Wild Animals Quiz — 10 Free Questions

Question 1

Which land mammal has the largest eyes of all, each one bigger than its own brain, placed on the sides of its head so the animal can see almost the whole way around itself?

Question 2

Which small rodent from the high, cold Andes mountains of South America has the densest fur of any land animal, with up to sixty separate hairs growing from a single point, so thick that fleas cannot live in it?

Question 3

What is a group of rhinoceroses called? These heavy, thick-skinned animals usually live alone, though a mother stays close to her calf for two or three years, and white rhinos sometimes gather in small groups.

Question 4

Which wild animal is the ancestor of every breed of pet dog, from tiny lapdogs to huge guard dogs, all descended from ones that people began taming more than 15,000 years ago?

Question 5

Which American animal, when badly frightened, flops over as if dead, with its tongue hanging out and a foul smell oozing from its body, staying like that for up to a few hours until the danger has gone?

Question 6

Cartoons love to show the biggest land animal leaping in fright at the sight of one of the smallest creatures. Tests show this is mostly a myth, though elephants really are bothered by buzzing bees. Which creature are they wrongly said to fear?

Question 7

Which bear does not sleep through the cold months like other bears, but stays awake and hunts out on the sea ice all winter, when catching seals is easiest? Only the mothers-to-be dig a snow den, to give birth.

Question 8

Which is the largest amphibian in the world, a wrinkled, river-dwelling animal from China that can grow to nearly two metres long and takes in most of its oxygen through its loose, folded skin?

Question 9

Which African animal digs with powerful claws and feeds at night on ants and termites, slurping them up with a long sticky tongue? Its name comes from old Dutch words for 'earth pig', and it is usually the very first entry in an English dictionary.

Question 10

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.

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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.