Wild Animals Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What is a baby beaver called? It is born already furred and with its eyes open, can swim within a day or two, and stays in the family lodge for about two years, helping to look after the next set of babies.

Question 2

Which large animal sleeps only about half an hour to two hours in a whole day, often in short naps taken standing up? Lying fully down would leave it too slow to get up and escape lions.

Question 3

What is a female fox called? She raises four or five cubs each spring in an underground den while the male brings food; the word is also used, unkindly, for a sharp-tempered woman.

Question 4

Which pale, thick-furred big cat of the high mountains of Central Asia has a tail nearly as long as its body, which it uses for balance on cliffs and wraps around itself for warmth? It cannot roar.

Question 5

Which is the slowest-moving mammal in the world? It lives high in the rainforest trees of Central and South America, moves so slowly that green algae grows in its fur, and climbs down to the ground only about once a week.

Question 6

Which masked North American animal has such sensitive front paws that it often dips or rubs its food in water before eating, and is clever enough to open bins, doors and simple latches while raiding towns at night?

Question 7

Which heavy burrowing member of the squirrel family, living in mountain meadows, hibernates for up to eight months a year with its heart slowing to about five beats a minute, and gives a loud whistle to warn its colony of eagles?

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About Wild Animals

How much do you really know about the world's wild animals? This quiz mixes every kind of question: which animal is the biggest, the tallest, the fastest or the heaviest; how long an elephant is pregnant or how long it lives; what a group of lions or wolves or giraffes is called; and what we name their babies.

Each question gives a few easy sentences describing an animal or a fact, without saying the answer, and then four choices. The topics are the ones people most often look up: the largest land animal, the fastest runner, the most dangerous animal in Africa, why a panda eats what it eats, and many more.

The animals are wild four-legged creatures from every continent: the African elephant and giraffe, the tiger of Asia, the gorilla of the central African forests, the moose of the northern woods, the polar bear of the frozen north, the capybara of South America and the kangaroo of Australia.

Every answer comes with a short, clear explanation and the real numbers, so you finish each question knowing a little more than when you started. The wording is kept simple, and any harder word is explained, so the quiz plays the same for a keen wildlife fan and for someone just getting curious. Every fact has been checked.