Anybody Seen My Baby? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Puggle

Echidnas (like their platypus cousins) are monotremes, meaning that they are mammals that lay eggs instead of have live births. Echidna eggs are placed in their pouches to incubate until they hatch after about ten days. They remain in the pouch until they begin to grow spines, after which they will stay in the burrow until about six months old.

Answer: Eyas

'Eyas' is the term used for either a fledgling hawk or falcon. The origin of the word 'eyas' begins with the Latin word 'nidus', which means nest. Over the years it transformed to 'niais' in Middle French, before modifying again to eyas in English.

Answer: Leveret

The term 'leveret' comes from the Latin 'lepus' originally, through a bit of an evolution through Old French and Anglo-Norman. The modern French term for a hare is 'lièvre'.

Answer: Ephyra

Adult jellyfish produce eggs and sperm that together make a larva called a 'planula'. These find a place to settle and metamorphoses into a polyp called a 'scyphistoma'. These then metamorphoses into 'ephyrae', which are mobile and are immature jellyfish.

Answer: Cria

'Cria' is the name for the babies of all of the camelid species, which include llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos. Quite simply, the name 'cria' comes from the Spanish word for young or offspring.

Answer: Infant

The word 'infant' comes from the Latin word infans, meaning 'unable to speak' or 'speechless'. It is small wonder that monkeys, with their genetic similarities to humans, would have the same name for their young as humans.

Answer: Spat

Oysters begin their lives in a larval state until they attach themselves to a hard substrate (usually an oyster shell) and transform into a spat. It takes about a year before spats are considered juvenile oysters, and another two years before they are considered adult oysters.

Answer: Squab

'Squab' is a term for an unfledged pigeon - one that is still too young to fly. The word has also come to refer specifically to young pigeons that are large enough to be used for meat. The origin for the word is Scandinavian, with a meaning of 'loose, fat flesh'.

Answer: Poult

'Poult' is used to refer to the young of turkeys, and other pheasant-like birds. The word is related to the French 'poulet', which translates as 'chicken', and also to the term 'pullet', which is a young hen (less than a year old).

Answer: Joey

'Joey' is the name given to the young of all marsupials, which include kangaroos, opossums, koalas, and bandicoots, to name a few. A group of wombats, interestingly, is called a wisdom.