Animals Flashcards
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| Avoid the sting as you tell us that un’ape is this insect
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the bee
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| If you’re called un asino, you’re either a fool, or this animal
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a donkey
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| That’s the scariest ragno, one of these, I’ve ever seen! Don’t tell Signorina Muffet
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a spider
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| Un cane is this; ready for walkies?
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a dog
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| It really gets me that una capra is one of these farm animals
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a goat
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Pongo & Missis: This breed that lives with Mr. & Mrs. Dearly
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Dalmatians
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Aslan: This majestic creature in Narnia
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a lion
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$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Stellaluna: The fruit type of this mammal
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a bat
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$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Rikki-Tikki-Tavi: This creature that saves his family
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a mongoose
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Mr. Jeremy Fisher: This critter, living at the edge of a pond in a Beatrix Potter tale
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a frog
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| This 2002 movie starred Eminem as Rabbit
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8 Mile
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| He played Gator McKlusky in “White Lightning” as well as in “Gator”
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Burt Reynolds
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$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| In this film Denzel Washington is a ’40s detective whose muscle is named Mouse
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Devil in a Blue Dress
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$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| Jon Cryer’s aquatic name in “Pretty in Pink”
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Duckie
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| Tim Matheson’s aquatic name in “Animal House”
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Otter
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| La cebra
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the zebra
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| La vaca
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a cow
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| El puerco
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a pig
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| El escarabajo
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a scarab beetle
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| El zorro
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fox
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Because of the requirements in pumping blood to its brain, it has the highest blood pressure of any living animal
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the giraffe
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| Buggy’s partner: caballo
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horse
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| A popular pet: gato
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cat
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$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| Langosta (with butter, yum!)
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lobster
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$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| An arctic dweller: oso blanco
a polar bear
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| A provider of meat: venado
deer
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| Don't be afraid--this animal is a pollo
a chicken
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| This animal, gatto, got your lingua?
a cat
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| Who scared the puzzola, this animal? Now we'll never get rid of the smell
a skunk
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| If you want to win on "Jeopardy!", don't be as quiet as a topo, one of these
a mouse
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| After all the gelato, I feel as big as a balena, one of these
a whale
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Facial feature mentioned in the longer version of the platypus' name
duck bill
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A female bullfrog may lay 10,000 eggs that hatch into these, which may take 2 years to grow into bullfrogs
tadpoles
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$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This "monster" is the largest lizard native to the U.S.
a Gila monster
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$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Newborn raccoons lack the familiar tail rings & this famous facial feature
the mask
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One variety of the white-tailed species of this lives in the Florida Keys & weighs only 50 to 75 pounds
a deer
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| Animals first went aloft in 1783, when the Montgolfier Bros. sent a sheep, a duck & a rooster up in one of these
a balloon
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| Before airborne wireless equipment, these animals were hurled from planes with messages attached
pigeons
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| In the 1940s this singing cowboy took his animal co-star Champion on airplane flights
Gene Autry
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| This German WWI flying ace flew with his Great Dane puppy until it became too big
the Red Baron
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| As part of a 1940s Arctic search & rescue unit, these team animals were parachuted in to help rescue downed pilots
huskies (or malamutes)
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| Found in water: cocodrilo
a crocodile
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| 8-legged: araña
a spider
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$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| Toro ('nuff said)
a bull
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$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| A reptile: tortuga
a tortoise
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| A bird: paloma
a dove
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One in every 6 known bird species makes its home in this rainforest
the Amazon
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Sputniks 5, 6, 9 & 10 also carried these animals into space, & most were recovered alive
dogs
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Got one of these odorous animals also known as a polecat as a pet? Call your humane society to make sure it's legal
a skunk
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Critters of the Pleistocene epoch include the mammoth & this "breast tooth" relative
mastodon
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| "Dachs", as in "Dachshund", is German for this burrowing animal
the badger
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The laughing type of this doglike carnivore is a predator of big game but also scavanges for food
a hyena
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In classification, this type of bird seen here often overlaps with doves
a pigeon
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$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This five-letter eel known for its sharp teeth lurks in the holes of a coral reef & will attack divers if disturbed
a moray
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$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| What else is gnu, but that the gnu is also called this, from Dutch words
wildebeest
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Its German name is Nilpferd, "nile horse"
a hippopotamus
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Muskrats & woodrats belong to this order of mammals
rodents
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Venus's flower basket is one of the most attractive of these porous aquatic creatures
a sponge
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This feisty Thai fish blows sticky bubbles to make a nest, then puts the eggs in its mouth & blows them in the nest
fighting fish
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Australians call this animal a jumbuck or a monkey
sheep
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Fruit & lizards (yum!) are favorite foods of the coati, also known by this longer name
coatimundi
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| For 2006, between Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, the Los Angeles SPCA, like many other shelters, banned adoption of these
black cats
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew visits with the bison at the Catalina Island Conservancy.) Catalina can't support large numbers of bison, so in 2004, about 100 of them were repatrioted to their ancestral home in this Mt. Rushmore state
South Dakota
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| Amsterdam Island in the Indian Ocean, 1,800 mi. from any cont., has a rare type of this wandering seabird
the albatross
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| We hope the endangered Carolina Northern "flying" species of this rodent keeps on flying
a squirrel
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| Steller's sea cow was extinct by 1768; Stellar's sea this animal is hanging tough
a sea lion
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| South America's woolly spider type of this has a rudimentary or no thumb & a badly fragmented habitat
a monkey
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca
the giant panda
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| This knight errant's steed in Rocinante, a draft horse originally belonging to his neighbor
Don Quixote
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| He lost his shoes & new jacket when Mr. McGregor chased him out of the vegetable garden
Peter Rabbit
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Representing Leon Trotsky, Snowball, a pig in this novel, is exiled by the ruthless Napoleon
Animal Farm
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle", this lion destroyed evil-ridden Narnia & guided the faithful to the next world
Aslan
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| This ursine character was discovered by Mr. & Mrs. Brown in London
Paddington Bear
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It's the only Asian great ape
the orangutan
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It's what an archerfish shoots to bring down insects
water
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This predator that comes in gray and red types is a bit camera-shy, but its tracks are seen here
the wolf
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A traditional sign of spring in England is a letter to the Times saying, I heard this "crazy" bird's call
a cuckoo
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew appears from the USC Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island, CA.) Though thriving now, Catalina Island foxes were threatened in the '90s by the infectious disease marked by fever & catarrh known as canine this
distemper
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The world's largest invertebrate, it plays a prominent part in an 1870 French novel & a 1954 film
the giant squid
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This bird's whooping call is said to carry 2 miles, & its courtship displays include a leaping dance
whooping crane
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew poses next to a cow at Old World, Wisconsin.) This is the name of a cow that is less than 3 years old that hasn't given birth; Zeus turned Io into a white one
a heifer
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| We'd like to see David Blaine vs. this flightless bird in a breath-holding contest (some can go 22 min. underwater)
penguin
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This "demonic" marsupial is extinct from the Aussie mainland but still lives close by
Tasmanian devil
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the monkey house.) For extra resonance, howler monkeys have an enlarged structure at the top of this, also known as the trachea
windpipe
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$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the shark tank.) Unlike most other fish, sharks don't have bones; their skeleton is made up of this tough, flexible tissue.
cartilage
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$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the penguin habitat.) The smallest of all penguins, the little blue is the only one native to this continent where it is sometimes called the fairy penguin
Australia
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports.) Inside zoos, the aim is to increase the population; outside the zoos, the declining number of orangutans are found only on these two Indonesian islands
Borneo and Sumatra
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR ||| 1900: It's slang for an informer
a rat
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR ||| 1965: A wirepuller, or a treacherous person, as in "a low-down, dirty..."
a snake
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR ||| 1940: A Tom Clancy novel in 2000 was called "The Bear and" this beast
the Dragon
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR ||| 1980: Proverbially, you can have one of these on your back, or make one of these out of someone
a monkey
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| On the squirrel monkey of South America, this may be 16 inches long
the tail
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Animal that was the main staple of the Plains Indians economy
buffalo
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The bulls of this tusked aquatic mammal also known as the morse may weigh over 3,000 pounds
the walrus
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| While on safari in Africa, your guide may point out a dik-dik, a small one of these animals
an antelope
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Type of squirrel that has a thin, extending membrane called a patagium
a flying squirrel
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A type of cricket that mainly lives underground is named for this tiny-eyed mammal
a mole
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$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The male redback type of this creature, 1/3 the size of the female, dies happy if you know what I mean
a spider
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$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Newborn gazelles are a favorite prey of the black-backed species of this canine
the jackal
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One of Gerald Durell's nature books is called "Catch Me" this type of monkey, seen here
a colobus
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Its legs are 6 feet long & its neck can be even longer
a giraffe
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Bactrian & dromedary are the 2 main types of this desert creature
a camel
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The percheron & the palomino are types of this
a horse
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The rabbit seen here has this name after one of its features
cottontail
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Pythons are oviparous, meaning they do this
lay eggs
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In a children's tale, Jack traded one of these barnyard animals for some magic beans
cow
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Yipes Stripes! The Grevy species of this was named for a president of France
zebra
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In an aardvark these are diiferent from yours; they have no enamel
teeth
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| "The Encyclopedia of Mammals" calls it the most heavily armored mammal alive today
armadillo
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) The name of this raptor comes from a word meaning "to grasp"
hawk
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Camelus, the genus name of camels, is also the species name of these birds
ostriches
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Odobenus, the genus name of this animal, comes from the Greek for "one who walks with his teeth"
walrus
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Squealer, this type of "Animal Farm" animal, gets so fat he can barely see
pig
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Karait is a little one of these killed by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
snake
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Dinah, the name of a real cat that belonged to the Liddell children, is the cat of this fictional girl
Alice (of "Alice in Wonderland")
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| An underpaid teacher, this Washington Irving character rides the half-blind, broken-down horse Gunpowder
Ichabod Crane
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Blake asks, "And was" this holy animal "of God on England's pleasant pastures seen?"
lamb
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| What the Germans call a Bambusbar, we generally call this
a panda bear
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The fact that this lizard's name is from the Greek for "ground lion" never changes
chameleon
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the San Diego Zoo.) A giraffe's tail, which is about 3 feet long, is used to swat this bloodsucking fly that causes sleeping sickness
tsetse fly
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The suni, a small one of these graceful African mammals, is barely 15 inches high
antelope
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The common type of this marsupial has coarse, thick fur while that of the hairy-nosed is short & silky
wombat
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the narwhal
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| The first name of this "Hit the Road Jack" singer is also a broad, flat fish
Ray (Charles)
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| Pinnipeds who barked out "Summer Breeze" with Crofts
(Jim) Seals
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| Feline singer followed by a "Moon Shadow"
Cat Stevens
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| Vixen who found "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)"
Samantha Fox
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| Leader of The Starliters who did the "Peppermint Twist" in his mother's pouch
Joey Dee
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It's the common term for the young of a whale as well as a cow
Calf
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Of a wild dog, a rabbit or a bird, what a jackdaw is
Bird
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This civet relative not only kills cobras but mice, rats & poultry as well
Mongoose
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These mollusks, not oysters, are the most common source for freshwater pearls
Mussels
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| "Euell" be glad to know these small apes are the only ones to habitually walk erect
Gibbons
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS OF BASEBALL ||| You wouldn't let the Phillies’ Greg Luzinski, nicknamed this, into your China shop
"Bull"
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS OF BASEBALL ||| Large deer that was the nickname of first baseman William Skowron
moose
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS OF BASEBALL ||| Dodger Ron Cey's waddling gait earned him this handle
"The Penguin"
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS OF BASEBALL ||| This '70s Tigers pitcher known for talking to the ball was nicknamed “The Bird”
Mark Fidrych
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The German name for this animal is nilpferd, or "Nile horse"
hippopotamus
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| All but one of the domesticated breeds of this animal are derived from the mallard
Duck
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The screech type of this creature may make its nest in a Saguaro cactus
Owl
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Weddell species of this animal can stay underwater for over an hour
Seal
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Similar to a wattle, it's the throat flap of Zebu cattle or the mole anole lizard
Dewlap
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Dingoes go after these burrowing marsupials that come in a common & a hairy-nosed type
Wombats
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The beak of this flightless bird of Antarctica can be black, red, orange or bright purple
penguin
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Buckskin was originally made from the mule & white-tailed species of this ungulate
deer
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A species of this insect, Apidae bumbus, ranges from above the Arctic Circle to as far south as Tierra del Fuego
bumblebee
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In a boon to lab research, in 1956 it was found that this "golden" rodent could be infected with the common cold
hamster
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This flightless South American bird often associates with guanacos, forming mixed herds
rhea
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Ratatosk, a messenger of Norse myth, was one of these animals & ran up & down Yggdrasil, a giant tree
Squirrel
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| If Romulus did a "Got Milk?" ad, he'd talk about this animal who suckled him & Remus
Wolf
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| In Incan myth, it was this South American camel relative that warned man about the impending flood
Llama
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| The Zuni believe that when the kachina Paiyatemu played the flute, these insects fluttered into existence
Butterflies
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur
Crete
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| Wilbur was the only human this horse would talk to in person
Mr. Ed
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| Perhaps the world's only spokesfish, he swims in Starkist ads
Charlie the Tuna
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| Clint Eastwood appeared in the sixth film about this big screen equine in 1955
Francis the Talking Mule
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| A cockatoo named Fred was this TV cop's companion
Baretta
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| He was the Little Rascals' dog
Pete the Pup
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| There are only 3 of these animals in U.S. zoos: a 28-year-old in D.C.'s National Zoo & 2 younger ones in San Diego
pandas
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Coronado's men found them bearded like a goat, woolly like a sheep & with a hump larger than a camel's
Bison (of North America)
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This animal's name is from Bantu for "mock man"
Chimpanzee
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The monkey-eating species of this bird lives in the Philippines; the bald species lives in the U.S.
the eagle
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These birds range in size from the 1-foot blue to the 4-foot emperor
the penguin
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Group of mammals seen here: [like Timon in The Lion King]
meerkats
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It has webbed, padded toes & can drink over 20 gallons of water in a single drink
the camel
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This land animal can weigh more than 8,000 pounds & can open its immense jaws 150 degrees
the hippopotamus
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This Arctic bear may travel 40 miles a day on ice floes
Polar bear
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In the mountain "mist" of central & w. Africa you can still find a few of these endangered mammals
Gorillas
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In 1961 a federal law banned the importation of this South American fish into the U.S.
Piranha
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Western Hemisphere's largest snake, it's also called a water boa
Anaconda
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| It's New York State's "City of Good Neighbors", not its "City of Good Bison"
Buffalo
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| This North Carolina beach village with a 4-letter name really is all it's "quacked" up to be
Duck
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| A 4,083-foot-high Vermont mountain is named for this camel feature
a hump
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| In other words, this vacation area in California's San Bernardino Mountains would be "Large Grizzly"
Big Bear
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| This river winds its way through Hells Canyon
Snake River
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$None ||| Category: ANIMALS OF THE NEW WORLD ||| Explorer Cabeza de Vaca wrote about this "Animal with a pocket on its belly, in which it carries its young"
Opossum/possum
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Among bears, this is the best swimmer
Polar bear
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The jackrabbit isn't really a rabbit but one of these relatives
Hare
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Like this similarly named mammal, the aardwolf eats mainly termites
Aardvark
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Viceroy type of this insect is protected by its resemblance to the bad-tasting Monarch
Butterfly
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| There are 3 species of bluebird but over 20 of these birds, including grackles
Blackbirds
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| On a turtle, it's made up of a carapace & plastron
Shell
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Only gorillas & these other primates walk on their knuckles
Chimpanzees
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Sapsuckers are a type of these birds that extract insects from trees by strokes of their bills
Woodpeckers
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Biologist Johannes Schmidt located the Sargasso Sea breeding area of this "elongated" freshwater fish
Eel
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These small, slender mammals often kept as pets were domesticated from the European polecat
Ferrets
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In a matter of minutes, a school of these South American fish can reduce a large mammal to a skeleton
Piranha
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A popular performer at aquariums, this dolphin is named for the shape of its snout
Bottlenose dolphin
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These swift felines of Africa & Asia are also known as "hunting leopards"
Cheetahs
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The name of this graceful antelope may remind you of a classic Chevy
Impala
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These Arctic rodents famous for their mass migrations are a favorite food of the snowy owl
Lemmings
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| When threatened, the crested one of these erects & rattles its quills
Porcupine
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Some Arabs believe the eggshells of these tallest birds are magical & use them to repel lightning
Ostriches
194
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The honey possum, a tiny marsupial, feeds on this sweet liquid, a favorite of hummingbirds
Nectar
195
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The pocket gopher uses this almost hairless appendage as a sense organ to feel its way in the dark
Tail
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| As its name implies, the geochelone elephantopus of the Galapagos is a really big one of these
Tortoise
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This lizard of the Southwest is the USA's largest poisonous lizard
Gila Monster
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It's the only living mammal in the order Proboseidea
Elephant
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This mollusk, also called a devilfish, may inject a poison to paralyze prey
Octopus
200
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The fur of this aquatic rodent has been sold as "Hudson Seal"
Muskrat
201
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A toad named for this small South American country carries its eggs on the skin of its back
Suriname
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Most of the quills on the thin-spined species of this rodent are on its head
the porcupine
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| 1 of only 2 species of eagle to breed in the U.S. & Canada
the golden eagle (or the bald eagle)
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The ornate chorus species of these tailless amphibians are less than 2" in length
frogs
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The siamang of Sumatra & Malaysia is the largest type of this smallest ape
a gibbon
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This largest toothed whale is also called a cachalot
the sperm whale
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In 1956 it was discovered that hamsters could be infected with this "common" human malady
the common cold
208
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Many American breeds of this animal, like the rambouillet, are raised more for their fleece than for meat
sheep
209
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This crab's habit of waving its big claw gave it a musical name
the fiddler crab
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In 1996 158 of these endangered marine mammals died in a red tide of toxic algae in Florida
manatees
211
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Canadian government has blamed the decline of this Atlantic food fish partly on the harp seal
the cod
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A female sheep is called a ewe; this term refers to a male sheep
Ram
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Receptors on the bill of this duckbilled mammal can detect electric fields which guide it to its prey
Platypus
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The name of this large rodent is from the middle French for "pig with spines"
Porcupine
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Quagga is a South African name for the Burchell's species of this horse relative
Zebra
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Weighing around a ton, the eland is the largest species of this animal in Africa
Antelope
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This extremely venomous snake, the largest of the mambas, is green when young
black mamba
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Beluga type of this fish may weigh over 2,800 pounds
Sturgeon
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Tiny crustaceans are a favorite food of this wading bird with an eating utensil in its name
spoonbill
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This lapdog associated with a Mediterranean island was highly prized by ladies of the Elizabethan court
Maltese
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Native to Asia Minor, the "golden" type of this chubby-cheeked rodent is a popular pet
hamster
222
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Unlike other species of this polar bird, the emperor breeds in the winter months of May & June
Penguin
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The "rainbow" on this fish is a band of red on each of its sides
Trout
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This pigeon relative is named for its sad cooing sound
Mourning dove
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The "black" species of this large horned mammal can grasp twigs with its upper lip
Rhinoceros
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This colorful eagle is unpopular with U.S. sheep ranchers because it preys on rams
Golden eagle
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Sadly, this "giant" bearlike mammal of China is on the endangered list
Giant panda
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Among the largest flying birds are the California & Andean species of these
Condor
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This domesticated pack animal & its relative the alpaca were referred to as Peruvian sheep by the Spanish
Llama
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The AKC classifies the miniature schnauzer as a breed within this dog group
Terrier
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Related to corals, this sea creature has been described as "the best known of the so-called flower animals"
Sea anemone
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largemouth species of this fish has a dark band along its side; the smallmouth species does not
Bass
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The giraffe is the world's tallest mammal; this is the second tallest
Elephant
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Unlike wolves, this "prairie wolf" has expanded its range in this century
Coyote
235
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Phoenicians used a liquid from several species of this gastropod to make Tyrian purple dye
Snail
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This large South American rodent is also called a water pig
Capybara
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Tiger Swallowtail & Zebra Swallowtail are species of this insect
Butterfly
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These medicinal worms were once used to treat headaches & mental illnesses
Leeches
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This rodent in the genus Neotoma is named for its habit of hoarding small objects
Pack rat
240
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Also called a warrigal, this wild dog is one of the few nonmarsupial mammals of Australia
Dingo
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This catlike carnivore of Africa is valued for its musk
Civet
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This Arctic bear's feet are webbed & have hairy soles
Polar bear
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Large feral populations of the "mute" species of this long-necked bird inhabit the Mid-Atlantic coast
Swans
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The silver dollar fish resembles this feared fish of the Amazon basin but is strictly herbivorous
Piranha
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A pocket gopher's pockets are fur-lined & located in these
Cheeks
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Scientists divide these toothless whales into 3 groups: right whales, gray whales & rorquals
Baleen whales
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The African rain forests are the natural habitat of these largest apes
Gorillas
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The red kangaroo is among the largest of these pouched mammals
Marsupials
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One of these mammals that inhabits the East Indies has a wingspan of over 5 1/2 feet
Bat
250
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This spiny relative of the starfish is sometimes referred to as a sea hedgehog
Sea Urchin
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This largest wild cat of the Americas looks similar to a leopard
Jaguar
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| World Book says this type of bear has been seen on ice chunks as far south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Polar Bear
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest freshwater species of this reptile in the U.S. is the alligator snapper
Turtle
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest species of this American marsupial is the common or Virginia species
Possum
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This ground squirrel is distinguished from others by its striped face
Chipmunk
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest & heaviest New World monkey, its characteristic roar can be heard for about 2 miles
Howler Monkey
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| If a weasel pops by for lunch in the cold winter, you'll notice its coat is this color
White
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Dabbling types of these include the pintail & teal
Ducks
259
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The word mouse is from a Sanskrit word for this, because they stole people's food
Thief
260
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| If you spot several servals slinking south of the Sahara, you'll see slender types of these animals
Cats
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Found in all oceans, they have the widest distribution of any whale & use echolocation to hunt
Orcas/Killer Whales
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With hind legs reaching up to 10 inches, it's the largest frog in the U.S.
Bullfrog
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This cobra killer was introduced into the Western Hemisphere to kill rats but has done more harm to birds
Mongoose
264
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Species of this mammal living in South America include 6-banded, 3-banded & giant
Armadillo
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The name of this primate confined to Madagascar & the Comoros is from the Latin for "nocturnal spirits"
Lemur
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$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The macabou type of this bird may have a wingspan greater than 9 feet
Stork
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Asia's only lions live in Gir Forest, about 200 miles northwest of Bombay in this country
India
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The sting family of this fish has sharp poisonous dorsal spines near the tail
Ray
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Australia has over 300 species of these animals, including skinks, geckos & giant goannas
Lizards
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This dark fluid is secreted by cuttlefish & other cephalopods
Ink
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Named for the texture of its shells, it's the largest living turtle
Leatherback
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The silky & Yorkshire are toy breeds of this dog
Terrier
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Perhaps referring to its erratic behavior, the gnu is also called this
Wildebeest
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The 2 popular breeds of dairy cattle named for Britain's 2 largest Channel Islands
Jersey & Guernsey
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Up to 50 feet in length, the whale species of this fish is the largest in the sea
Shark
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In summer, when its coat is brown, the ermine is referred to by this name
Stoat/Weasel
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest of the seals is named for this largest land animal
Elephant Seal
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| 1 of 2 egg-laying mammals of Australia
Duck-billed Platypus & Echidna
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The hide of this wild Tibetan ox is used for leather, & it's flesh is used for food
Yak
280
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With its single-twisted horn, it's known as "the unicorn of the whale family"
Narwhal
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This fish, named for its ability to breathe out of water, can drown if held underwater
Lungfish
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Lizards & these creatures, like pythons & cobras, make up the largest group of reptiles
Snakes
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Acacia leaves are the favorite food of this tallest mammal
Giraffe
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Found chiefly in Australia, the wallaby is a smaller type of this marsupial
Kangaroo
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A white whale & a large white sturgeon prized for its caviar share this name
Beluga
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These performing horses trained at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna are bred elsewhere for farmwork
Lipizzaner Stallions
287
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Like the falcon or hawk, the shrike is classified as a bird of this
Prey
288
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Almost 99% of a jellyfish's body is made of this substance
Water
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The marine types of these have flattish carapaces & their limbs have evolved into flippers
Turtles
290
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A bee is said to do this at the hive to show the other bees the direction & distance to a food source
Dance
291
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It's the proper name for the Australian animal some call the spiny anteater
Echidna
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This continent is home to both pacas & alpacas
South America
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One of these chilopoda arthropods has as many as 177 pairs of legs; most have 15 to 23 pairs
Centipede
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$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A female one of the gypsy species of this insect can lay over 1,000 eggs at one time
Moth
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| To count a pair of these carnivorous sea snails, say "A-one-an-a-two"
Whelks
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$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The domestic one of these evolved from the mouflon & urial
Sheep
297
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| In 1620 the Pilgrims first landed in the New World on this peninsula & that's no fish story
Cape Cod
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$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| It's the Canadian partner of the American falls
Horseshoe Falls
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$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| This island group in the north Atlantic makes up 2 Spanish provinces
Canary Islands
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$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| Painters in the Hudson River School featured this mountain range in many of their works
Catskills
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$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| Named for the largest deer, this Saskatchewan city has the largest Canadian forces jet-pilot training base
Moose Jaw
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$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Rattlesnakes belong to the pit group of this snake family
vipers
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$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The silvery blue, the spring azure & the common oakblue are blue-winged types of this beautiful insect
butterfly
304
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This tall bird whose scientific name is Struthio camelus is nicknamed the camel bird
ostrich
305
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Patagonian cavy, which resembles a hare, belongs to this order of mammals
rodents
306
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Found in Africa, the colobus type of this mammal often has distinctive black & white fur
monkey
307
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| LIke other male bovines, adult male yaks are called these
Bulls
308
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A hinny has an ass for a mother & one of these animals for a father
Horse
309
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| To escape predators, many lizards break off this body part; it later regenerates
Tail
310
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These stinging arachnids give birth to live young which cling to their mother's backs for several days
Scorpions
311
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This bear-like carnivore, a large member of the weasel family, is also known as the glutton
Wolverine
312
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Zeus became Leda's lover while disguised as one of these birds
swan
313
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| The nymph Callisto was turned into one of these animals, then placed in the sky as Ursa Major
bear
314
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Odin gallops across the sky on one of these called Sleipnir, whose teeth are inscribed with runes
horse
315
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Echidna, who was half woman & half serpent, had many beastly children, including this Nemean beast
the Lion
316
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| He's the 3-headed hound of Hades
Cerberus
317
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In the marsupial mole, hearing & this sense are poorly developed
Sight
318
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In the mistaken belief that it washes its food, it was given the scientific name lotor, meaning "washer"
Raccoon
319
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Indian species of this cobra killer can be tamed when young
Mongoose
320
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In this type of crab, the male has a large claw & waves it like a violinist's bow
Fiddler crab
321
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Extinct for hundreds of years, the elephant bird weighed 1,000 pounds & lived on this east African island
Madagascar
322
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A young kangaroo rides around in this until it's big enough to take care of itself
pouch
323
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Silky & Yorkshire breeds of this dog are classified as toys
Terriers
324
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These small ponies named for Scottish islands formerly pulled carts in coal mines
Shetland
325
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Quinnat is another name for the Chinook species of this fish
salmon
326
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The red-spotted type of this salamander is one of the most common in the U.S.
newt
327
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Russell, a fox, appears in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of this Chaucer work
The Canterbury Tales
328
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In "The Jungle Book" Raksha, this type of animal, suckles the infant Mowgli
a wolf
329
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In "The Sign of Four" this sleuth employs Toby the dog to track 2 fugitives
Sherlock Holmes
330
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| He wrote of a cross-country trek with a poodle in "Travels with Charley"
John Steinbeck
331
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Kiche is the mother of this title character of a Jack London tale
White Fang
332
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Like its giant relative, the lesser variety of this is also a bamboo eater
Panda
333
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The macropis rufus; it can lean back on its tail to free its hind feet for use as weapons
Kangaroo
334
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A few of these large bovines still exist in the wild in Tibet at elevations over 14,000 feet
Yak
335
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| An elephant has 5 toes on a front foot & a camel has this many
2
336
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| They're the tallest North American birds
Whooping Cranes
337
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The crab-eating one of these masked animals eats fish, fruit & frogs, too
raccoons
338
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Found in this state's Keys, the Key Deer is only about 2 1/2 feet tall
Florida
339
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Mason, miner & killer are 3 types of these insects
bees
340
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The adjective feliform describes anything that resembles one of these animals
cat
341
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Koalas & kangaroos belong to this order of mammals known for poorly developed young
marsupials
342
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The robber crab is known for climbing palms to feed on these
Coconuts
343
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The part of the male lyrebird that's shaped like a lyre
Tail
344
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The flying fox isn't a type of fox, but a type of this
Bat
345
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In 1921 Banting & Best controlled diabetes in these animals with insulin; man came later
Dogs
346
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| After losing her own baby, Kala the ape adopted & raised this human infant
Tarzan
347
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| This first sister of Peter Rabbit married Benjamin Bunny
Flopsy
348
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Reynard, the hero of a popular Medieval epic, was this type of animal
a fox
349
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In Goethe's version of the story, this character first appears to Faust as a dog
the Devil (Mephistopheles)
350
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In "Out of Africa", she wrote of raising a gazelle named lulu
Isak Dinesen
351
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Called the "King of the Terriers", its original home was the valley of the river Aire
Airedale
352
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Like a lot of birds, the monarch butterfly does this in the winter
Migrate
353
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A camel's hump doesn't contain water, as once was thought, but this, for energy when food is scarce
Fat
354
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The only female deer with antlers, it uses them to dig in the snow for food
Reindeer
355
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Marine creature whose zoological name is Hippocampus
Seahorse
356
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In the Middle Ages this insect was dedicated to the Virgin & called "The Beetle Of Our Lady"
Ladybug/Ladybird Beetle
357
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Smaller forms of these birds are usually called doves
Pigeons
358
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest members of this phylum are the giant squids & the smallest are snails
Mollusks
359
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These arachnids differ from true spiders by the extreme length & thinness of their legs
Daddy Longlegs
360
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Surprisingly, the white, or beluga, species of this mammal can be found in the St. Lawrence River
Whale
361
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Although these huge animals are generally docile, when the bulls go into musth they can turn violent
elephants
362
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest member of the cat family
tiger
363
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Not everyone is excited when these birds come back to Capistrano: some residents think they're too messy
swallows
364
$1500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The geographic ranges of most predators are shrinking, but the range of this, Canis latrans, has increased
the coyote
365
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These mammals are classed as Sirenia since they reminded sailors of mermaids -- sirens of the sea
manatees
366
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The upper part of this turtle feature is called the carapace
Shell
367
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A drone bee's only purpose in life is to do this with the queen & they do it in flight
Mate
368
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The bulldog is a symbol of this country where it was developed
England
369
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Of sight, hearing, or smell, the sense that is best developed in most seals
Sight
370
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The 2 species of camel are the Arabian, also called the dromedary & this
Bactrian (2-Humped)
371
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A bat's hands serve as these
Wings
372
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| On a true sole both of these are on the right side of the head
Eyes
373
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Lizard that's noted for its ability to walk on ceilings
Gecko
374
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The South African rhebok is not an athletic shoe but a species of this
Antelope
375
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With ancestors as big as elephants, these slow beasts now just hang upside down in trees
Sloths
376
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Probably the 1st birds tamed, they weren't used as messengers but as meals
pigeons
377
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| If Michael Jackson can't make a personal appearance, he may send Bubbles, one of these
a chimpanzee
378
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The albatross' ritual for this includes preening & dancing; dinner & a movie wasn't listed
a mating ritual
379
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Of the creatures on Earth that have legs, most of them have this many
6
380
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Dandie Dinmont, a dog in this group, was named after a farmer who raised them in "Guy Mannering"
the terriers
381
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The World Wildlife Fund is working with the Chinese on a detailed survey of pandas & this, their only food
bamboo
382
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Some of these birds have bald heads and necks, which prevents feather damage when eating from carcasses
vultures
383
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In Canada, the population of these tufted-eared wildcats depends on the population of snowshoe rabbits
lynxes
384
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Caimans are most closely related to these animals
alligators
385
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Part of its body where you'll find a warthog's warts
its face
386
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Owls are among the few birds to have these on the front of their heads
their eyes
387
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Most lampreys live by attaching themselves to these
other fish
388
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| When grasshoppers or other Orthoptera are stridulating, they're producing this
a song (or a sound)
389
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Varieties of these insects include bee, soldier, flower, blow & fruit
flies
390
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A mosquito's hum is actually the sound made by these
its wings
391
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Though its name means "Flemish cowherd", a bouvier des flandres is a breed of this
dog
392
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The only African bird of prey with terrestrial habits; it can't type or take dictation
the secretary bird
393
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The number of toes on the foot of a hippopotamus; especially the ones in Disney's "Fantasia"
four
394
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Types of this aquatic creature include chimney, sheep's wool, and common bath
the sponge
395
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| An insect related to the housefly, but wingless, is the largest land animal native to this continent
Antarctica
396
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In buildings, Norway variety of this animal tends to live on lower floors while black kind lives upstairs
rats
397
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Used in medical research which established Rh factor, their export is now banned by India
rhesus monkeys
398
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The gavial looks very much like a crocodile except for this bodily feature
the nose or snout
399
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With an estimated weight of over 2 tons, the largest nest on record was built by these birds
bald eagles
400
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Rarely seen to die of old age in the wild, it's mistakenly thought they have a secret graveyard
elephants
401
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The biggest marsupials
kangaroos
402
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Heaviest of all poisonous snakes is this North American rattlesnake
the diamondback rattler
403
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In Argentina, rheas are rounded up in order to get these
tailfeathers
404
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Ironically, in 1907 the Bronx Zoo donated 15 of these to the people of Oklahoma
buffalo (or bison)
405
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With a young one valued at $1.4 million, Guinness calls them the most costly zoo animals
giant pandas
406
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Even in the wild, this largest of apes takes a midday nap
gorilla
407
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Name for both Chinese gooseberry & people of New Zealand comes from this bird
kiwi
408
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The only 2 venomous species of lizards, Gila monsters & beaded lizard, are native to this continent
North America
409
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Cat-like animal raised for the secretions it produces which are used to make perfumes
civet
410
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| According to New York's Bronx Zoo, it's "the most dangerous animal in the world"
man
411
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| "Sly" creature sought by sportsmen riding to hounds
a fox
412
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The "ship of the desert"
a camel
413
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The children are poults, the mothers, hens & the fathers,toms
turkeys
414
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Name of the sport of hunting birds with other birds
falconry
415
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Floating sea creature named by sailors for the Iberian fighting ship it resembles
the Portuguese man-of-war
416
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Scooby-Doo, Goofy & Pluto are cartoon versions
dogs
417
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| "Eager" animal that symbolizes Canada
the beaver
418
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| They include killers, humpbacks & sperms
whales
419
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Tibetan ox used to carry travelers and mail
a yak
420
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These rodents first got to America by stowing away on ships
rats
421
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| There are about 40,000 muscles & tendons in this part of an elephant's body
the trunk
422
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| When husbands "pop" for an ermine coat, they're actually buying this fur
weasel
423
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Close relative of the pig, though its name means "river horse"
the hippopotamus
424
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| If this species of hybrid's parents were reversed, you'd get a hinny
a mule
