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Labradors are classified under retrievers. Other retrievers are the golden retrievers, Newfoundland, poodle, etc. Retrievers, alongside setters, pointers and waterdogs, come under the gun dog group of dogs. They were bred to assist hunting dogs in retrieving game.

Question by player Saleo Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Spaniel, Hound, Terrier

Whales are cetaceans, a group which also includes dolphins and porpoises. They include the world's largest marine mammals. Whales breathe through a blowhole, although baleen whales have two blowholes.

Question by player suomy Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Dugong, Manatee, Walrus

Lyme Disease is caused by a bacteria and transferred to humans by being bitten by infected ticks. A tick is a parasite of the arachnid family that lives on the blood of animals. Symptoms of Lyme disease include a rash, headaches and fatigue. It causes inflammation of major organs like the brain, heart, eyes, liver, lungs etc. It can be cured if treated early on but there are often complications if that is not the case.

Question by player Spontini Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

A tock, A beetle, A fly

When fleas bite our pets they leave small drops of blood behind. When you rub your pets fur the small dried drops will fall on the white paper and show up as dark specks on the wet paper.

Question by player Zepper Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

To irritate him, To test for worms, To cool his feet

The mosquito transmits malaria carrying parasites with its bite that kills hundreds of thousands of people yearly worldwide. This number is greater than the mortality rate inflicted by the three other possible answers combined.

Question by player Toneman52 Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Killer bees, Poisonous snakes, Sharks

Small treefrogs live in the rainforest and have sticky toes that help them climb. Those sticky toe pads are self-cleaning too; the pads have hexagonal patterns so some parts of the pads make contact with the tree surface and create friction, while the slots spread the mucus (the sticky stuff) throughout the pad.

Question by player Billkozy Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Limbs with skin-flaps that act as wings., Tongues that latch onto branches., Riding on the backs of birds.

The Parawakan can be found in the island of Palawan. It is considered as the largest native chicken strain in the Philippines with weight averaging 5 kilos. In the Philippines, Parawakan cocks are used in "Tampur", a lengthy type of cockfighting.

Question by player pomophagist44 Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Argentina, Senegal, Italy

Most doves are white but the mourning dove is a light grey and brown coloring. The birds are usually about twelve inches long and weigh a slight four to six ounces. The males do have a slight light pink coloring, but not red.

Question by player linkan Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Northern Cardinal, Scarlet Tanager, Vermilion Flycatcher

Take the first three letters each from "Pomeranian" and "poodle", and place an "a" in-between, and you get "pomapoo". Bear in mind that these mixes (like Labradoodle, cockapoo, etc.), as lovable as they are, are not actually breeds. Nor are they really hybrids because they are all of the same species. They are pedigreed but mixed-breed dogs; they are just like the doggie you found at the shelter except for the detailed family history and the expense.

Question by player gracious1 Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Brussels griffon, Dalmatian, Basset hound

Alexander Bismarck, Ph.D., from the University of Vienna in Austria, along with three students, decided to carry out experiments on making paper from animal dung because of the excellent source of cellulose this end product contains. Initially their experiments were on goat manure before moving on to try that produced from other animals such as cows and horses - and elephants. It was concluded that "less energy and fewer chemicals" were needed to convert this readily available cellulose source into paper than that from harvested wood. In countries with few trees, this would be particularly economical.

The manure is initially treated with sodium hydroxide to remove organic polymers in the tissues of the grass and other crops consumed by the animals. This in turn is re-used as fuel or fertiliser. The remaining purified cellulose is then ground down to make the minute fibres needed to create paper, a much easier process than grinding wood. This paper can also be used to clean wastewater before it is recycled back into use. Biogas can be produced from the manure as well. Gas from gas, you could say. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Cat, Dog, Gorilla

The goldfinch, hawfinch and citril finch are all common in Europe, but there isn't a sooty finch. There are, however, a few species of birds with the sooty moniker, such as a tern, a shearwater and an albatross. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Citril finch, Goldfinch, Hawfinch

Tigers have killed, and usually dined on, an estimated 373,000 humans between 1800 and 2009. The deadliest single tiger is known as "The Champawat Tigress". After being shot and wounded, she was unable to hunt her usual prey and began hunting humans. She killed 436 Nepalese people from about 1890 until 1911, when she was shot and killed. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Lion, Leopard, Cheetah

The raccoon is a medium sized mammal of North America, but isn't necessarily nocturnal. They do prefer to move about more in the cover of darkness, but can and have been seen out and about during the day. They are easily recognizable by the black facial fur that creates a bandit-like mask around their eyes. Coons also have agile front paws, "hands", which they make great use of. This is uncommon in the animal world but not exclusive to the raccoon. These critters are highly intelligent and quite skilled at problem solving, especially when it comes to getting at food sources. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Skunk, Rat, Beaver

Aardvarks are found on the African continent, and although there is some evidence in recent years that their numbers are decreasing, are not on the endangered species list. The name comes from a Dutch/Afrikaans word meaning "earth pig". Their diet consists primarily of ants and termites although, interestingly, they have a symbiotic relationship with a type of cucumber, called, reasonably enough, the aardvark cucumber. They ingest the fruit; the fertility of the seed is enhanced during its time in the aardvark's intestine, and the animal helps to spread the fruit by defecating seeds in various places. These then take root and form new plants. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Lives exclusively on ants, lays eggs, hairless, Lives above ground, eats ant eggs but not ants, found only in Asia, Diurnal, short ears, critically endangered

Types of deer include reindeer, moose, elk, and fallow deer. Reindeer are also called caribou. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Order, Genus, Species

Some other members of this subfamily are the eastern indigo snake and Japanese vine snakes (common also in China, India, Sri Lanka and other parts of Southeast Asia). Milk snakes are divided into 24 subspecies and represent no danger for human beings. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Erycinae, Causinae, Azemiopinae

The African elephant is the longest quadruped as well as the heaviest land mammal. The gorilla (at No. 10) is about 1/30th the weight of the elephant. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Giraffe, Rhinoceros, American buffalo

Plutarch in his "Life of Alexander" relates that Olympias had been initiated into the rites of Dionysos and Orpheus, which involved snake-handling, and that Philip, her husband, once saw her in bed with a large serpent. This snake was later identified as the god Zeus Ammon in serpent form, who was considered to be the "real" father of Alexander. Unlike Appalachian snake-handling which uses venomous snakes, these creatures were tame and non-venomous. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Pet dog, Golden eagle, Lion cub

In the United Kingdom, the pine marten is credited with keeping the population of invasive grey squirrels in check, whilst the native red squirrel population appears to have been unaffected. This is thought to be because the grey squirrel spends more time on the forest floor where the sprightly martens like to hunt. Difficulty: Average.

 

sea otter, common genet, eastern quoll

While species of the "little armoured one" (English translation of the Spanish name, armadillo) can be found all over South and Central America, they have been found as far north as Nebraska and Indiana in the United States.

The armadillo is a mammal whose species range in size from about 15cm long (the pink fairy armadillo) to 150cm long (the giant armadillo). The back, head, tail, and upper parts of the short limbs are covered with flexible overlapping scales to offer some protection from predators, but there is only one species (the South American three-banded armadillo) that relies on curling up into a ball for protection - most other armadillos either dig to escape, or else hide in thorny vegetation.

"The Beginning of the Armadillos" is one of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" which gives a humorous explanation of how armadillos came into existence.

The aardwolf is a member of the hyena family and is found in Southern and Eastern Africa; the Arctic skua is a bird found in the Northern Hemisphere; the aye-aye is a species of lemur found in Madagascar. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

arctic skua, aye-aye, aardwolf

Being an even-toed ungulate, camels have two toes on each foot. The feet have adapted to life in sandy deserts by having a broad, flat underside. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Odd-toed ungulate, Horses, Cattle

The young hippo, named Owen, was put in an enclosure with various animals including a 130 year old male tortoise, Mzee. Conservationists think that Owen was attracted by Mzee's grey rounded shape which reminded him of his mother. Mzee had never shown any desire to be social with other animals and at first rejected the baby's efforts to befriend him but Owen persisted. In the next year they bonded closely and became inseparable. They wallowed in the mud together, slept side by side and the little hippo even chose to eat the same food as Mzee, rather than the traditional hippo diet. Tortoises are not noted as social animals, but this one nudged Owen to go for walks, initiated play in the water, and even stretched his neck out so his little friend could give him a lick. They even devised a form of communication using sounds different from their normal vocalisations. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Gorilla, Zebra, Lion

A terrapin is a small turtle native to the southern and eastern areas of North America. Their numbers have decreased over the last 200 years because they are considered a delicacy. Strangely, Prohibition in the early part of the 20th century may have been their saving grace, in that alcohol was considered vital to a good turtle stew. Most terrapins are found today in the mangrove swamps of Florida where they are a protected species. Other than man, the animal that causes the most threat to terrapins is the raccoon who will scavenge terrapin nests and will also spend the long time required to kill an adult terrapin. Difficulty: Hard.

 

bird, antelope, spider

Latency is a measurement that can be used to determine the "readiness" of an animal to perform a particular type of behavior. An example would be determining hunger in a dog by measuring the latency between presenting the food and when the dog begins to eat.

Frequency is the measure of how many times a behavior is performed over a period of time - an example would be how many times a chick pecked per minute.

Duration is the measure of how long a certain behavior lasts, for example if a chimpanzee is grooming, this could vary from a quick brush at the arm to a prolonged cleaning of the fur over a few minutes.

Finally, intensity measures how vigorous or intense a behavior is. This is the most difficult to measure - for example, if a dog is displaying territorial defense, how do you measure the intensity? Normally, a small scale is used, such as 0-5. 0 means no reaction, 1 is mild, 5 is very aggressive. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Frequency, Duration, Intensity

Three-toed sloths only descend to the ground once or twice a week, usually to move to another tree, and their fur tends to be tinged green from the algae that grows in it. Because of their inactivity, three-toed sloths have an average body temperature of only 75 degrees Fahrenheit, although their temperature can vary depending on climate and activity level. Difficulty: Hard.

 

white-eared opossum, northern tamandua, southern two-toed sloth

At the Woodland Park zoo the keepers placed electrified barriers around trees to protect them in the gorilla enclosure. However, a female gorilla, Jumoke, created insulation by gathering and placing tree logs and limbs on the hot wire to avoid being shocked while gaining access to the trees.

Also, Joseph, an orangutan, at the Kansas City Zoo created insulation by placing a rubber tire on an electric barrier, which then allowed him to escape by climbing out. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Jumping over the electric barrier, Unplugging the electric cord, Building a pair of stilts

Millipedes and grasshoppers are both arthropods, having hard exoskeletons and jointed appendages. Earthworms and leeches, both segmented worms, are classified in Phylum Annelida. Snakes, having backbones, are chordates, like us. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Snake, Earthworm, Leech

Butterflies are beautiful insects. There are thousands of butterfly species in the world. Pipevine swallowtails feed on the pipevine plants; viceroys feed on the willow plants; monarchs feed on the milkweed plants; and juniper hairstreaks feed on the Eastern Red cedar plants.

Question by player milliesmall Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Bees, Beetles, Wasps

The octopus is a very intelligent mollusk, with three hearts and eight arms. Its ability to perform several tasks has been observed by scientists which includes opening up bottles and using empty clam shells as shields from predators. It can also squeeze itself in small spaces and swim very fast to avoid getting caught.

Question by player milliesmall Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Shrimp, Clam, Starfish

Some rabbits turn everything over in its cage when throwing a tantrum, while others thump their feet. Some rabbits will do both.

Question by player pinkbunny98 Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Nothing, Yell, Talk

There are over 900 species of bats (some sources say that there are more than 1,100). This means that one out of every five mammalian species is a bat.

Question by player timence Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Cats, Possums, Dingoes

Coyotes can be found as far south as Panama and as far north as Alaska. Their Latin name of Canis latrans literally means barking dog. Coyotes have become largely nocturnal animals, owing to their trepidation where humans are concerned. They tend to move around in small kindred packs but generally hunt in pairs. It is rare, though not unheard of, for a coyote to attack a human. They are, however, a major threat to livestock and domestic pets.

Question by player nickdrew55 Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Hyena, Dingo, Puma

Unable to overwinter as larvae or pupae like other butterflies, the monarch is the only butterfly known to make a two-way seasonal migration in the same way birds do. There are two populations in North America, Eastern and Western. The monarch butterflies of the Eastern population (east of the Rocky Mountains, that is) spend the winter in Mexico, then migrate into Texas and the Southern Plains states. From there they advance toward the Great Lakes, and by early summer they reach Canada and northeastern United States. Beginning in September, the butterflies go back the way they came. Although you may find monarch butterflies in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or even New Zealand, they probably arrived there blown by storms or transported by humans, and they are not part of this annual migration.

Question by player gracious1 Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Army ant, Bumblebee , Cockroach

Spaniards discovered the Galapagos Islands in the 16th century. Galápago is the Spanish word for tortoise. The Galapagos tortoise can weigh more than 400 kg./880 lbs. and be more than 1.8 meters/5.9 feet long. All the other choices live in the ocean, so they are known as turtles - not tortoises.

Question by player ELJ1 Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

leatherback, hawksbill, Kemp's ridley

The gray wolf is the species most people commonly associate with wolf characteristics in general. These beautiful creatures actually come in many different colors, live mainly in North America, and usually mate for life. Majestic AND faithful!

Question by player bombshell11 Difficulty: Easy.

 

Arctic wolf, Indian wolf, Red wolf

The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin, with adults typically reaching 120 centimetres in height. The king penguin is the second largest species, at an average of 85 centimetres in height, whereas rockhoppers are much smaller, averaging 50 centimetres. Penguins are only native to the southern hemisphere.

Question by player TheLastEnemy Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Emu, Ostrich, Kiwi

Discovered in 2002, 3000 meters deep off California on the decaying bone of a grey whale, osedax, which means "bone-eater" in Latin, is a small worm (2 to 7 cm). It digs through whale bones by secreting an acid from its skin that dissolves the bone so it can reach the lipids on which it feeds. Osedax lacks a mouth or stomach, so it digests the proteins and fats found within the bone with the help of bacteria.

Question by player chabenao1 Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Grey worm, Night worm, Naked worm

The existence of these creatures was confirmed in 2006 when the DNA of a strange looking bear was tested. It is also called the grolar bear, grizzlar bear or nanulak. Just like in the case of the tigon, these hybrids are mostly artificially cross-bred, although some naturally occur. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Wizzly bear, Tickly bear, Teddy bear

The Ursari people from Romania are traditional nomads, often referred to as "bear handlers". They earn their living by delivering busking type performances in various places, using trained dancing brown bears, and sometimes trained monkeys as well. Once roaming widely throughout Romania, the Ursari tend to live in more permanent settlements in the 21st century, but their cultural beliefs and practices continue on in various parts of Romania.

Still practiced in the 21st century Romania even today, not only do the Ursari sell bear fat to cure rheumatism and arthritic disorders, and bear hair as good luck charms, they continue the practice of training their brown bears to walk up and down on the back of any customer with pain in that area of his or her body in a form of chiropractor treatment. An additional bonus to this treatment, so it is believed in the areas where the Ursari live, is that it will also chase evil spirits away and ensure fertility. It's quite possible, don't you think, that many a chap with a bad back, who saw a large hairy growly creature longing to step on his spine, found he was miraculously cured beforehand? Difficulty: Easy.

 

Perform brain surgery, Tonsillectomies, Psychological consultations

When cats narrow their eyes they are telling you how contented they are and that they really like you.

Dogs on the other hand are expressing aggression or fear, negative emotions. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Yes, both animals are warning you away., No, neither animal means anything by such behavior. , Yes, both animals are communicating affection.