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From the Ted Talk by Gilad Bino: A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals

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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

  1. underwater
  2. begins
  3. minuscule
  4. nerves
  5. moving
  6. signals
  7. 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

  1. autumn
  2. begins
  3. bill
  4. body
  5. burrow
  6. clambers
  7. close
  8. coat
  9. coming
  10. construct
  11. days
  12. detect
  13. electrical
  14. electroreceptors
  15. fat
  16. feet
  17. finally
  18. finds
  19. fitted
  20. glass
  21. heat
  22. horizontally
  23. hunt
  24. land
  25. limbs
  26. meal
  27. minuscule
  28. moving
  29. muscles
  30. nerves
  31. platypus
  32. posture
  33. propel
  34. quick
  35. raindrops
  36. river
  37. senses
  38. signals
  39. sky
  40. spilling
  41. spine
  42. surroundings
  43. traps
  44. underwater
  45. waddles
  46. waterproof
  47. webbed