FunTrivia Animals Mix: Vol 4 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mourning Dove

Most doves are white but the mourning dove is a light grey and brown coloring. The birds are usually about twelve inches long and weigh a slight four to six ounces. The males do have a slight light pink coloring, but not red.

Question by player linkan

Answer: Gray wolf

The gray wolf is the species most people commonly associate with wolf characteristics in general. These beautiful creatures actually come in many different colors, live mainly in North America, and usually mate for life. Majestic AND faithful!

Question by player bombshell11

Answer: a wasp

In the USA and Canada, "yellowjacket" can refer to black and yellow wasps of the Vespula genus or the Dolichovespula genus. Outside of North America, Anglophones just call them wasps, although they really do superficially resemble the honeybee in some ways.

In 1975, the German yellowjacket invaded the USA and eventually overran the Eastern yellowjacket. Like the African over the European honeybees, the German species is much more aggressive, so watch out!

Question by player gracious1

Answer: Helps kill bacteria

This solution helps kill bacteria. Scientists call the secretion an antibiotic sunscreen. They hope to isolate its properties so they can develop a bacteria-killing drug for people. While hippos rarely kill each other, they do slash each other up during their bad-tempered quarrels. These lacerations rarely get infected.

Question by player Godwit

Answer: Okapi

The okapi lives in the Congo area of Africa. It has stripes similar to a zebra but its closest relative is the giraffe. It is very shy and stays away from humans. This aided in keeping it relatively undiscovered until early in the twentieth century.

Question by player stephgm67

Answer: Cetacea

In addition to whales which are the largest animals on Earth, Cetacea includes animals like porpoises and dolphins. In order the ten largest animals are the blue whale, North Pacific right whale, fin whale, bowhead whale, southern right whale, North Atlantic right whale, sperm whale, humpback whale, sei whale, and gray whale.

Question by player Triviaballer

Answer: Australia

Dryococelus australis was found only on Lord Howe Island between Australia and New Zealand, hence its more common name of Lord Howe Island stick insect. It had not been seen since the accidental introduction of rats on Lord Howe Island in 1920. It was rediscovered in 2001 on Ball's Pyramid, a 562 m high volcanic stack 20 km from Lord Howe island, which is all that remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea about 7 million years ago. Because of its size (12cm) and hard, lobsterlike exoskeleton, the first Europeans labeled it "tree lobster".

In 2001, 2 Australian scientists found 24 individuals under a single melaleuca bush. How they reached Ball's Pyramid is not known (birds? fishermen?). They now have been bred successfully in Melbourne zoo. Reintroduction on Lord Howe island is being considered but rats would have to be eradicated first and the local residents persuaded that this huge insect is harmless.

Question by player chabenao1

Answer: a fish thought to be extinct

The 1958 black-and-white American movie was released to theatres as a double-feature with the British movie "Blood of the Vampire." A university professor cuts himself on the sharp teeth of a coelacanth and gets some of its blood into the wound, which causes him to revert or regress into a primitive.

The coelacanth is a rare real order of fish thought to have been extinct for about 66 million years until an example was caught in 1938. It was described as a "living fossil" or a "Lazarus taxon." There are two species, one in the West Indian Ocean and another in Indonesia.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Mature

As hens mature, they lay more perfectly formed and larger eggs. Early layers, around the fifth or sixth month, often begin with eggs the size of marbles, and bumpy. Practice makes perfect, it seems. Banty is a specific variety of poultry.

Question by player Godwit

Answer: a salamander

Mudpuppies and their close relatives, waterdogs, got their names from the common misconception that they bark when they are handled. Mudpuppies spend their entire life underwater.

Question by player beergirllaura