WILD ZOO FACTS
🕵️ Spot the Fake

Real or Fake?

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Some of these animal facts are real and some are made up. Circle your answer for each one.

  1. 1.“The African Wild Dog piles into a noisy greeting rally before every hunt, and the sneezes inside that rally work like votes.”REAL / FAKE
  2. 2.“The African Wild Dog sits perfectly still on the riverbed with its jaws held wide open instead of chasing anything down.”REAL / FAKE
  3. 3.“The Antechinus shoots its prey out of the air with a high-speed jet of water, like a living water gun.”REAL / FAKE
  4. 4.“The Alligator Snapping Turtle gets hijacked by a flatworm called Leucochloridium after swallowing the parasite's eggs.”REAL / FAKE
  5. 5.“The Anglerfish fishes with a glowing lure that grows right out of its own forehead.”REAL / FAKE
  6. 6.“The Amber Snail fishes with a glowing lure that grows right out of its own forehead.”REAL / FAKE
  7. 7.“The Antarctic Icefish is the only known vertebrate on Earth with no red blood cells at all.”REAL / FAKE
  8. 8.“The Antechinus is a small mouse-like marsupial from the forests of Australia, and is not a rodent at all.”REAL / FAKE
  9. 9.“The Antarctic Icefish is a small mouse-like marsupial from the forests of Australia, and is not a rodent at all.”REAL / FAKE
  10. 10.“The Amber Snail gets hijacked by a flatworm called Leucochloridium after swallowing the parasite's eggs.”REAL / FAKE
  11. 11.“The Anglerfish is the only known vertebrate on Earth with no red blood cells at all.”REAL / FAKE
  12. 12.“The Alligator Snapping Turtle sits perfectly still on the riverbed with its jaws held wide open instead of chasing anything down.”REAL / FAKE
🔑 Teacher answer key
  1. 1. REAL — True — the African Wild Dog really piles into a noisy greeting rally before every hunt, and the sneezes inside that rally work like votes.
  2. 2. FAKE — Fake — that's the Alligator Snapping Turtle, not the African Wild Dog.
  3. 3. FAKE — Fake — that's the Archerfish, not the Antechinus.
  4. 4. FAKE — Fake — that's the Amber Snail, not the Alligator Snapping Turtle.
  5. 5. REAL — True — the Anglerfish really fishes with a glowing lure that grows right out of its own forehead.
  6. 6. FAKE — Fake — that's the Anglerfish, not the Amber Snail.
  7. 7. REAL — True — the Antarctic Icefish really is the only known vertebrate on Earth with no red blood cells at all.
  8. 8. REAL — True — the Antechinus really is a small mouse-like marsupial from the forests of Australia, and is not a rodent at all.
  9. 9. FAKE — Fake — that's the Antechinus, not the Antarctic Icefish.
  10. 10. REAL — True — the Amber Snail really gets hijacked by a flatworm called Leucochloridium after swallowing the parasite's eggs.
  11. 11. FAKE — Fake — that's the Antarctic Icefish, not the Anglerfish.
  12. 12. REAL — True — the Alligator Snapping Turtle really sits perfectly still on the riverbed with its jaws held wide open instead of chasing anything down.

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