How to spell reptile

adjective. of or resembling a reptile; creeping or crawling. groveling, mean, or despicable.

: a cold-blooded animal (as a snake, lizard, turtle, or alligator) that breathes air and usually has the skin covered with scales or bony plates.

Reptiles are cold-blooded, which means that they rely on heat from their surroundings to warm up. Reptiles breathe using lungs. Most species of reptiles eat other animals, and most lay eggs on land to breed. Reptiles alive today include lizards, snakes, tortoises, turtles, crocodiles, and alligators.

Correct spelling for the English word “lizard” is [lˈɪzəd], [lˈɪzəd], [l_ˈɪ_z_ə_d] (IPA phonetic alphabet).

drain (one’s) lizard: [verb] to urinate.

Elephants Vocabulary Word List (182) A) Access, Africa, African, Aggressive, Animal, Ankus, Asian. B) Baby, Bark, Bathing, Bees, Bellow, Blowing, Body, Breeding, Bristle, Bulky, Bull, Bull hooks, Bush.

If you are clarifying that the large grey animal with a trunk is called an “elephant“, then you would say “This is an elephant.” This is the article you would use most often. You would not say “This is a elephant” because the word elephant begins with a vowel (a,e,i,o, or u).

A baby elephant is called a calf.

The natural color is grayish black, but an elephant usually appears to be the same color as the soil where the elephant lives.

Elephants are not grey anymore. They are red, blue, sometimes red and blue, spotted and striped and polka-dotted. The Wildlife Trust of India organised an elephant festival in which they used art to mobilise public and policy support for the elephant. Photo from Wildlife Trust of India.

Elephants are colorblind.

Elephants in the daylight have two kinds of color-sensors: green and red cones. One of the less known elephant vision facts is that color-blind humans and elephants share the same set of visual pigments. Elephants can see blues and yellows, but cannot distinguish between reds and greens.

Ebony and ivory! Black elephant stands out like a sore thumb playing with his white friends. It is not always easy to be the odd one out, but this young elephant does not seem to mind. Five of the rare white elephants have been found and captured in Burma between 2001 and 2010, and now live in the capital.

A better term than Black Swan

I came across this in a New York Times op-ed. A black elephant is a cross between “a black swan” — an unlikely, unexpected event with enormous ramifications — and the “elephant in the room” — a looming disaster that is visible to everyone, yet no one wants to address.”

The African elephant is the largest of all elephant species and weighs up to eight tons. Two genetically different African subspecies exist: the savanna and the forest elephant, with a number of characteristics that differentiate them both.

The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the biggest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400,000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.