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Quiz about What Do We Call Their Babies
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What Do We Call Their Babies? Quiz


Most animals have a name for their young different from the name of the species in general. How many of these baby animal names do you know?

A multiple-choice quiz by FatherSteve. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
FatherSteve
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
366,272
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
1992
Awards
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Question 1 of 15
1. Caribou and reindeer are the same animal: Rangifer tarandus. Their offspring are sometimes referred to as calves. By what other term are the babies also known?
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Question 2 of 15
2. What is a pullet? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. The offspring of a peacock and a peahen is called what?
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Question 4 of 15
4. The recipe for a witches' brew in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" includes "eye of newt, and toe of frog." A newt is a kind of aquatic salamander. What are its young called, once they metamorphose through their aquatic larval stage?
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Question 5 of 15
5. When a goose and a gander have a baby, what is it called?
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Question 6 of 15
6. Mister and Missus Aardvark bring out their youngest from their burrow to show the world their new __________.
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Question 7 of 15
7. What are baby or infant lemurs called?
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Question 8 of 15
8. Young oxen are often called calves. By what other name are they also known, especially in parts of Great Britain? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. The young of a rabbit may be known as a bunny, a kit, a kitten or a nestling. Hares are not rabbits. What is the young of a hare known as?
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Question 10 of 15
10. The female seahorse deposits her eggs into a pouch in the male seahorse where they gestate and from which they are live born. As many as 2500 tiny seahorses may emerge from the male's egg pouch. What is the term for a baby seahorse?
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Question 11 of 15
11. An alpaca is like a llama only smaller. This native of South America exists only as a domesticated animal; there are no wild alpacas. These gentle creatures are raised primarily for their fleece. What is the correct name for a baby alpaca?
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Question 12 of 15
12. Meerkats are members of the same family as the mongoose. Meerkat mothers produce one to five young at a time, usually three. What are these offspring called?
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Question 13 of 15
13. Scientific arguments notwithstanding, the American buffalo and the American bison are the same animal. These grassland giants produce a single offspring annually. What are their children called? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Although shrews are not rodents, they look rather like a cross between a mouse and a mole. They are tiny creatures and their babies tinier still. What are shrew babies called?
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Question 15 of 15
15. Chimp is a shortened form of the word chimpanzee but it is not the term used to described chimpanzee young. What is the correct term?
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1. Caribou and reindeer are the same animal: Rangifer tarandus. Their offspring are sometimes referred to as calves. By what other term are the babies also known?

Answer: fawn

Reindeer in North America are known as caribou, a term which entered English from the French Canadian approximation of an Algonquin word meaning "snow shoveler." Because they are members of the deer family (Cervidae), their young are sometimes described by the term for a deer's calf: fawn.
2. What is a pullet?

Answer: a female domestic chicken under a year of age

While a newborn domestic chicken may be called a chick, as a female chick grows it becomes a pullet until it reaches one year of age or begins to lay eggs. The term pullet comes from the Old French "polet" which is a diminutive of "poule" meaning "hen."
3. The offspring of a peacock and a peahen is called what?

Answer: a peachick

Peafowl are natives of India and Southeast Asia. Of the genus Pavo, they are related to pheasants, quails and partridges. To suggest that something is like a peacock, one calls it pavonine, e.g. "The Empress appeared in a pavonine gown which left no colour unexpressed."
4. The recipe for a witches' brew in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" includes "eye of newt, and toe of frog." A newt is a kind of aquatic salamander. What are its young called, once they metamorphose through their aquatic larval stage?

Answer: efts

The Old English name for newts was "efte" from which the modern name for the young of newts derives. Efts tend to be terrestrial whereas fully mature newts are either aquatic or semi-aquatic. Their use in witches' brew is relatively unexplored.
5. When a goose and a gander have a baby, what is it called?

Answer: a gosling

The modern terms for geese descend directly from the Germanic beginnings of Old English. The OE singular was gōs, the plural was gēs, and the masculine gandres. Gosling is diminutive of the OE gōs. Young birds are considered goslings until they fly. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle.
6. Mister and Missus Aardvark bring out their youngest from their burrow to show the world their new __________.

Answer: cub

The curious name "aardvark" derives from the Afrikaans, which seems appropriate to an animal found only in Africa. The name means something like "earth pig" in reference to aardvarks' great skills as burrowers. Single cubs are born who quickly mature to leave the burrow in search of ants and termites, their primary diet once weaned from their mother's milk.
7. What are baby or infant lemurs called?

Answer: baby or infant

There are nearly 100 species of lemurs in Madagascar. They range in size from mouse lemurs which weigh only an ounce up to the recently-extinct giant lemurs which weighed as much as a gorilla. The name "lemur" derives from an Old Latin word meaning "ghost" or "spirit." There appears to be no English word for their offspring other than baby or infant.
8. Young oxen are often called calves. By what other name are they also known, especially in parts of Great Britain?

Answer: stot

The word "stot" derives from the Old English where it meant to jump or leap or bound in the manner characteristic of gazelles and antelopes (called pronking or pronging). How it came to refer to a young ox is something of an etymological mystery, although young oxen are known to run with a springing gait when playing.
9. The young of a rabbit may be known as a bunny, a kit, a kitten or a nestling. Hares are not rabbits. What is the young of a hare known as?

Answer: a leveret

Baby hares are called leverets until they are a year old. There are many differences between leverets and bunnies. Hares are born with fur and with open eyes; bunnies are born hairless and with their eyes closed. Hares are ready to forage shortly after birth; bunnies remain in a burrow with their mother.
10. The female seahorse deposits her eggs into a pouch in the male seahorse where they gestate and from which they are live born. As many as 2500 tiny seahorses may emerge from the male's egg pouch. What is the term for a baby seahorse?

Answer: seafoal

A male seahorse is called a seastallion; a female seahorse is called a seamare. One species (H. fuscus) is called the "sea pony." Seahorses belong to a genus called Hippocampus. The term Hippocampus is produced by joining two Ancient Greek words: one meaning horse and the other meaning a sea monster.
11. An alpaca is like a llama only smaller. This native of South America exists only as a domesticated animal; there are no wild alpacas. These gentle creatures are raised primarily for their fleece. What is the correct name for a baby alpaca?

Answer: cria

Not only alpaca offspring are called crias; other camelid species such as the llama and the vicuña use the same term. The Spanish influence in South America is reflected in this name for camelid babies; cría is the Spanish word for baby.
12. Meerkats are members of the same family as the mongoose. Meerkat mothers produce one to five young at a time, usually three. What are these offspring called?

Answer: pups

Collectively, a group of meerkats may be called a mob, a gang or a clan. They live in southern Africa and in many zoos. And, with their black-ringed eyes, standing tall on their hind feet, they are totally cute!
13. Scientific arguments notwithstanding, the American buffalo and the American bison are the same animal. These grassland giants produce a single offspring annually. What are their children called?

Answer: calf

The subspecies American plains bison has an interesting scientific name: Bison bison bison.
14. Although shrews are not rodents, they look rather like a cross between a mouse and a mole. They are tiny creatures and their babies tinier still. What are shrew babies called?

Answer: shrewlets

The entire shrew race is slandered by William Shakespeare's portrayal of Katherina Minola in "The Taming of the Shrew." Very few mammals are venomous but several shrew species are. Perhaps the Bard may be forgiven.
15. Chimp is a shortened form of the word chimpanzee but it is not the term used to described chimpanzee young. What is the correct term?

Answer: infant

Perhaps because chimpanzees share so much in common with another primate -- the human being -- the proper terms for the offspring of both is the same: infant and, sometimes, baby. Juvenile chimps remain infants for about five years. The word "chimpanzee" was adapted in the early 18th Century from a Bantu language, Tshiluba, spoken in Angola.
Source: Author FatherSteve

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