Animals' riddles

Riddles about animals

Read the riddles. Guess the animals. Scan the QR-codes and check your answers. 

1. There’s lots of me at Thanksgiving            

But you don’t want me to be wasted

Because my meat’s really juicy

Just so long as I have been basted 

2. One of these is Cupid

But it doesn’t have a bow

Instead it pulls a sleigh

Through the air and lands on snow.

3. You might be called this animal
If someone thinks that you’re afraid
This is something that you might eat
As well as its eggs that it laid.

4. This provides meat that you would eat

When breakfast you are makin’

A chicken is what gives the eggs

And this is what gives bacon.

5. My wings are used as flippers

So in water I can flow

Sometimes when on land I slide

On my belly in the snow

6. I am known as a king

The jungle’s where I reign

It is hard to tame me

And I have a large mane.

7.I like to use my long tongue

To eat leaves from tops of trees

I don’t have to climb up though

With my long neck it’s a breeze

 

8. What are all these animals?

Marmoset and capuchin

Macaque, spider and baboon

A mandrill and tamarin