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Animal Fun Facts For Kids Trivia Quiz

If you could be any animal, which kind would you be? Here's some stuff about animals that's fun to know to help you decide.

A multiple-choice quiz by stageball. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
stageball

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
238,661

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

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3794

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Question 1 of 10

1. An adult jaguar has yellow eyes. What color are the eyes of baby jaguars when they are born? Hint

Plaid

Mauve

No one knows

Blue

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Question 2 of 10

2. Baby armadillos always have brothers and sisters to play with since they are never born alone. How many armadillos are always born at once? Hint

Forty

Four

No one knows

Forty four

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Question 3 of 10

3. Chimney Swifts are a kind of bird. They build nests made of sticks. What does the mother use to hold the sticks together when she builds the nest? Hint

Her own saliva.

She borrows string from the nest next door.

Glue from the store.

Other sticks.

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Question 4 of 10

4. A hedgehog has hard pointy quills all over its body. When it's born why don't the quills hurt the mother when she gives birth to the baby? Hint

No one cares.

They do, but the mother puts up with it.

The doctor gives her a shot so she doesn't feel it.

The quills are soft when the baby is born.

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Question 5 of 10

5. I once saw a Giant Panda in the zoo. Which animal of the following is most closely related to the Giant Panda? Hint

Fish

Bearcat

Spectacled bear

Raccoon

6. People are considered smarter than animals because people use tools. Hey! I know an animal that uses a rock to break open a shell for food. What's the name of this smart animal that uses a tool? Hint

Monty Python

Butterfly

Otter

Hummingbird

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Question 7 of 10

7. I know of an animal called a Legless Lizard. It's a lizard with no legs. Why isn't it called a snake? Hint

It had its legs chopped off.

It has eyelids like lizards. Snakes have no eyelids.

It asked not to be called a snake.

It was wearing a costume.

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Question 8 of 10

8. Killer Whales are good hunters. They hunt alone or in pods (groups). Which of the following will a Killer Whale NOT eat? Hint

Blue Whale

Fish

Seal

Humans

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Question 9 of 10

9. When you hear an insect buzzing, where is the sound coming from? Hint

The insect's voice.

The insect's TV.

The insect's mother.

The insect's wings.

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Question 10 of 10

10. Some animals can see behind themselves without turning their heads. Can you name two? Hint

Platypus and ermine

Rabbit and parrot

Weasel and dodo

Ant and Uncle

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. An adult jaguar has yellow eyes. What color are the eyes of baby jaguars when they are born?

Answer: Blue

Jaguars are the largest cats in North and South America. The Puma (mountain lion) is the second biggest. All the other great cats live in Asia or Africa.

2. Baby armadillos always have brothers and sisters to play with since they are never born alone. How many armadillos are always born at once?

Answer: Four

Do you know what four born at once is called? Quadruplets. Identical quadruplets. That's a lot of fun.
Armadillos have shells, made of true bone, that cover their backs. They are built to dig. They have short, strong legs that are well suited to rapid digging, either for food or for shelter. Like their cousins, the sloth and anteater, armadillos have strong claws. They use them to help in digging, or to tear apart rotting wood to find food.

3. Chimney Swifts are a kind of bird. They build nests made of sticks. What does the mother use to hold the sticks together when she builds the nest?

Answer: Her own saliva.

I'm glad my bed isn't held together that way. Or is it?
In the Far East there is a special dish that many people like to eat called "Bird's Nest Soup". It's made from the nest of the swift. I'm not making this up.

4. A hedgehog has hard pointy quills all over its body. When it's born why don't the quills hurt the mother when she gives birth to the baby?

Answer: The quills are soft when the baby is born.

As the baby grows, the quills get harder and harder. The quills make it hard for an enemy to eat it.

5. I once saw a Giant Panda in the zoo. Which animal of the following is most closely related to the Giant Panda?

Answer: Spectacled bear

Giant Pandas are indigenous to China. That means that they come from China. Giant Pandas are considered to be an endangered species. I saw a Panda in a zoo once. At the zoo someone said, "Hey, there's a Panda Bear". I said, "Actually the Panda is not a bear at all". The Panda said, "Thanks for clearing that up!"

Answer: Otter

An otter will lie on its back in the water with a shell on its stomach and pound the shell with a rock until it's open. Lunch! Chimpanzees also use tools. They'll put a stick in a termite's nest and pull it out when it's all covered with termites and eat them. Yumm!

7. I know of an animal called a Legless Lizard. It's a lizard with no legs. Why isn't it called a snake?

Answer: It has eyelids like lizards. Snakes have no eyelids.

If an animal has a head like one animal and a body like another, its classification (type) goes after the head. The head is more important than the body in terms of classification.

8. Killer Whales are good hunters. They hunt alone or in pods (groups). Which of the following will a Killer Whale NOT eat?

Answer: Humans

It is a great mystery why Killer Whales won't eat a person, even if they come across one in the sea. Killer Whales love seals and fish. Killer Whales will hunt in packs and attack even great whales by following them long distances and tiring them out and biting off pieces of their flippers until they (the great whale) can't swim away.

9. When you hear an insect buzzing, where is the sound coming from?

Answer: The insect's wings.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings. By the way, do you know what is the fastest animal on six legs? The cockroach is the fastest animal on six legs covering a meter a second.

10. Some animals can see behind themselves without turning their heads. Can you name two?

Answer: Rabbit and parrot

Imagine a rabbit and a parrot facing away from each other and watching each other at the same time. Or two rabbits. Or two parrots. How about four rabbits in a row, the two in the middle look like they're facing each other but really they're looking away from each other at the two on the ends. Or three rabbits and a parrot or four parrots, or... oh skip it.
Did you know that there are many kinds of parrots? One kind is called the African Grey. African Greys are the best imitators of speech of all the parrots in the world.
Rabbits are not rodents. They are lagomorphs, and are more closely related to horses than they are to rats or mice. A male rabbit is called a 'buck' and a female is called a 'doe'.

Let's all be kind to animals. Don't bother them or throw things at them. Have you decided which animal you'd be if you could choose? Which is it?!

Source: Author stageball

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