Case of the Missing Arctic Fox and Other True Animal Mysteries for You to Solve
TRACKING DOWN ANSWERS Squirrels chewing snake skins Footprints mysteriously made in the night Vanishing animals Animal mysteries lurk all around you They prowl the forests and fields waiting to be solved Grab your magnifying glass You have some animal mysteries to solve To put these mysteries to rest you'll need all your detective skills Don't miss a tiny fossil ignore a bone or forget to explore the surroundings Put the clues together to solve the mysteries BEFORE CONTINUING PLEASE STATE THE ANIMAL DETECTIVE S PROMISE I will read each one page mystery completely I will try to solve each mystery to the best of my ability I will not use this book as scratch paper I will not peek at the answer on the flip side of the page Only after I have solved the mystery or worn down my brain trying may I turn the page Now you're ready for some toad ally tricky animal mysteries What are you waiting for Get mooooving
MYSTERY SNOW ANGELS January 4 6 00 a m 28° F 2° C no wind St Mary's PA pasture southwest of barn Found tiny tracks running across the snowy pasture Each track was just 1 4 inch 6 centimeter long Followed the tracks for 6 feet 2 meters into the wide open pasture Suddenly the tracks disappeared At the trail's end there were in two crescent shaped marks that looked like a small snow angel Under a maple tree nearby discovered bones and fur packed together in a tight gray ball What happened here last night
CASE CRACKED A MIDNIGHT SNACK Scientists can't always find the actual animals when there's a mystery to solve But often they can find clues like animal tracks These clues help show how animals act in nature The tracks in the snow in this mystery have four toes on the front foot and five toes on the hind foot Rodent tracks usually look like that Many rodents are small and live in pastures It's likely the small tracks belong to some kind of rodent The crescent shaped marks at the end of the tracks are the shape of an owl's outstretched wing Birds eat rodents So From the clues we can re create what happened A hungry owl spotted a rodent in the moonlight It swooped down and caught the rodent When the owl took flight again its wings beat against the snow leaving marks that look like snow angels Sitting in the tree the owl ate the rodent bones and all But an owl can't digest everything Later it coughed up the bones in a furry pellet an owl pellet rodent a mammal with long front teeth used for gnawing
MYSTERY HEADS OR TALS Hiking through a swamp in southeastern Asia you discover a snake skin The skin is 28 feet 8 5 m long The head of the skin is caught on a dead log to your right and the tail stretches out to the left You wonder what kind of snake it's from It could be dangerous You'd rather not run into a huge snake in the middle of a swamp WHICH WAY SHOULD YOU GO
