We watched a fun segment from Good Morning America.  Jack Hanna, a well-known zookeeper and animal expert visited GMA with a few interesting animals.  He was interviewed by GMA's Sam Champion, who held the animals.  We did a matching exercise based on the script.  Here's a quiz using some of the vocabulary.  Choose a word from the Word List, and then type your answer in the square.  Check to see if you are correct by clicking on an arrow to reveal the correct answer.

Word List
sparse	jelly bean	tusks
cheetah	stinks	pouch
marsupial	warn	smell
prey	prickly	slice

1. The cheetah is the fastest land mammal in the world.
   
   
2. It seems crazy that these animals can be born in the wild in Columbus, Ohio.  It's amazing that there's 10,000 acres there for these animals.
   
   
3. The warthog is prey for many animals.  The cheetahs had to leave before the warthogs came because a warthog is lunch for a cheetah.
   
   
4. The warthog has great eyesight and hearing, and it moves its little tail back and forth to warn each other when a dangerous animal is around. 
   
   
5. Warthogs don't have much hair.  Their hair is sparse and very prickly when they are grown up.
   
   
6. Warthogs spend about 80% of their life on their knees eating, and that's when they are vulnerable to attack, but they have sharp tusks on the sides of their mouths that can slice through their enemies.
   
   
7. A kangaroo can have a baby still in its pouch while another little one that looks like a jelly bean is coming out of the birth canal and going into the pouch.
   
   
8. An animal that is raised in a pouch is called a marsupial.
   
   
9. The African polecat has the worst smell of any animal in the world.  It really stinks.