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Platypus: A Century-long Mystery
Uncommon Animals Series • Glossary Crossword Puzzle
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5. warm‑blooded animals that have a backbone, hair or fur on their skin, and drink their mothers’ milk when they are babies
6. able to bend
8. a tiny electronic device used to store information
9. finding things by sensing electrical signals
12. the place in nature where a plant or animal normally lives
13. a story from the past that is often not entirely true
14. one of a pair of animals that breed together
15. to produce young
17. tunnels or holes in the ground made by some animals for shelter
18. a small furry mammal that lives mostly underground
19. to watch something carefully in order to learn about it
22. an animal’s young
23. the largest land mass of a country
24. an animal hunted by another animal for food
25. places where animals live in which they are cared for by people, and which are not the animals’ natural homes
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1. a native person of Australia
2. a person who studies plants and animals
3. people who prepare, stuff, and mount dead animals
4. the largest land mass of a country
7. when a type of animal or plant dies out; there are no more alive on Earth
10. a group of similar things
11. animals that hunt other animals for food
12. to come out of an egg
15. a scientist who studies plants and animals
16. cold‑blooded animals, such as lizards, snakes, turtles, or crocodiles, that have dry, scaly skin, a backbone, and lungs for breathing
20. the part of a platypus’s mouth that looks like the beak of some birds
21. poison made by some animals
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