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Babies of animals enjoy playing. Kittens love to have a friendly fight.

Sometimes, they roll over or pull each other.

Shy Animals

There are many animals who run away when
someone approaches them. They are scared of
people. These animals are not familiar with

human beings and may sometimes harm them,
too. Rabbits, lizards, squirrels, rats, deer and
most of the birds and insects are shy animals.

Tortoise and snails go into their shells if we
touch them.

Shy Animals

1. Name three shy animals you find around you.
a. _______________ b. _______________ c. _______________

2. Name three friendly animals.

a. _______________ b. _______________ c. _______________

Give-and-Take Relationship

Some species of animals share special relationship with animals of other
species. They help each other.

g White birds called cattle egrets live near large animals, such as cows
and buffaloes, elephants and deer. They do so because they eat the

insects that associate with the cattle. Egrets often perch on the backs of
large animals. If the birds sense any danger, they fly away. This is a
warning for the deer or cattle.

g Oxpeckers are small birds that ride on large animals such as oxen,

rhinos and giraffes and peck the insects off their bodies.

g A remora is a small fish which sticks to a shark. It eats small creatures
that live on the shark’s body.

g Egyptian Plover, a bird that feeds on bits of decaying meat stuck in the

teeth of crocodile. The plover gets its food and the crocodile gets its
teeth cleaned.

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