Animals Whose Babies Have Different Names
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Q 01What is the specific name for a baby swan?
- ACygnet
- BSignet
- CSwanling
- DCygnette
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Cygnet
The word comes through Old French from the Latin cygnus, with the diminutive suffix -et tacked on: literally 'little swan'.
Q 02In falconry, what is a young hawk or falcon still in the nest called?
- ATiercel
- BEyas
- CPassager
- DHaggard
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Eyas
The other three are falconry words too: a tiercel is a male, a passager is a bird trapped on its first migration, and a haggard is a wild-caught adult.
Q 03A baby koala shares its name with a baby kangaroo. What is it called?
- ACub
- BPup
- CJoey
- DKit
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Joey
A newborn koala weighs about half a gram and spends its first six months in the pouch, where it is eventually weaned onto eucalyptus via a special pap its mother produces.
Q 04A young hare is born fully furred with its eyes open, unlike a rabbit. What is it called?
- AFawn
- BLeveret
- CKitten
- DCalf
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Leveret
Hares nest above ground rather than in burrows, so their young have to be able to fend for themselves within hours of birth.
Q 05What are the young eels used in the Spanish delicacy angulas called?
- AFry
- BSmolts
- CAlevins
- DElvers
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Elvers
The word is thought to be a corruption of 'eel fare', the name once given to the springtime run of young eels up the Thames.
Q 06What is the French term for a young rabbit, as seen on restaurant menus?
- ALapinou
- BLevraut
- CConil
- DLapereau
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Lapereau
The word is older than the adult's: French lapin was derived from lapereau by swapping the suffix, not the other way round.
Q 07A puggle is the young of which spiny, egg-laying mammal?
- AHedgehog
- BPorcupine
- CEchidna
- DPangolin
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Echidna
Puggles hatch after about ten days and lap milk from pores in the pouch, because monotremes have no teats; the word is also used, unofficially, for baby platypuses.
Q 08What are baby oysters that have just glued themselves to a shell called?
- ASpat
- BFry
- CNits
- DGrubs
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Spat
The free-swimming stage lasts two or three weeks before the larva settles, ideally on another oyster's shell, which is why old shells are dumped back on the beds.
Q 09A baby llama, alpaca, vicuña or guanaco goes by a Spanish word meaning simply 'baby'. What is it?
- ACria
- BPotro
- CChivo
- DCabrito
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Cria
The herd's females gather round for the birth to fend off males and predators, and the newborn is usually up and trying to suckle within an hour.
Q 10A baby porcupine is born with soft quills that harden within a few days. What is the youngster called?
- AQuillet
- BPorcupup
- CPorcupette
- DPorcuplet
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Porcupette
The soft quills spare the mother during birth; the word follows the same French diminutive pattern as 'kitchenette'.
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