Pigeon Polka
Author of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, etc.
Mo Willems
The insect order Lepidoptera, consisting of butterflies and moths, is an Ancient Greek compound word meaning _____.
scale-wing (lepido + ptera)
Percentage of jellyfish that is water.
~95% (accept ±3%)
Typical juvenile form of salamanders.
tadpole (accept "larva")
Book series starring a wolf with a splayed paw.
Wolves of the Beyond (by Katherine Lasky)
The bird family Columbidae consists of pigeons and _____.
doves
The ancient Greeks thought that butterflies were the manifestation of someone's soul, and accordingly, butterflies are called _____ in their language.
+50 for writing in Greek
psyche (ψυχή)
The developmental form of jellyfish during which it looks like what you'd imagine a jellyfish to look like.
medusa
"Salamander wool" is actually this cancer-causing substance, to which you could be exposed if you work in the Navy, shipyards, mills, heating, construction or the automotive industries.
asbestos
Infamously stupid meme wolf.
Moon Moon
The two most famous extinct members of Columbidae, the family of pigeons.
passenger pigeon, dodo
The largest butterfly species by wingspan, and also one of the four butterfly species that are illegal to commercially trade due to being endangered, according to CITES Appendix I.
Queen Alexandra's birdwing
The genus of upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea, is named after this constellation because it's seen upside-down for half the year while rotating around the polestar.
Cassiopeia (note the second i) (must be spelled/pronounced correctly for pts)
Shakespeare play in which witches use an "eye of newt" in their brew.
Macbeth
In 2019, Canadian wolves were airdropped into a US national park to fix their overabundance of this animal.
moose
American war pigeon who received the Croix de Guerre for her heroic services during the Battle of Verdun.
Cher Ami
An Italian opera about a young Japanese bride (named 蝶々さん, transliterated as "Cio-Cio-san") who was abandoned by her American husband, based on a short story and play by the same name.
Madama (or Madame) Butterfly (by Giacomo Puccini)
Drymonema larsoni, the pink meanie, earned its name by eating _____ jellyfish. (This is probably the most common species that they showcase under blacklights in the aquarium.)
moon
US state whose salamanders are used as proof of evolution.
California
Binomial nomenclature of the species from which modern-day domestic dogs were bred.
Canis lupus (gray wolf)
Two letters that can each fill in the blank to produce an animal's common name: ___igeon
p, w
Danaus, the genus of butterflies to which the esteemed Monarch belongs, also includes species referred to as (pick 2):
crown, emperor, empress, king, lion, royal, queen, tiger, viceroy
queen, tiger
Binomial nomenclature of the "immortal jellyfish".
Turritopsis dohrnii
"Fact" that St. Augustine uses in The City of Fire to prove that suffering in hellfire for eternity is entirely plausible.
salamanders aren't burned in fire (because they're the elemental that rules over it)
Wolf-Rayet stars are a rare type whose emission lines show an abundance of heavy elements and a deficiency of hydrogen on its surface, with very high temperatures comparable to ___-type stars under the MK classification system.
O