Animal Senses

What are the five senses?

• Happy, sad, excited, bored, and stressed

• Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

• To survive, to adapt, to live, to reproduce, and to communicate.

• Elephants, lions, honeybees, owls, and mice

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Why do most animals have one or two senses that are more important than the others?

• Because animals need to feed

• Because animals are alive.

• Because animals need to adapt to their specific environment

• Because animals have babies

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What do elephants use their senses of smell and touch for?

• To find food, water, and other animals

• To feel happy

• To see around.

• To feed their babies

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What is true about elephants’ trunks?

• They use their trunks to smell the air and the ground.

• They breathe and smell with their trunks.

• They touch each other with their trunks to communicate.

• All of the above

Why is it important for elephants to feel vibrations in the ground?

• So they can know where the rainwater is by feeling the ground shake due to thunder.

• Because they need to know where they are in the jungle.

• So they can see where the rain is.

• Because they need to communicate with other elephants.

Which is true about elephants’ sense of hearing?

• They can hear vibrations from the ground.

• They can see other animals that are far away.

• They can see thunders in the distance.

• They can hear low sounds that we cannot hear.

1. Which animals has the most taste buds?

• Cat

• Human

• Catfish

• Cow

Which animal did we study for touch that had touch receptors all over its body that helped it catch its prey?

• Cow

• Crocodile

• Monkey

• Mountain Lion

What do animals use to detect sound?

• Nose

• Eyes

• Skin

• Ear

What is the main structure animals use to sense touch?

• Skin

• Tongue

• Eyes

• Ears