Wild Animals Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which big-eyed animal with a long black-and-white banded tail is found in the wild only on the island of Madagascar, where it sits upright each cool morning with its arms spread and belly to the sun to warm up?

Question 2

What is a fully grown male elephant called? He usually lives alone or in a small all-male group, apart from the family herd, and once a year goes through an aggressive period called musth.

Question 3

Which slow-moving, huge-eyed animal of Southeast Asian forests is the only venomous member of the ape, monkey and lemur group, mixing an oil from a gland on its arm with its spit to give a toxic bite?

Question 4

Which small, nearly blind animal spends almost its whole life underground, pushing through the soil with broad, spade-shaped front paws turned permanently outwards, and finding worms by touch and smell?

Question 5

Which small climbing lizard can shed its wriggling tail to distract a predator and then grow a new one, and can also walk straight up a pane of glass using millions of tiny hairs on its toes?

Question 6

What is a group of hippos called, when a dozen or more lie packed together in the shallows of a river through the day, coming out only at night to graze on grass?

Question 7

Which big cat of the Americas has the most powerful bite for its size, strong enough to pierce a turtle's shell or crack a skull? It is a keen swimmer and often hunts along rivers and in swamps.

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About Wild Animals

How much do you really know about the world's wild animals? This quiz mixes every kind of question: which animal is the biggest, the tallest, the fastest or the heaviest; how long an elephant is pregnant or how long it lives; what a group of lions or wolves or giraffes is called; and what we name their babies.

Each question gives a few easy sentences describing an animal or a fact, without saying the answer, and then four choices. The topics are the ones people most often look up: the largest land animal, the fastest runner, the most dangerous animal in Africa, why a panda eats what it eats, and many more.

The animals are wild four-legged creatures from every continent: the African elephant and giraffe, the tiger of Asia, the gorilla of the central African forests, the moose of the northern woods, the polar bear of the frozen north, the capybara of South America and the kangaroo of Australia.

Every answer comes with a short, clear explanation and the real numbers, so you finish each question knowing a little more than when you started. The wording is kept simple, and any harder word is explained, so the quiz plays the same for a keen wildlife fan and for someone just getting curious. Every fact has been checked.