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Animal Trivia
By Vishnu Raghavan (10 years)
1. What species of seabird do puffins, razorbills
& dovekies belong?
2. What do hooded seals spend most time
doing?
3. How long does a dolphin sleep in 24 hours?
4. What is the biggest invertebrate?
5. What is the slowest land mammal?
6. What is the highest plateau in the world?
7. How does the spider crab camouflage itself?
8. What is the most poisonous snake in the
world?
9. Which snake has the longest fangs?
10.What is the main threat to migrating
seabirds?
11. What was the most abundant bird that’s now
extinct?
12.What is the only lizard which swims in the
ocean?
13.How long is the Great Barrier Reef?
14.How is Australia connected to New Guinea?
15.What is the color of Cassawary’s egg?
16.What are the two methods by which
Anaconda kills its prey?
17.How does the sloth camouflage itself?
18.What is the unique bird to the Tibetan
plateau?
19.Which animal grows like plants, looks like
plants and even reproduces like plants?
20.How many million tons of crops can be
destroyed yearly by a swarm of migrating
desert locusts?
21.Name the 7 recognized species of sea turtle.
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Answers to Animal Trivia
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Auk
hunting for prey
5 hours
giant squid
sloth
Tibetan plateau
by attaching anemones to its shell
The Island Taipin
The Gaboon Viper. Its fangs are atleast 1.5
inches
10.oil slick in the water
11. Passenger pigeons – primarily hunted for its
meat
12.Marine Iguana
13.1250 miles
14.By a continental shelf in the sea
15.Green
16.constricting and drowning
17.Letting algae grow on its fur
18.Tibetan snow cock
19.sponge
20.8.5 million
21.Flatback, Green, Leatherback, Loggerhead,
Hawksbill, Kemp’s ridley, Olive ridley