What are some good animal trivia questions?

Five from this list: What is a group of lions called? (Pride) What is a baby swan called? (Cygnet) What is the largest living land animal? (African elephant (African bush elephant)) What does a caterpillar turn into inside a chrysalis? (Butterfly) How many humps does a dromedary camel have? (One)

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What are wild reindeer called in North America?

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What are wild reindeer called in North America? Answer: Caribou
How many legs does a spider have? Answer: Eight
Are spiders insects? Answer: No, they are arachnids
Bats are the only mammals that can truly do what? Answer: Fly
What do spiders make their webs from? Answer: Silk
What are baby bats called? Answer: Pups
Do bats sleep hanging upside down or lying down? Answer: Hanging upside down
What animal is most often shown as a witch's pet? Answer: A black cat
What is it called when bats find their way by listening for echoes? Answer: Echolocation
What do vampire bats feed on? Answer: Blood
How many animals are in the Chinese zodiac? Answer: 12
Which animal comes first in the Chinese zodiac? Answer: The rat
What is a female turkey called? Answer: A hen
What is a baby turkey called? Answer: A poult
What is the red flap of skin that hangs under a turkey's chin called? Answer: A wattle
What is the fleshy flap that hangs over a turkey's beak called? Answer: A snood
What sound is a turkey famous for making? Answer: A gobble
Can wild turkeys fly? Answer: Yes, for short distances
What is the tallest land animal? Answer: Giraffe
What is the largest animal alive today? Answer: Blue whale
What is the fastest land animal? Answer: Cheetah
What is a group of lions called? Answer: Pride
What is a baby kangaroo called? Answer: Joey
What is a female fox called? Answer: Vixen
What is a baby goat called? Answer: Kid
How many legs does an insect have? Answer: Six
What is the only mammal that can truly fly? Answer: Bat
What black and white bear eats mostly bamboo? Answer: Giant panda
What animal is known as the ship of the desert? Answer: Camel
What is the largest living bird? Answer: Ostrich
What tiny bird can hover in place and fly backward? Answer: Hummingbird
What is a baby swan called? Answer: Cygnet
What is a baby deer called? Answer: Fawn
What is a male duck called? Answer: Drake
What is a female sheep called? Answer: Ewe
The Komodo dragon is the largest living species of what kind of reptile? Answer: Lizard
What egg-laying mammal has a bill like a duck? Answer: Platypus
How many hearts does an octopus have? Answer: Three
What is the largest species of cat? Answer: Tiger
What word describes animals that are active at night? Answer: Nocturnal
What do you call mammals that carry their young in a pouch? Answer: Marsupials
What is the largest living land animal? Answer: African elephant (African bush elephant)
What is the traditional collective noun for a group of crows? Answer: Murder
What is a group of geese on the ground called? Answer: Gaggle
Is a dolphin a fish or a mammal? Answer: Mammal
What slow tree-dwelling mammal from Central and South America hangs upside down? Answer: Sloth
What lizard is famous for changing color? Answer: Chameleon
What is a baby horse called? Answer: Foal
What flightless bird is a national symbol of New Zealand? Answer: Kiwi
Which seahorse parent carries the eggs until they hatch? Answer: The male
What Australian marsupial, often wrongly called a bear, eats almost nothing but eucalyptus leaves? Answer: Koala
What is a group of whales called? Answer: Pod (also gam or school)
What does a caterpillar turn into inside a chrysalis? Answer: Butterfly
What do frogs start life as after they hatch? Answer: Tadpoles
What is the national bird of the United States? Answer: Bald eagle
What do you call an animal that eats both plants and meat? Answer: Omnivore
What is the largest fish in the sea? Answer: Whale shark
What animal builds dams across streams? Answer: Beaver
What protein is a rhino's horn made of? Answer: Keratin
The orca is the largest member of which animal family? Answer: Dolphins
What color is a polar bear's skin under its fur? Answer: Black
What are the branched bony growths on a male deer's head called? Answer: Antlers
How many humps does a dromedary camel have? Answer: One
What Arctic whale has a long spiral tusk? Answer: Narwhal
What is a male honeybee called? Answer: Drone
What is the popular collective noun for a group of owls? Answer: Parliament
What is a shark's skeleton made of? Answer: Cartilage
Lemurs are native to which island off the coast of Africa? Answer: Madagascar
What is the fear of spiders called? Answer: Arachnophobia

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What are some good animal trivia questions?: Five from this list: What is a group of lions called? (Pride) What is a baby swan called? (Cygnet) What is the largest living land animal? (African elephant (African bush elephant)) What does a caterpillar turn into inside a chrysalis? (Butterfly) How many humps does a dromedary camel have? (One)