I locate underwater insects with my very sensitive bill
What is a platypus?
200
An animal whose mother and father are of the same breed
What is purebred?
300
Glands on a female mammal produce milk
What is mammary glands?
300
Largest group of mammals
DAILY DOUBLE: list five types of this group
What are rodents?
DAILY DOUBLE: mouse, rat, squirrel, beaver, capybara, guinea pig, chinchilla, gerbil, marmot, muskrat, porcupine, prairie dog, woodchuck
300
I am a tiny mammal which must eat almost 24 hours a day in order to stay alive
What is a shrew?
300
An inherited behaviour pattern
What is instinct?
400
Group of mammals that give birth to offspring which spend very little time inside the mother's body and develop in a special pouch
DAILY DOUBLE: List five of these types of mammals
What is marsupials?
DAILY DOUBLE: kangaroo, koala, opposing, numbat, wombat, bandicoot, wallaby
400
Another name for front teeth
DAILY DOUBLE: why do these not wear away with gnawing?
What is incisors?
DAILY DOUBLE: God designed them to keep growing
400
I live underground an duse my large shovel-shaped paws to dig tunnels
What is a mole?
400
The ability to learn a behaviour pattern
What is intelligence?
500
Three ways that help mammals tolerate very hot climates
What is sleep during the day; ears are larger for extra heat loss; and have less hair than other mammals?
500
Only mammals that are not born alive
What is duckbill platypus and the echidna?
500
I am a mammal which lays eggs
What is echidna or platypus?
500
What is the name scientist use for dogs?
DAILY DOUBLE: for cats?