Animals Snoops

Why did the author compare the process of spying to social media?

• Because social media is popular

• Because the animals are often loud or bright, so everyone is alerted

• Because social media is quiet

• To compare it to nobody being alerted

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Who use their flicking tongues and scent clues to find their prey?

• parrots

• moths

• antelope

• rattlesnakes

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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.

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

• misbehavior.
• early warnings.
• eavesdropping.
• sneakiness.

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Eavesdropping allows animals to

• teach other animals about themselves.
• learn more about people.
• become more intelligent.
• find food, a home, or a mate.

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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.

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Choose the answer that best explains the meaning of each underlined word. 
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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Choose the answer that best explains the meaning of each underlined word.
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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What is an anecdote?

• a non-fiction article

• something to stop you from being poisoned

• a short story to introduce a topic

• this is not a real word

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Why does the author compare communication between animals to a conversation on social media?

• To explain different methods animals use to communicate with one another.

• To explain how gopher snakes eavesdrop on kangaroo rats

• To explain communication can be far reaching.

• To explain that it is not private and can be heard by friends and foes.

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