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"Hi! We are Mocha and Sam. You can see us on the Photo Page."
"We are going to tell you a little bit about chinchillas."
"We are furry little animals that come from
South America, where we lived in the
Andes Mountains," says Mocha.
(Mocha is a brown velvet chinchilla.)
"A man named M. F. Chapman found eleven of us and
brought us to the United States in 1923,"
says Sam. (Sam's a gray chinchilla.)
Some people that really like us gave us the nickname 'chins'.
We hope you will come back to visit us soon!"
Says Mocha and Sam.
"See if you can do this crossword puzzle about us."
All of the answers are on this page.

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ACROSS

1.What is the name of the brown velvet chinchilla?
2.What is a nickname for chinchilla?
3.Where did chinchillas come from?
4.How many chinchillas did M. F. Chapman bring to the United States?
5.What is the name of the gray chinchilla?

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1.What animals are on this page?
2.Chins do not have feathers, they have _ _ _ .
3.In what mountains did the chinchillas live before they came to the United States?

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