Pets
Animals in Literature
Endangered Animals
Florida Invasive Species
Mythical Animals
100
America's favorite dog breed since 1991.
What is Labrador Retriever?
100
Arthur is this animal.
What is Aardvark?
100
Chosen in 1982 as the Florida state animal
What is Florida Panther?
100
You can't go anywhere in Florida during the summer without almost stepping on one of these small lizards.
What is Brown Anole?
100
Definition for an animal that has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist
What is Cryptid?
200
This presidential dog belonged to the Obama family.
What is Boo?
200
This animal feeds his family by stealing from the wicked farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean.
What is Fantastic Mr. Fox?
200
This animal is the symbol for the World Wildlife Fund and has recently recovered from the endangered status.
What is Panda?
200
Efforts to reduce the population of this beautiful but venomous fish include encouraging people to eat them as an alternative to other overfished species like grouper or snapper.
What is Lionfish?
200
A classical Greek monster that looks like a three-headed dog and guards the gates to Hades.
What is Cerberus?
300
This species of parrot is considered the most intelligent and can be taught a thousand words or more.
What is African Grey Parrot?
300
The name of the Weasley's clumsy and elderly messenger owl in the Harry Potter series.
What is Errol
300
Their hearts are the size of a small golf cart and weigh up to 400 pounds.
Blue Whale
300
This animal was first released to Florida habitats when their enclosure was destroyed in the 1992 Hurricane Andrew, and has since wrecked havoc on native wildlife, especially in the Everglades.
What is Burmese Python?
300
This wolf in Norse mythology is foretold to have consumed Odin and the world at Ragnarok.
What is Fenrir?
400
These pets originate from the high-altitude Andes environment and have a thick coat of fur which requires dust baths of volcanic ash
What is Chinchilla?
400
Sam Gamgee rode this beloved pony from Bree to the gates of Moria.
What is Bill the Pony?
400
The world's only flightless parrot that inhabits a few islands off of New Zealand.
What is Kakapo?
400
This lizard is expanding throughout South Florida and is a nuisance when they dig up plants.
What is iguana?
400
This cryptid spurred Florida legislature to attempt to pass a bill in 1977 that would make it illegal to “take, possess, harm or molest anthropoids or humanoid animals.”
What is Skunk Ape (or Swamp Cabbage Man, Swampsquatch or Florida Bigfoot)
500
An endangered salamander that can regenerate limbs and morph from fully-aquatic to semi-aquatic
What is axolotl?
500
Supernatural tragedy befalls the ship after a sailor kills this bird in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
What is albatross?
500
Although the second largest shark, this species has the smallest weight-to-weight brain ratio of any shark.
Basking Shark
500
This animal was purposefully introduced to Florida to reduce sugarcane pests and other insects, but now threatens many native species.
What is cane toad?
500
This creature in Irish myth can shed their seal-skins and pass as human women.
What is Selchie?