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SPLISH SPLASH ANIMAL BATHS Slide 2 BEASTS beasts all animals other than humans Slide 3 HANDY handy useful good to have around Slide 4 ITCHES itches a reaction to a bite a need to scratch Slide 5 NIBBLE nibble to take small quick bites Slide 6 PREEN preen to clean or wash fur - smooth feathers Slide 7 PUDDLES puddles small pools of water Slide 8 ANIMALS NEED TO EAT Slide 9 All animals need to eat, but different beasts eat in different ways. A raccoon searches for fish, nuts, and other things to eat. Raccoons wash all their food before eating it. To do this, they must live near water. Even small pools of water, like puddles, will do. Slide 10 After the raccoon washes its food, it begins to eat by taking small bites. The animal may nibble on an acorn once it is clean. Slide 11 A tiger hunts for the meat it eats. Eating can make a mess out of the tigers fur. There are many places that need to be scratched. Slide 12 To get rid of these itches, the tiger bathes in a pond. Later the tiger may lie in the sun and preen. It carefully smooths its fur with its tongue. Slide 13 A spider eats meat, too. It builds a sticky web and then hides. The web is a useful tool for the spider. Bugs get stuck in the handy web. Then the spiders dinner cant escape. Slide 14 SPLISH ! SPLASH ! ANIMAL BATHS by April Pulley Sayre Slide 15 SPLISH! SPLASH! Take a bath. Brush your teeth clean. And think of the animals. They clean themselves, too. SQUIRT! An elephant sprays water over its back. SQUIRT! Baby will get a shower, too. Slide 16 Pigs take their baths in thick, brown mud. They soak, slog, snortand seem to smile. Mud cools their skin. And best of all, it gets rid of itches, as well. Slide 17 Slide 18 Birds take baths in puddles. Or shower under sprinklers or waterfalls. Once clean, they preen smoothing, fluffing, and straightening their feathers. Thats like hair brushing for you. Slide 19 Slide 20 Ducks do extra work. They spread oil on their feathers. This special oil waterproofs them. Without it, ducks would get soggy and coldwhich wouldnt be ducky at all! Slide 21 Slide 22 Bears have long fur that gets itchy and full of insects. To scratch itches, a bear rubs against a tree. Bears also take dust baths. They roll in dirt. Or they swim and splash in a wide, cool stream. Slide 23 Splish splash I was taking a bath! Slide 24 Even the king of beasts can get beastly dirty. So lions do what house cats do. They lick their long fur clean. But even a lions tongue cant reach the back of its head so it licks a paw and rubs over its head and ears. Slide 25 Slide 26 A comb might come in handy for cleaning a chimpanzees fur. But chimps dont have combs, so fingers work fine. Chimps bite and pull bugs and leaves from their familys and friends fur. What are good buddies for? Slide 27 Slide 28 Oxpeckers, a type of bird, spend their time hanging around. Where? On the bodies of giraffes. Giraffes dont seem to mind. Oxpeckers peck away ticks. They get a meal, and the giraffe gets clean. Slide 29 Slide 30 Hippos have helpers, too. But these helpers are underwater, in the rivers and ponds where hippos wade. Fish nibble algae off a hippos skin. Does it tickle the hippo? Only hippos know. And they wont say. Slide 31 Fish nibbling on a hippos back. Slide 32 Fish dont take baths. They live in water. But some do try to stay clean. Big fish wait in line not for a car wash, but for a cleaner fish. Nibble, nibble, the cleaner fish bites tiny pests off the big fishs scales. The big fish gets clean. The cleaner fish gets a meal. Now thats an amazing deal! Slide 33 Slide 34 Nearby, a shrimp crawls into a moray eels mouth. Will it become a shrimp dinner? Not this time. Its a cleaner shrimp an animal dentist. It picks and eats food off the morays teeth. Instead of being a shrimp dinner, its dinnertime for this little shrimp. Slide 35 Slide 36 Now that youve heard about animal baths and animal dentists, and how animals splish, splash, peck, and preen Its time to take your bath. Splish and splash. And think of the animals. They, too, are getting clean. Slide 37 Slide 38 Slide 39 Slide 40 Slide 41 VOCABULARY MATCH UP Slide 42 Slide 43 PLURALS Slide 44 WORD ENDINGS If you have more than one you may need to add -s or -es to make the nouns plural. 1 tiger - 3 tigers 1 lunch - 5 lunches Slide 45 Can you make them plural? box = _____________ elephant = ____________ splash = ___________ animal = ______________ shrimp = __________ fox = _________________ fish = _____________ scale = _______________ tick = _____________ pig = ________________ grass = ____________ beach = ______________ itch = _____________ bird = ________________