--- title: Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. 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How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/0/) — North America and Britain share some animals, like the red fox, and have their own stars: the moose wading in a lake, the bald eagle on the Great Seal, the badger snuffling at dusk and the hedgehog on the garden lawn. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/1/) — Names can trick you: a bald eagle has a full head of white feathers, and the American robin is a different, bigger bird from the British robin, named by homesick settlers because its red breast reminded them of home. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/2/) — Many of these animals live right next to us: foxes trot down city streets at night, raccoons open bins, and robins follow gardeners for worms, just as their ancestors followed wild boar. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/3/) — Cartoons show raccoons as masked burglars washing their loot, hedgehogs carrying apples on their spines and skunks spraying for fun; the real animals are stranger and smarter, and a skunk always warns you first. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/5/) — The bald eagle is not bald; its name comes from an old word meaning white, for its white head, and it became the national bird of the USA in 1782. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/6/) — Raccoons often dunk food in water even when it is clean, because wet, sensitive front paws seem to feel things better; they are not really washing it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/7/) — Beaver front teeth are orange because the enamel contains iron, which makes it extra strong, they never stop growing, and beavers build dams so the entrance to their lodge stays under water and safe from predators on land. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/8/) — Red foxes live in many British towns and cities, eating worms, beetles, rats, fruit and scraps, and the eerie screams on winter nights are often foxes calling. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/9/) — Badgers live in families in tunnel systems called setts, some used for over a hundred years, and a badger can eat a few hundred earthworms in one night. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/10/) — A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines, which are hollow hairs, eats mostly insects, worms and beetles, hibernates from about November to March, and should be given water and meaty pet food, never bread and milk, because milk upsets their stomachs. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/11/) — The European robin sings all winter, both males and females defending territory with song, and its red breast warns rivals, so it may even attack a bunch of red feathers; it was voted Britain's favourite bird in 2015. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/12/) — The American robin is a thrush, bigger than the British robin, with a grey back and reddish breast, and it often finds worms by sight. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/13/) — Grey squirrels brought from North America in the 1800s took over much of the red squirrel's range in Britain; they carry squirrelpox, which kills many reds, and reds survive best in places like Scotland. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/14/) — A striped skunk sprays a stinking oily liquid a few metres from glands under its tail, usually after stamping and raising its tail as a warning. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/15/) — Millions of monarch butterflies fly up to about 4,000 kilometres from eastern North America to Mexico each autumn, using the sun and a body clock, though none of them has been there before. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/16/) — The monarchs' journey north takes several generations, so the butterflies returning to Mexico are the great-great-grandchildren of those that left. - ← previous: [Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/) - next →: [The big cats house: lions and tigers up close](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)