Why am I getting a MySQL error?

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Published on 2012-04-08T05:18:02Z Indexed on 2012/04/08 5:29 UTC
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Here is my query. Its intention is allow access to properties of the animals that constitute a match of two animals.

The match table contains columns for animal1ID and animal2ID to store which animals constitute the match.

SELECT id, 
    (SELECT * 
    FROM animals 
    WHERE animals.id=matches.animal1ID) AS animal1, 

    (SELECT * 
    FROM users 
    WHERE animals.id=matches.animalID) AS animal2 
FROM matches WHERE id=5

However, MySQl returns this error: Operand should contain 1 column(s).

Why? Is there an alternative way to do this, perhaps with a JOIN statement?

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