Amazing Animals!Directions: Solve the clues below by filling in the blanks with the correct word(s). Then find and circle the words in the word-search grid. Words may be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, backward, or forward. Unscramble Same as decrypt. See scramble. the letters in the parentheses to solve the bonus clue. 1. The echidna echidna, in zoology echidna (ĭkĭd`nə) or spiny anteater, primitive animal of the order Monotremata, the egg-laying mammals. and platypus platypus (plăt`əpəs), semiaquatic egg-laying mammal, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Tasmania and E Australia. Also called duckbill, or duckbilled platypus, it belongs to the order Monotremata (see monotreme), the most primitive group are the world's only 2. Baby koalas: 3. Animal with a backbone: 4. Active at night: 5. Eastern Grey "mob" members: 6. Where platypuses sleep: 7. Animals that nurse their young with milk: 8. Some of these animals have pouches: 9. Thorny devil expert: 10. Venomous: Bonus: Home to these amazing animals: Vocabulary Builder, p. TE6 1. monotremes 2. joeys 3. invertebrate 4. nocturnal 5. kangaroos 6. burrows 7. mammals 8. marsupial marsupial (märs  `pēəl), member of the order Marsupialia, or pouched mammals.
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