Glossary
A
- acute
- - sharp
- Antarctic
- - near the south pole
- apiarist
- - beekeeper
- Arctic
- - near the north pole
B
- bamboo
- - a tropical plant with hollow stems
- biologist
- - a scientist who studies plants and animals
C
- camouflage
- - a way to hide by coloring or shape
- carnivore
- - meat eating animal
- carrion
- - a dead animal
- competitor
- - something that competes or the enemy
- confident
- - being sure of one's abilities
D
- decline
- - get smaller
- defense
- - protect oneself or offspring; babies
- denning
- - to settle into their winter den
- dense
- - thick
- dexterous
- - skillful
- dominance
- - power and influence over others
E
- emerge
- - come out from somewhere like a cave
- extracting
- - remove
F
- ferocious
- - mean, scary,
- forage
- - the act of searching for food
H
- habitat
- - Place where something lives
- herbivore
- - an animal that eats plants
- hibernate
- - to sleep through the winter
L
- larvae
- - the young of an insect
- livestock
- - animals raised for food, like cows or sheep
- logged (logging)
- - the business of cutting trees for use in building
M
- metabolize
- - to use by the body
- myth
- - a story that is told for years, but may not be true
N
- navigate
- - to direct movement
- nocturnal
- - sleeps in the day and hunts at night
- nurturing
- - bring up and train, raise
- nutrition
- - the healthy parts of food
O
- omnivore
- - an animal that eats plants and animals
P
- population
- - all the inhabitants of a particular area
- prehensile
- - a part of the body that can grasp such as a tail or hands
R
- researcher
- - a person who studies something
- respiration
- - breathe
- retreat
- - leave
- rodent
- - small mammal such as a mouse, rat or squirrel
T
- territories
- - area of land marked off as owned or hunted on
U
- ungulates
- - mammals with hooves
- Ursus Americanus
- - scientific name for the American black bear
V
- vocalization
- - a sound made by an animal
W
- wildlife manager
- - a person who watches over the health and safety of wild animals and their habitat