TOEFL: Animals

Black mambas are fast, lethally venomous and, when threatened, highly aggressive. Stories of their deadliness abound, and they have been aggrandized in African myth.

camouflage
To camouflage themselves, red-eyed tree frogs cover their blue sides with their back legs, tuck their bright orange feet under their belly, and keep their bulging red eyes shut.

Sister lions stay together all their lives in groups called prides, and brothers form coalitions when they set off to find other prides to conquer.

Most sea lion species congregate in large crowds on beaches during breeding season.

In one of the most improbable - and adorable - animal pairings the gregarious dolphins seem to take a shine to the cat, named Thunder.

An intriguing creature, the cuttlefish can change its skin color, pattern, and even shape, all in the blink of an eye.

Known as skilled navigators of treacherous mountain conditions, maybe it isn’t such a surprise to find goats making their way up narrow trunks and branches of Argan trees.

Flamingos secrete a pigment which they deliberately rub into their plumage, like putting on makeup.

A robust population of snow leopards roam the mountains of Afghanistan, a relief to conservationists worried about the effects of local conflict on the wildlife.

The snakes flatten their bodies in the air and undulate from side to side at high speed creating an aerodynamic effect that allows them to 'fly' hundreds of feet from tops of trees.