Go on a Fall Animal Scavenger Hunt! 🍂🔎

Search for clues and meet four fascinating fall animals!

🍁 Ready, Set, Explore! 

As you meet four fascinating fall animals, keep your eyes peeled for the answers to these questions: 

• 🪶What do crows sometimes do just for fun?
• 🦊How do young foxes learn important skills? 
• 🦃Where do turkeys sometimes sleep at night?
• 🐿️Why might a squirrel pretend to bury an acorn?
• 💚Can you spot one way YOU can help animals? 

Explorer Tip: The answers are hiding below. See if you can find them all! 

🪶Crows

• Crows are clever, curious birds.
• They’ve been seen playing in gusts of wind. 
• Some crows jump from high places and let the moving air carry them upward again. 
• Crows have also been observed sliding down snowy rooftops.
• Like other birds, crows have impressive problem-solving abilities.  

💚Explorer Mission

Crows are playful individuals with places to explore and activities to enjoy. If you see crows outside, watch quietly from a respectful distance so they can keep exploring their world in their own way. You’ll be surprised how fun and interesting these animals are!

More to Love About Crows

Think you know crows? These clever birds may surprise you! Discover what makes them so remarkable and how you can show them kindness.

🦊Foxes

• Foxes have excellent hearing and can hear small animals moving through grass, underground, or beneath snow. 
• Their big, bushy tails help them communicate using scent. 
• Foxes sometimes bury food to save for later.
• Female foxes work together to care for their families’ babies. 
• Young foxes learn important skills through play. 

💚Explorer Mission

Fox fur can show up on more than coats. It may be used on jacket trim, accessories, and even kids’ items like pom-pom keychains. Before you shop, check the label and choose animal-free materials to help keep fur where it belongs: on foxes! 

Get a Closer Look 

Foxes are fascinating individuals with families, homes, and their own ways of communicating. Take a closer look at two baby foxes! 

🦃Turkeys 

• Every turkey has a unique personality and favorite activities. 
• A turkey’s head can change color depending on their mood or level of excitement. 
• Turkeys are covered in thousands of feathers—sometimes up to 6,000! 
• They clean their feathers by taking dust baths.
• Turkeys can fly up into trees and roost there at night.  

💚Explorer Mission

Turkeys are individuals with families, interests, and lives that matter. This Thanksgiving, you can show turkeys kindness by choosing tasty vegan food instead. Share a cool turkey fact with your family, too, and help others see turkeys as someone, not something. 

Meet Toby the Turkey!

Discover Toby’s story and learn why turkeys deserve kindness at Thanksgiving and every day. 

Find a Turkey-Friendly Story 

Grab your family, get cozy, and choose a Thanksgiving book that helps everyone get to know turkeys as individuals. 

🐿️Squirrels

• Squirrels gather and bury nuts to save for later. 
• They may carefully cover their hidden snacks with leaves. 
• Some acorns left underground may eventually grow into trees. 
• If squirrels notice someone watching, they may pretend to bury an acorn before carrying it to another hiding place. That careful thinking helps them protect their food. 

💚Explorer Mission

Squirrels make their homes in forests, parks, backyards, and neighborhoods. Wherever you see them, give them space, let them gather their own food, and enjoy watching their busy lives from a respectful distance. Squirrels deserve to explore, find food, rest, play, and live their own lives. 

Keep Exploring Kindly 

Squirrels aren’t the only animals you may meet outside! Learn how to be a kind explorer by watching animals respectfully, giving them room, and leaving nests, burrows, and hiding places undisturbed.

You discovered how animals play, learn, communicate, find food, care for their families, and enjoy their lives. 

But there’s so much more to discover beyond this page. Ready for your next adventure?  

🍂 Take Your Curiosity Outside! 

Grab a grown-up and explore your backyard, neighborhood, a trail, or a local park. Slow down. Look around. Listen. Who can you discover enjoying the fall day? 

Maybe you’ll notice: 

• 🍁 A squirrel gathering food among the leaves 
• 🐦 A bird calling from a tree
• ️🕷️ A spiderweb tucked between two branches
• 🐜 An insect making their way across the ground 
• 🔎 Feathers, tracks, or other clues that an animal has been nearby 

Every animal you notice outside has their own life to live. Kind explorers watch quietly, give animals plenty of space, and let nests, burrows, webs, and homes stay peaceful. Look. Listen. Discover. And make this fall kinder for every animal we share this beautiful world with.

Want to help make Thanksgiving kinder for turkeys? Learn three easy ways your family can speak up for turkeys and celebrate with compassion.