50 Trivia Questions About Animals!

1. What is the fastest land animal on the planet?

Answer: the cheetah. Cheetahs can reach speeds over 100km/h!

2. What is the largest animal on the planet?

Answer: the Antarctic blue whale. It can weigh up to 400 000 pounds!

3. What is the largest land animal on the planet?

Answer: the African Savanna (Bush) elephant. They can weigh 6000kg!

4. Which bird species is known for flying backwards?

Answer: hummingbirds. They’re the only birds capable of doing so!

5. What colour is the skin of a polar bear?

Answer: black. Translucent fur reflects light to appear white.

6. What is the only mammal capable of flying?

Answer: bats.

7. How many hours a day do koalas sleep?

Answer: up to 20 hours a day.

8. How many muscles are in an elephant’s trunk?

Answer: up to 40 000!

9. How many shark species exist around the world?

Answer: more than 500 species.

10. True or false: there are no ants in Greenland.

Answer: true! There are also no ants found in Iceland, Antarctica, and certain island nations.

11. How many years did the oldest sloth in the world live?

Answer: 43 years! That’s double the average sloth lifespan.

12. What colour are a beaver’s teeth?

Answer: orange.

13. Which country has the largest number of wild tigers?

Answer: India. It has approximately 3700 wild tigers.

14. True or false: owls can turn their heads around 360 degrees.

Answer: false! Owls can turn their heads 270 degrees.

15. What is the world’s largest butterfly species?

Answer: Queen Alexandra’s birdwings. The female’s wingspan can reach 10 inches.

16. Which animal has the shortest lifespan?

Answer: the mayfly. It usually lives for around one day.

17. How many goats exist around in the world?

Answer: over one billion. That’s right, one billion!

18. How many times a day do woodpeckers peck?

Answer: around 12 000 times a day!

19. How big is a baby kangaroo at birth (in inches)?

Answer: one inch long. That’s no bigger than a grape!

20. What is the deadliest animal in the world?

Answer: the mosquito.

21. Which animal can shoot blood from its eyes?

Answer: the horned lizard.

22. How high (in feet) can a jack rabbit jump when panicked?

Answer: 20 feet high!

23. How much does a newborn giraffe weigh in pounds?

Answer: around 150 pounds.

24. Flamingo feathers are pink because flamingoes consume what two foods?

Answer: algae and brine shrimp. When flamingoes metabolize the pigments (carotenoids) found in these foods, it turns their feathers pink!

25. Which animals sleep holding paws so they don’t drift away from each other?

Answer: sea otters.

26. How many hours a day do pandas eat?

Answer: 10-16 hours a day.

27. What is the leg span (in feet) of a Japanese spider crab?

Answer: 13 feet long.

28. How many eyes does a bee have?

Answer: five eyes.

29. True or false: only female mosquitos bite.

Answer: true.

30. How many kilometres away can you hear an adult male lion’s roar?

Answer: eight kilometres.

31. What are the largest living land carnivores on Earth?

Answer: polar bears. They can weigh 680 kg and span 2.5m long!

32. What do you call a group of rats?

Answer: a mischief.

33. How many insects are estimated to exist around the world?

Answer: 10 quintillion.

34. How high (in centimetres) can a flea jump?

Answer: 20 cm. It can jump 200 times its own height!

35. One pufferfish contains enough poison to kill how many adult humans?

Answer: 30 humans.

36. What is the tallest land animal in the world?

Answer: the giraffe. It can stand 5.5 m tall.

37. What is the fastest speed (km/h) that an ostrich can reach?

Answer: over 70km/h.

38. Which animal has enough poison to kill 10 people?

Answer: the golden poison dart frog.

39. How many metres beneath the ocean does the deepest fish live?

Answer: 8336 metres. Researchers recently discovered snailfish at this depth.

40. Which animal can deliver a shock strong enough to knock a horse off its feet?

Answer: the electric eel.

41. How often does a bottlenose dolphin shed its outermost layer of skin?

Answer: every two hours.

42. True or false: snow leopards can roar.

Answer: false. Instead, snow leopards let out a piercing yowl!

43. What is the largest species of penguins?

Answer: the emperor penguin.

44. How much can an alligator weigh in pounds?

Answer: up to 1000 pounds! Nonetheless, male alligators usually weigh 500-600 pounds, and females less.

45. How many pounds of meat can a tiger eat at once?

Answer: 88 pounds of meat.

46. How much can a male Pacific walrus weigh in kg?

Answer: 1500kg. That’s equivalent to 1.5 tonnes!

47. A firefly’s light can be the colours orange, yellow or…?

Answer: green.

48. Which animal is commonly known as the “sea parrot?”

Answer: the puffin.

49. What do you call the fear of animals?

Answer: zoophobia.

50. What is the strongest animal in the world?

Answer: the Savannah elephant. It can lift 6000 kg (around its own body weight)!

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