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From the Ted Talk by Gilad Bino: A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals
Unscramble the Blue Letters
It's autumn and fat rrdnpoais finally come spilling from the sky. Within days, the platypus finds a river and bngies to hunt. Her webbed feet propel her along and her waterproof coat traps heat close to her body. udrenteawr, she senses her surroundings with her duck-like bill, which is fitted with about 40,000 electroreceptors. This allows her to detect the muuclsine electrical sliagns coming from a glass shrimp’s neevrs and muscles. She makes it a quick meal. And once she clambers back on land to construct a burrow, she waddles in a lizard-like posture, her limbs mviong horizontally to her spine.
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It's autumn and fat _________ finally come spilling from the sky. Within days, the platypus finds a river and ______ to hunt. Her webbed feet propel her along and her waterproof coat traps heat close to her body. __________, she senses her surroundings with her duck-like bill, which is fitted with about 40,000 electroreceptors. This allows her to detect the _________ electrical _______ coming from a glass shrimp’s ______ and muscles. She makes it a quick meal. And once she clambers back on land to construct a burrow, she waddles in a lizard-like posture, her limbs ______ horizontally to her spine.
Solution
- underwater
- begins
- minuscule
- nerves
- moving
- signals
- raindrops
Original Text
It's autumn and fat raindrops finally come spilling from the sky. Within days, the platypus finds a river and begins to hunt. Her webbed feet propel her along and her waterproof coat traps heat close to her body. Underwater, she senses her surroundings with her duck-like bill, which is fitted with about 40,000 electroreceptors. This allows her to detect the minuscule electrical signals coming from a glass shrimp’s nerves and muscles. She makes it a quick meal. And once she clambers back on land to construct a burrow, she waddles in a lizard-like posture, her limbs moving horizontally to her spine.
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Important Words
- autumn
- begins
- bill
- body
- burrow
- clambers
- close
- coat
- coming
- construct
- days
- detect
- electrical
- electroreceptors
- fat
- feet
- finally
- finds
- fitted
- glass
- heat
- horizontally
- hunt
- land
- limbs
- meal
- minuscule
- moving
- muscles
- nerves
- platypus
- posture
- propel
- quick
- raindrops
- river
- senses
- signals
- sky
- spilling
- spine
- surroundings
- traps
- underwater
- waddles
- waterproof
- webbed