern reptiles?
There are many differances between the two. Dinosaurs were warmblooded, whereas reptiles are coldblooded. Reptiles also have legs that come out at right angles to their body, and a unusual knee structure. Dinosaurs had leg and hip structures close to that of modern mamals in the case of the herbavores and birds in the case of carnivores.
What is the difference between prehistoric and historic?
Prehistoric: when writing has not been invented and no records were kept
Historic: when writing started and records were kept
What is difference between Manure and Fertiliser?
Manure is fresh crap from an animal who is an herbivore. Compost is manure that has aged and will no longer harm the plants you put it on. Fresh Manure will "burn" your plants but once it has sat for a few years all that is left is the nutrition that plants need to grow.
Manure is natural fertilizer, as is compost. There are also chemical and inorganic fertilizers. All manures can, with care, be used as fertilizers. Many fertilizers, though, are industrially-produced chemical compounds that have no resemblance whatsoever to manure.
How do horses react to humans?
All horses react differently to humans. Wild horses are instinctively wary of humans, though horse that have been brought up by humans are usually very friendly towards humans. my horse is anyway.
How can you tell the difference between a wild cat and a stray cat?
Actually... there is such a breed as a Bengal cat... It's a cross between the Asian leopard cat and the Domestic house cat. This new breed is very new, my sources have said they started somewhere in the 1970-1980's.
Bengal cats are Confident, Smart (they can learn tricks and rules better then a regular house cat... but only if they want to!) They have a penchant for water (if i leave the bathroom door open during my showers my Bengal will hop right in!) and they are more adventurous then your average cat. They also bond to their owners, they love to be lap cats, and they love to cuddle under the blankets right up next, or on top of you. They do not accept change well (at all). They can jump very high and can run much faster than a normal house cat.
There are 3 different patterns for their fur... Spotted and dark (like a leopard), spotted and light like a snow leopard or marbled (... like... marble. haha also dark) The females are about the size of a regular cat (usually skinnier and with toned muscles) The males are commonly a bit bigger then your average cat.
old AnswerAre you talking about a BENGAL Cat?? I don't know of any breed called a bangle. And to tell the difference between cats you would need to specify what wild cat you are comparing to and then I could give you some pointers. For example, the difference between a BENGAL and a LION is about 250 pounds.I had used to have 2 Bengal cats, a male and a female, male: spotted Female: marbled but now i only have the female and she is quite the hunter, once she ripped the face off a baby rabbit, so if you have a weak stomach, i do not suggest getting a Bengal cat.
What is the difference between a squid an octopus?
- When hunting, some octopuses inject poison into the prey, causing paralysis.
- Octopuses range in size from 1 cm to more than 5 m in length, while squids range from 1 cm to 20 m.
- Octopuses live in dens on the sea floor. Squids live in the open oceans.
- Both octopuses and squids are related to snails and other molluscs. Unlike snails, octopuses no longer have any remnant of a shell. Squids possess a stiff structure known as a pen, that acts as a flexible backbone.
- Octopuses are solitary animals that live alone in dens.
Some squids live in large schools, others are solitary. Some squids school when young and become solitary later in life.
- Squid have two tentacles and eight arms, and octopuses just have eight arms.
Edit: This list seems to be all wrong (except the very last point, which I need not discuss), thusly highly misleading.
- All squids and octopuses have a venom gland and venomous bite
Read more: Is_the_common_squid_poisonous
- The giant squid (genus: Architeuthis) is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, represented by as many as eight species. (wikipedia)
- Deep/open. I'll let you have this one because I can't fact-check it in 2 minutes (remember, I found this question because I'm looking for the answers myself)
- This could be right. I remember watching a highly flexible octopus (on a show about problem solving abilities in animals). Squids seem to be less prone to changing shape.
- I've seen schools of squids. This one could be right too.
How are mammals different from all other animals?
its a hammal mammal
answer 2 The traditional definition of a mammal is "an animal that suckles its young."
Class Mammalia. Evolved from reptiles about 200 million years ago. There are around 4000 different species, and before you get too big, nearly half the species are rodents, and another quarter are bats. [some may be your friends?]
There is a major sub-group of mammals, the Monotremes, egg-laying mammals, of which only the Echidna and Platypus survive.
No, insects typically have six legs and spiders have eight legs. And an insect had 3 body parts but spider has 2 body parts. so they are arachnids.
What is the difference between predator birds and scavenger birds?
parasites live off of living hosts, and scavengers feed from dead organisms
Which rhino is the largest between black or white rhino?
The white rhino is the largest species of rhinoceras.
The white rhino. White rhinos can weigh nearly three tons, to around 3000 pounds for the black rhino. Some males can grow much larger than this, some white rhino bulls have reached nearly four tons, and a few black rhino bulls approach two tons (4000 pounds).
What are the differences between tigers and zebras?
There are many differences, as these are two very different animals. A tiger is a strict carnivore while a zebra is a strict herbivore. Tigers live in jungles and wooded areas while zebras live on grassy meadows called savannahs. Tigers are solitary while zebras live in large herds.
