Animal Classification: The Vertebrates Song

An animal song that helps kids identify the five classes of vertebrates: mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish! Subscribe! ➜ https://www.youtube.com/c/hopscotchso... Visit the Hopscotch Shop! ➜ https://www.hopscotchsongs.com/shop Download the song ➜ https://www.hopscotchsongs.com/shop/t... Karaoke/backing track ➜ https://www.hopscotchsongs.com/shop/t... Pre-save on Spotify ➜ https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/hop... 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 What do you think about this song? Reach out! ↓ Instagram:   / hopscotchsongs   Twitter:   / hopscotchsongs   Facebook:   / hopscotchsongs   Website: https://www.hopscotchsongs.com Hopscotch Español ➜    / @hopscotchespanol   Hopscotch Mandarin Chinese ➜    / @hopscotchmandarinchinese   Hopscotch Hindi ➜    / @hopscotchhindi   Hopscotch Svenska ➜    / @hopscotchsvenska   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 Copyright © 2021 Hopscotch