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Animals Flashcards

1
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Native to South America what is the largest rodent in the world?

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Capybara

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Which shark is named for the unusual and distinctive structure of its head which is flattened and laterally extended into a shape called a cephalofoil?

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Hammerhead

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The largest living species of tortoise is native to which group of islands which lie about 1000 km due west of Ecuador?

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Galapagos

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Also called the Arabian camel how many humps does the dromedary have on its back?

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One

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5
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Which whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is known as the sea canary due to its high-pitched twitter and is entirely white as an adult?

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Beluga

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The diet of the koala consists almost entirely of the leaves of which tree?

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Eucalyptus

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With about 18 million individuals which is the most numerous penguin species named for its conspicuous yellow crest?

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Macaroni

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Which class of molluscs which includes snails and slugs takes its name from the Greek for ‘stomach foot’?

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Gastropoda

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The European species (Hirudo medicinalis) of which blood-sucking animal is used in a range of clinical applications?

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Leech

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Which is the only member of the deer family where the females grow and shed new antlers each year?

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Reindeer

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Only the tiger lion leopard and jaguar have the anatomical structure that enables them to do what?

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Roar

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Common vampire colossal giant and Humboldt all are species of which cephalopod?

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Squid

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Which large bear (Ursus arctos) has the widest distribution of any living bear?

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Brown Bear

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14
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Rhinoceros horns are made of which protein?

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Keratin

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Which group of insects are capable of jumping many times their height and length but they are best known for their plant-sucking nymphs (known as spittlebugs) which encase themselves in froth in springtime?

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Froghoppers

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16
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The male of which crab (genus Uca) has a major claw that is much larger than the minor claw?

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Fiddler Crab

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What name is given to any of the diverse group of flightless birds that have no keel on their sternum and includes the ostrich and the kiwi?

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Ratite

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Which order of bony fishes is named for their characteristic mode of predation in which a fleshy growth from the fish’s head acts as a lure?

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Anglerfish

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The most widely distributed species of owl which species (Tyto alba) has a blood-curdling shriek and a heart-shaped face?

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Barn Owl

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20
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Which species of macaque is found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population that was introduced from Morocco to Gibraltar?

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Barbary Macaque

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21
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Plains Grevy’s and Mountain are the three species of which African mammal?

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Zebra

22
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What is the common name of the larvae of crane flies?

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Leatherjackets

23
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Believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period which fish was discovered off the east coast of South Africa in 1938?

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Coelacanth

24
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Giving its name to a Major League Baseball team which rattlesnake has a series of distinctively shaped blotches overlaying its brown ground colour and has two species known as Eastern and Western?

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Diamondback

25
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Which order of jawless fish have a toothed funnel-like sucking mouth and are well known for those species which bore into the flesh of other fish to suck their blood?

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Lampreys

26
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What is the name of the largest group of baleen whales a family with nine species including the blue whale and the fin whale?

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Rorquals

27
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Looking like a jellyfish which hydrozoan is generally assumed to be a single organism but is actually a colonial organism made up of specialized individual animals?

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Portuguese Man O’war

28
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Which primates are the only non-human animals to have been observed engaging in tongue kissing and oral sex?

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Bonobos

29
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Native to sub-Saharan Africa what type of animal is a boomslang?

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Snake

30
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Named after the scientist who discovered it which frog has a unique form of parental care where the young develop from egg to froglet in their father’s vocal sac?

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Darwin’s Frog

31
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What is the stage in the life cycle of a salmon following the parr?

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Smolt

32
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Meerkats belong to which family of animals?

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Mongoose (Herpestidae)

33
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What is the common name of the family Salticidae the largest family of spiders which have excellent vision and do not build webs for hunting?

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Jumping Spiders

34
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The roadrunner is a member of which family of birds?

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Cuckoo (Cuculidae)

35
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What is the common name given to the 12 species of carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae?. The word is believed to come from an Australian Aboriginal language.

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Wobbegong

36
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Hares rabbits and pikas are members of which taxonomic order?

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Lagomorpha

37
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Which milkweed butterfly is known for its annual late-summer/autumn migration from the United States and southern Canada to Mexico covering thousands of miles?

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Monarch

38
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What is the name of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and okapis?

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Ossicones

39
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Mostly associated with insects what name is given to the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts?

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Stridulation

40
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What anatomical feature do the Otariidae family of seals have that the Phocidae family of seals don’t have?

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Ears

41
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Which bird (Regulus ignicapilla) superficially resembles the goldcrest but has a distinctive strong face pattern and bronze shoulders?

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Firecrest

42
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Also known as the tree ocelot which small cat (Leopardus wiedii) native to Central and South America is very similar to the larger ocelot in appearance although the head is a little shorter the eyes larger and the tail and legs longer?

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Margay

43
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Which order of arachnids is known to glow a vibrant blue-green when exposed to certain wavelengths of ultraviolet light?

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Scorpions

44
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With over 17000 extant species which phylum is also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms?

A

Annelida

45
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Living in forests in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador which mammal of the raccoon family was described as new in 2013?

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Olinguito

46
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Native to Southern Asia and also known as the India bison what is the largest extant bovine?

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Gaur

47
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Which herbivorous and mainly nocturnal marsupial can be found on some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia in particular on Rottnest Island?

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Quokka

48
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Known as HeroRATS Gambian pouched rats have been trained to detect what type of concealed devices?

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Land Mines

49
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Which species of pipistrelle bat was only formally separated from the common pipistrelle in 1999 – the two species were first distinguished on the basis of their different-frequency echolocation calls?

A

Soprano

50
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Endemic to Madagascar which lemur is the smallest primate in the world?

A

Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur

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