Amazon Prime Trivia Quiz

Answer: Raccoon

Kinkajous are also known as honey bears. They are omnivores. It has the scientific name Potos flavus. It is a mammal and mostly lives on trees. They have been known to be grown as pets. They have predators such as foxes and birds of prey. Kinkajous have been recorded to live up to 24 years.
Raccoons are mammals with the scientific name Procyon lotor. They are also nocturnal animals and live in dens. They are omnivores and eat almost anything they can get their tiny claws on. They are known to live close to human habitation and forage through garbage cans for food.

Answer: Jaguar

The scientific name of a jaguar is Panthera onca. It is considered to be smaller in size only to the lion and the tiger. Its lifespan is around 10 to 15 years in the wild. It is a carnivore and is a very agile animal. Jaguars are known to be excellent swimmers unlike other many other cats.

A litter of a female jaguar may have one to four cubs. They are usually solitary animals and young ones stay close to their mother until they are self sufficient. The spots on their coat are said to have rosette shaped patterns.

The jaguar population of the world is highly threatened due to habitat destruction and due to them being hunted down for their fur.

Answer: Poison dart frog

It belongs to the Dendrobatidae family. They can be of so many different colors like yellow, gold, copper, red, green, blue, or black. These colors are supposed to be a mechanism of warning to other predators of their poisonous weapon. They are endangered.

The toxins they produce are excreted through their skin. There are many species of this frog and each of them has different toxin levels. They are carnivores and mostly eat insects and spiders. They are known to be good parents and the mother carries the babies on her back for a while.

Answer: Potoo

They are exclusive to the Central and South Americas. They belong to the family Nyctibiidae. They are related to nightjars. Their scientific name is Nyctibius aethereus. They are nocturnal. They are known to mostly eat insects like beetles, moths, grasshoppers and termites. An interesting thing about these birds is that they do not build nests but lay eggs on the edge of a branch or a stem.

They have large eyes and a densely feathered head.

Answer: Candiru

This fish is also known to many as the vampire fish. It is a parasitic fish with the scientific name Vandellia cirrhosa. Some believe that these fish crawl up the urethra of a man who urinates inside the water and that amputation of the penis is the only method of cure of this fish's invasion.

This is widely considered to be a myth. They feed on the blood of other fish species and thus its name as the vampire fish. It is a type of catfish. The fish uses its transparency as a method to crawl up the gills of bigger fish.

Answer: Harpy eagle

It is also called the American harpy eagle to distinguish it from another bird called the Papuan harpy eagle. Its scientific name is Harpia harpyja. Its population is threatened. Most of these birds have a wingspan of about 2 meters! Their diet usually includes animals like sloths, monkeys, and opossums. Also other birds and reptiles are also regularly on the menu for these powerful birds.

They live for around 25 to 35 years. Mates usually stay together for life and build nests of twigs and green leaves.

Answer: Black

The black caiman belongs to the family Alligatoridae and the order Crocodilia. It is widely found in the Amazon Basin and in other parts of South America. It is one of the largest alligators by way of size and strength. It is a carnivore and feeds on animals like deer, peccaries, tapirs, anacondas and cattle. Each female can lay around 35-60 eggs.

A very interesting fact is that our very own jaguars are predators to these reptiles! They can live for over 50 to 60 years.

Answer: False

It is an herbivore having most of its diet as leaves and fruits. This small animal is widely found in Central and South America as well as in Southeast Asia. It lives in swampy forests. There are many types of tapirs like the Malayan tapir, the Woolly tapir, the Brazilian tapirs and the Baird's tapir.

These animals are mostly solitary and don't have a specific season for mating. They are considered ancient animals and are said to be distantly related to horses. Females have their babies in their womb (gestation period) for over 390 days.

Answer: Pygmy marmoset

It is native to South America, specifically the Amazon. Its scientific name is Cebuella pygmaea. They are widely found in flooded, tropical forests. It has a tail that is longer than its body itself. They can live up to 12 years. They are considered as omnivores and eat a lot of fruits and insects.

They are arboreal animals, i.e., they spend most of their time on trees. This provides them space from predators like pit vipers, tayra and cats such as jaguarundi, ocelot, margay and oncilla. These small animals mate for life.

Answer: Hercules beetle

It belongs to the family Scarabaeidae and has its binomial name as Dynastes hercules. It is found in the Amazon and other rainforests of South America. Most of these beetles eat decaying fruit. Both sexes are different in this beetle species. Other rhinoceros beetles are ox beetles, elephant beetle, European rhinoceros beetle and unicorn beetle.