87059-Treehouse Activity Book

Book 1 Getting to know TreeHouse Wildlife Center and our native wildlife.

Written by Connie Yordy Illustrated by Ramona Rodriguez

Welcome to TreeHouse Wildlife Center This is a place where people bring animals that are sick or hurt so they can get better and go back to their homes in the wild.

The very first animal was brought to TreeHouse over 40 years ago!

Connect the dots to find out what animal was the first patient at TreeHouse

It was a baby ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ !

There are lots of animals at TreeHouse. They are all here because they have been hurt or they are orphans. An orphan is an animal that does not have a mommy or daddy to take care of them.

Most of the animals at TreeHouse are birds.

All birds are covered with ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ____ ____.

All birds lay ___ ___ ___ ___.

Most birds can ___ ___ ___.

Activity: GO inside and find the enclosure in the back of the gift shop.

How many birds do you see? ____ What color is it? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ What kind of bird is it? ___ ___ ___ ___ Most scientists think these birds (and their cousins, the ravens) are the smartest of all birds. They can make tools, solve puzzles, and have a very good memory.

ASK a TreeHouse staff member or volunteer to show you how a crow solves this puzzle to get food that it cannot reach. Or, watch the first part of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04

Many of the animals at TreeHouse are mammals.

All mammals have ___ ___ ___ ___ somewhere on their bodies.

Many mammals are completely covered with it.

The babies of all mammals (except two) are born alive.

All mammal babies drink ___ ___ ___ ___ from their mothers.

Most of the mammals brought to TreeHouse are orphans. To keep them alive, the people at TreeHouse have to keep them warm and feed them milk. We do not feed them the kind of milk that you can buy in the store. That kind of milk comes from a .

Activity: How many mammals did you see at TreeHouse? Circle the picture of any mammal you have seen today.

Some of the animals at TreeHouse are reptiles.

We have snakes and turtles at TreeHouse.

Reptiles are cold-blooded animals. That means they cannot stay warm unless they lie out in the sun for awhile each day. At TreeHouse, we put a warming lamp in the reptile’s enclosure to keep them warm.

The skin of reptiles looks very rough because they are covered with scales to protect them.

Activity: GO inside to the Education Room. Find the turtles.

How many turtles do you see? _____ Some turtles live in the water and some turtles live on the land.

LOOK at the shape of their shells. How are they different?

DRAW the shape of each turtle’s shell.

The shape of the shells of turtles that live in the water allow them to swim away fast to escape from predators.

The shape of the shell of turtles that live on land are tall so predators can’t pick them up easily. Land turtles can also close their shells.

Activity: GO inside to the Education Room. How many snakes can you find? ____ Scientists spend a lot of time watching, or observing animals to learn more about them. Scientists also keep track of what they learn by writing it down. Choose one of the snakes and take a few minutes to watch them. Write down three observations in the boxes below, either about how they look or what they are doing. You can also draw a picture.

When you were watching the snakes, did you see what their tongues looked like?

A snake’s tongue is forked – that means the end is split in two. A snake’s tongue is split, or forked, so that it can locate exactly where a smell is coming from. Each end of its tongue picks up the chemicals from a slightly different location in space.

It’s the same way humans can tell where a sound is coming from because their ears are on opposite sides of their head. You can do the experiment below here or at home where it’s quieter. It will show how two ears (or a split tongue) are better than one. You will need two spoons and a chair.

Experiment: 1. Place a chair in the middle of a room and ask a parent or friend to sit in it.

2. Explain that you are going to ask them to close their eyes, and hold one of their ears shut tightly with their fingers. Tell them you will go someplace in the room and click the spoons together. They should point to the spot where they think the sound is coming from.

3. Do not move until they close their eyes and one of their ears. Move as quietly as you can to a spot at least 6 feet behind them and a little to one side. Click the spoons together. (Do not talk or make any other noise.) If they get it right, move to another spot behind them and click the spoons together again. Next, move to a spot in front of them but on one side. If they get it wrong, tell them to open their eyes and show them where the sound actually came from. You can do this several times, moving to a different location each time.

4. Repeat the activity with eyes closed and both ears open to show that gathering sounds from two different directions helps to pinpoint the location more accurately.

5. Change places with your parent or friend and repeat the activity so you can experience the effect.

We do not have fish at TreeHouse, but we do have insects.

Did You Know? There are more insects in the world than any other group of animals!

Activity: GO inside to the Education Room and find the Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. They do not live in Illinois. They are here at TreeHouse so kids like you can learn about insects.

Count the legs on the insect. All insects have ____ legs.

LOOK at the structures on their heads. All insects have antennae.

DRAW what you see. Draw the antennae and the legs on this insect.

WATCH the video about hissing cockroaches that was made by a member of the TreeHouse staff. After you watch the video, answer the questions on the next page. Then locate and circle the words you used on the Word Search.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nejc6ocALovUAC-43TamKfovWgeGPlo/view?usp=drive_web

1. Madagascar hissing cockroaches are only found in the wild on one island in the world. This island is located off the coast of which continent?

ASIA

SOUTH AMERICA

AFRICA

AUSTRALIA

2. On which body part of an insect are the legs attached?

HEAD

THORAX

ABDOMEN

3. Hissing cockroaches that have bumps (or horns) on their thorax are ______.

MALES

FEMALES

4. Hissing cockroaches release air through holes on their abdomen called ______.

DOTS

CAVITIES

FISSURES

SPIRACLES

5. Madagascar hissing cockroaches are good for the environment because they eat dead plants and animals, they are ______.

PREDATORS

FORAGERS

SCAVENGERS

6. These insects are able to climb up very slick surfaces, like glass, because they have ______ on their legs and feet.

HOOKS

SANDPAPER

TAPE

GLUE

Find the answers in the Word Search puzzle.

H O O K S Z W U

V M X Y S A B S

A A W P P F H C

S L G I I R V A

Y E T S R I L V

I S H U A C I E

F T O Y C A Z N

U R R V L L O G

D K A M E J S E

U H X I S B T R

N R D O N I Q S

B C H W A M D R

When you come to TreeHouse, you often get to observe animals that you don’t normally see every day, but squirrels are not one of those uncommon animals. In fact, squirrels seem to be everywhere – in the woods, in parks, and in our own backyards. For this reason, squirrels are very good animals to study as a Beginner Wildlife Explorer.

GO downstairs in the Education Building and look in the Nursery window. If it is the right time of year, you will see babies and young squirrels that have been injured or orphaned.

Facts about squirrels in Illinois: - There are two types of tree squirrels in Illinois – fox squirrels and gray squirrels. Fox squirrels are bigger and have a red underbelly.

Gray squirrels have white underbellies.

- Squirrels are rodents. A rodent is a mammal that has four big teeth in the front of their mouths that they use for gnawing and breaking open seeds and nuts.

Almost half of the mammals in the world are rodents! Can you name three other mammals, besides squirrels, that are rodents?

1. __________________ 2. ___________________ 3. __________________ - Squirrels nest in trees. Sometimes they make a nest in a hole in the tree.

Sometimes they build nests high up in the branches of trees using leaves and twigs. They make the inside of the nest soft and warm with moss, grass, and shredded bark. Squirrels do not hibernate in the winter, but when it gets very cold they will often spend several days sleeping in their nests. LOOK UP in the trees at TreeHouse and at home. Can you spot a squirrel nest?

- Have you ever seen squirrels digging in your yard? In the fall, they bury lots of nuts that they will dig up in the winter. Squirrels are very smart animals, and sometimes they remember where they have buried their acorns, but they usually use one of their senses to find the food. Unscramble the letters below to find out which sense they use to find the buried nuts.

They use their sense of ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (E L S M L).

What do squirrels eat? CIRCLE all of the items below that you think fox squirrels and gray squirrels in Illinois will eat.

twigs

mushrooms

bird eggs

insects

acorns

caterpillars

flowers

tree bark

seeds

berries

walnuts

pine cones

baby birds

hamburgers

USE THE CODE, A=1; B=2; C=3, etc. to find out what these squirrels eat.

20 8

5

24

5 25

3

5

5

1 20

16 20

1 12 12

8

1

13

15 6

2

Squirrels are omnivores!

21 18

20 8

7

5 19 5

5

18 19

Complete the maze to help the squirrel find the food that it eats the most.

Squirrels at TreeHouse

The Virginia opossum is one of the most common animals in Illinois.

Are you wearing clothes with pockets? If you are, you have something in common with the opossum. Opossums don’t wear clothes, of course, but the female opossums do have something like a pocket. It’s called a pouch, and it’s just like the one’s kangaroos have. That’s because kangaroos and opossums are cousins.

Hi, Cousin!

Animals that have pouches to carry their babies in are called marsupials. All marsupials live on the other side of the world – in Australia, except opossums. It is the only marsupial that lives in North America.

Activity: 1. Have you ever picked up a full gallon of milk? When you were born, you weighed about as much as a full jug of milk – about 7-8 pounds.

2. ASK a TreeHouse staff member volunteer for a small bag of beans. Pick up one of the beans. This is the size of a baby opossum when it is born. It is so small that it has to stay in its mother’s pouch until it gets much bigger.

3. Count out 13 beans (and put them in your pocket). A mother opossum can take care of 13 babies at a time! (RETURN the beans when you are finished.)

Question: Where do baby opossums go when they get too big for the pouch?

Answer: They get a piggy-back ride!

More About Opossums If animals got prizes, the Virginia opossum might get the prize for being the Most Adaptable Animal in America. All animals have adaptations– things that help them live safely in their environment. The opossum has so many adaptations that they have been on Earth longer than any other mammal!

- Opossums are not picky eaters. They will eat anything they find - even dead animals!

- The Virginia opossum can eat anything because they have more teeth than any other mammal in the world. They have the same number of teeth as the number of states there are in America.

Opossums have _______ teeth!

- Opossums can even eat poisonous snakes! They have a special chemical in their blood that changes the poison into a harmless liquid.

- The opossum is a great tree climber! It is the only mammal in North America that has a prehensile tail and back feet that are shaped like hands to help them climb.

Activity: What is a prehensile tail?

1. Take a pipe cleaner and wrap it around your finger. This is what a prehensile tail is like. Opossums can wrap their tails around branches to help them climb. They can even carry leaves and twigs with their tail when they are making their nest.

2. On the next page, take a pencil or crayon and draw around your hand.

DRAW your hand in the box below.

Compare the shape of your hand to the hands and feet of the opossum.

Do your hands look more like the opossum’s front feet or their back feet?

Which hand do you think is best for hanging on to tree branches? Why? Opossum’s have opposable thumbs just like you do!

Front Foot

Back Foot

Activity: Fold your thumb down and try to pick up a small object. Then, pick up the same object using your whole hand, including your opposable thumb.

Which is easier?

FEATHERS - GO to the Touch Table in the Education Center.

Feathers are like clothes for birds. Just like clothes, feathers do many different jobs for birds. For each job below, put an X in the box that shows if it is something that clothes do for us and/or feathers do for birds. How many jobs are done by both?

Jobs

Clothes

Feathers

To keep warm To keep dry To be pretty To fly To hide (camouflage) To send a message To scare predators To make a nest soft and warm Activity: 1. Take a large feather from the container on the table and whoosh it through the air like a bird would that’s flying. Listen. Do you hear anything? If you hear a sound, the feather belongs to a hawk or a vulture or an eagle. These birds fly during the day, so it doesn’t matter if their feathers make a sound.

2. Find a feather that doesn’t make a sound when it is swished through the air. This type of feather belongs to an owl. Owls hunt at night. They need to be able to fly silently so their prey doesn’t hear them coming.

3. Look at the edges of the feathers. How are the ones that make sound different from the feathers that don’t?

Hawk and eagle feathers have smooth edges.

Owl feathers have soft fringes on the edge of their feathers.

Owls – A TreeHouse Scavenger Hunt - Outside There are six species of owls that live year-around in Illinois. We have five of them at TreeHouse – barn owls, great-horned owls, screech owls, short-eared owls, and barred owls. FIND the owls and read the signs on the enclosures.

OBSERVE the five different species of owls carefully. CIRCLE the correct answers.

(Answers on Answer Key page) 1. Find the two species of owls that have dark black eyes. barn owl

great-horned owl

screech owl

barred owl

short-eared owl

2. What color eyes do the other two species of owls have? _________________ 3. Find the owl with a heart-shaped face. barn owl

great-horned owl

screech owl

barred owl

4. Find the two species of owls that have ear tufts. (These are not ears – just feathers that they use to communicate.) barn owl

great-horned owl

screech owl

barred owl

5. Look carefully. Which of the four species of owls do you think is the biggest? barn owl

great-horned owl

screech owl

barred owl

short-eared owl

6. Which of the four species do you think is the smallest? barn owl

great-horned owl

screech owl

barred owl

short-eared owl

7. Look at all of the owls in each enclosure. One type of owl comes in two colors – gray and reddish-brown. Which one? barn owl

great-horned owl

screech owl

barred owl

short-eared owl

barred owl

short-eared owl

8. Which two owls are endangered in Illinois? barn owl

great-horned owl

screech owl

Owl Home Activity Make this snack at home. Make sure you ask a parent or other adult to cut the fruit for you.

You will need: one piece of wheat bread peanut butter***** 4 slices of banana 2 blueberries 2 large strawberries *****Important - If allergic to peanuts, use jelly or other spread.***** 1. Take the piece of wheat bread and spread peanut butter (*or other spread) over the entire piece.

2. Place two banana slices at the upper part of the bread for eyes. Put one blueberry in the middle of each banana slice.

3. Cut one of the strawberries in half. Place one slice on each side of the bread for wings.

4. Cut a slice of the other strawberry. Cut a small triangle from one of the slices, and place it under the eyes to look like a beak. You can also use a pineapple tidbit for the beak.

5. Put the other two slices of banana at the bottom of the bread to look like the owl’s talons.

6. Enjoy!

Challenge: Can you create an owl with other foods?

Can you make an owl with other natural materials – like bark, leaves, acorns, etc.?

Pelicans by the Numbers Many people are surprised to learn that there are pelicans in Illinois. The pelicans at TreeHouse are American White Pelicans. They live in Illinois for several months each year, many of them eating fish from the Mississippi River. In the fall, pelicans fly south for the winter.

Draw a line to match the number on the right with the pelican fact on the left.

(Answers on Answer Key page) 1. Pelicans are about ___ feet high.

14

2. White pelicans weigh about ____ pounds.

4

3. Their beaks are about ___ inches long.

2

4. When they fly, their wing span is about ___ feet wide.

150

5. Pelicans scoop up fish with their huge pouches.

The pouches can hold up to ___ gallons of water.

15

6. Females usually lay ___ eggs at a time, but often only the strongest chick survives.

30

7. Baby pelicans stay with their parents for about 3 months.

During the 3 months, they will eat about _____ pounds of fish.

3

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pelicans are very social birds and live together in huge flocks with hundreds and even thousands of birds!

Why do you think we put a mirror in our pelican enclosure?

Draw a picture of your favorite animal at Treehouse.

A TreeHouse Journey

Our job at TreeHouse is to help an animal that is hurt or orphaned get back to their home in the wild. This is a made-up story, but it will show you how we take care of animals at TreeHouse. Read the story or ask someone to read it to you.

Then, do the puzzle at the end. You can also color the pictures. You might want to sit on the bench by the fox enclosure while you read.

The Rescue of Dash - A TreeHouse Tale Mama Fox disappeared into her den on a sunny spring day. Several hours later, she was nuzzling five pups – two males and three females. Dash, the smallest of the pups, struggled to get close to his mother to get his share of her milk. Foxes are born with their eyes closed, so Dash found his mother by touch.

For the next two weeks, Mama Fox stayed with her pups. Papa was busy every day hunting and bringing her food.

The pups grew quickly. Their eyes opened and their fur began to turn red like their parents. Dash was growing, too, but not as fast as his brother and sisters. He was still the smallest of the five pups.

When the pups were almost five weeks old, Mama gently pushed them toward the bright sunlight. It was their first day out of the den!

Every day, the pups spent part of the day outside. They chased each other, chewed on bones, and played tug of war with sticks and other objects they found around their den. Even though Dash was the smallest, he sometimes managed to grab a bone and run away from the others.

As the pups got older, Mama and Papa both left the den for short periods of time to hunt. The pups stayed close to the den opening, but sometimes they would wander a bit too far. When they sensed danger, they scrambled to the opening of the den and tumbled in. Because Dash was so small, he was often the last one in.

One day, in the middle of a fox pup game, a large dog suddenly flew from the woods rushing towards the pups. The sharp barks and growls of the big dog scared the pups so badly, they scattered in every direction. Dash’s brother and two sisters made it to the den. Dash ran blindly in the wrong direction across a field and into the tall grass. The dog was running close behind. As Dash ran he saw a metal barrier in front of him, blocking his escape. A fence!

He knew instinctively that he wasn’t big enough to jump the fence, but he saw that there was a small gap at the bottom.

The dog was getting closer……………………………………………………………….

Dash lunged for the opening. As he struggled to get through, he was stopped suddenly with a jolt of pain in his hind leg. He tried to wriggle free, but every time he moved the pain in his leg got worse. Dash was trapped!

The dog was closing in.

“Duke! Duke! Get back here, Duke!”

A girl in a bright red shirt rushed into the field. When she saw Dash caught in the fence, she grabbed Duke and leashed him.

Poor Dash!

The girl and the dog disappeared.

Dash whimpered and tried once again to wriggle free of the fence. He wished he was safe in the den with his Mama and his brothers and sisters.

The girl in the red shirt rushed home and told her mother what had happened. Her mom knew exactly what to do. She called TreeHouse Wildlife Center and told them what happened.

The lady at TreeHouse asked a lot of questions. They told the girl and her mom that someone would be out to help as soon as possible.

Soon after, as the sun dipped lower in the sky, Dash heard a rustling in the grass and the girl in the red shirt appeared with her mother. They approached cautiously and kneeled in the grass close to where Dash had fallen. They were asked by the TreeHouse staff to keep their distance, but to guard the little fox until they got there.

“Don’t worry, Little Guy,” whispered the girl, “we won’t let anything hurt you.”

Dash tried to run from them, but the pain in his leg stopped him. He gave up and lay still.

An hour later, Dash heard footsteps. He looked up and saw two people coming way too close. He didn’t understand that they were there to help him. He panicked and would have damaged his leg even more, but suddenly everything went dark as a blanket was thrown over his head. Strong hands held him firmly, yet somehow they were gentle. Sounds were made that should have scared him, but the soothing tone of words did the opposite. Dash lay still.

--------------Rachael, the TreeHouse animal care specialist, quickly used her wire cutters to cut the fence from the young fox’s leg. She examined the leg and decided the leg would not heal on its own. Dash would have to spend some time at TreeHouse.

Dash was placed in a carrier and taken to a car. When they arrived at TreeHouse, Rachael took the little fox to the Exam Room. There, she gently cleaned his wound and made the decision to take him to the TreeHouse veterinarian.* Dash didn’t remember what happened over the next few days, but the TreeHouse team was on the job. In order to help Dash, the vet had to put him to sleep and operate. Afterwards, he bandaged the leg, gave him some medicine, and sent him back to TreeHouse where he knew the pup would be well cared for.

* This is Dr. Paul Meyer helping a pelican.

He is the veterinarian for TreeHouse.

When Dash woke up, he found himself in an unfamiliar place with something white wrapped around his sore leg. It scared him at first, but he was warm and there didn’t seem to be any immediate danger. Every day, the TreeHouse caretakers brought him food and water, and cleaned the room that Dash was beginning to accept as his new home.

Rachael took the white bandage off his leg every other day, cleaned it, and spread medicine on it. One day, she looked at his leg, smiled, and took him back to his room without the annoying bandage.

“It’s time for this little guy to get outside and meet his foster mom,” she said.

Dash was taken to the outside pen in a carrier. He was unsure of what was happening as it was set on the ground and the door was opened. An unexpected but very familiar odor caused him to slowly edge his way out of the crate. Dash smelled fox! A Mama fox!

Dash was so excited to see another fox that he came out of the crate quickly and ran to her wagging his bushy tail. The Mama touched her nose to his and Dash ran in circles - around and around – coming back to the Mama, then darting away from her and racing from one end of the pen to the other. He was outside! He had room to run! His leg didn’t hurt anymore! He had a Mama fox to take care of him! And then, another surprise - a tiny nose appeared from inside a den box at the far side of the pen. It was another fox ---a pup about the same age as Dash. Dash ran up to greet her. He touched the cub’s nose to his and then dashed away challenging the young fox to chase him.

She did, and soon the two pups were chasing each other around the enclosure just like Dash used to do with his brothers and sisters. The Mama curled up on one side of the pen and kept a careful eye on the pups as they played. She had done this many times before. This was her TreeHouse job.

Several weeks passed. Dash had a safe place to live with plenty of food and water. He had the company of other foxes. He had bones to chew on, ramps to climb on, and fox toys to play with. But, sometimes Dash would look at the wide open area beyond his enclosure and wonder what it would be like to run through the field and into the woods beyond.

Dash grew fast, and a few months later he was almost as big as the Mama.

He still curled up with her in the den box at night, but he spent more and more time looking at the woods.

One morning, Rachael and a helper came to the enclosure with a large carrier. The TreeHouse staff works very hard to keep the animals wild and wary of people, so when they came close to Dash, it scared him and he ran to the opposite end of the pen. But, after a lot of chasing and bribing with meaty treats, Dash was in the crate and loaded into a van.

The van bumped along for a long time. Dash didn’t know it, but he was being taken back to a wooded area very near to the place where he had been hurt. The bumping stopped. The crate was picked up and carried down a long path in the woods. He heard running water nearby. He breathed in the soothing smells of a time long ago.

The door to the crate was opened, and Dash bolted. He ran until he could no longer see the people who had let him go. He didn’t understand exactly what had happened since that long ago day when he had been hurt, and how much the people at TreeHouse had helped him. He just knew that he was free and in the place that he was meant to be.

The End Video Activity: You can watch a real video of two young orphaned foxes being introduced to Chuckles, one of our foster moms at TreeHouse. Ask your parents for permission and help to go to the following site on your computer or other device. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LOQ0BGLJK4

Chuckles with one of her foster pups.

Activity: Complete the crossword puzzle below that tells what the people at TreeHouse do every day to take care of animals like Dash. (Answers on page 35) 1

2 3

4

5 6

7

8

9

10

11

ACROSS 4. Animals that live at TreeHouse all the time help raise the babies. They are _____ parents.

7. The _____ does the advanced medical care like setting broken bones and surgery.

9. We keep the animal cages _____.

10. Volunteers that know how to use tools help _____ the outdoor enclosures for the animals.

11. We make the lives of the animals interesting by giving them _____ to play with.

DOWN 1. We answer _____ from people who find animals that have been hurt or orphaned. (two words) 2. We make sure animals have _____ every day. (three words) 3. We give sick animals the _____ they need to get better.

5. We go out and _____ animals that need help.

6. We go to classrooms and other places to _____ people about animals in Illinois and what to do if they find an animal that needs help.

8. The ultimate goal at TreeHouse is to _____ the animals back to their homes in the wild.

Challenge: Animals like Dash would never get the help they need if people don’t know what to do or who to call if they find an animal that has been hurt or orphaned. You can help. One way to do this would be to make signs and give them to people to put on their refrigerators. Can you think of other ways to tell people about TreeHouse?

If you find an animal that needs help, call TreeHouse Wildlife Center.

618-466-2990

Can you think of other ways you could help TreeHouse?

What Did You Learn at TreeHouse Today?

What Did You Learn at TreeHouse? (Answers on Answer Key page) 1. What kind of animal was the first patient at TreeHouse? a. a baby squirrel

b. a fawn

c. a baby rabbit

d. a baby elephant

2. What kind of animals have fur or hair and drink milk from their mothers? a. birds

b. mammals

c. reptiles

d. fish

3. The snakes at TreeHouse have heat lamps in their tanks because they are ___ a. warm-blooded

b. cold-blooded

4. Which two types of tree squirrels live in Illinois? a. fox and red

b. forest and bush

c. fox and gray

d. red and gray

5. You can tell a small creature is an insect if it has ____ legs. a. 2

b. 4

c. 6

d. 8

6. Squirrels are omnivores. That means they eat _______. a. only other animals b. only plants or parts of plants c. both plants and animals

7. How many species of owls live year-round in Illinois? a. 2

b. 4

c. 5

d. 6

8. In which season of the year are red foxes and most other animals born? a. summer

b. winter

c. fall

d. spring

9. What should you do first if you find an animal that is hurt or without its parent? a. call TreeHouse or another rehabber

b. find an adult to help

10. What should you do next if you find an animal that needs help? a. call TreeHouse or another rehabber

b. pick up the animal and take it home

Answer Key Owl Scavenger Hunt: 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Pelicans by the Numbers:

barn owl and barred owl yellow barn owl great-horned owl and screech owl great-horned owl screech owl screech owl barn owl and short-eared owl

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

4 14 15 9 3 2 150

Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches: 1. Africa

2. thorax

3. males

4. spiracles

5. scavengers

6. hooks

Answers to Crossword Puzzle: Across: 4. foster

7. veterinarian

9. clean

10. build

11. toys

Down: 1. phone calls 2. food and water 3. medicine 5. rescue 6. teach 8. release

What Did You Learn at TreeHouse Today?

1. c

2. b

3. b

4. c

5. c

6. c

7. d

8. d

9. b

10. a.

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Activity: Color our Screech Owl

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