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1. Black eggs called caviar come from which fish?
2. What is Australia's tallest bird?
3. This flightless bird had no natural predators as it lived in a remote place. When Europeans came they brought rats, pigs and monkeys which ate its eggs and by 1680 they were extinct.
4. Name the strongest insect which can lift and support more than 800 times its own weight.
5. Name the largest living animal, which can grow to an average weight of 26 tonnes by the age of twelve months?
6. Which is the biggest fish?
7. Name the largest rodent?
8. On average, which of these is the longest member of the cat family?
9. Which of the following is the longest?
10. Where would you find the world's smallest bird, the male bee hummingbird?
11. The cheetah is the fastest land mammal over a short distance of up to 600 yards but which animal is the fastest land mammal over long distances sustaining a speed of 35 m.p.h. for four miles?
12. A type of boxfish has two spines above its eyes which give its name to which fish?
13. Fossils show that coelacanths lived more than 300 million years ago and thought to have died out with the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. In the 1930's they were discovered living in which ocean?
14. Name the fish that has lacy fan-shaped fins which looks delicate but their spines can jab deadly poison?
15. Name the fish which lives in shallow water among weed and rocks or partly buried in sand. If someone accidently steps on one, the small spines on its back contain one of the most powerful venoms in the whole animal kingdom?
16. Why do many frogs and toads blow up their chin skin like a balloon?
17. Where in the world can the smallest fish, dwarf gobies be found?
18. Name the fish whose thick coating of slime protects it from the stinging paralyzing tentacles of sea anemones?
19. What is the largest monkey?
20. Sloths spend two-thirds of their time asleep. They feed on fruit and leaves while hanging from trees by long, hooked claws. How long does a meal take to pass through its body?
21. Which lizard runs so fast that it can even move for short distances over water because its long toes are supported by the skin-like film on the surface?
22. Which male bird has a bright red balloon-like skin pouch on his throat which he blows up to attract a female?
23. Which land animal has the biggest eyes?
24. Which fish spends more time walking than swimming?
25. Which fish each night makes a bag-like cocoon of mucus slime around its body to protect it from predators while it sleeps?
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