ALPHABET DECK | 4 POINTS

• Most Tortoises are herbivores, eating leaves, fruit, flowers, and grasses.
• Giant tortoises move very slowly on dry land, at only 0.17 miles per hour (0.27 km/h).

ALPHABET DECK | 8 POINTS

• Yapoks are also known as water opossums.

• They are the world’s only aquatic marsupials.

ALPHABET DECK | 2 POINTS

• Turtles lay soft and leathery eggs.

• Their shells grow from their ribs.

ALPHABET DECK | 5 POINTS

• Yaks are herd animals.

• Domesticated yaks have been kept for thousands of years.

ALPHABET DECK | 7 POINTS

• Salamanders can live for up to 50 years.

• They can spray neurotoxic chemicals at attacking predators.

ALPHABET DECK | 7 POINTS

• X-Ray Tetras feed on small insects and planktonic animals.

• Their bodies are almost transparent.

ALPHABET DECK | 8 POINTS

• There are 2,000 living species of starfish that occur in all the world’s oceans.
• Sea Stars eat clams, oysters, snails, and other mollusks.

ALPHABET DECK | 6 POINTS

• Xenops birds are often difficult to see in the forest.
• They eat insects, and can catch flying termites in mid-air.

VANCOUVER AQUARIUM DECK | 7 POINTS

• Eels have buck teeth and very strong jaws.

• They use their jaws to crush all kinds of sea creatures.