Animals

Question 0

general behaviour

Answer 0

active
dormant
solitary, reclusive
gregarious, social 
sedentary, settled
nomadic, migrating

Question 1

size

Answer 1

very large, massive, giant
large
medium, intermediate
small
very small, pygmy

Question 2

Development

Answer 2

full-grown, mature

young, immature

Question 3

Body

Answer 3

long-bodied
short-bodied
heavy-bodied, stocky, stubby, chunky
low-slung
sleek-bodied, slender

Question 4

Colouration

Answer 4

plain, colourful, marked, unmarked, regular (markings), irregular, uniform, variable, alternating, dense, scattered, tinged, tinted, tipped, ringed (spots), buff, tawny, dusky, grizzled

Question 5

Areas of body

Answer 5

above, below
on the back or top side, dorsal
on or along the side, lateral 
on the stomach or underside, ventral 
upperpart, underpart 
front/anterior hind/posterior

Question 6

close together (antonym)

Answer 6

widely spaced, separated

Question 7

close together

Answer 7

joined, webbed, proximal

Question 8

parts of body

Answer 8

well-developed
poorly developed
undeveloped
no longer used as a body part, vestigial

Question 9

warm blooded

Answer 9

endothermic, homoiothermic

Question 10

cold-blooded

Answer 10

ectothermic, poikilothermic

Question 11

active during daylight

Answer 11

diurnal

Question 12

active at night

Answer 12

nocturnal

Question 13

active at dawn or twilight

Answer 13

crepuscular

Question 14

passing the winter in a lethargic and low-metabolic state

Answer 14

hibernating

Question 15

passing the summer in a lethargic and low metabolic state

Answer 15

aestivating

Question 16

two-legged

Answer 16

bicrural

Question 17

two footed

Answer 17

biped

Question 18

four-footed

Answer 18

quadruped, tetrapod

Question 19

many footed

Answer 19

polyped

Question 20

having no feet

Answer 20

apodal

Question 21

having hand like feet

Answer 21

pedimanous, pedimane

Question 22

having arms

Answer 22

brachiate

Question 23

two handed

Answer 23

bimanous

Question 24

having nails or claws

Answer 24

unguiculate

Question 25

having feathered feet

Answer 25

plumiped, braccate

Question 26

web footed

Answer 26

palmiped

Question 27

capable of grasping

Answer 27

prehensile

Question 28

capable of being extended

Answer 28

protractile, protrusile

Question 29

capable of being drawn back

Answer 29

retractile

Question 30

scratching the ground for food

Answer 30

rasorial

Question 31

having ears

Answer 31

aurated

Question 32

having a tail

Answer 32

caudate

Question 33

having no tail

Answer 33

anurous

Question 34

having a tail with colour hands

Answer 34

ring-tailed

Question 35

having horns

Answer 35

corniculate

Question 36

having no horns

Answer 36

acerous

Question 37

having two teeth

Answer 37

bidentate

Question 38

having no teeth

Answer 38

edentate

Question 39

having two antennae or tentacles

Answer 39

dicerous

Question 40

not adapted to flying

Answer 40

flightless

Question 41

having wings

Answer 41

pennate, alate

Question 42

having no wings

Answer 42

apterous

Question 43

having feathers

Answer 43

plumaged, plumose

Question 44

having a peak

Answer 44

rostrate, rhamphoid

Question 45

having scales

Answer 45

squamate, squamous, squamose

Question 46

shedding or peeling off scales

Answer 46

desquamate

Question 47

having a bony or horny shell-like case

Answer 47

loricate

Question 48

having gills

Answer 48

branchiate

Question 49

having a thick hide

Answer 49

pachydermatous

Question 50

having a rough skin with sharp points

Answer 50

muricate

Question 51

having no hair

Answer 51

naked, hairless

Question 52

having fur (pelage)

Answer 52

furred, furry

Question 53

having shiny fur

Answer 53

sleek-furred

Question 54

having soft hair

Answer 54

pilose

Question 55

having bristles or spines

Answer 55

spiny, hispid, setaceous

Question 56

covered with bristles or spines

Answer 56

echinate

Question 57

covered with small bristles of spines

Answer 57

echinate

Question 58

covered with small bristles of spines

Answer 58

echinulate

Question 59

divided into defined segments or sections

Answer 59

segmented

Question 60

of two colours

Answer 60

bicoloured

Question 61

of three colours

Answer 61

tricoloured

Question 62

having stripes

Answer 62

striped, banded

Question 63

having long markings or somewhat uneven stripes

Answer 63

streaked

Question 64

having longitudinal stripes

Answer 64

vittate

Question 65

having transverse or crosswise stripes

Answer 65

cross-banded, cross-barred

Question 66

having spots of colour (or black or white)

Answer 66

spotted, mottled, maculate, liturate

Question 67

having small spots of colour (or black and white)

Answer 67

flecked, fleckled, speckled, specked, stippled, irrorate

Question 68

having large and irregular spots

Answer 68

blotched

Question 69

having black-and-white blotches

Answer 69

piebald

Question 70

having patches of white and a colour not black

Answer 70

skewbald

Question 71

having a mask-like facial marking or colouration

Answer 71

masked

Question 72

having a visibly collar-like part or marking

Answer 72

collared, ruffed

Question 73

having a tuft or ridge like formation on the head or back

Answer 73

crested

Question 74

having a fin along the back

Answer 74

fin backd

Question 75

having a highly developed sense of smell

Answer 75

macromatic

Question 76

having a weakly developed sense of smell

Answer 76

microsmatic

Question 77

having virtually no sense of smell

Answer 77

anosmatic

Question 78

imitative in colour or form

Answer 78

apatetic

Question 79

warning off by colours or changed in the body

Answer 79

aposematic

Question 80

serving to conceal

Answer 80

cryptic

Question 81

imitating others by things by using something as a covering

Answer 81

allocryptic

Question 82

giving birth to young rather than producing eggs

Answer 82

viviparous

Question 83

laying eggs

Answer 83

oviparous

Question 84

laying eggs but retaining them until hatching time

Answer 84

ovoviviparous

Question 85

widely distributed around the globe

Answer 85

cosmopolitan

Question 86

dwelling in a particular region

Answer 86

endemic

Question 87

dwelling in a particular region

Answer 87

endemic

Question 88

dwelling in the same region or overlapping regions

Answer 88

sympatric

Question 89

dwelling in different regions

Answer 89

allopatric

Question 90

dwelling in the air

Answer 90

aerial

Question 91

dwelling on the ground

Answer 91

terrestrial, terricolous

Question 92

dwelling (insects) at or near the ground’s surface

Answer 92

epigeal

Question 93

dwelling underground

Answer 93

subterranean, hypogeous

Question 94

dwelling in caverns

Answer 94

cavernicolous

Question 95

dwelling in burrows

Answer 95

cunicular

Question 96

dwelling (insects) under a stone

Answer 96

lapidicolous

Question 97

dwelling in a tube

Answer 97

tubicolous

Question 98

dwelling in mud

Answer 98

limicolous

Question 99

dwelling in dung

Answer 99

coprophilous, coprozioc, stercoricolous

Question 100

dwelling in the desert

Answer 100

deserticolous

Question 101

dwelling (or burrowing) in sand

Answer 101

arenicolous

Question 102

dwelling in meadows or fields

Answer 102

practicolous, arvicoline

Question 103

dwelling on land and in water

Answer 103

amphibian

Question 104

dwelling in mountains

Answer 104

montane

Question 105

dwelling in trees

Answer 105

arboreal

Question 106

dwelling in water

Answer 106

aquatic

Question 107

dwelling in fresh water

Answer 107

freshwater

Question 108

dwelling in the sea

Answer 108

oceanic, pelagic, marine, maricolous

Question 109

dwelling in active or moving waters

Answer 109

lotic

Question 110

dwelling in still or slow moving waters

Answer 110

lentic

Question 111

dwelling along the seacoast

Answer 111

litteral, orarian, limicoline