Is a whale a mammal or animal?
I’m a high school bio teacher. They pay me to teach this stuff. (-: You’ve already got several good answers but perhaps i can shed a little more light on your original question. First a few important facts: 1. All the living things on Earth are broken down (classified) into smaller groups based on what they have in common. 2. The problem is there are so many living things, the main groups have to be divided into a lot of sub-groups, again, based on what each smaller group has in common. 3. There are five main groups of living things on Earth. These are called kingdoms and they are: a. Bacteria b. Protists c. Fungi d. Plants e. Animals 4. All five of these kingdoms are broken down in smaller and smaller groups based on similarities. 5. Kingdom Anamalia (The Kingdom of the Animals) is, therfore, broken down into smaller groups. These smaller groups include every animal that’s alive now or has ever been alive. 6. There are two very largedivisions in Kingdom Animalia: a. Vertebrates (anima
