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Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently. All animals are also heterotrophs, meaning they must ingest other organisms for sustenance...

Tortoises (Testudinidae) are a family of land-dwelling reptiles of the order of turtles (Testudines). Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The tortoise has both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton. Tortoises can vary in size from a few centimeters to two meters...

Polycephaly is a condition of having more than one head. The term is derived from the greek stems poly- (Anc.Gr. "πολύ") meaning 'much' and kephali- (Anc.Gr. "κεφάλι") meaning "head", and encompasses bicephaly and dicephaly (both referring to two-headedness). A variation is an animal born with two faces on a single head, a condition known as diprosopus. In medical terms these are all congenital cephalic disorders...

When Chinese villagers caught a monkey that was stealing their cucumbers they first thought it was an alien. But it was just a malnourished atrophied monkey. Villagers asked police officers to put the "alien" under arrest but police took it to vets. Atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body...

Working as a professional photographer for 20 years, Süha Derbent took travel photographs for the Cumhuriyet daily, Atlas magazine and Marie Claire magazine respectively. He also worked as Director of Photography for two years at the Gezi National Geographic Traveler published by Number One Hearst Publishing. Derbent travelled through more than 60 countries ranging from Scandinavia to Madagascar, Sri Lanka to Canada...

Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently. All animals are also heterotrophs, meaning they must ingest other organisms for sustenance...

In a village in West Bengal's Darjeeling district a leopard injured five villagers, policemen and forest guards who were trying to tranquillise it. The animal died several hours later. The leopard, Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion and jaguar...

They say people should never work with animals - but one look at this cuddly, sleepy panda and it's easy to see why a team of wildlife photographers ignored the advice. The baby panda is among hundreds of the world's rarest and most stunning animals which have been captured in studio images in an astonishing look at wildlife. Pictured against brilliant white backgrounds, more than 450 animals have been photographed for a massive project, dubbed 'Life On White'...