News bulletin – answers

Baby anteater stars in Japan

true/false

1. The new celebrity is very confident. F: it is apprehensive (it does gain confidence a little later on)
2. The baby doesn’t have a name. T
3. The baby lives at Tokyo zoo. F: it lives at the Sunshine International Aquarium
4. It is already famous. F: it comes from a celebrity family (its mother is ‘famous’)
5. The baby’s mother has escaped twice. T (she ‘made headlines twice’)
6. The baby’s mother is now happy just being a mother. T
7. The baby anteater is male. F: it is too soon to tell but the keeper has a feeling it’s a boy
8. Anteaters don’t have teeth. T: they use their tongue to catch ants
9. All anteaters can eat up to 35,000 ants and insects per day. F: some species of anteater, not all
10. The baby will live with its mother for 1 year. F: we don’t know how long it will stay with its mother, but it will take a year to become fully grown