"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 or see.

• Cannot be understood by other animals.

What is an anecdote?

• A short account of what happened yesterday.

• A long, epic story.

• A short story.

• A short account that entertains or makes a point.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To plummet means to

• float in the air.

• fall straight down very fast.

• glide to the ground.

• swim in deep water.

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.

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 its predators.

• tells people to “go away.”

Eavesdropping allows animals to

• teach other animals about themselves.

• learn more about people.

• become more intelligent.

• find food, a home, or a mate.