Animals
What is the fastest land animal?
Cheetah
Lions
Bonus: What is a group of lions called?
How many arms do squids have?
10 - they have 8 arms and two long tentacles.
What color is a polar bears skin?
Black
What color does a reindeer's eyes turn during the winter?
Blue - it helps to see at lower light levels.
What is the fastest bird in the world?
Peregrine Falcon. They can reach speeds up to 186 mph when driving.
What animal uses its skin to breathe?
Frogs
How far can a blue whale be heard?
Over 500 miles! However, most of their sound's wavelength cannot be heard by people.
The extinct Colossus Penguin was as tall as which NBA player?
LeBron James
What animal or insect tastes with their feet?
Butterflies
What is the largest living bird?
Ostrich - they can grow up to 9 feet and weigh up to 280 pounds.
Animals such as dolphins and bats use this method of communication and to sense the world around them.
Echolocation
Which animal has the highest blood pressure?
Giraffe
True or False: wild dolphins call each other by name.
True! They have unique whistles and sounds to identify one another and will respond if they hear it called back.
What is something that sharks can sense but humans cannot?
Electric fields. They can sense small electric fields using an organ called the Ampullae of Lorenzini found on their snout.
What is the fastest ocean animal?
The sailfish - they can reach 68 mph while swimming.
What is the largest fish in the ocean?
Whale shark - they can grow as long as 39 feet and only eat plankton
What color is the most poisonous frog in the world?
Yellow - the most poisonous frog in the world is the golden poison frog found in Colombia.
Besides noises, horses use what to communicate with one another?
Facial expressions - researchers have identified 17 different facial movements in horses.
How many years separate the existence of Tyrannosaurus rex?
Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago
T-rex lived about 66 million years ago
What is the largest marine animal in the world?
Antarctic Blue Whale - they can weight up to 400,000 pounds (as heavy as 33 African elephants), and be as long as 98 feet.
What is the smallest animal in the world?
Tardigrades - they are microscopic animals and can survive temps up to 300 degrees F, -458 degrees F. the vacuum of space, pressure 6x stronger than the ocean floor, and can survive for more than a decade without food.
The (male) duck-billed platypus. They have a spur on both hind legs that can inject venom. The venom can kill animals as big as a medium sized dog, but not humans (it's very painful).
The claws of what marine animal can accelerate as quickly as a .22 caliber bullet?
Mantis Shrimp - they have to be kept in thick plastic tanks because their punches can break glass tanks. Also, the temperature of the water around their club claw is the same as the surface of the sun (comparatively).
A single strand of spider silk is 5x stronger than a strand of human hair. A rope of spider silk that is 2 inches thick would be strong enough to reportedly stop what kind of vehicle?
Boeing 747