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  • What is the fastest animal in the world?
    The peregrine falcon - it can fly at up to 125 km/h
  • Australia has four famous marsupials - name two of them.
    Kangaroo, koala, wallaby, wombat
  • Which is the only mammal capable of true flight?
    The bat
  • Which animal makes the sound "Cock-a-doodle-doo" (in English) ?
    A cockerel/rooster
  • How big was the largest ever recorded pack of wolves - 50, 100, 400 or 1000?
    400
  • Which animals does a lepidopterist study or collect?
    butterflies/moths
  • Name three of the "big five" animals in Africa
    Elephant, leopard, lion, rhinoceros, cape buffalo
  • Which animal in the large cat family was saved from extinction in Spain and Portugal this century?
    The Iberian Lynx
  • Which African animal's name comes from the Greek words for horse of the river?
    Hippopotamus
  • Which animals were imported into Australia from India and Afghanistan for transport, and now live wild there?
    camels (dromedaries)
  • In which African country can you find the lemur?
    Madagascar
  • The longest-living mammal is the bowhead whale. How long can it live?
    Up to 200 years
  • What is the name given to a baby duck?
    Duckling
  • Californian, Chinchilla and English Lop are all types of which animal?
    Rabbit
  • What do you call a group of owls - a parliament, a pride or a pack?
    A parliament of owls
  • True or false? A donkey is able to see all four feet
    True (it helps them to climb mountainous terrain)
  • Name two types of BEAR
    Brown/grizzly; Black/North American; Black/Asian Polar; Sloth; Panda; Andean; Sun
  • Which animal has the most powerful bite in the world?
    The hippopotamus
  • Which animal has the collective nouns of team, harras, herd or remuda?
    Horses
  • Where in Europe can you find the only free-roaming primates (monkeys)?
    Gibraltar (the Barbary macaques)
  • What name is given to an adult male gorilla - whiteback, silverback, brownback or redback?
    Silverback