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This animal was once the symbol of the Great Plains.
What is the American bison?
We share 98.4% of our DNA with this mammal.
What is a chimpanzee?
But even with DNA so similar, humans and chimps have around 35 million differences between them.
Just like human babies suck their thumbs for comfort, baby elephants suck this.
What is their trunks?
Polar bears have this color skin under their white fur coats.
What is black?
It helps them absorb heat to keep warm.
This big cat has the loudest roar of all the big cats.
What is a lion?
It can be heard as far as 3 miles away.
This bird can run faster than a horse, and a male can roar like a lion.
What is an ostrich?
These mammals form floating groups called rafts and “hold hands” so they don’t float away from each other.
What are otters?
When sea otters are sleeping, eating or resting they form floating groups called rafts. When they are a raft all of the sea otters hold hands to prevent themselves from floating adrift from each other. A raft of otters can range from just 2 otters up to hundreds of them.
Even after having its head cut off, this insect can still live for weeks.
What is a cockroach?
Even stranger, a cockroach’s head can actually survive by itself for a few hours, too. YUCK!
During nesting season, a female will return back to the same beach where she was born. She will find the right beach even after 30 years of absence.
What is a sea turtle?
A newborn koala is the size of a ____ and is called a ____.
A) pea, peashooter
B) kitten, pup
C) egg, cub
D) jellybean, joey
What is jellybean, joey?
After it's born, just like a kangaroo, it lives in its marsupial mommy’s pouch for around six months.
A single one of these from an elephant can weigh up to 9 pounds.
What is a tooth?
The worlds deadliest animal isn’t a shark, bear or tiger, but something far smaller – It is the _______________.
What is the mosquito?
According to the World Health Organization, 725,000 people are killed each year from mosquito-borne diseases, such as Malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever. They outnumber every other animal in the world, apart from ants and termites. They can also be found in nearly every part of the world, which all add up in the risk they pose to humans.
Sloths can take up to a _________ to completely digest a single leaf.
A. month
B. week
C. year
What is a month?
Everything about life is slow for these sleepy mammals. Most sloths will only have a bowel movement once a week, and it can take them up to 30 days to completely digest a single leaf. For comparison, it takes the average human 12 to 48 hours to ingest, digest, and eliminate waste from food.
In China, killing one of these mammals is punishable by death.
What is panda?
Giant pandas are extremely rare: With less than 2,000 left in China, they are an endangered species. Killing a panda is a serious crime with a minimum 10-year prison sentence and maximum death penalty in China. To the Chinese, the panda is considered more than an animal; it is a national treasure.
Pandas have been used by Chinese leaders to bolster diplomatic relations. Technically, China owns all of the giant pandas in the world. The country lease them to other nations at a rate of about $1 million per pair for 10 years. Any cubs born outside of China, must be sent back to China while they are still young.
This bird is a symbol of good luck.
A. raven
B. albatross
C. stork
D. crow
What is a stork?
The stork is considered an omen of good luck, and it is especially considered a very fortunate omen when a pair of storks makes their nest on someone’s roof.
It is believed that the couple living in that house will soon be expanding their family. The stork is also a symbol of fidelity, family, and new fortunate opportunities.
A woodpecker can peck this many times per second.
A. 10
B. 15
C. 20
D. 30
What is 20?
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as a car or this animal.
What is 3?
TWO hearts are used to pump blood to their gills, while the THIRD brings blood to the rest of their body. If that's not enough, they also have NINE brains.
This mammal has no vocal cords.
A. elephant
B. rhinoceros
C. kangaroo
D. giraffe
What is a giraffe?
Three percent of the ice in the Antarctic Ocean is the urine of this animal.
A. penguin
B. polar bear
C. seal
D. walrus
What is a penguin?
This is said to be the most poisonous/venomous fish in the world.
A. puffer fish
B. stonefish
C. electric eel
D. barracuda
What is a stonefish?
They have 13 sharp fin spines on their back, each with two venom glands. Their stings are extremely painful, can be lethal to humans, and mostly occur as a result of stepping on the creature.
This animal's jaws can apply 5,000 (psi) pounds of pressure per square inch – the strongest bite of any animal in the world.
A. Great White shark
B. hippo
C. Nile crocodile
D. American alligator
What is the Nile Crocodile?
Top 10:
10. lion 9. tiger 8. spotted hyena 7. grizzly bear
6. gorilla 5. jaguar 4. hippo 3. American alligator
2. saltwater crocodile 1. Nile crocodile
If someone tells you there’s a business in your yard, what should you do?
A) Notify the Better Business Bureau
B) Ask for rent
C) Demand to see the boss
D) Call animal control ASAP
What is Call animal control ASAP?
This is because a business is what a group of ferrets is called. It’s derived from the original “besynes” from Middle English. And, nothing against , but if you’ve ever been around one, you know that the name is somewhat ironic, because they never actually mind their own business.
The male elephant is known as a bull. The female elephant is known as this.
What is a cow?
This animal has the longest pregnancy period.
A. elephant
B. blue whale
C. camel
D. giraffe
What is the elephant?
An elephant can carry her calf for about 22 months.
Asian elephants 617 days (gestation period)
African elephants 645 days (gestation period)