The Unexpected Truth about Animals

Question 1

Bat’s infrared sensors are located in their…

Answer 1

noses

Question 2

How do vampire bats hunt?

Answer 2

approach prey by foot not from the air (suck blood from large mammals)

Question 3

Which type of bats cannot echolocate?

Answer 3

Fruit bats

Question 4

What inspired sonar technology used by ships?

Answer 4

Bat’s echolocation

Question 5

The Us planned to use … with mini-bombs attached to attack Japan

Answer 5

bats

Question 6

Some species of frogs are able to produce their own…

Answer 6

sunscreen

Question 7

In the 1950’s the communist Chinese government recommended swallowing (live) … as a form of birth control

Answer 7

tadpoles

Question 8

Many ancient cultures have associated … with fertility

Answer 8

frogs

Question 9

The theory of spontaneous generation

Answer 9

claims that animals are not produced by other animals of the same kind but that they arose from non-living matter

Question 10

-It was believed by preformists that all beings developed from …

Answer 10

a miniature version of themselves (called the homunculus for humans) which could be found in the egg or sperm

Question 11

Frog fertilize their eggs…

Answer 11

externally

Question 12

Between the 1940s-1960s African clawed toads were used a live pregnancy tests, urine was injected into their skin and if they produced eggs the women were pregnant

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Exodus

Answer 13

mass departure of animals/humans

Question 14

First evidence that storks migrate

Answer 14

One was found in Germany with an African spear through it’s neck

Question 15

Torpor

Answer 15

state of hibernation

Question 16

Many of the well known thinkers believed that swallows hibernated at the bottom of …

Answer 16

rivers/lakes like fish do

Question 17

During migration, birds prefer to fly at high altitudes because of …

Answer 17

faster air currents

Question 18

Hippos’ sweat turns a crimson color after reacting with air, this led…

Answer 18

Egyptian doctors to believe that they were puncturing themselves to cure their disease, and created the medical procedure of bloodletting which was carried forth (also by western doctors) until the 1800s

The red sweat is actually a natural form of sun protection and insect repellent

Question 19

What are the closest relatives of the hippopotamus?

Answer 19

whales

Question 20

Amphibious communicators

Answer 20

(Hippopotamus)

• above water: communicate using bellows through their nostrils
• underwater: sounds transmitted using a blubber blob in their throat and sounds are picked up by the jawbones of the other hippos (who are also submerged)

Question 21

Cetaceans

Answer 21

whales and dolphins

Question 22

… made out of hippo teeth were popular during the 1700s

Answer 22

Dentures

George Washington had a pair, which also included slave teeth

Question 23

Hippos once existed in … but are now extinct there

Answer 23

Egypt

Question 24

Hippos exist in …

Answer 24

Africa

+ introduced population in Colombia

Question 25

How were hippos introduced to Colombia?

Answer 25

• they were brought by Pablo Escobar (drug baron)
• owner of Hacienda Nápoles, 20 square km, where he built his own private zoo
• illegally flew in animals from Africa
• after he was shot by the police all animals were re-homed to zoos→ hippos could not be re-homed because they could not be transported→ they were left in their enclosures which slowly fell apart and many of them escaped→ the escapees where mostly males and are not terrorizing villagers on their search for females
• the hippos have now become and invasive species in colombia

Question 26

In many cultures … are associated with misery and melancholy

Answer 26

moose

Question 27

Moose get drunk by eating …

Answer 27

fermented fruit

→ some times fall down hills

→ or found drunk in trees

→ but they might not actually be drunk and instead have indigestion from eating too many apples?

Question 28

Comte de Buffon

Answer 28

French Naturalist (1700s)

Question 29

Myth about Pandas

Answer 29

when bear cubs are born they are unformed lumps that require the mother’s licking to be shaped

Question 30

Rhododendron

Answer 30

genus of woody plants in the heath family

Question 31

World Wildlife Fund’s Logo was inspire by…

Answer 31

Chi-Chi a panda that was brought to the London Zoo in 1958 and was more attached to her zookeeper than her designated mate

Question 32

Belligerent

Answer 32

hostile/aggressive

Question 33

Pandas in zoos are very different from their wild cousins because…

Answer 33

they aren’t exposed to the same environment and don’t have the same (or any) relationship with their mothers which prohibits them from being able to be good mothers themselves

Question 34

The baby panda industry in China boomed after … had begun (extremely barbaric!!!!!!!)

Answer 34

artificial fertilization

Question 35

China has been using … in trade agreements since they are so sought after by countries

Answer 35

baby pandas

to have in their zoos) (ex: Scotland, baby pandas in exchange for Salmon exporting contracts

Question 36

Convergent evolution

Answer 36

when when 2 different species develop similar characteristics because they are exposed to the same environmental conditions/pressures (ex: fish and cetaceans)

Question 37

Theory of recapitulation (1868)

Answer 37

says that the different stages of development that embryos go through mirror the evolutionary steps of their ancestors (false)

Question 38

What is the difference between apes and monkeys?

Answer 38

apes (no tail, and more closely related to humans)

Question 39

It is believed that humans and … diverged 5.4 million years ago

Answer 39

chimpanzees

Question 40

Theory of mind

Answer 40

tailoring your communication according to what you think another individual knows (seen in chimps)

Question 41

A … population in Senegal lives in caves and uses sticks as spears for hunting

Answer 41

chimpanzee