These J Animals Are Not Mocking You Quiz

Answer: Figs

Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) live mostly in Central America (including all islands in the Caribbean region) and the north-western part of South-America. They are about 8-9cm and weigh on average 50g. Most Jamaican fruit bats live in a polygynous colony: one dominant male, several adult females, and some subordinate males (including the young offspring).
Jamaican fruit bats search their preferred food by sight and smell, not by echolocation as most insectivore bats do.
Jamaican fruit bats are herbivore. The greatest part of their diet consists of fruit, to which a few leaves and maybe herbs are added. Their greatest delicacy can vary regionally, but figs are top of the list.
Even if the fruit attracts fruit flies (the preferred food of some other bats), Jamaican fruit bats will not mainly eat the flies, but the fruit that has attracted the flies - they are herbivores.
You've read in the first paragraph of this interesting info about the small size of a Jamaican fruit bat (on average 50 grams). So it is highly unlikely that a fruit bat will consume a coconut weighing about 1.4 kg.
Jambalaya is a typical recipe of the Louisiana kitchen. Although it may contain some ingredients that would interest fruit bats, the bats will usually not be attracted by the smell of a cooking pot to invade human houses.

Answer: Stork

The jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) is one of the members of the family of the Ciconiidae (the storks). Some other storks have also been named jabiru: the black-necked stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) in Australia, and the saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) in Africa. However, these two are members of a different genus and should thus not be confused with the "real" jabiru from South America, the subject of this question and answer.
Jabirus feed mostly on fish, amphibians and molluscs, but occasionally switch to feeding on bird eggs, small mammals or reptiles, especially when these are more abundant than the jabirus' normal preferred food.
Jabirus mainly live in the south of Brazil and Paraguay.
The kiwi is endemic to New-Zealand. The dodo is extinct, and lived mostly on the African island of Mauritius. Cranes are endemic to all the world but South America (for some reason that scientists did not yet discover), but most cranes are associated with Asia and Africa.

Answer: Mexico

The Jaliscan cotton rat (Sigmodon mascotensis) is sometimes also named the Mexican cotton rat. It lives in the wild near the west coast of Mexico (but not only in the Mexican state Jalisco, after which it was named). The Jaliscan cotton rat prefers grassy open plains, but can adapt to other environments as well.
The Jaliscan cotton rat is only one species out of the genus of cotton rats, containing about a dozen species. Cotton rats are not named after their favourite food, but after their habit to build their nests with fibres from the cotton plant.

Answer: Large insects

The name of the Javan kingfisher (Halcyon cyanoventris) may be a bit misleading, for its favourite food is not fish (although it may devour some small fish, small rodents or small reptiles as well). The Javan kingfisher usually is perched on a tree branch and swoops down in order to catch any small animal that will satisfy its taste.
The Javan kingfisher is distinct from other kingfishers by the colour of its plumage. It has a very dark brown-black head, a dark red chest, and cyan to purple body. It is medium-sized, attaining a length of about 27 cm. The habitat can vary widely, with a preference for mangrove forest. In the same parts of Indonesia a close relative, the white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis), is also present.
For those of you who associated Pisang Ambon with Java: pisang is a Dutch liqueur with banana flavour. The recipe is in origin Indonesian, but kingfishers would not drink it and survive: the alcohol is too toxic for those birds.

Answer: Another species than the options mentioned here

The Japanese raccoon dog (or tanuki in the Tokyo dialect) bears the binomial name Nyctereutes procyonoides viverinus, which is derived from the Greek or Latin words for night-wanderer, raccoon-like and civet, respectively.
Although the facial appearance of a Japanese raccoon dog is similar to a raccoon, it is thus a different species altogether. There is still a debate whether the Japanese raccoon dogs and the other raccoon dogs (living mostly in China, the Koreas and the eastern-most parts of Russia) are different genera or not, but the closest relatives to the Japanese raccoon dogs are indeed the raccoon dogs from the Asian mainland.
The Japanese raccoon dog is thus quite different from the raccoon (Procyon lotor) from North America and from the domesticated dog (Canis familiaris) from about the whole world.
Japanese raccoon dogs (as all raccoon dogs) are omnivore, with a slight preference for rodents and amphibians. Their diet varies with the season, with more fruit in spring and summer.
In folklore, Japanese raccoon dogs are seen as shapeshifters and tricksters - even presenting more disguises than the cunning foxes.

Answer: Central Africa

As the name indicates, Jameson's antpeckers feed mostly on small insects: ants, beetles, and so on - although little seeds are welcome as well. The few places on earth where ants are not indigenous are thus highly unlikely to be the habitat of any antpeckers.
Jameson's antpeckers (Pholidornis jamesoni) live in Central Africa, and more specifically moist forests in the region of Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania. They are rather small birds (about 11 cm), with a red-brown head, dark upperparts (in colours that vary between green, grey and brown) and lighter chest and underparts.
Greenland, Hawaii, Iceland and parts of Polynesia are the few spots on earth where no ants are endemic.

Answer: False

The jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouarondi) is a small feline living in Central and South America. The total body size is a bit more than a domestic cat, and the weight is about equal to a well-fed domestic cat. Usually they come in a single colour: either greyish or reddish-brown.

It hunts mostly by daylight on ground-dwelling little animals. On the other hand, the jaguar (Panthera onca) is a spotted big feline from the Americas. Most jaguars have a yellowish-brownish fur with spots for better camouflage, although there are also pure black jaguars (commonly named "black panther").

A jaguar may reach ten times the weight of a jaguarundi.

Answer: Black

The male jet manakin (Chloropipo unicolor) appears in a black plumage: shiny black on top (with some streaks of dark blue), dull black at the underparts. The female plumage is not quite black, but more olive overall. Jet manakins live on the east side of the northern Andes mountains (Ecuador and Peru) at an elevation between 900 and 1,700m, in the lower parts of the forests.

Although sightings are very rare, the jet manakin is classified as "least concern".

Answer: Number of horns of an adult female

All rhinoceroses share a great number of physical traits. They all have one heart (as all mammals). Rhinos all have three toes on each foot, which differentiates them from elephants and hippos, all having four toes on each foot. So a clear footprint of a rhino is easy to discern from a clear footprint of an elephant. The Indian rhino and Javan rhino both have 28 teeth (one incisor, 3 premolars and 3 molars in each jaw half), while the Sumatran rhino has 30 teeth. The white rhino has 24 teeth and the black rhinoceros can have 24 to 28 teeth.
The black, white and Sumatran rhino all have two horns, but the Indian rhinoceros and the male Javan rhinoceros have one horn. Adult female Javan rhinos have no horn at all, they have just a tiny stump on the location where their male counterparts grow a horn.
The Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is critically endangered. Only sixty-odd Javan rhinos still live in a national park on the western tip of the island Java. In comparison: the black rhino and the Sumatran rhino also are critically endangered, the Indian rhino is vulnerable, while the white rhino is near threatened.
Javan rhinoceroses seem to be about equal in size to the (African) black rhinos, but this is not corroborated by exact measurements. As both these species are critically endangered, scientists have more urgent priorities in studying the species: the most urgent is how to conserve the species, and possibly enable them to breed to a more sufficient number.
Javan rhinos (as all rhinos) are herbivore. A Javan rhino eats shoots and leaves, and will also drink some sea water in order to obtain enough salt in its diet.

Answer: Jamaican parakeet

The Jamaican parakeet (Eupsittula nana) has several different names. This green parakeet with a brownish throat is officially called the olive-throated parakeet, and another name is the Aztec parakeet. Some scientists say the Aztec parakeet and the Jamaican parakeet are different subspecies of the olive-throated parakeet, but most consider these three names for the same species.
The Jamaican parakeet lives in Jamaica (evidently), as well as on the Caribbean side of the Central-American mainland - from Mexico to Panama, mostly on higher elevations (over 1,000m). It feeds on fruit and buds, but also tastes some crops.
The Javan flameback (Chrysosolaptes strictus) is yellowish-brown, with a dappled black and white chest and a fiery red crest. It is one of the many species of the woodpecker family, endemic to Java and some neighbouring islands.
The Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone) is more frequently heard than seen: it has a pale brown appearance, which offers fine camouflage. On top of it the Japanese bush warbler is habitually hiding between thick leaves.
The jackal buzzard is mostly black and white, with a brown chest and a red tail. It is native to the southern part of Africa.