Animal and Bird Knowledge-3
1. To which
continent are capybaras native?
Answer: South America
2.
Which of these words describes mammals, in terms of body heat?
Answer: homeothermic
3.
Which animal has the widest hearing range?
Answer: dolphin
4.
Field ants take their name from their preferred habitat. True or false?
Answer: True
5.
The word turd derives from which language’s word for excrement?
Answer: Middle English
6.
How many pups does a gray wolf (Canis lupus) normally give birth to?
7.
How many known species of insects are there?
Answer: 1,000,000
8.
Akita, a dog,
is a national treasure of which country?
Answer: Japan
9.
A congregation of rhinoceroses is known as a.
Answer: Crash
10.
What are dogs most closely related to?
Answer: wolves
11.
The tallest land creature is the.
Answer: giraffe
12.
How many kinds of snakes are there?
Answer: 2900
13.
Which of these is found in carnivorous animals?
Answer: carnassial
14.
Where are most chameleons found in nature?
Answer: tropics
15.
What is the mammal with the longest tongue, relative to its size?
Answer: nectar bat
16.
What is the name for an insect’s egg-laying organ?
Answer: ovipositor
17.
What kind of animal is a stallion?
Answer: horse
18.
Ants can be used to predict the weather. True or false?
Answer: True
19.
Which animal uses a cloud of excrement to distract predators, much as a squid
uses ink?
Answer: Pygmy sperm whale
20.
How many cubs does a tiger (Panthera tigris) typically give birth to?
Answer: 2–4
21.
The Norse god Odin rode a magical horse with eight legs. What was the horse’s
name?
Answer: Sleipnir
22.
A group of hyenas is known as a.
Answer: Cackle
23.
Which of these is another name for the panda?
Answer: catbear
24.
How many bones does a dog have in its spine?
Answer: 27
25.
In what geological period did birds evolve?
Answer: Jurassic
26.
Snails are called gastropods. True or false?
Answer: True
27.
How do male dance flies entice prospective mates?
Answer: By presenting them with packages of food
28.
What is the largest number of eggs an American toad (Anaxyrus americanus) can
typically lay?
Answer: 20,000
29.
On average, how many babies are in a capybara litter?
Answer: 4 or 5
30.
About which horse did Jimmy Driftwood write a song, popularized first by Eddy
Arnold and later by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band?
Answer: Tennessee
Stud
31.
In some parts of the world, mysterious deaths of which creatures threaten
agriculture?
Answer: bees
32.
How many breeds of dogs are there?
Answer: 400
33.
What animal is an ancestor of domesticated cattle?
Answer: the aurochs
34.
How many baby kangaroos are usually born at a time to a single mother?
Answer: 1
35.
Saltwater snails give birth to live snails. True or false?
Answer: False
36.
In which bird species will a homosexual male pair “adopt” a female and raise
offspring with her?
Answer: Greylag goose
37.
What is the largest animal hunted by the leopard?
Answer: Giraffe
38.
What is the unique characteristic of animals classed as monotremes, which
represent a surviving link between mammals and reptiles?
Answer: They lay eggs
39.
What is the name for light produced by living things?
Answer: bioluminesence
40.
Where would you find a tuatara?
Answer: New
Zealand
41.
What is another name for the dog called a German shepherd?
Answer: Alsatian
42.
What grows over a turkey’s beak?
Answer: snood
43.
Which of these animals swims in an upright position?
Answer: sea horse
44.
To which continent are cobras native?
Answer: Asia
45.
There are only about 15 species of snail. True or false?
Answer: False
46.
What is a hectocotylus?
Answer: The mating arm of a cephalopod
47.
What is the largest species of bird taken by the peregrine falcon?
Answer: Sandhill crane
48.
What is another name for the Australian kingfisher (known also as the laughing
jackass)?
Answer: The kookaburra
49.
Which of these animals is the most often used in scientific research?
Answer: fly
50.
What is a group of bats called?
Answer: colony
51. Where
would you be likely to find a sleeping bat?
Answer: in a cave
52.
The viceroy butterfly looks like a monarch butterfly. True or false?
Answer: True
53.
Peacock spiders, known for their exotic colors and bizarrely charming mating
dances, are native to which country?
Answer: Australia
54.
Albatross chicks are up to 300 times heavier than this predator, yet they are
at risk from it on Gough Island in the Atlantic.
Answer: Mice
55.
Which group of mammals are known by the following names. leaf-nosed, chin leaf,
whiskered, and mouse-eared?
Answer: Bats
56.
What kind of animal is a kangaroo?
Answer: marsupial
57.
How many times more sensitive is a dog’s nose than a human’s?
Answer: 1000
58.
Where would you not find parrots in the wild?
Answer: Ireland
59.
Where is the largest chameleon found?
Answer: Madagascar
60.
Butterflies are abundant in Antarctica. True
or false?
Answer: False
6.
The feathers once sold commercially as osprey plumes did not come from the
osprey at all. From which bird were they taken?
Answer: The egret
62.
Where would you not likely find bats?
Answer: Antarctica
63.
Which color would you not expect a rattlesnake to be?
Answer: blue
64.
Most moths fly only at night. True or false?
Answer: True
65.
What kind of animal is a spring peeper?
Answer: Frog
66.
To which class of animals does the tortoise belong?
Answer: Reptilia
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