Mammals
What is the smallest mammal?
Bumblebee bat
What is the heaviest flying bird?
Kori Bustard
What is the largest fish?
Whale shark
What is the largest species of reptile? (by weight)
Saltwater Crocodile
What animal has the smallest known range?
What are the three major groups of primates?
Apes, monkeys, prosimians
What is an example of a bird with an excellent sense of smell?
Kiwi, vulture, shorebirds, tube nose
What is an example of a lobed finned fish? (There are only two)
Lungfish, and Coelacanth
What is the largest amphibian?
Chinese Giant Salamander
What is the largest mammal in North America?
American Bison
What is the only species of marsupial in North America?
Virginia Opossum
What species of bird has the largest migration pattern by distance?
Arctic Tern
What is the largest freshwater fish?
Beluga Sturgeon
What are the two species of venomous lizards? (Besides the komodo dragon)
Beaded Lizard, Gila Monster
What species of owl lack the soft, feathered wing ridges that usually make owl flight more silent?
Blakiston's Fish owl
What is the largest species of lemur?
Indri Lemur
What species of bird ferments its food?
Hoatzin
What is the large freshwater fish that can walk on land for extended periods of time?
Giant Snakehead
What are the five types of amphibian?
What were the two topics that Tyler talked about for his two keeper chats?
Malayan Tapir
Desertification
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What is the name of the gene in elephants that makes them immune to cancer?
P53, or TP53
What order of birds are pelicans in?
Pelecaniformes
What are the five major types of cartilaginous fish?
Sharks, rays, skates, chimeras, and elephant fishes
What order of reptiles is the largest?
Squamata
How many sub-clades of Panthera leo leo are there? (northern lion)
3