Lion Country Safari Investigators: Animal Mystery Pre-Visit Activity KEY Designed for grades 5-7

The animal mystery program helps utilize deductive reasoning. Practice your detective skills to classify an animal in this pre-visit activity. Clues will help you eliminate animals; mark those with an X after given each clue. The one remaining is the answer!

1st Clue: This animal has a backbone (Eliminate Invertebrate)

Amphibian Reptile Bird

Fish Mammal Invertebrate

2nd Clue: This animal lays eggs (Eliminate Mammal)

3rd Clue: This animal does not have feathers (Eliminate Bird)

4th Clue: This animal has scales (Eliminate Amphibian)

5th Clue: This animal breathes with lungs (Eliminate Fish)

Answer: Reptile