Activity Kit, You Will Find the Following Reproducibles to Delight Animal-Loving Young Readers

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ITH MORE THAN 200 gorgeous animal photos in each book, the Animal Planet WAnimal Bites series introduces fascinating facts about animal behavior, habitat, food, play time, conservation, and more! In this Animal Bites Activity Kit, you will find the following reproducibles to delight animal-loving young readers:

Fun fact cards about animals to trade and collect Animal masks Worksheets to reinforce animal diet, habitat, and appearance A door hanger Pencil toppers

Animal Bites Activity Kit ©2017 Discovery Communications, LLC. Animal Planet and logo are trademarks of Discovery Communications, LLD, used under license. All rights reserved. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. NAME: ______Chow Time Match each animal to its favorite type of food. Use the glossary definitions for carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores to help you identify the correct match for each animal. GLOSSARY Carn¡vores Animals that only eat meat/other animals Herb¡vores Animals that only eat plants Omn¡vores Animals that eat both meat and plants

Skunks are omnivores. Large hoofed animals such as musk ox, caribou, and elk

Reindeer are herbivores. Moss, small plants, lichen

Crabs, clams, urchins, abalone, and mussels Grey wolves are carnivores.

Fruits and roots, as well as insects and small rodents

Grizzly bears are omnivores.

Roots, berries, grasses, insects, small rodents, and fish

Sea otters are carnivores.

Can you hunt for seals like a polar bear? Print this page on card stock using a color printer. Cut out the mask below, including the eye holes, and affix a craft stick to the bottom to use as a handle.

Did You Know? Every polar animal is part of the food web. Seal bodies contain lots of fat, which the polar bear needs to survive.

Animal Bites Activity Kit ©2017 Discovery Communications, LLC. Animal Planet and logo are trademarks of Discovery Communications, LLD, used under license. All rights reserved. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. NAME: ______Home, Sweet Home Match each animal with where in the world it lives. HABITATS A. High-elevation forests of central Africa B. Deserts in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, plus Mexico C. The Arctic tundra D. North America, mostly near lakes, rivers, and coastlines

Mountain gorilla ______Arctic fox ______

Bald eagle ______Sidewinder snake ______

BONUS ACTIVITY! Pick your favorite animal and make a shoebox diorama showing it in its habitat.

Animal Bites Activity Kit ©2017 Discovery Communications, LLC. Animal Planet and logo are trademarks of Discovery Communications, LLD, used under license. All rights reserved. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. Lion Cub Mask Can you roar like a lion? Print this page on card stock using a color printer. Cut out the mask below, including the eye holes, and affix a craft stick to the bottom to use as a handle.

Did You Know? Lions use different calls when communicating with each other: meows, roars, grunts, moans, growls, snarls, purrs, hums, puffs, and woofs. Each sound has a different meaning.

Animal Bites Activity Kit ©2017 Discovery Communications, LLC. Animal Planet and logo are trademarks of Discovery Communications, LLD, used under license. All rights reserved. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. NAME: ______Just Like Me Animals behave and live like humans in many ways. Read the “Just Like Me” facts below and match each to its corresponding animal.

Arct¡c foxes

Just like me Just like me These animals hum. These animals It’s one way they sometimes cough communicate with to clear their filters, one another. just like you cough to clear your throat.

Kangaroos

Just like me Just like me Your parents may When it’s windy, have carried you in these animals pull a baby carrier before their fluffy tails over you could walk. These Whale sharks their faces, like you mama animals carry wrap a warm scarf their babies in around your face to built-in pouches. block the wind.

Alpacas

Animal Bites Activity Kit ©2017 Discovery Communications, LLC. Animal Planet and logo are trademarks of Discovery Communications, LLD, used under license. All rights reserved. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. NAME: ______Seeing Spots A cheetah’s spots are like a human’s fingerprints—no two are exactly alike! Draw your own unique set of spots on the cheetah face below.

Cut on the Tape the solid black lines open edges and fold on the together red seam. to seal. 2017 Discovery Communications, LLC. Animal Planet and logo are trademarks of Discovery Communications, LLD, used LLD, Communications, of Discovery trademarks Animal Planet and logo are LLC. Communications, Discovery 2017 ©

COME IN! BACK SOON! We’re just hanging out. We’re on the move! Animal Bites Activity Kit distribution. free for be photocopied page may This All rights reserved. under license. Pencil Toppers Cut out the toppers on the solid lines, including the partial lines under each image and the openings at the top. Fold at the dotted line to create two sides to each topper. Put the eraser of your pencil through the opening at

the top, and wrap the bottom tabs around your pencil. Tape to secure.

tree frog tree

Jersey cow Jersey moose guinea pig guinea

red-eyed

red-eyed guinea pig Jersey cow moose tree frog southern flying squirrel squirrel southern flying clownfish clownfish

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The puffer fish takes a big The green sea turtle can The albatross can fly gulp of water to inflate into weigh up to 700 pounds. almost 10,000 miles a hard-to-swallow ball. without landing.

The dwarf goby fish is the smallest on earth at only The hermit crab has ¼ inch long. ten legs. The box jellyfish has more than 5,000 jellyfish has more box The on each long tentacle. stingers

©2016 DCL ©2016 DCL ANIMAL PLANET ocean animals by Laaren Brown FUN FACT CARDS ✂ ©2016 & TM Discovery Communications, LLC. All rights reserved. Published by Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. ✂ ©2016 DCL ©2016

polar

animals

The arctic tern can sleep Polar bears can smell a seal while flying. up to 20 miles away.

Walruses use their tusks Penguins are birds but they Fur seals can dive up to 500 to pull themselves out can’t fly; their wings make feet and can stay underwater of the water. them fast swimmers. for 6 or 7 minutes.

©2016 DCL ©2016 DCL ©2016 DCL ANIMAL PLANET polar animals by Laaren Brown FUN FACT CARDS ✂ ©2016 & TM Discovery Communications, LLC. All rights reserved. Published by Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. ✂ wild animals

Saltwater crocodiles have a clear covering that protects A tiger’s tail can grow up to their eyes underwater. 3 feet long.

Beavers are herbivores— A group of lions is called they only eat plants. a pride. Bats are the only mammals that the only mammals that are Bats can fly.

©2016 DCL ©2016 DCL ANIMAL PLANET wild animals by Laaren Brown FUN FACT CARDS ✂ ©2016 & TM Discovery Communications, LLC. All rights reserved. Published by Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. ✂

Ducklings can swim soon after hatching, but can’t fly until about 8 weeks old. FUN FACT CARDS FACT FUN ©2016 DCL ©2016 Alpacas were used as pack animals in Alpacas were they’re now ancient Peru; their wool. for raised ©2016 DCL

A chicken lays about 250 Horses are measured in eggs per year. hand lengths from the top of the shoulders to the ground.

Both male and female Texas Pigs are good swimmers. longhorns have horns. A group of sheep is called a flock. A group

©2016 DCL ©2016 DCL ANIMAL PLANET farm animals by Laaren Brown FUN FACT CARDS ✂ ©2016 & TM Discovery Communications, LLC. All rights reserved. Published by Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. ✂

Red panda babies, called cubs, stay hidden inside a nest until they’re three months old. FUN FACT CARDS FACT FUN ©2017 DCL ©2017 Baby giraffes start walking within walking start giraffes Baby an hour of birth. ©2017 DCL

Saint Bernard puppies Bobcat kittens have bright weigh only about a pound blue eyes that become at birth, but can grow green or golden brown to 200 pounds. as they grow.

Baby skunks, called kits, are born blind and hairless, Only baby opossums can but by three weeks they hang by their tails. Adults can release a full are too heavy. stinky spray. A grey kangaroo baby, called a joey, called a joey, baby, kangaroo A grey spends nine months in its mother’s pouch.

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on the move

The southern flying squirrel doesn’t really fly. It spreads its arms to glide for more than 160 feet from FUN FACT CARDS FUN FACT

The peregrine falcon is the The five-inch-long fastest animal in the world. kangaroo rat can jump In a stoop dive, it travels at up to nine feet in a more than 200 mph. single leap. The sperm whale can dive up to up to sperm whale can dive The the surface below 6,500 feet food. find to ©2017 DCL ©2017 DCL ©2017 DCL ©2017

The globe skimmer dragonfly Millipedes have the most makes an 11,000 mile journey legs of any animal—some from India to Africa—the have as many as 750! longest migration in the insect world. Cheetahs are the fastest animals the fastest Cheetahs are can run up on land. They mph. 70 to

©2017 DCL ©2017 DCL ANIMAL PLANET animals on the move by Dorothea DePrisco FUN FACT CARDS ✂ ©2017 & TM Discovery Communications, LLC. All rights reserved. Published by Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. Answer Key

Chow Time Just Like Me

Skunks are omnivores. Large hoofed animals such Arct¡c foxes as musk ox, caribou, and elk

Just like me Just like me These animals hum. These animals It’s one way they sometimes cough communicate with to clear their filters, Reindeer are herbivores. Moss, small plants, lichen one another. just like you cough to clear your throat.

Kangaroos

Crabs, clams, urchins, abalone, and mussels Grey wolves are carnivores.

Just like me Just like me Your parents may When it’s windy, Fruits and roots, as well as have carried you in these animals pull a baby carrier before their fluffy tails over insects and small rodents you could walk. These Whale sharks their faces, like you mama animals carry wrap a warm scarf their babies in around your face to Grizzly bears are omnivores. built-in pouches. block the wind.

Roots, berries, grasses, insects, small rodents, and fish

Sea otters are carnivores. Alpacas

Home, Sweet Home Mountain gorilla A; Arctic fox C; Bald eagle D; Sidewinder snake B.