15 Land Animals with 3 Letter Names Quiz

Answer: ant

Only about 12,500 of the estimated 22,500 species of ants have been classified.

Ant farms, popular in the 1950s through 1970s, are educational toys allowing people to monitor ants as they survive in a controlled environment. In the late 1990s, a transparent gel to be used in ant farms instead of soil was developed to enable ants to be studied in space. This ant gel contains nutrients, allowing for easier care and greater visibility of the insect inhabitants.

Answer: ape

Scientifically speaking, apes refer to two different families of animals: the Hylobatidae, or lesser apes, consists of several species of gibbons; and the Hominidae, or greater apes, consists of orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Humans are part of the Hominidae family but are not considered apes.

Most apes are rare or endangered, generally due to loss of habitat. However, since 1990, the Ebola virus has been the most significant threat to apes.

The fictional character Tarzan was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan first appeared in "Tarzan of the Apes", serialized in "All-Story Magazine" in 1912.

Answer: asp

Although Cleopatra may have committed suicide by asp according to Shakespeare, a 2010 scientific article concluded that she drank poison instead.

The "asp" of ancient Egypt was probably what modern people would call the Egyptian cobra. A symbol of royalty, the venom was used as a means of execution as it was believed that the snake provided a dignified death.

Answer: boa

Boas and pythons are both large constrictor snakes. However, one major difference is that pythons lay eggs while boas have live births.

Feather boas (although they can be made of yarn or fur) are worn as a scarf, and date back to at least the 1820s.

Answer: cat

In 2004, a 9,500-year-old grave was discovered in Cyprus that contained the remains of both a human and a cat.

In Egypt, the goddess Bastet (Bast, Ubaste, or Baset) was depicted as a cat or with a cat head. While Bastet was a war goddess prior to the unification of Egypt (c. 3000 BC), she evolved into more of a protector goddess.

In the USA, black cats are considered bad luck while the UK sees them as bringing good luck.

Answer: cow

Cows were domesticated about 5,000 years ago. There are over 900 different breeds of cows in the world.

Contrary to popular opinion, cows do not have four stomachs. They have a single stomach with four digestive compartments: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. The rumen is the largest compartment, holding up to 50 gallons of partially digested food. Fermentation occurs here and the "cud" is sent back up to the mouth to be re-chewed. The reticulum traps indigestible material (like stones or metal), and the omasum serves as a filter. The abomasum works like a human stomach.

Answer: doe

In "The Sound of Music" (1959), Maria uses the song "Do-Re-Mi" to teach the notes of the musical scale to the Von Trapp children.

In English, while many deer can be referred to as doe (female) and buck (male), these are not universal terms. For some larger deer, the female may be called a cow, and the male called a stag or bull. For a red deer, the female is a hind and the male a hart.

Answer: dog

There were several dogs among the animals aboard the RMS Titanic when she sank. In fact, some of the dog owners had planned a dog show for April 15, 1912. Unfortunately, the ship sank the night before.

Only three animals survived the sinking, all small dogs who made it into the lifeboats with their owners. These dogs were a Pekingese called Sun Yat Sen, owned by Henry and Myra Harper, a Pomeranian owned by Margaret Bechstein Hays, and another Pomeranian owned by Elizabeth Rothschild.

Answer: elk

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE, the Elks Lodge, The Elks) was founded as a social club in 1868, and has evolved into a fraternal, charitable, and service organization.

The three largest members of the deer family are the elk, moose, and sambar (found in India and southeast Asia).

Answer: emu

The roles of the male and female emus during mating and breeding may seem unusual. Females court the males, and male emus will sit on the eggs to incubate them. After mating, the females will often leave the nest and look for another mate.

The males will not eat during the eight weeks it takes to incubate the eggs. Once the eggs hatch, the male will defend and raise the chick for 6-7 months.

Answer: fox

"Fantastic Mr Fox" (1970) was a children's book by Roald Dahl (1916-1990). It has been made into both an opera (1998) and a stop-motion animated film (2009).

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." is perhaps the best known pangram in English. A pangram is a sentence or phrase that uses every letter in an alphabet at least once.

The most common species is the red fox (Vulpes vulpes).

Answer: gnu

There are two species of gnus (pronounced "news"), both located in eastern and southern Africa. The blue wildebeest, or brindled gnu (Connochaetes taurinus), has a larger territory while the black wildebeest, or white-tailed gnu (C. gnou) has a smaller territory in the south. Some territory is shared.

GNU (a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!") is an operating system that is like Unix, but is free and does not contain any Unix code. Development of GNU was publicly announced in 1983.

Answer: ram

Random-access memory (RAM) is a type of data storage used for computers. The first historical use was the Williams-Kilburn tube (1946-47).

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) have large horns, which can weigh up to 10% of their total body weight (30 pounds out of 300 pounds, or 14 kg out of 140 kg). These sheep are native to North America and are found west of the Mississippi in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

Answer: rat

While "true rats" are from the genus Rattus, many other small mammals are called rats, such as pack rats or kangaroo rats.

The province of Alberta in Canada is the largest inhabited area on Earth that has no true rats. (It does have native bushy-tailed wood rats which are a different species.) The lack of access by sea, remote location, inhospitable environment, predators, and an aggressive control program keep the area free of rats.

Answer: yak

"Yakety Yak" was a 1958 single by The Coasters, with the refrain "Yakety yak; don't talk back."

Most yaks are domesticated, however there is a small population of wild yaks.

Yak racing is a traditional event in parts of Tibet and Mongolia.