Aihepiiri 2 Animals
Our words Animals
Amphibians | any animal that can live both on land and in water. Amphibians have cold blood and skin without scales. | Frogs, toads and newts are all amphibians. | Sammakkoeläin |
Badger | an animal with grey fur and wide black and white lines on its head. Badgers are nocturnal (= active mostly at night) and live in holes in the ground. | Badgers are very cute animals | Mäyrä |
Billy goat | a male goat | billy goat and goat | Pukki/mies vuohi |
Lemming | a small animal like a mouse, that lives in cold northern countries. Many of them die on these journeys and there is a popular belief that lemmings kill themselves by jumping off cliffs. | Lemming-like we rushed into certain disaster. | Sopuli |
Elk | a large deer that lives in the north of Europe, Asia and North America. In North America it is called a moose. | Elk is synonym for moose | Hirvi |
Lynx | a wild animal of the cat family, with yellow-brown fur (sometimes with spots on it) and a very short tail | Lynx is bigger than my cat | Ilves |
Aardvark | an animal from southern Africa that has a long nose and tongue and that eats insects | Aardvark look like pig | Maasika |
Polecat | a small European wild animal with a long thin body, dark brown fur and a strong unpleasant smell | Polecats run fast | Hilleri |
Weasel | a small wild animal with red-brown fur, a long thin body, and short legs. Weasels eat smaller animals. | Weasel reminds me of polecat | Lumikko |
Viper | A small venomous snake | Vipers live in Finland | Kyykäärme |
Ape | a large animal like a monkey, with no tail. There are different types of ape. | Apes climb on trees | Ihmisapina |
Armadillo | American animal with a hard shell made of pieces of bone | Armadillos are cute | Vyötiäinen |
Bilby | a small Australasian animal with a long nose, a long tail and big ears | Bilby resemble a mouse and kangaroo | Pussikaniini |
Borzoi | a large Russian dog with soft white hair | Borzoi is very fluffy | Venäjänvinttikoira |
Carnivore | any animal that eats meat | Cat is carnivore | Petoeläin |
Ewe | a female sheep | Ewe gives birth to a lamb | Naaraspuolinen lammas |
Coati | a small animal with a long nose and a long tail with lines across it, which lives mainly in Central and South America | Coati is rare animal | Nenäkarhu |
Gibbon | A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch. | Gibbonis looks funny | Gibboni, kuuluu ihmisapinoihin |
Heifer | A young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved. | I have half a mind to marry that heifer | Hieho/poikimaton nuori lehmä |
Kinkajou | Potos flavus, a carnivorous mammal of Central America and South America with a long, prehensile tail, related to the raccoon. | Kinkajou have weird tail | Kierteishäntäkarhu |
Bluetit | Cyanistes caeruleus, a small bird of the tit family Paridae, with an azure blue crown and dark blue line passing through the eye and encircling the white cheeks to the chin. | Bluetit is very small bird | Sinitiainen |
Brood | The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. | Newborn birds form a brood | Poikue |
Canary | A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands. | Canary is beautifull bird | Kanarianlintu |
Vulture | Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae. | Vulture is scary | Korppikotka |
Poultry | domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs) | Poultry is used for cooking | Siipikarja |
Falcon | Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey. | Flacon is synonym for hawk | Haukka |
Heron | A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae. | Heron is big bird | Haikara |
Migration | Seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home | One bird is the head of migration | Muuttoliike |
Dunnock | A small European and Asian passerine bird, Prunella modularis, the hedge sparrow or hedge warbler. | Dunnock is small, brown bird | Rautiainen |
Rook | A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family. | Rook is cool bird | Mustavaris |