10 Animal Riddles

You might be called this animal

If someone thinks that you’re afraid

This is something that you might eat

As well as its eggs that it laid

• Monkey

• Chicken

• Reindeer

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This provides meat that you would eat

When breakfast you are makin’

A chicken is what gives the eggs

And this is what gives bacon

• Chicken

• Pig

• Fish

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I am known as a king

The jungle’s where I reign

It is hard to tame me

And I have a large mane

• lion

• tiger

• jaguar

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I like to use my long tongue

To eat leaves from tops of trees

I don’t have to climb up though

With my long neck it’s a breeze

• bird

• dinosaur

• jiraffe

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I’m an animal you might love

But I’m too big to be your pet

I have an extremely long trunk

And it’s said I never forget

• Elephant

• Alligator

• Gorilla

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They live in a field

Milk is what they make

They help give us leather

And a juicy steak

• donkey

• snail

• cow

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I’m a pet that has four legs

And a tail at the end

You might hear me barking

And I’m known as man’s best friend

• lion

• cat

• dog

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This is something black and white

But it’s not an old TV

It’s a type of animal

That starts with the letter Z

• shark

• zebra

• snake

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I like to hop around

I’m a tadpole when I’m young

I am green and I croak

And catch flies with my long tongue

• tadpole

• bear

• frog

My wings are used as flippers

So in water I can flow

Sometimes when on land I slide

On my belly in the snow

• rocket

• bird

• penguin

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