Animal Alphabet Part Two Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

Lorises are nocturnal creatures, found in the wild in India, Sri Lanka, and parts of South-east Asia.

Answer: Mara

Found in South America, mara can grow to be around eighteen inches high.
There are two distinct species, the Patagonian mara and the Chacoan mara.

Answer: Goat

The Nilgiri tahr is an ungulate goat, and its closest relatives are sheep.
Its name in Tamil is "variyaadu" derived from the words for "goat" and "mountainside" or "precipice".

They are endangered in the wild, with fewer than 1000 individuals left.

Answer: Monkey

Also known as Hamlyn's monkey, the owl faced guenon is extremely rare, and very little is known about it.

They are native to the dense jungle of the Congo and Rwanda, and both the males and females of the species can be distinguished by their bright blue hairless buttocks!

Answer: On top of a tree stump

Potoos, which are indigenous to South snd Central America, mate for life and are monogamous.

The female lays a single speckled egg on top of a tree stump, sometimes in a little hollow, and then spends her days sitting on the stump pretending to be part of it.

The plumage of the potoo is also speckled and very well suited to camouflage as a branch.

Answer: Qualier

Quokkas and quolls are both marsupials. Quokkas are herbivores, found in Western Australia.

Quoll are carnivores,found in coastal Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. There are six known species.

Quaggas were a species of zebra, found on the plains of southern Africa.
Unfortunately, they became extinct in the late nineteenth century.

Answer: Darwin

Rhea pennata is also known as Darwin's rhea. They are indigenous to South America, along with the related species Rhea americana or Greater rhea.

Answer: Throat

The gular sac is a membranous pouch at the animal's throat that is inflated to make its distinctive call. When fully inflated, it can be as large as the gibbon's head.

Answer: Ants

Thorny devil lizards are indigenous to Western and Central Australia, where their spiny bodies are adapted to collect dew and channel it to the mouth. During rainfall, they can also absorb water through the skin across their whole body. The majority of their food comprises ants.

Answer: Triangle Cichlid

Uaru are indigenous to the Amazon and some of its clear water tributaries.
They are also popular aquarium fish and will happily live and breed in captivity.

Answer: Camelidae

Vicuna are found in South America, along with their cousins the guanaco, alpaca, and llama.

Testudinidae are tortoises, Phascolarctidae are koalas, and Mustelidae are weasels.

Answer: They always give birth to twins

Wombats are indeed herbivores, and their poop is cubic in shape. They can produce anything up to one hundred cubes in a night!

The female's pouch faces backwards so that a resident baby will not get covered in soil as the mother burrows her way along underground.

Wombats give birth to a single baby, known as a joey, at a time.

Answer: False

In fact, the female fish will lay a fairly small number of eggs among the fronds and leaves of water plants using sticky "threads" she secretes for the purpose. These will hatch out around about ten days later into fry which average around 12mm long.

Answer: Mouse

The yellow-necked mouse is a close relative of the common wood mouse, and is found across Europe and Western Asia.

They are a pest for humans as they can carry and transmit tick borne encephalitis and Dobrava virus, both of which can have serious consequences for sufferers.

Answer: Cuba

Ciénaga de Zapata is the largest municipality in Cuba. The UN Biosphere Reserve of the same name, which contains the Zapata Swamp, is the largest nature reserve in the Caribbean.