Animal Snoops

Communication between two animals

• Does not exist

• is similar to two people talking privately

• is often loud or bright enough for other animals to hear

• cannot be understand by other animals

Biologists call animals' ability to detect each other's messages

• misbehavior

• early warnings

• eavesdropping

• sneakiness

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CCSS.L.5.4A

Eavesdropping allows animals to

• teach other animals about themselves

• learn more about people

• become more intelligent

• find food, a home, or a mate

The noisy warning call of the go-away bird

• makes it easy for a predator to catch it

• also warns other animals that a predator is approaching

• scares away all the predators

• tells people to "go away"

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CCSS.RI.5.3

Most kinds of animals

• all eavesdrop on other animals in the same way

• use only their hearing to eavesdrop

• use different senses to do their eavesdropping

• never eavesdrop on other animals

To plummet means to

• float in the air

• fall straight down very fast

• glide to the ground

• swim in deep water

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

To foil a plan means to

• stop it from being completed

• tell someone how to make it work

• write it down and send it to someone

• explain why it is a good plan

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.RI.5.4

If you have a stake in a plan you

• hope the plan will not work out

• will probably want the plan to fail

• will lose something if the plan doesn't work out

• will gain something if the plan doesn't work out

A predator is

• a strong, very large animal

• an animal that never eavesdrops

• an animal that cannot ambush other animals

• an animal that eats other animals

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CCSS.RI.5.4

To intercept a message means to

• make it easier to understand

• interrupt or listen to it as it goes somewhere else

• change what it says

• take it to where it is meant to go

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4