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____ always turn left when exiting a cave.
Answer: bats
____ and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.
Answer: elephants
____ are freeze-tolerant and spend winters frozen on land, only to thaw in the spring and begin their breeding process in vernal ponds.
Answer: wood frogs
____ are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
Answer: rhinos
____ are powerful jumpers. A 20-inch adult can leap 20 feet in a single bound.
Answer: jackrabbits
____ are social birds that congregate in huge flocks. While the flock grazes in a field, lookouts will be posted to watch for approaching danger. They'll raise the alarm if humans approach.
Answer: crows
____ bats do not suck blood. They bite, then lick up the flow.
Answer: vampire
____ can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
Answer: squirrels
____ can clock an amazing 31 mph at full speed and cover about 3 times their body length per leap.
Answer: kittens
____ can live in captivity for up to 46 years.
Answer: eagles
____ can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight.
Answer: rats
____ can travel up to 40 miles per hour.
Answer: sharks
____ can withstand water pressure of up to 850 pounds per square inch.
Answer: seals
____ cannot move backwards.
Answer: alligators
____ don't fly by flapping their wings up and down. The motion is more forward and backward, like a figure eight on its side
Answer: birds
____ eagles hunt over a range of 100 square miles to feed their young
Answer: golden
____ eat only moving prey
Answer: toads
____ eels are not really eels but a kind of fish. Although they look like eels, their internal organs are arranged differently
Answer: electric
____ eggs which are incubated below 85? F (29.5? C) hatch into females, while those incubated above 95? F (35? C) hatch into males
Answer: crocodile
____ feel safest when they are crowded together, hundreds in a group
Answer: flamingoes
____ for most snakes is accomplished with one lung only. The left lung is either greatly reduced in size or missing completely
Answer: breathing
____ gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of them will coil up together to keep warm
Answer: rattlesnakes
____ had a heart the size of a pickup truck
Answer: brachiosaurus
____ has more homeless cats per square mile than any other city in the world
Answer: rome
____ have 5 hearts
Answer: earthworms
____ have been trained to have recognition vocabularies of 100 to 200 words. They can distinguish among different grammatical patterns
Answer: chimpanzees
____ have killed more people than have all the world's wars combined
Answer: mosquitoes
____ have no ability to taste sweet things
Answer: cats
____ have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves
Answer: jackals
____ have scent glands between their hind toes. The glands help them leave scent trails for the herd. Researchers say the odor smells cheesy
Answer: reindeer
____ have the best eyesight of any breed of dog
Answer: greyhounds
____ have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
Answer: camels
____ herds post their own sentries. When danger threatens, the sentry raises its trunk and though it may be as far as a half-mile away, the rest of the herd is instantly alerted. how this communication takes place is not understood
Answer: elephant
____ is one American breed of hardy hogs having drooping ears - it was allegedly named after the horse owned by the hog's breeder
Answer: duroc
____ may travel great distances on their migrations. The Arctic tern travels from the top of the world, the Arctic - to the bottom, the Antarctic. Round trip in a single year: 25,000 miles in all
Answer: birds
____ need about 2 tablespoonfuls of blood each day. The creature is able to extract its dinner in approximately 20 minutes
Answer: vampire bats
____ never walk or trot, but always hop or leap
Answer: rabbits
____ of South and Central America and the Caribbean lay their eggs in February and March
Answer: iguanas
____ often sleep for up to fourteen hours a day
Answer: gorillas
____ played a role in aerial warfare during World War I. Because of their acute hearing, parrots were kept on the Eiffel Tower to warn of approaching aircraft long before the planes were heard or seen by human spotters
Answer: birds
____ silk is an extremely strong material and its on-weight basis has been proven to be stronger than steel. Experts suggest that a pencil-thick strand of silk could stop a Boeing 747 in flight
Answer: spider
____ swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time, they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open
Answer: dolphins
____ taste with their hind feet
Answer: butterflies
____ that are seen wandering around in the wild do not make good pets. These are sexually mature males at the end of their life cycle - they will die within a few weeks or months
Answer: tarantulas
: ____ turtles may breed for the first time when they are between 25 to 50 years old. This figure varies, depending upon the creature's range and the diet of the maturing turtle
Answer: green
____ were domesticated around 4,000 years ago
Answer: camels
____, an essential ingredient of many expensive cosmetics, is, in its native form, a foul-smelling, waxy, tarlike substance extracted from the fleece of sheep
Answer: lanolin
____, like grasshoppers - feel no pain. They have a decentralized nervous system with no cerebral cortex, which in humans is where a reaction to painful stimuli proceeds
Answer: lobsters
____, like other equids, have three gaits: the walk, the trot, and the gallop
Answer: zebras
1990s: In 1992, what type of flies flew on the space shuttle endeavour
Answer: fruit flies
1990s: In 1999 was The Year of the ____
Answer: Rabbit
2002, Crufts - which breed of dog was chosen as Best in Show
Answer: poodle
A ____ always sleeps on its right side
Answer: pig
A ____ breathes only 10 times in hibernation
Answer: woodchuck
A ____ can advance 7 to 8 meters in a single stride, and the animal completes four strides per second. A stride is measured as the distance between successive imprints of the same paw
Answer: cheetah
A ____ can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night
Answer: mole
A ____ can eat only when its head is upside down
Answer: flamingo
A ____ can fall from a 5-story building without injury
Answer: rat
A ____ can go without water longer than a camel can
Answer: giraffe
A ____ can go without water longer than a camel can
Answer: rat
A ____ can last longer without water than a camel can
Answer: rat
A ____ can learn to recognize itself in a mirror
Answer: chimpanzee
A ____ can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12 percent of body weight
Answer: camel
A ____ can open its mouth wide enough to accommodate a 4-foot-tall child
Answer: hippopotamus
Baby beavers are called kits or ____
Answer: kittens
Baby eels are
Answer: elvers
Baby mink are born blind and remain sightless for a ____
Answer: month
Baby opossums - upon birth when they move to the mother's pouch - are smaller than honeybees. An entire litter can fit in a ____
Answer: teaspoon
Baby rattlesnakes are born in August and ____
Answer: September
Baby rattlesnakes are born without ____
Answer: rattles
Baby robins eat ____ feet of earthworms every day
Answer: fourteen
Back of horse's leg where hair grows above hoof
Answer: fetlock
Bactrian camels have survived in a land with no water in an area used for nuclear testing. Their numbers, however, are falling dramatically as humans
encroach farther and farther into China's ____ Desert
Answer: gobi
Bactrian or dromedary
Answer: camel
Bald eagles are not bald. The top of their head is covered with slicked-down white feathers; from a distance, they appear ____
Answer: hairless
Basking, nurse and whale are all types of which animal
Answer: shark
Bats always turn ____ when exiting a cave
Answer: left
Bats are second largest order of mammals, with about ____ species
Answer: 950
Bats are the only mammals that are able to fly. The "flying squirrel" can only do what the gliding opposum does - glide for short ____
Answer: distances
Because baby pigs grow so quickly, a succession of 48 little pigs were used in the title role during the filming of the 1995 movie hit ____
Answer: babe
Because birds carrying messages were often killed in flight by hawks, medieval Arabs made a habit of sending important messages ____
Answer: twice
Because it is continually losing body heat, the ____ must keep moving to stay warm. If inactive for more than a few hours, the animal will
lose enough body heat to freeze to death
Answer: shrew
Because its eyeball is fixed, the ____ must move its huge body to shift its line of sight
Answer: whale
Because its tongue is too short for its beak, the ____ must juggle its food before swallowing it
Answer: toucan
Because of the giant panda's large size and the small size of their offspring, it is difficult to tell when a panda is ____
Answer: pregnant
Between the mid-1860's and 1883, the ____ population in North America was reduced from an estimated 13 million to a few hundred
Answer: bison
Spiders' webs are a traditional natural ____, when applied to a cut they quickly stop the flow of blood
clotting agent
Bird droppings are a chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the ____
Answer: western pacific
Bird with characteristic cry and the habit of laying eggs in other birds nests
Answer: cuckoo
Black and white seabird with small wings
Answer: auk
Blondie's dog
Answer: daisy
Bovine refers to what kind of animal
Answer: cattle
Boxers were named after their habit of playing. At the beginning of play with another dog, a Boxer will stand on his hind legs
and bat at his opponent, appearing to "box" with his ____
Answer: front paws
Brachiosaurus had a ____ the size of a pickup truck
Answer: heart
Breed of dog that Lassie is
Answer: collie
Budgerigar is another name for what kind of bird
Answer: parakeet
Butterflies taste with their ____ feet
Answer: hind
Butterflies taste with their
Answer: feet
By age 6 months, the voracious ____ will have increased its 3-pound birth weight by 7,000 percent
Answer: pig
By what name is the bird Pica Pica better known
Answer: magpie
By what name is the Tibetan Lion Dog better known
Answer: Shih Tzu
Camel milk is the only milk that doesn't curdle when ____
Answer: boiled
Camel's milk does not ____
Answer: curdle
Camels are born without
Answer: humps
Camels have three ____ to protect themselves from blowing sand
Answer: eyelids
Camels were used as pack animals in ____ and Arizona as late as 1870
Answer: nevada
Can a bat stand up
Answer: no
Can a platypus see under water
Answer: no
Can gorillas swim
Answer: no
Can iguanas blink?
Answer: No
Canned herring were dubbed ____ because the canning process was first developed in Sardinia, Italy
Answer: sardines
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a ____ strike
Answer: lightning
Carnivorous mammal, native to the northern regions of North America, Europe, & Asia, whose habits are
much like those of the badger
Answer: wolverine
Cashmere is sourced from which animal?
Answer: Goat
Cat's ____ glows under a black-light
Answer: urine
Cat's can't taste ____
Answer: sweets
Cat's urine glows under a ____ light
Answer: black
Catfish have how many taste buds
Answer: 100,000
Cats have over ____ vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten
Answer: 100
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about
Answer: ten
Cats, not dogs, are now the most common pets in America. Approximately 66 million cats to 58 million dogs are
family pets, with parakeets "flying" a distant third at ____
Answer: 14,000,000
Cattle branding in the United States did not originate in the West. It began in ____ in the mid-19th century,
when farmers were required by law to mark all their pigs
Answer: connecticut
Cattle branding was practiced 4,000 years ago. Old tomb paintings show ____ branding their fat, spotted cattle
Answer: egyptians
Celeste was the wife of which fictional animal?
Answer: Babar the Elephant
Certain ____ can be frozen solid then thawed, & continue living
Answer: frogs
Certain ____ can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living
Answer: frogs
Certain ____ emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood
Answer: fireflies
Certain birds of prey (the African serpent eagle and the American kestrel, for example) have ____ acuity 2.4 to 2.6 times greater than humans. They can see a 1 mm long insect from a treetop 18 meters above ground
Answer: visual
Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through ____ and wood
Answer: flesh
Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and____
Answer: wood
Certain species of male butterflies produce scents that serve in attracting females during____
Answer: courtship
Chipmunk that says "naturally" in the chipmunk song
Answer: theodore
City ____ will eat just about anything, and often, it's the junk food that people offer them that they prefer, like Cracker Jack peanuts. Many naturalists have concluded that a peanut diet is harmful to squirrels: it seems to result in a weakening of eyesight and a thinning of the animal's pelt
Answer: squirrels
Clams have a row of ____ around their shells
Answer: eyes
Collective term for slender, threadlike outgrowths of the epidermis of mammals, forming the characteristic
covering of those mammals
Answer: hair
Colobus, vervet and mangabey are types of which animal
Answer: monkey
Common name applied generally to certain members of a family of relatively small salamanders, most of which
spend at least part of their lives in water
Answer: newt
Common name applied to birds of about 14 genera of the pheasant family
Answer: partridge
Common name applied to certain large African monkeys & sometimes to the closely related gelada
Answer: baboon
Common name applied to most species of hymenopteran insects (hymenoptera), except bees & ants
Answer: wasp
Common name for a carnivore now widespread in North America & closely related to the wolf (dog family)
Answer: coyote
Experts are fascinated by the prairie dogs' ____
Answer: cooperative system
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the____
Answer: pads of their feet
Coral and algae have what kind of relationship?
Answer: Symbiotic
Cougars can kill animals ____ times their size
Answer: eight
Cows clean their noses with their ____
Answer: tongue
Cows have four stomachs. Often, when a calf is born, the farmer will make it swallow a magnet. This is to attract the various nails, staples, bits of wire, and so on, that the cow may ingest while grazing. This odd hunger is known as ____
Answer: hardware disease
Cows provide 90 percent of the world's ____
Answer: milk
Coyotes are extremely loyal to their mates. If one is caught in a trap, the other will bring small game for it to eat; it will soak itself in a river to allow its thirsty mate to chew on its damp fur for water. It has been documented that the free coyote will stay with its captive partner until ____
Answer: death
Crabs and other crustaceans can escape danger by simply discarding an injured or trapped ____
Answer: limb
Creature of which the echida is an example
Answer: anteater
Crocodiles are ____ blind
Answer: colour
Crocodiles carry their ____ in their mouths
Answer: young
Crocodiles swallow ____ to help them dive deeper
Answer: stones
Cross between a collie and a greyhound
Answer: lurcher
Daddy Long Legs is the common name for which fly?
Answer: Crane Fly
Dan is the only panda in captivity with these two fur colorings
Answer: brown and white
Dead sponges can resist bacterial decay for more than five years when submerged in ____
Answer: fresh water
Deer have no ____
Answer: gall bladders
Depending on the geographic region, about 30 to 60 percent of all animals brought in to animal shelters
in the United States are ____
Answer: euthanized
Desert antelope that originally ranged from the western sahara and mauritania to egypt and the sudan
Answer: addax
Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a ____
Answer: human
Despite the hump, a camels spine is
Answer: straight
Despite their finickiness, an average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times their own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a ____
Answer: vegetarian diet
Destructive insect related to the grasshopper
Answer: locust
Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares. Today the dog is widely used in ____
Answer: racing
Dima this type of animal, was found perfectly preserved in siberia in 1977
Answer: woolly mammoth
Dinosaurs lived during this era, the age of reptiles
Answer: mesozoic era
Dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic Era, which is divided into three periods Two of these are Jurassic and Cretaceous
What is the third
Answer: Triassic
Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago, after living on Earth for about ____ million years
Answer: 165
Do bumblebees have tongues
Answer: yes
Do chimpanzees have tails
Answer: no
Do crocodiles 'cry' salty tears
Answer: yes
Do fish have ears
Answer: yes
Do frogs or toads move faster
Answer: frogs
Do mosquitoes have teeth
Answer: yes
Do sea gulls drink sea water
Answer: yes
Do snails have teeth
Answer: yes
Do the bones of a pigeon weigh more or less than its feathers
Answer: less
Does a wild rabbit live 10, 15 or 20 years
Answer: 10
Dogs bark. What do donkeys do
Answer: bray
Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute,
the bull terrier, and the toy ____
Answer: poodle
Domesticated ____ (farm-raised) cannot fly. Wild ____ can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour.
Wild ____ are also fast on the ground, running at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour
Answer: turkeys
Ducks will lay eggs only in the ____
Answer: early morning
Due to a retinal adaptation that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of tigers is six times better
than that of ____
Answer: humans
During it's lifetime an ____ changes its sex from male to female and back several times
Answer: oyster
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