--- title: Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. 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How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/0/) — The Furious Five are named after real kung fu styles, and those styles were named after real animals that people watched closely: tiger, crane, mantis, snake and monkey. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/1/) — A real praying mantis waits as still as a twig, then its spiky front legs snap shut on a fly faster than you can blink; it can even turn its head and look you in the eye. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/2/) — A snake has no arms or legs, yet it climbs trees and follows a mouse's trail by flicking its forked tongue to pick up smells. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/3/) — Monkey swings by his tail, but here the film slips: no monkey from Asia or Africa can hang by its tail; only some monkeys of Central and South America can. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/4/) — Praying mantises wait very still, then shoot out spiky front legs that fold like a pocket knife to grab insects in a fraction of a second; a mantis has six legs and walks on the back four. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/5/) — There is a real Chinese martial art called Praying Mantis style, said to have been inspired by watching a mantis fight. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/6/) — Mantises can turn their heads about 180 degrees to follow prey without moving their bodies, and scientists put tiny 3D glasses on them to show they judge distance with two eyes. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/7/) — Many mantises are camouflaged as leaves, sticks, bark or flowers, and the orchid mantis looks so like a pink and white flower that insects fly to it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/8/) — Many mantises have a single ear in the middle of their chest that hears hunting bats, so they dive or spiral away, though with one ear they cannot tell which side the bat is on. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/9/) — Snakes have no legs or arms but hundreds of vertebrae and ribs; they move by pushing scales and muscles against the ground, and some climb trees by gripping bark with belly scales. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/10/) — Snakes smell with their tongues: the tongue carries bits of smell to a special organ in the roof of the mouth, and its forked tips tell left from right. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/11/) — Snakes have no outside ears but feel vibrations through their jaw bones; they have no eyelids, so they stare without blinking, but they cannot hypnotise anyone. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/12/) — Pit vipers have small pits on their faces that sense heat, so they can find warm mice and birds in the dark; China has many kinds of snakes, and most try to avoid people. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/14/) — Golden snub-nosed monkeys live in snowy mountain forests in China, have thick fur, huddle in groups to keep warm, and their tiny upturned noses may help prevent frostbite. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/15/) — Macaques are clever, bold monkeys of Asia, including China, that learn from each other and take easy food from people; some Japanese macaques bathe in hot springs in winter. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/16/) — Kung fu styles named after tiger, crane, mantis, snake and monkey copy each animal's power, balance, speed, bending or grip. - ← previous: [Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/) - next →: [Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)