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15 Founding fathers 16 Deadliest animals

Some people have made special contributions in the field of science, art or Some animals may look cute but in reality they are extremely dangerous.

knowledge. They are often referred to as the founding fathers of that field. Read the clues and name these deadly animals using the clue box.
Use the clue box to name the founding fathers of the following fields.
1. With its interlocking razor sharp teeth and aggressive
1 2 temperament it is one of the deadliest fish.

1. Father of Medicine
2. It is the largest ant species in the world and has a highly
2. Father of Modern
Astronomy toxic sting.

3. Father of Poetry 3. Also known as ‘black death’. It is one of Africa’s most
dangerous beasts. It is extremely aggressive and wild.
4. Father of Geometry
3 5. Father of History 6 4. It is a very large marine animal and has killed more humans

in water than any other species.
6. Father of Economics

7. Father of Railways 5. This camouflaged killer uses its forked tongue to find its

victims from the tastes and smells in the air.
8. Father of American
car industry
6. This two inch long golden poison frog has enough venom to
8 9. Father of White 9 kill ten grown men.
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7. This ugly little fish is the world’s most poisonous fish. It
10. Father of Green opens its jaws with lighting speed and consumes its prey in
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less than 0.015 seconds.

8. They are non-poisonous snakes but squeeze or constrict

their prey to death.
Herodotus Dr. Norman Borlaug Info-bites

Adam Smith Nicolaus Copernicus Since Hippocrates is known Info-bites
as the Father of Medicine, white shark stonefish
Euclid Verghese Kurien most new physicians The bullet ants live in
the humid forests of the
Geoffrey Chaucer Hippocrates (doctors) are required bullet ants Cape buffalo Amazon and their sting is
to take the Hippocratic yellow anaconda piranha
Henry Ford George Stephenson Oath before starting or as sharp as being hit by

practising their profession. boa constrictor poison dart frog a bullet!

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