Animals whose babies have different names
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Q 01What is the specific name for a baby swan?
- ACygnet
- BGosling
- CSwanling
- DCygnette
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Cygnet
Cygnet comes through Old French from Latin cygnus, 'swan', with the diminutive -et added: 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
An eyas is a nestling; the other three are falconry words too: a tiercel is a male hawk, a passager a bird in its first year, and a haggard one captured as an adult.
Q 03Which name for a baby kangaroo is also used for a baby koala?
- ACub
- BPup
- CJoey
- DKit
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Joey
A koala joey spends about six months in the pouch, then is weaned onto eucalyptus with pap, a soft faeces from its mother thought to pass on gut bacteria.
Q 04What is a young hare called, born fully furred and with its eyes open, unlike a baby rabbit?
- AFawn
- BLeveret
- CKitten
- DCalf
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Leveret
A leveret has to fend for itself early: hares don't dig burrows like rabbits but give birth in shallow above-ground hollows called forms.
Q 05What are the young eels used in the Spanish delicacy angulas called?
- AFry
- BSmolts
- CAlevins
- DElvers
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Elvers
Elvers take their name from 'eelfare', an old word for the passage of young eels up a river.
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 mammal?
- AHedgehog
- BTenrec
- CEchidna
- DPangolin
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Echidna
Echidna puggles hatch after about ten days and drink milk from pores in two milk patches, because monotremes have no teats.
Q 08What are baby oysters that have just glued themselves to a shell called?
- ASpat
- BFry
- CNits
- DGrubs
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Spat
Oyster larvae drift for two or three weeks before gluing themselves to a hard surface, often another oyster's shell, and from then on they are called spat.
Q 09What is a baby llama, alpaca, vicuña or guanaco called?
- ACria
- BPotro
- CChivo
- DCabrito
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Cria
Cria comes from Spanish for 'baby', and a newborn cria is usually up on its feet within about an hour of birth.
Q 10What is a baby porcupine called, born with soft quills that harden within a few days?
- AQuillet
- BPorcupup
- CPorcupette
- DPorcuplet
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Porcupette
Porcupette simply adds the diminutive -ette to porcupine, the same ending that turns a kitchen into a kitchenette.
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