This week's News Time is a real creature feature!
You’ll hear five stories about curious creatures from Australia and around the world. We’ll meet a cheeky bear that broke into a zoo, then we’ll hop to an island where millions of scuttling crabs are making an escape. And, in our Wow of the Week, we’ll hit the catwalk to meet some very fashionable dolphins.
Quiz Questions
1. What is the name of the project that's asking Australians to take photos of insects?
2. What type of dinosaur was dug up (as a mummy)?
3. How many red crabs on Christmas Island are migrating?
4. How did zoo staff describe the unexpected bear visitor?
5. What were the male dolphins wearing on their heads?
Bonus Tricky Question
What are two ways that residents of Christmas Island gently move the crabs?
Answers
1. The Australian Bug Hunt
2. Duck-billed dinosaur
3. 100 million
4. He was very polite
5. Sea sponges
Bonus Tricky Answer
Shields on their cars, and leaf blowers
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