Canadian Wildlife Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which small deciduous forest region in the far south of Ontario holds more species of plants and animals than any other part of Canada, many of them at their northern limit?

Question 2

Which small northern fox turns from brown or grey in summer to thick white fur in winter and can survive temperatures below minus 40 without shivering?

Question 3

Which fatal, slowly spreading disease of deer, elk, moose and caribou, caused by a misfolded protein and with no cure or vaccine, is a growing concern on the Canadian Prairies?

Question 4

How many species of Pacific salmon spawn in the rivers of British Columbia, all of them dying after they breed?

Question 5

Which tall, blue-grey wading bird, a patient hunter that stands motionless in the shallows before spearing fish and frogs, nests in noisy treetop colonies across southern Canada?

Question 6

Which is the largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family, a powerful scavenger of the boreal forest and tundra with a reputation far bigger than its size?

Question 7

Which stocky black-and-white seabird with a colourful triangular bill nests in burrows on islands off Newfoundland and is that province's official bird?

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About Canadian Wildlife

How well do you know the wildlife of Canada -- the mammals, birds, fish, marine life, reptiles and amphibians of the boreal forest, the tundra, the prairies, the mountains and the coasts? This quiz has eighty questions in four packs of twenty, written the way people search: which animal is on the nickel, how many polar bears live in Canada, why do lynx and hare numbers rise and fall together, which whale has a tusk, which bird was almost chosen as the national bird.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the figures, the range and the background.

The first pack covers the iconic mammals and animal symbols: the beaver, the moose, the lynx and the snowshoe hare, the wolverine, the bears, the caribou and bison, the muskox and pronghorn, and the sea otter. The second pack is birds: the loon and the Canada goose, the whisky-jack, the snowy owl and bald eagle, the Atlantic puffin and the chickadee, the whooping crane and trumpeter swan, and the peregrine falcon. The third pack is fish and other cold-blooded and marine life: Atlantic cod and Pacific salmon, the sturgeon and Arctic char, the narwhal, beluga and right whale, the orca and the harp seal, the leatherback turtle, the massasauga and the Narcisse snakes, and the freeze-tolerant wood frog. The fourth pack covers habitats and conservation: the boreal forest and the tundra, the endangered prairie and its swift fox and ferret, the Carolinian zone, COSEWIC and species at risk, the great auk and passenger pigeon, invasive species from the sea lamprey to the pine beetle, white-nose syndrome in bats, the spirit bear, Canadian dog and horse breeds, and the woodland caribou.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph of a habitat or scene tied to the question, chosen so it does not give the answer away. Every fact has been checked.