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Big round (ages 12 and up): 🦁 Animals. Ten questions. Tap a box to see the answer.
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- 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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- A: ruminants. Their complex stomach turns tough plants into energy and building blocks for the body. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- A: eusociality. The breeding female, called the queen, is the largest member of the colony. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- B: huacaya. The other type, the suri, has straight fiber that hangs down in long locks. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- B: algae. The grooves run from the top to the bottom of each brownish-gray hair. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- B: 13. Unlike most lemurs, ringtails spend about 40 percent of their time on the ground. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- C: an enlarged wrist bone. Red pandas have the same kind of pseudo thumb and also use it to hold bamboo. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- A: the raccoon family. Scientists linked them to raccoons partly because both have ringed tails. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- B: cardenolides. These toxins help keep monarchs safe from animals that might eat them. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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