Love, Zoological Style Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bull

For cattle (Bos taurus), the female is a cow and the male is a bull. Cattle have been domesticated by humans for over 10,000 years. Within a specific cattle breed, bulls often outweigh cows by several hundred pounds. The gestation period for cattle is usually about nine months.

Answer: Stallion

Horses (Equus ferus caballus) have been domesticated for over 5,000 years. Male horses are known as stallions and female horses are known as mares. Gestation for horses usually lasts about 11 months. While horses are capable of mating as early as eighteen months old, domesticated horses are not usually bred before three years of age.

Answer: Boar

The domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) has an average litter size of 7-8 piglets as a result of a successful mating. It is believed that in some parts of the world, pigs have been domesticated for over 10,000 years. The female pig is called a sow and the male pig is called a boar. Gestation lasts for about four months.

Answer: Drone

Ants and bees are two of the insect types that have queens (fertile females) and drones (males). The workers are a third type of ant or bee that are female but do not mate (though they make up the vast majority of the population of a colony). The drone's only job is to mate with the queen after which he often dies.

There is usually only one queen in a colony and she lays all of the eggs that will become the future population.

Answer: Buck

Like the song says, a female fallow deer is a doe and a male fallow dear is a buck. Only male fallow deer (Dama dama) grow antlers (which are shed and regrown each year), in addition to being slightly larger than females. Gestation usually lasts for about eight months and it is uncommon for more than one fawn (young fallow deer) at a time.

Answer: Cock

Chickens have been domesticated for thousands of years. Members of the species (Gallus gallus domesticus) run in the billions. Like many bird species, male chickens (cocks) often have more striking plumage than female chickens (hens). A typical number of eggs laid after mating is 12 and they will usually hatch after about 21 days.

Answer: Reynard

Female red foxes (vixens) tend on average to have smaller skulls than male foxes (reynards). In addition body size and weight also tends to be somewhat smaller for females. The gestation period for red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) is usually about two months and the average litter size is four to six. In European folklore, Reynard the Fox is a trickster figure.

Answer: Billy

Domestication of the goat may date back as much as 10,000 years. The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus). Unlike some species, horns and beards are observed in both male and female goats. Gestation usually lasts about five months and usually produces a litter of two goats. Male goats are known as billies and female goats as nannies.

Answer: Ram

Sheep were one of the earliest animals to be domesticated by humans. The male sheep is the ram and the female sheep is the ewe. Among sheep (Ovis aries), males of the species tend to be somewhat heavier than females. It is most common for sheep to have litters of one or two lambs after a gestation period of about five months.

Answer: Cob

The common or whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) is found in many parts of Europe and Asia. The female swan is the pen and the male swan is the cob. Like some other swan species, the common swan mates for life. A group of four to seven eggs usually hatch after about 36 days.