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What is the largest land animal in North America?
American bison
What is the largest land carnivore in North America?
Polar bear
What species of turtle is the largest freshwater species in North America?
Alligator snapping turtle
What reptile is the second largest in the USA, and the state animal of Florida?
American alligator
What family of arthropods (animals with an outer skeleton such as crabs) in the USA has been around for about 445 million years?
Horseshoe crab
What raptor is an icon of North America and the official bird of the USA?
Bald eagle
What species of sheep gets its name from the large horns on its head that it uses as battering rams?
Bighorn sheep
What bear species is the smallest of all the three bear species native to the USA, and the most common bear in the world?
American black bear
What is the only wild feline species found in New Jersey?
Bobcat
Which large bear species was wiped out from California in the 1920’s due to hunting and habitat loss by humans?
California grizzly bear
Which frog native to New Jersey makes a bull-like bellow during mating season?
American bullfrog
What is the largest woodpecker species in NJ?
Pileated woodpecker
Which male species of songbird in New Jersey has bright red feathers, a black face, and a red beak?
Northern cardinal
Which is the only species of venomous lizard in the United States?
Gila monster
What species of falcon is the largest in NJ and the fastest animal on Earth?
Peregrine falcon
Which species of bird in NJ did Benjamin Franklin think would make a better symbol for the United States than the bald eagle?
Wild turkey
Which two species of weasel are native to NJ?
Long-tailed weasel and short-tailed weasel
What are the two species of vulture native to NJ?
Turkey vulture and black vulture
What are the only two species of venomous snake in NJ?
Timber rattlesnake and Northern copperhead
Which species of arachnid, found out west, is known as the wind scorpion or solifuge and delivers a painful though nonlethal bite?
Camel spider
Which species of deer found in the USA is the largest deer on Earth?
Moose
Which species of feline, commonly referred to as puma, became extinct in NJ during the early 19th century?
Eastern cougar, or mountain lion
What North American animal is commonly (though incorrectly) referred to as an antelope?
Pronghorn
What do you call an adult male black bear, an adult female black bear, and a baby black bear?
boar, sow, cub
What are adult male white-tail deer, adult female white-tailed deer, and baby white-tailed deer called?
buck, doe, fawn