Wp/enm/Beest

A beeſt biþ a quik eſtre of þe kinedom Animalia. Hit biþ meevend ſvmquhile, and moſt eten. It haþ many ſeles.

Beeſtes arn ſumtides nemned after þayre manire of feedynge. Þo beeſtes þat eten onlik oþre beeſtes fleſse arn Carnivores cleped, and þo þat eten onli plauntes arn Herbivores cleped; eke þo þat ſerekin fodes eten, boþe fleſse and plaunt, arn cleped Omnivores.

Gendres of beeſtes

Naturienes ſetten beeſtes til ſortes, Phyla hoten, after þaire kinde al ſe folweþ:

• Chordata, þat bilukeþ uertebrates and feewe oþre beeſtes.
• Echinodermata, þat bilukeþ þo water wrmes þe me nu clepeþ ſe cucomeres; and ſterre fiſses, and þaire kinn.
• Annelida, þat bilukeþ erþe wrmes and þayre kinn.
• Arthropoda, þat bilukeþ inſectes and þayre kynn, and arachnides, and cruſtaceanes, and wrmes wiþ monie legges.
• Molluſca, þat bilukeþ ſnayles and ſegges and þe oktopus.
• Platyhelminthes, þat bilukeþ plat wrmes.
• Porifera, þat bilukeþ ſponges.
• Cnidaria, þat bilukeþ gelee fiſses and coralles and ſe anemones and þayre kynn.
• Nematoda, þat bilukeþ ſome wrmes.
• Tardigrada, þat bilukeþ þe famvſe water beres.

And diuers oþre phyla arn eke, ac ſcoleres ne accorden quheþer ſume heerof ſulden phyla been or ſom oþer manire of biologik ſorte, and quheþer ſome ſulden todeled been, or menged.