Mega Hunters
Pack Hunters - Part 1Cloze Passage
All pack hunters have four things in common when attacking and killing their prey. They use teamwork to hunt them, co-operative ______and unique ways of ______and ______their prey all for the sake of a kill. The main roles of the lion are for the female to do most of the ______with the male ______and ______. The ______the female lions use to catch their ______is for one to get as ______as possible to drive the animal to another ______in the bush. Lions have great vision that is ______times better than humans, can hear prey from ______away and can ______how recently the prey has past. While lions can ______55km/h they can only maintain it for a few seconds. The typical deathblow of the lion is ______the neck and ______the windpipe. After a kill ______always eat first, then the ______and what is left over goes to the ______. On average a lion needs to eat up to ______of meat daily.
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Hyenas live in clans that reach as much as ______. The hierarchy of the hyena has a ______always as the chief, below them is the ______and at the bottom of the social order is the adult ______. Hyenas are regarded as ______
often tipped off that fresh meat is about by ______. Packs work together effectively,including a ______where they form a______around the herd of animals in an effortto isolate one that is ______behind and pursue it to their death. Hyenas eat every part of the carcass excluding hair and horns and ______eat rotten meat that would make other animals sick.
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The ______before they can attack firstly need to ______themselves. The meerkats protect themselves by having one ______climb a shrub to keep ______and barks and gives ______that all is clear while the rest of the ______come and hunt.
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The humpback whale is known as the ______gentle ______. They feed in ______, live off their fat in ______and are known to ______up to 16 000kms round trip. The humpbacks when hunting use singing and blowing to create a ______that is ______. To net thousands of fish one whale creates a wall of ______while on the opposite side another sounds a ______. The fish become surrounded by the bubbles and swim to the ______where the whales are ______to swallow the school of fish whole. The humpback can ______their jaws up to 4 metres.
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bubbles summer lethal battle crygiantmigrate
______like the hyena begin to eat their ______when they are still alive. The wolves ______is used to summon members of the ______send a ______and to mark ______. In the hierarchy of the wolf pack the alpha ______and ______are always the ______and the only members to produce ______. The ______glands in the toes of the wolves are special because they leave a ______for pack members to ______. They have a highly developed ______to ______scents from 3km away.
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scenthowl detect warning sense of smell
Mega Hunters
Pack Hunters - Part 2 Cloze Passage
We share ______of our DNA with chimpanzees. Chimpanzees consume a great range of prey animals including antelope and ______.Their attacks on their favourite prey the ______is brutal and dramatic. They take position on the treetops ______the monkeys and ______their escape route. The ______monkeys are killed by a bite to the neck while the adult monkeys are killed by the chimpanzees using gravity to hurl the prey against a hard surface including the ______and a ______limb. The ______eat first but they share their meat with ______and ______.
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The Red-bellied ______are most notorious. They hunt as a pack and attack prey ____ times ______. They have sensors along their body which they use to detect other creatures movements. In order to survive a piranha will feed on another injured piranha, they are ______! Piranhas are attracted by noise, splashing and ______. They can detect a drop of blood from ______.
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The ______is the fastest animal on land. The cheetah can reach its top speed of 110 kph in just ______! They hunt by ______not sound. Cheetahs have “tear marks” that run from the inside corners of their ______. These marks help reflect the ______of the ______when they are hunting during the day. Females hunt ______while males ______. They usually chase down their prey and then ______its throat.
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3 seconds hunt in packs vision
Army Ants have large ______like jaws called ______. They use them to ______prey apart. While they are dicing up their prey, they spread a dissolving ______. Once flesh, ______and tendons melt down to a liquidised matter, they ______it and keep going. The only defence is not ______a muscle. The army ants are nearly ______so they detect prey by movement. Scouts are sent out to ______food then they ______by scent to the colony.
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The Orca is a ______. They feast on marine life mammals such as ______, sea lions and even whales eating up to ______daily. They use ______to communicate and hunt, making ______that travel underwater until they meet objects, then bounce back, revealing their ______, size, and shape.They are known to grab seals right off the ______. When they detect big game they use a ______pronged ______. They force the great whale to swim ______and tire the ______. The calf becomes ______from their mother. The orcas will dunk the calf until it ______and ______. This marathon torment can last up to six ______.
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Painted dogs are the wild dogs of ______. They are regarded as the most ______hunters on earth with ______out of ______chases ending in a ______. The pack starts with a charge of the prey to cause a ______, which will reveal the weaklings. Their only weapon is their ______with large premolars for ______and eating ______. Adults ______meat for pups, but painted dogs are so social, they share ______with the sick and the ______members of the pack. They seldom show aggression to each other, which is ______in the natural world. When prey is trapped, the dogs enjoy the advantage of a ______attack, a tactic that sooner or later ______down the defender. They are able to ______themselves from the lethal horns of African game. As one holds prey by the ______, another pins it by the mouth with the rest going for the guts and ______it alive.
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Mega Hunters
Ultimate Predators - Part 1 Cloze Passage
Great White Sharks count on the element of ______as they hunt. They have terrifyingly sharp, ______teeth, speed, excellent______, hear very well, can detect motion and a single drop of blood from over 1km away and can ______a seal colony from 2kms away. The Great White is the only known fish species to ______and stick their head above the water to see what is on the surface. Sharks don't chew their food; they rip off ______of meat and swallow them whole. Their jaws are not ______to their skull so they can open wide and take huge bites.
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The South American Green Anaconda uses ______power; squeezing their prey to death. They weigh up to 90kg and grow to ______in length. To support their large ______they spend all their time in and around the water. They use camouflage and underwater stalking to ______their prey. Their eyes and nasal openings are on top of their ______allowing them to lay in wait for prey while remaining nearly completely submerged.When the Anaconda strikes they use their six rows of teeth to latch on to their prey and ______around it, tightening their grip when the prey exhales. The Anaconda has flexible ______that creates an elastic jaw and it has teeth that bend ______to allow them to engulf their prey in one bite.
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The ______is a legendary Australian predator with not even the ______animal escaping them for long. Dingoes are great caregivers with everything given over to the new ______. The ______play teaches the pups to compete. Generally, Dingoes like most predators go for prey that will put up the ______resistance. Hunting is generally done ______for smaller prey including rabbits, ______, birds and lizards. The Dingo hierarchy is worked out through ______and the occasionally fight; consequently they all know their ______in the hunt. When it comes to hunting big game dingoes learn to work in ______as they work in ______to take the animal down. A pack of dingoes can devour an entire ______in minutes.
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While the Grizzly Bear will eat anything, most of their ______is not even meat. Much of their diet consists of ______, berries, fruit, leaves, and roots.They have developed ______teeth to chew tough plants, long ______for digging insectsand plant roots. Grizzly Bears are continually on the ______digging, ______, and scavenging. Where fish are plentiful their cousins grow ______. Young and old gravitate to the salmon filled ______with the biggest bear claiming the best ______. Further inland they need to ______other hunting strategies. When hunting the Bison, which is ______the size of the bear, it is no easy takedown. The key is to ______the ______from the mother. Despite their impressive size, up to 450kg, they attack with ______and power. Grizzlies are quite fast and have been ______at 48 kilometers an hour.
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Stop at 22:38
Mega Hunters
Ultimate Predators - Part 2 Cloze Passage
The Siberian Tiger weighs up to 270kg with nasty claws and canines and can sprint 56kmh, however, due to their lack of ______they miss far more often than they kill. They are powerful hunters that use their distinctive coats as ______and hunt by stealth. They lie in wait and ______close enough to attack their victims with a quick spring and a fatal pounce. Cubs depend on their mother for up to 3 years but only half ______that long.
creep survive camouflage stamina
The Galapagos Hawk is armed with a vicious ______and set of ______. They mainly feed on small mammals, birds and reptiles but their favourite meal is the ______. The best opportunity to hunt comes once a year when the female iguanas go inland to lay and ______eggs. The real feast comes 100 days later when the hawks gather around the ______waiting for the ______iguanas to pop out where they ______on the hatchlings. This feast coincides with the birth of the young hawks where they are feed with ______iguana.
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talons gorge beak fresh
The heat in the nest determines crocodile ______. If the nest is kept between 31 and 32 the hatchling will be ______, while temperatures above and below produce ______hatchlings. Only 1% of newborns make it to ______. Crocodiles are ______hunters preferring to wait for prey to come to them. The biggest meal of the year is ______time when zebras, antelope and
______go searching for green grass and ______. Crocs can stay under the water for up to ______at a time working their way to the ______waiting for the right moment to pounce. They have 68 teeth to latch onto their prey. ______can notchew, they thrash and spin the animal around ripping them into ______.
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The Leopard Seal is one of the ______deadliest hunters. The 3m, 450kg adult seal can barely rollover on the beach, however, when they ______into water they become ______. Their ______body with powerful flippers can reach speeds of up to 22kmh. Their tactics are simple; they swim along the edge of the penguin ______staying underwater and out of sight, then ______the birds just as they enter the water after jumping off the ice. The seals grab the penguin by their ______and repeatedly belt it against the surface ______it to pieces. It eats the ______and ______parts leaving the rest to float away.
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smashing flesh drop fatty streamlined
The Amazon River’s electric eel has the ______hunting technique of them all killing their prey with a ______of electricity. They first produce a small ______field to ______and find other animals. The ______and muscle activity of other fish ______the killer electric eel closer then it delivers a death ______of 500 volts.
draw shock navigate blow strangest electric heartbeat
The Polar Bear has a ______sense of smell. They can detect seals from 1.5kms away and under 1metre of ______. The polar bear follows the scent of the seal’s ______as they use air holes in the ice in order to breathe. The bears will wait until the seal surfaces and pounce on them. Seals also build ______under the snow and when the polar bear locates it they will ______the roof and pull out the meal. They will eat the ______and leave the ______behind where the arctic fox will feast.
denskeen blubber breath
meat snow smash
Mega Hunters
Predator Weapons - Part 1 Cloze Passage
The primary hunting tool for birds of prey are knife like ______. Sometimes they kill with their ______strike or the talons are used to restrain their victim and squeeze the life out of them or they can be used to ______organs causing loss of ______. In the rocky area known as the Falkland Islands, a taloned hunter thrives. The Striated caracara terrorise each other before wreaking ______on the rest of the island.Caracaras mainly______.When elephant seals molt, they ______on dead skin. However, the fur seal colony provides the main course with the newborn pups. When the seal mums go ______, hunting season opens and that's when the young ______learn how to use their talons. The caracaras also use their talons as ______trying to open the eggs of the rock hopper penguin.
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talonshavoc snack scavenge initial caracara
The Harris Hawk from North America can’t just rely on their talons they have ______to the desert by learning to hunt together. Cooperative hunting groups of Harris Hawks are more ______at capturing prey than individuals hunting alone. They work together making it ______, even for the speedy cottontail rabbit. They attack in relay form to chase the prey out into the open and when the rabbit ______away from one hawk it will zag right into the talons of another hawk. Unlike other birds of prey they will share their catch.
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Amongst the American tropics lives an armoured creature that is no ordinary ______because it can kill its prey with one swift venomous jab. The ______cm plus centipede has ______legs at most. It uses its sharp ______filled with toxins to attack their prey’s nervous system. It breathes partly through ______in its body making it prone to dehydration. Preferring to hunt by night its ______prey are spiders, birds, lizards, rodents and frogs. The centipede is nearly ______however, their antenna can ______the tiniest of movements. They can kill with one heart stopping ______of venom.
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The most ______and venomous predator is the King Cobra which ______in forest plains of Southern Asia. One bite has enough ______to kill the largest creature in the jungle. Their ______food is other snakes. They climb a tree to gain an ______point to spot prey. The King Cobra can spot prey from nearly 100m away, they can also ______the movements of other snakes through ground vibrations and use their ______as a direction finder. The Cobra can strike from a metre away injecting venom through the ______. The venom affects the nervous system causing dizziness, sleepiness and finally ______. They ______the whole dinner by expanding its jaws to accommodate a super-sized meal and its ______also face backward, to move the meal along.
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venom favourite advantage
Mega Hunters
Predator Weapons - Part 2 Cloze Passage
The Great White Shark is the world’s ______flesh-eating fish.Its weapon of choice the 300 ______steak knives, which grow right from its gums.Each jaw carries several rows of deadly blades that are ______all throughout its life.Every eight months, ______teeth advance from the back of the mouth like bullets in an ammo belt.One of the most wide-ranging predators, it hunts in all ______seas in waters no higher than your waist to 900m deep. It eats dolphins, dead whales and even other great whites. For maximum ______and power, the shark floors the pedal. While not all strikes are successful the shark rarely misses ______.When large prey fights back, the shark avoids injury by leaving it to ______to death and once it’s safe, it moves in for the feast.A great white’s teeth are designed for stabbing not chewing. It has no ______so it grips prey and thrashes its body twisting off flesh and swallowing it whole. The great white is often referred to as “______” because they have a bite that may pack nearly two tons of force that is twenty times the ______of the human jaw.
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