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Monkey the mammal: Download FREE worksheet on this animal group

Monkey Mammal Worksheet

Monkey is a mammal that is a tailed primate found in tropical rainforests. It has a narrow-chested body, flat face, and move on all four limbs. The monkey sits upright and its hands are freed. Both hands and feet are used for grasping and have five digits with thumbs and …

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Squirrel the mammal: Download FREE worksheet on this animal group

Squirrel Mammal Worksheet

Squirrel is a mammal that is a rodent which lives anywhere there is vegetation. It has a slender, lanky body, long, muscular limbs, furred feet and bushy tail. The forefeet have four long digits plus a short, stubby thumb, and the five-toed hind feet are narrow or moderately wide. It has …

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Whale the mammal: Download FREE worksheet on this animal group

Whale Mammal Worksheet

Whale is an aquatic mammal with specialised adaptations such as flippers and tail flukes for living in water. Whales are known to be the heaviest animals and are distributed throughout the world’s oceans and seas. The whale is warm-blooded, gives live birth, suckle its young on milk, has hair, and surfaces regularly …

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Tuna fish worksheet: Download FREE activity on this animal group

Tuna Fish Worksheet

Tuna is a fish that is long, robust, has a rounded body that tapers to a slender tail base and a forked or crescent-shaped tail, and swims slowly. It is generally dark above and silvery below with a shine. The tuna migrates long distances over the world’s oceans. It feeds …

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Shark worksheet: Download FREE activity on the fish animal group

Shark Fish Worksheet

Shark is a fish that is a predator which lives in the ocean. It has an upturned tail, pointed fins and a pointed snout extending forward and over a crescentic mouth set with sharp triangular teeth. The shark circles its prey which are smaller sharks, fish, squid, octopuses, shellfish and …

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