Look closely at the picture and identify the animals. You may take help from your teacher. The picture in the book (a painting across pages 38 and 39): The sky at the top, with small brown birds and long-tailed green birds flying in it, and birds with blue wings and a buff breast gliding across. Tal

Look at the picture in three parts — the sky, the branches, and the ground. Where to look What you can see there In the sky A flock of small brown birds (sparrows), a group of long-tailed green birds (parrots or parakeets), and one blue bird gliding On the branches Two monkeys — one sitting high up and one lying along a branch Beside a tree trunk A bear, with long shaggy black hair and a pale snout Under a big tree Two gaur — heavy dark animals with strong curved horns On the grass (left page) A tall sambar deer with a long face, and three spotted deer feeding How we name them: We look at the size, the colour, the horns, the tail and the place where the animal is standing. The book itself names the gaur on page 42 and says they look like buffaloes but are stronger, with shorter horns. Tip: Your teacher may point out one or two more animals in the picture. Write down every name you are told — that is how a nature diary begins.

Divide them into two categories: 1. Animals on land: 2. Birds in the sky: The picture in the book (a painting across pages 38 and 39): The sky at the top, with small brown birds and long-tailed green birds flying in it, and birds with blue wings and a buff breast gliding across. Tall forest trees co

Put every animal that walks on the ground or climbs a tree in the first list, and every animal that flies in the sky in the second. 1. Animals on land 2. Birds in the sky Monkey Sparrow Bear Parrot (parakeet) Gaur Blue bird Sambar deer Spotted deer Why they go in these two groups: Birds have wings and feathers, so they can fly in the sky. The other animals have four legs and walk, run or climb on land. Tip: A monkey climbs high into a tree, but it still belongs with the land animals — it cannot fly.

NCERT Solutions for Class 4th The World Around Us Chapter 3 Animals in the Forest

Q1.

Look closely at the picture and identify the animals. You may take help from your teacher.

The picture in the book (a painting across pages 38 and 39):

The sky at the top, with small brown birds and long-tailed green birds flying in it, and birds with blue wings and a buff breast gliding across.
Tall forest trees covering both pages, some light green and some dark green.
Two long-tailed animals up in the branches — one peeping through the leaves, one lying along a branch.
A shaggy, dark-haired animal with a pale snout standing beside a tree trunk.
Two heavy dark animals with curved horns and white lower legs, standing under the trees on the brown forest floor.
On the left page, a tall greyish-brown animal with a long face and branching antlers, and three small orange animals with white spots feeding on the grass.

The forest scene the students saw from the jeeps. It is a painting spread across two pages; described here — see the textbook for the painting.

Answer

Look at the picture in three parts — the sky, the branches, and the ground.

Where to look	What you can see there
In the sky	A flock of small brown birds (sparrows), a group of long-tailed green birds (parrots or parakeets), and one blue bird gliding
On the branches	Two monkeys — one sitting high up and one lying along a branch
Beside a tree trunk	A bear, with long shaggy black hair and a pale snout
Under a big tree	Two gaur — heavy dark animals with strong curved horns
On the grass (left page)	A tall sambar deer with a long face, and three spotted deer feeding

How we name them: We look at the size, the colour, the horns, the tail and the place where the animal is standing. The book itself names the gaur on page 42 and says they look like buffaloes but are stronger, with shorter horns.

Tip: Your teacher may point out one or two more animals in the picture. Write down every name you are told — that is how a nature diary begins.

Q2.

Divide them into two categories: 1. Animals on land: 2. Birds in the sky:

The picture in the book (a painting across pages 38 and 39):

The sky at the top, with small brown birds and long-tailed green birds flying in it, and birds with blue wings and a buff breast gliding across.
Tall forest trees covering both pages, some light green and some dark green.
Two long-tailed animals up in the branches — one peeping through the leaves, one lying along a branch.
A shaggy, dark-haired animal with a pale snout standing beside a tree trunk.
Two heavy dark animals with curved horns and white lower legs, standing under the trees on the brown forest floor.
On the left page, a tall greyish-brown animal with a long face and branching antlers, and three small orange animals with white spots feeding on the grass.

The forest scene the students saw from the jeeps. It is a painting spread across two pages; described here — see the textbook for the painting.

Answer

Put every animal that walks on the ground or climbs a tree in the first list, and every animal that flies in the sky in the second.

1. Animals on land	2. Birds in the sky
Monkey	Sparrow
Bear	Parrot (parakeet)
Gaur	Blue bird
Sambar deer
Spotted deer

Why they go in these two groups: Birds have wings and feathers, so they can fly in the sky. The other animals have four legs and walk, run or climb on land.

Tip: A monkey climbs high into a tree, but it still belongs with the land animals — it cannot fly.

NCERT Solutions for Class 4th The World Around Us Chapter 3 Animals in the Forest — Activity 1