{"id":52969,"date":"2015-02-28T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=52969"},"modified":"2021-11-24T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T22:00:14","slug":"fauna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=52969","title":{"rendered":"Fauna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/wordlist\/animal.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ape.jpg\" alt=\"ape\" width=\"324\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ape.jpg 266w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ape-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u00a0 Mammals\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>[\u21d2<a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishlearner.com\/beginner\/beginner-vocabulary-crossword-animals-1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crosswords<\/a>\u21d0]<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.languageguide.org\/english\/vocabulary\/birds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32622\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/quebrantahuesos.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2192 <a href=\"http:\/\/photographicdictionary.com\/animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/photographicdictionary.com\/<strong>animals<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languageguide.org\/english\/vocabulary\/reptiles-and-amphibians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reptiles &amp; amphibians<\/a>\u00a0\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2190\u21d0\u00a0 \u2190\u21d0\u00a0 \u2190\u21d0\u00a0 \u2190\u21d0\u00a0 \u2190\u21d0\u00a0 \u2190\u21d0 birds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u221e\u00a0 insects\u00a0&amp; bugs\u00a0&#8230;\u21d2<a href=\"http:\/\/www.languageguide.org\/english\/vocabulary\/insects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[01]<\/a>\u00a0\u21d4\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eflnet.com\/vocab\/insects_vocabulary.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[02]\u21d0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u21d3\u00a0 Creepy-Crawlies<\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5jPDOWjaPA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a4 \u00a0 IDIOMS \u00a0\u21d3<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ql4x--ASiuI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022 \u00a0Animal idioms &#8230;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idiomconnection.com\/animal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[01]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0\/ <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/reference\/idioms\/cat\/10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[02]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0<strong>\/ <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easypacelearning.com\/english-books\/animal-idioms-from-a-to-z\/973-a-list-of-animal-idioms-from-a-to-z-with-meanings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[03]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0<strong><strong>\/ <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtaide.com\/anidioms_list.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[04]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0<strong><strong><strong><strong>\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnenglish.de\/idioms\/animaldioms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[05]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022 \u00a0Quizzes &#8230; \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/quizzes\/517.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[01]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\/ \u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishclub.com\/vocabulary\/idioms-animal.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[02]\u2190\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<strong>\/ <\/strong><strong><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-test.net\/esl\/learn\/english\/grammar\/ee009\/esl-test.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[03]\u2190\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"color: #171717; text-align: center;\">\u25ca \u00a0Animal Similes \u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/similes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Idiomatic expressions with \u00abas &#8230; as\u00bb<\/a>\u00a0\u21d0<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FsGolLF9R1M\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022 \u00a0Quizz<\/strong>: \u21d2<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kubbu.com\/student\/?i=1&amp;a=23495_animal_similes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00abas &#8230; as a &#8230;\u00bb<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><strong><strong>\u21d0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #171717; text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192<\/strong><a style=\"color: #1b3a74;\" title=\"23 Replacement Similes For Humans To Use Once All The Animals Are Dead And No One Knows What &quot;Animals&quot; Were\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2013\/05\/animals-what-were-they\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\"><strong>23<\/strong> Replacement <strong>Similes<\/strong> For Humans To Use <strong>Once All The Animals Are Dead\u21d0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2663\u00a0 English with Jo \u00a0\u21d3\u00a0Pets &amp; Animals<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u21d3 . . . Basic \u00a0[A2]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XptE2D6L2dU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>. . . \u00a0Intermediate \u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0[B1]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fLvvwomBK6w?list=PLD91363C55A5E7422\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0Advanced \u00a0\u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0[B2]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W78YYI0h9F0?list=PL745A33EBE90B4D61\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Er-OnJCn1gg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19993 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ants.jpeg\" alt=\"ants\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ants.jpeg 325w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ants-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ants-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ants<\/strong> are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities. More than 10,000 known ant species occur around the world. They are especially prevalent in tropical forests, where they may be up to half of all the insects living in some locations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ants look much like termites, and the two are often confused\u2014especially by nervous homeowners. However, ants have a narrow \u00abwaist\u00bb between the abdomen and thorax, which termites do not. Ants also have large heads, elbowed antennae, and powerful jaws. These insects belong to the order Hymenoptera, which includes wasps and bees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be located underground, in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants nest in wood and can be destructive to buildings. Some species, such as army ants, defy the norm and do not have permanent homes, instead seeking out food for their enormous colonies during periods of migration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ant communities are headed by a queen or queens, whose function in life is to lay thousands of eggs that will ensure the survival of the colony. Workers (the ants typically seen by humans) are wingless females that never reproduce, but instead forage for food, care for the queen&#8217;s offspring, work on the nest, protect the community, and perform many other duties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Male ants often have only one role\u2014mating with the queen. After they have performed this function, they may die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ants communicate and cooperate by using chemicals that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus, or insects. However, some species have diets that are more unusual. Army ants may prey on reptiles, birds, or even small mammals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>National Geographic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ratio of humans to ants is estimated as: \u00a0<strong>1:10,000<\/strong>;\u00a0 in other words, there are ten thousand ants for each human being!<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2192\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_19651_7-reasons-ants-will-inherit-earth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7 \u00a0Reasons Ants Will Take Over the World<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u21d0<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a4\u00a0 Scary! Ants form Global Mega-Colony \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0[cryptoworld\/July 4, 2009]<\/h6>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. \u00a0Argentine Ant (\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rkPCyL7ZDvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linepithema humile<\/a>\u2190)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What\u2019s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/story\/226696-argentine-ant-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20033 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/humilemap1s.jpeg\" alt=\"humilemap1s\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/humilemap1s.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/humilemap1s-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/humilemap1s-150x98.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. But people have unintentionally introduced the ants to all continents except Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These introduced Argentine ants are renowned for forming large colonies, and for becoming a significant pest, attacking native animals and crops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the \u201cCalifornian large\u201d, extends over 900km (560 miles) along the coast of California. A third huge colony exists on the west coast of Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While ants are usually highly territorial, those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart. Each super-colony, however, was thought to be quite distinct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022 \u00a0Source and more info: \u21d2<strong><a title=\"Ant mega-colony takes over world\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8127000\/8127519.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earth News<\/a>\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Mammals [\u21d2crosswords\u21d0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2192 http:\/\/photographicdictionary.com\/animals\u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192 Reptiles &amp; amphibians \u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2190\u21d0 \u2190\u21d0 \u2190\u21d0 \u2190\u21d0 \u2190\u21d0 \u2190\u21d0 birds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u221e insects &amp; bugs &#8230;\u21d2[01] \u21d4 [02]\u21d0<\/p>\n<p> \u21d3 Creepy-Crawlies <\/p>\n<p> \u00a4 IDIOMS \u21d3 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022 Animal idioms &#8230; \u2192[01]\u2190 \/ \u2192[02]\u2190 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":45563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[206,236],"class_list":["post-52969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vocab","tag-text","tag-exercices","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52969"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55585,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52969\/revisions\/55585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}