🌿 SIX ANIMALS TO DISCOVER

Animal Discovery

Meet the real animals behind the KEY Bros rescues—and uncover the amazing ways they live, move and survive.

👇 Tap any animal to open its discovery card.

Forest mammal

Hedgehog

A tiny night explorer protected by thousands of spines.

Hedgehogs are small mammals with stiff protective spines. When danger comes close, strong muscles help them curl into a tight, prickly ball.

🌙 Many hedgehogs are most active at night.

🪶 Their spines are made from keratin, like our hair and nails.

👃 Smell and hearing help them search in the dark.

🍂 Leaf piles and wild corners can provide shelter.

Colony insect

Ant

Small workers that achieve incredible things as a team.

Ants live in organised colonies. Worker ants gather food, care for young ants, defend the nest and work together to solve problems much bigger than one ant.

👃 Ants leave chemical scent trails called pheromones.

💪 Many ants can carry several times their own body weight.

🦵 Every ant has six legs and three main body sections.

👑 A colony usually has a queen whose main job is laying eggs.

Wetland engineer

Beaver

A brilliant builder that can transform a whole habitat.

Beavers build dams from branches, stones and mud. The slower water behind a dam can form ponds and wetlands that provide homes for many other animals.

🪵 Beaver dams slow moving water rather than simply stopping it.

🏠 A beaver home is called a lodge and may have an underwater entrance.

🦷 Their strong front teeth grow throughout their lives.

🌿 Beavers eat bark, twigs, leaves and water plants.

Pond transformer

Tadpole

A young frog changing step by step beneath the water.

A tadpole is the aquatic young stage of a frog or toad. During metamorphosis, its body gradually changes until it is ready for life as a frog.

💧 Young tadpoles live in water and usually breathe with gills.

🦵 Back legs normally appear before the front legs.

🌱 Many tadpoles feed on algae and soft plant material.

🔄 Its tail is gradually absorbed as the frog develops.

Ambush hunter

Praying Mantis

A patient insect with lightning-fast grasping legs.

The praying mantis gets its name from the way it holds its folded front legs. Those powerful, spined legs can shoot forward quickly to catch prey.

👀 Large compound eyes help it notice movement.

🔺 Its triangular head can turn much farther than most insects’ heads.

⚡ It waits very still before striking rapidly.

🌿 Its green or brown colouring can help it hide among plants.

Scaled reptile

Snake

A smooth-moving reptile that explores with a forked tongue.

Snakes are reptiles covered with dry scales. They move using strong muscles along their bodies, and most would rather escape than confront a person.

👅 A forked tongue collects scent particles from the air and ground.

✨ Snakes shed their old outer skin as they grow.

👁️ They do not blink; a clear scale protects each eye.

☀️ They use warmth from their surroundings to regulate body temperature.

✨ More Animal Discovery guides will arrive with future KEY Bros adventures.