Animal Classification: The Vertebrates Song

An animal song that helps kids identify the five classes of vertebrates: mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish!
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Voices
Intro: Matt Pace
Hedgehog: Joseph Larson
Turtle: Sarah Little Drum https://open.spotify.com/artist/0rC0S...
Toucan: Sha’Air https://shaairhawkins.com
Frog: Leland Smith    / lelandsmithmusic  
Shark: Lance Long

Song by Matt & Joanna Pace
Flute by Nora Cassel
Video animated by Dakota Sheperd: https://www.dakotasheperd.com
Title animation by Brenden Nelson: https://www.brendennelson.com

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Lyrics:
Do you have a backbone? That’s weird
Ninety-five percent of earth life does not
You’re called a vertebrate because of the spine you’ve got

There are five vertebrate classes
Some have warm blood and some have cold
Some on land, in the air or sea
What are they called? Repeat after me:

Mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish
Mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish

Hedgehog:
Most mammals don’t come in eggs like all the others
The babies drink milk from their mothers
And we all have fur or hair on our soft skin
We have cats, deer, platypus, kangaroos, and you
Fun fact: whales and bats are mammals, too

Turtle:
Reptiles are covered in scales or bony plates
Yeah, we know you can’t relate
We lay eggs with a leathery shell
We have snakes, lizards, crocodiles, and turtles, as well

Toucan:
Birds are born from hard-shelled eggs
We have beaks and feathers, but scales on our legs
Not all of us take to the sky
But most of us have hollow bones and most of us fly

Frog:
Amphibians lead a double-life in cold blood
Our metamorphosis takes us from the water to the mud
We start with gills, then we graduate to lungs
Some of us catch food with our specialized tongues
Some of us look like worms, and some of us are long
And some of us are toads, but most of us are frogs

Shark:
Fish, fish, fish are the largest groups of vertebrates
And we’ve been around much longer
We have scales and fins, we’re ectothermic
And we lay our eggs in the water
And guess what: a jellyfish is not a fish cause it doesn’t have a backbone…
Same with starfish, shellfish, cuttlefish, and crayfish. These are fake fish
Ok, I’m done... But they’re fake

There are so many ways to divide up the data
But we all have spines in subphylum Vertebrata (subphylum Vertebrata! subphylum Vertebrata!)

Mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish (Shark: but only the real ones!)
Mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish
Bird, Amphibians, and fish

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