Garden Party
These small, cabbage like vegetables are named after the capital city of the country they were first widely cultivated
This tiny Saharan canid survives extreme desert heat thanks to its enormous ears, which act as natural radiators and help it pinpoint prey underground. (Canid= group that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and many wild dog species)
What is the Fennec Fox?
This marine mammal is the largest animal on Earth.
What is the Blue Whale?
If you startle this bird from the American South, it won't just chirp; it will mimic your car alarm, your dog, or your annoying ringtone.
What is a Mockingbird?
What is an Anglerfish?
This is the most expensive spice in the world by weight because it consists of tiny, hand-picked stigmas of a specific type of crocus flower.
What is Saffron?
This towering African bird, known for its prehistoric stare and massive clog-shaped bill, hunts by standing motionless for hours before striking with lightning speed.
What is the Shoebill?
This semi-aquatic mammal has venomous spurs and lays eggs.
What is a Platypus?
This "royal" snake is the longest venomous snake in the world and is the only known to build a nest for its eggs
What is a King Cobra?
When threatened, this tubular echinoderm doesn't run; it literally ejects its own internal organs out of its backside to distract the predator. (They can also eject sticky cuvierian tubules to entangle predators)
What is a Sea Cucumbers?
This tree is the only surviving member of an ancient order of plants and is often called a "living fossil"; it's leaves look like little green fans
What is Ginkgo Biloba?
This tiny Madagascan mammal taps on wood like a woodpecker to locate grubs, using a long, skeletal middle finger to extract them.
What is an Aye-aye?
This rare South American mammal is the only living member of its family and resembles a mix between a pig and an anteater.
What is a Tapir
This deep-forest African mammal is the closest living relative to the giraffe.
What is the okapi?
This crustacean can punch with the force of a .22 caliber bullet. (Sometimes even breaking glass tanks that people keep them in)
What is a Peacock Mantis Shrimp?
This fruit is an inverted flower. To pollinate it, a tiny wasp (that has pollen on it) must crawl inside a small hole at the bottom and die there.
What is a Fig?
This Bornean primate is famous for its enormous nose, pot-bellied physique, and uniquely adapted webbed feet that make it one of the best swimming monkeys.
What is the Proboscis monkey?
This elusive African mammal, sometimes called the "scaly anteater", is the only mammal covered in keratin scales.
What is the Pangolin?
This small African carnivore can survive venomous snake bites thanks to specialized acetylcholine receptors that make it resistant to neurotoxins.
What is the Mongoose?
This brightly colored marine mollusk, often called a "sea slug", steals toxins or stinging cells from its prey and incorporates them into its own body for defense.
What is a Nudibranch?
To survive in nutrient-poor bogs, this "floating" carnivorous plant uses the fastest movement in the plant-kingdom (less than a millisecond) to vacuum up tiny water fleas. (Hint: Scientific name is Utricularia)
What is Bladderwort
This tiny nocturnal animal of central Argentina uses its flexible, pink dorsal shell and paddle-shaped claws to "swim" through sand, spending most of its life underground.
What is the Pink Fairy Armadillo?
This elusive forest-dwelling carnivore of Madagascar is the island's top predator and is more closely related to mongooses than cats.
What is the Fossa?
This (previously) critically endangered antelope of the Eurasion steppes is known for its bulbous, flexible nose that filters dust in the summer and warms frigid air in winter.
What is the Saiga Antelope?
This deep-sea octopus, named for the ear-like fins it flaps while swimming, lives at depths over 7,000 meters, making it one of the deepest-dwelling octopuses known.
What is the Dumbo Octopus?