Entomology
Unlike spiders, ticks, and scorpions, insects have this many legs.
What is 6?
Capybaras, guinea pigs, and hamsters all belong to this mammalian order, characterized in part by continuously growing incisors.
What are rodents?
This bird is the largest living bird both by height and weight.
What is the ostrich?
This is the largest bone in the legs of a dog, cat, horse, cow, and human.
What is the femur?
Animals that primarily eat plants are described by this term.
What are herbivores?
This biological process describes the dramatic change in body form that occurs as an insect develops from an immature stage into an adult.
What is metamorphosis?
This group includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises that represent this mammalian order adapted entirely to aquatic life.
What are cetaceans?
This is the largest living marsupial.
What is the kangaroo?
This is the largest organ of the body and serves as a "barrier" against the external environment.
What is the skin?
This food source is the primary food in a koala's diet despite its low nutritional value and chemical defenses.
What is eucalyptus?
This structure covers/protects the body of an insect and must be shed as the insect grows.
What is an exoskeleton?
What are caniforms?
This mammal has the longest gestation period of any known mammal, lasting roughly 22 months.
What is the elephant?
This bone forms the lower jaw in mammals and is unique among vertebrate jaw bones in articulating directly with the skull.
What is the mandible?
This feeding strategy involves an animal eating dead animals (carrion) it did not kill itself, this is the feeding strategy most famously used by vultures.
What is scavenging?
This body region of an insect contains both the legs and the wings.
What is the thorax?
Pigs, hippos, camels, and deer are all examples of this broad group of hoofed mammals that do not share the same digestive strategy.
What are ungulates?
This animal holds the record for the longest confirmed lifespan among vertebrates, with some individuals estimated to live for over several centuries.
What is the Greenland shark?
In birds, this muscular organ is responsible for grinding food, often with the assistance of other swallowed grit.
What is the gizzard?
What is a detritivore?
This insect holds the record for the longest adult lifespan on Earth, living between 25 - 50+ years.
What is a queen termite?
Rabbits and hares were once classified with rodents but are now placed in this separate mammalian order.
What are lagomorphs?
This mammal has the highest known blood pressure of any animal, necessary to circulate blood through its massive frame.
What is the giraffe?
Unlike humans, dogs and cats primarily walk on their toes, making them members of this locomotor category.
What are digitigrades?
An animal that specializes in eating nectar is called this.
What is a nectarivore?