Animal Trivia Questions
What does the word hippopotamus mean?
"river horse"
An orca whale is actually a, whale, shark, dolphin, fish?
Dolphin
What is the animal that has a trunk used for eating and drinking?
Elephant
What is the largest land animal in the world?
Elephant
What do butterflies taste with?
Their feet
What is the largest cat in the world?
Tiger
Why are rabbits ears so long?
To keep them cool
True or false: lizards can see in 2 directions at once.
True
True or false: no two tigers have the same stripe pattern.
True
True or false: owls are farsighted.
True
True or false: rabbits are born blind.
True
True or false: the hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
True
True or false: a blue whale's heart weights about 500lbs
False, it weights approx. 2000lbs
True or false: a hummingbirds heart beats up to 100 times per minute
False: it beats up to 1,000 times per minute
True or false: a koala is a bear.
False: it is a marsupial.
What is Kentucky's state bird?
Cardinal
Animals that only eat meat are called?
Carnivores
A shark's skeleton is made of what, bone, muscle, cartilage, keratin?
Cartilage
What is the fastest snake in the world?
The black mamba
What is the most venomous animal?
The box jellyfish
Which is the most aggressive shark in the ocean?
The bull shark
What is the largest primate in the world?
Gorilla
How many pairs of wings does a bee have?
2
How many degrees are owls able to turn their heads, 180, 270, or 360?
270 degrees
Blue whales can weigh up to, 2000lbs, 20000lbs, 200000lbs, or 400000lbs?
400,000lbs
How many legs does a spider have?
8
A harpy eagle's claws are comparative to the size of, a lion's, a bear's, a wolf's or a cougar's claws?
A bear's claws
A doe is what kind of animal?
A female deer
Bees are found on every continent on earth except for?
Antarctica
What is the difference between apes and monkeys?
Apes do not have tails.
What color are polar bear's tongues, pink, black, blue, or red?
Blue
Rhino horns are mistakenly thought to be a cure for, cancer, heart disease, aids, or diabetes?
Cancer
What is the fastest animal in the world?
Cheetah
What is a young penguin called?
Chick
What are female elephants called?
Cows
A male horse is called a what?
Stallion
True or false: male lions do the majority of the hunting.
False
A group of rats is called a, horde, mischief, swarm?
Mischief
How can one estimate the age of a lion, nose color, size of mane, color of hair?
Nose color
What is the most recognizable physical feature on a male lion?
Its mane
What are a Rhino's horns made of, keratin or bone?
Keratin
What are baby goats called?
Kids
What animal is considered the king of the jungle?
Lion
Groups of lions are called what?
Pride
true or false: crocodiles can swim up to 30mph.
True
Dogs are domesticated versions of which wild animal?
Wolves
Are butterflies insects?
Yes
What animal has the largest eyes?
The colossal squid
True or false: elephants are good swimmers.
True
Which amphibian begins its life as a tadpole?
Frog
Which type of animal can live on land and in water?
Amphibian
What color are the pots on a ladybug?
Black
What is the largest animal that ever lived, blue whale, t-rex, or the great white shark?
Blue Whale
Which is the most intelligent primate?
Chimpanzee
What kind of fish is Nemo?
Clown fish
What animal has the strongest bite, a hippo, crocodile, great white shark, orca, or a lion?
Crocodile
True or false: lions have a 90% success rate when hunting.
False, they have a 10% success rate
True or false: snakes smell with their tongues.
False, they smell with their tongues.
Is a shark a fish or a mammal?
Fish
What do fish use to filter oxygen out of water?
Gills
A female horse is called a?
Mare
What are animals with pouches called?
Marsupials
Which animal is the largest in the deer family?
Moose
A group of crows are called a, flock, murder, pack, or crowd?
Murder
Animals that eat plants and meat are called?
Omnivores
Which is the largest bird, emu, ostrich, eagle, or the California condor?
Ostrich
Which animal is more intelligent, a pig, dog, or cat?
Pig
A group of whales is called a, pod, pack, horde, swarm?
Pod
Birds of prey are also called?
Raptors
Which animals are cold blooded?
Reptiles
Which two animals can go for two years without food?
Snakes and crocodiles
What is the only cat that cannot retract its claws?
The Cheetah
Why are flamingos pink?
Their diet consists mainly of shrimp
Why do elephants have wrinkly skin?
To keep themselves cool
True or false: Hyene packs are a dominated by a female.
True
True or false: a dolphin is a mammal.
True
True or false: birds have hollow bones.
True
True or false: frogs do not need to drink water.
True, they absorb it through their skin
True or false: crocodiles do not have sweat glands.
True: they sweat through their mouths
Which of these animals is considered the least intelligent, a mouse, donkey, turkey, or pig?
Turkey
What is the biggest mammal in the ocean?
Whale
How much can a tiger eat in one sitting, 20lbs, 88lbs, 97lbs, 130lbs?
88lbs...
What is the name for a group of frogs?
Army
What is the only mammal that can fly?
Bats
What color are polar bear's skin, white, black, brown, or gray?
Black
True or false: rhinos have good eyesight.
False
What is the tallest animal?
Giraffe
Animals that only eat plants are called?
Herbivores
How many muscles are in an elephant's trunk, 10, 100, 10,000, 150,000?
150,000
How long have crocodiles been in existence?
2 million years
