Animal Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
Dalmatian dogs are born what
color or colors?
A: White
A male koala does what to attract a mate?
A: Belches
What species of mammal can come in fairy or giant size?
A: Banded Armadillo
Ninety percent of bird species are what?
A: Monogamous
What is a group of woodpeckers called?
A: A Descent
What animal comes in woolly and spider types?
A: Monkey
What creature can be Indian, white or broad lipped?
A: Rhinoceros
Members of the rhinoceros family are some of the largest remaining megafauna, with all species able to reach or exceed how much weight?
A: One ton.
What kind of diet do they have?
A: They have a herbivorous diet.
How thick is their skin?
A: Up to 2 inches thick.
Their protective skin is formed from layers of what?
A: Collagen positioned in a lattice structure.
They generally eat what?
A: Leafy material, although their ability to ferment food in their hindgut allows them to subsist on more fibrous plant matter when necessary.
Unlike other perissodactyls, the two African species of rhinoceros lack what?
A: Teeth at the front of their mouths, relying instead on their lips to pluck food.
Rhinoceros are killed by some humans for their what?
A: Their horns, which are bought and sold on the black market.
What is a koala?
A: A koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to
Australia.
What are its closest living relatives?
A: It’s closest living relatives are the wombats, which comprise the family Vombatidae.
Where can koalas be found?
A: In coastal areas of the mainland's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.
It is easily recognizable by its what?
A: It’s stout, tailless body and large head with round, fluffy ears and large, spoon-shaped nose.
Koalas typically inhabit open eucalypt woodlands, and the leaves of these trees make up what?
A: Most of their diet.
Because this eucalypt diet has limited nutritional and caloric content,
koalas are largely sedentary so how long do koala
bears sleep?
A: Up to 20 hours a day.
Furritus, or Latin for "little thieves" is the name for
what animal?
A: Ferret
The pica pica is another name for what common bird?
A: Magpie
What kind of animals head is printed on the label of
Gordon's Gin?
A: Boar
Porky Pigs father's name is what?
A: Phineas Pig
At the ancient Olympics, what did archers use as targets?
A: Tethered Doves
In Lawrence Kansas it's
illegal to carry Bees in what?
A: Your hat
In East Anglia England, what is placed in the walls of
houses to ward off evil?
A: Mummified Cats
What states citizens consume 40% of farm grown Catfish in
the United States?
A: Texas
An ecostate animal is missing what bone structure?
A: Ribs
The Bald Eagle is Americas bird, what is Britain's bird?
A: The Robin
What type of jungle animal produces its own sun tan
lotion?
A: The Hippopotamus
What is a Bellwether?
A: The leader of flock of sheep
The name of what type of animal means "does not drink"?
A: Koala
What are Catfish?
A: Catfish are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.
What are they named for?
A: For their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers.
What are the three largest species alive?
A: The Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia, the wels catfish of Eurasia and the piraíba of
South America.
Catfish are of considerable commercial importance; many of the larger species are what?
A: Farmed or fished for food.
Many of the smaller species, particularly the genus Corydoras, are important in what?
A: The aquarium hobby.
What is a snail?
A: A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod.
The name is most often applied to what?
A: Land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of what?
A: The molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.
When the word "snail" is used in this most general sense, it includes not just land snails but also what?
A: Numerous species of sea snails and freshwater snails.
Gastropods that naturally lack a shell or have only an internal shell are usually called what?
A: Slugs.
Land snails that have only a very small shell (that they cannot retract into) are often called what?
A: Semi-slugs.
Snails have considerable human relevance, including as what?
A: Food items, as pests, as vectors of
disease, and their shells are used as decorative objects and are incorporated into jewelry.
