Blaine’s Puzzle Blog: NPR Sunday Puzzle (July 19, 2026): Animal Plurals

Q: Take the name of a popular 21st-century film with animals, in eight letters. Remove the first and last letters, then change one of the remaining six letters to a C, to spell a plural word for certain animals. What words are these?

Change the penultimate letter in the film title to an R and rearrange. The result is a plural for something else that can move and consume food.