If you visit its nest, you may not want to sit down. (True of False)
True: An albatross nest is a pillar of mud, grass, seaweed and bird droppings.
100
Bobcats are incredibly uncommon. (True or False)
False: They are the most common wild cat in the USA.
100
A whale shark is a fish. (True or False)
True: And it's not just any fish - it's the worlds largest fish.
100
A cuscus is a marsupial. (True or False)
True: The common spottes cuscus is one of at least 20 species of cuscus.
100
It's smaller than your big toe. (True or False)
False: At 7.5 inches long, it may be as long as your foot.
200
This bird flies over lots of polar bears. (True or False)
False: penguins, not polar bears, share the same oceans and shorelines in Antartic, subantartic and temperate waters.
200
A bobcat would refuse to share a room with you. (True or False)
True: Each bobcat has its own territory. (Plus, you wouldn't like how it marks it's territory ~ with urine!)
200
This massive predator swallows dolphins whole. (True or False)
False: It eats plankton and other very small prey. It filters or strains the food from the water.
200
Forget the sleeping bag - just bring leaves for a sleepover. (True or False)
True: Cuscuses make nests in the trees. They live in rain forests of New Guinea and Australia.
200
The mud salamander is at home east of the Mississippi River. (True or False)
True: The mud salamander lives in the USA from New Jersey to Ohio and down to Louisiana and Florida.
300
An albatross isn't an athletic bird. (True or False)
False: After it leaves its nesting site, it might fly hundreds of miles following currents for food.
300
Bobcats are at the top of the food chain. (True or False)
True: bobcats have few predators... except humans.
300
It's a bonesless giant. (True or False)
True: Like all sharks, its skeloton is made of cartilage, the flexible tissue that also makes up your outer ears.
300
An adult cuscus could fit on a open magazine.
True: Spotted cuscuses range in size from 12 to 25 inches long.
300
It might enjoy a mud pie. (True or False)
True: To live in! This salamander lives in and near muddy springs and streams, as well as swampy pools and ponds.
400
To catch fish, this bird dives deep. (True or False)
False: It snatches krill and fish at or just below the surface. But it can plunge down a short way to snag a fish.
400
A bobcat might see you, but you probably won't see it. (True or False)
True: This shy, secritive and well camouflaged wild cat seems to melt into the background.
400
One whale shark weighs the same as a classroom of 10 year olds. (True or False)
False: It would take 20 classrooms - or about 485 kids - to equal one 41200 pound whale shark.
400
Mom can raise seven babies in her pouch at once. (True or False)
False: She typically raises only one baby, called a joey, at a time.
400
You might call it's food the Halloween diet. (True or False)
True: It eats earthworms, beetles, spiders and athropods. It sometimes eats other salamanders too.
500
A black-browed albatross's wingspan is narly twice as wide as a 10 year old kid's arm span. (True or false)
True: This seabird 's outstretched wings measure from 6.9 to 8.2 feet wide.
500
If it crawls, hops, slithers or flies, its lunch. (True or false)
True: Bobcats eat meat. They hunt rabbits, hares, mice, birds, snakes, squirrels, oppossum and other small prey.
500
Whale sharks live all around the world. (True or False)
True: they live in the middle of the planet in all tropical and temperate seas.
500
Common spotted cuscuses zip through the trees with monkey like skill and speed.
False: they are slow climbers. They have prehensile tails that help them grip branches as they climb.
500
It'll do a handstand for you. (True or False)
True: Not to impress you though. It does a handstand to warn you to leave it alone. It's bright color also warns potential predators that it's toxic, but certain snakes can safely eat it.