1.   -- At Acorn Pond, children see how the changes of the four seasons can affect animals -- and how they prepare for those changes.

2.   Foot-and-mouth disease affects animals yet poses no threat to humans.

3.   It affects cloven-hoofed animals, causing fever and blisters on the mouth and feet.

4.   Plague is a zoonotic disease, one that affects animals primarily and that infects humans by accident.

5.   The same mycotoxin has apparently not affected other animals.

6.   Anthrax, an infectious disease that normally affects animals, is considered among the most lethal biological agents.

7.   Britain has been hardest hit by the highly contagious disease, which affects cloven-hoofed animals, since the outbreak started there in February.

8.   But deer hunting remains banned because deer are at risk from foot-and-mouth, an airborne disease that affects animals with cloven hooves.

9.   Foot-and-mouth disease affects cloven-footed animals, including sheep, goats and cows as well as pigs.