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Big round (ages 12 and up): Animals. Pages: the ten question cards, two answer sheets to a page (print one page per two teams), and the key on the last page, to fold back.
1. Cattle digest plants using a four-compartment stomach. What group of animals does that make them?
- A. ruminants
- B. rodents
- C. marsupials
2. In naked mole-rat colonies only one female breeds while the rest work. What is this way of living called?
- A. eusociality
- B. symbiosis
- C. hibernation
3. Ninety-five percent of alpacas belong to which type, known for crimpy, woolly fiber?
- A. vicuna
- B. huacaya
- C. suri
4. What grows in grooves on a two-toed sloth's hairs and can turn its fur green?
- A. mold
- B. algae
- C. moss
5. How many alternating black and white bands are on a ring-tailed lemur's tail?
- A. 5
- B. 13
- C. 30
6. A giant panda grips bamboo with a 'pseudo thumb.' What is it made from?
- A. a hardened claw
- B. a curled toe
- C. an enlarged wrist bone
7. When red pandas were first described in 1825, scientists placed them in which family?
- A. the raccoon family
- B. the squirrel family
- C. the deer family
8. Monarchs get protective toxins from the milkweed they eat. What are these toxins called?
- A. antibodies
- B. cardenolides
- C. enzymes
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- A: ruminants. Their complex stomach turns tough plants into energy and building blocks for the body.
- A: eusociality. The breeding female, called the queen, is the largest member of the colony.
- B: huacaya. The other type, the suri, has straight fiber that hangs down in long locks.
- B: algae. The grooves run from the top to the bottom of each brownish-gray hair.
- B: 13. Unlike most lemurs, ringtails spend about 40 percent of their time on the ground.
- C: an enlarged wrist bone. Red pandas have the same kind of pseudo thumb and also use it to hold bamboo.
- A: the raccoon family. Scientists linked them to raccoons partly because both have ringed tails.
- B: cardenolides. These toxins help keep monarchs safe from animals that might eat them.
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