Question

Observe two different animals in your immediate environment. What features help you distinguish between them? How do these features help place them into different groups?

Answer 1

I observed a dog and a pigeon in my surroundings.

Features	Dog	Pigeon
Body covering	Hair or fur	Feathers
Movement	Walks and runs	Flies and walks
Reproduction	Gives birth to young ones	Lays eggs
Feeding young ones	Feeds milk to its young ones	Does not produce milk
Group	Mammalia	Aves

Conclusion:

These features help classify the dog under Mammalia and the pigeon under Aves. Differences in body covering, reproduction and feeding habits help place animals into different groups.