A Glossary of Terms for Wildlife

1. Carrion: is the body of a dead animal.

2. Carnivore: A carnivore is an animal that eats meat, which means that it eats other animals.

3. Herbivore: an animal that eats only plants.

4. Nocturnal: A nocturnal animal is one that stays awake at night, and usually one that hunts for its food at night.

5. Olfactory System: an animal's sense of smell. We usually just call it our sense of smell, or our nose.

6. Prey: An animal's prey, is the animal being hunted. So if a tiger is hunting a wild boar, the wild boar is the tiger's prey.

7. Stalk: When an animal sneaks up on another to attack it, we say that it stalks its prey. So, if a tiger is sneaking up on a boar, we say that it is stalking its prey.

8. Tundra: the treeless plains of the Arctic Circle. For most of the year the temperature is below zero degrees.