Environment Quiz 75: Wildlife Quiz

Environment Quiz 75: Wildlife Quiz

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1. Which bird builds the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species?

Bald eagle
Humming bird
Sociable weaver
Horned Coot

2. Which bird's nest is used to make Chinese delicacy bird's nest soup?

Bulbul
Sparrow
Humming bird
Swiftlet

3. Which land animal has the longest legs?

Elephant
Giraffe
Horse
Zebra

4. Which animal has the most ribs?

Giraffe
Crocodile
Snake
Blue whale

5. Which species of deer in the Indian subcontinet got its scientific name from French naturalist Alfred Duvaucel?

Chital
Chousingha
Barasingha
Sambar

6. Who founded the international, non-profit organisation Men of the Trees?

Richard St. Barbe Baker
George Bird Grinnell
Margaret Mead
Jay Darling

7. Sideroxylon grandiflorum, known as the dodo tree, is endemic to

Australia
Mauritius
Philippines
Palau

8. Which one of the following is the four-horned antelope?

Barasingh
Blackbuck
Chinkara
Chousingha

9. Branta sandvicensis or the Hawaiian goose is a species of goose endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. By what popular name it is known?

Nen
Brant
Greylag
Emperor

10. Madagascar is home to an abundance of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth. Do you know approximately what percentage of plant and animals species found in Madagascar are endemic?

30
50
70
90