Q 01/05

Recordings of which insects are enough to drive African bush elephants away from human settlements?

A) Locusts

B) Bees

C) Mosquitoes

D) Termites

Answer · why

B) Bees

Bees frighten African bush elephants so reliably that farmers now hang hives along their fences, protecting crops and selling the honey as a bonus.

Q 02/05

African bush elephants hold the mammal record, at around 22 months, for the longest what?

A) Nursing period

B) Courtship

C) Pregnancy

D) Migration

Answer · why

C) Pregnancy

Pregnancy lasts about 22 months in the African bush elephant, and the calf that finally arrives weighs around 100 kg and is walking within the hour.

Q 03/05

Which African bush elephant, sold by London Zoo to P. T. Barnum, sparked a public outcry in 1882?

A) Jumbo

B) Dumbo

C) Babar

D) Topsy

Answer · why

A) Jumbo

Jumbo's name gave English its word for huge, and 100,000 schoolchildren wrote to Queen Victoria begging her to stop his sale to America.

Q 04/05

Which predators have learned to hunt young African bush elephants after dark in Chobe National Park?

A) Leopards

B) Cheetahs

C) Nile crocodiles

D) Lions

Answer · why

D) Lions

Lions in Chobe brought down 74 elephants between 1993 and 1996, striking mostly at night during a drought when smaller prey had become scarce.

Q 05/05

Wild African bush elephants tracked in a 2017 study set a mammal record for the least daily what?

A) Drinking

B) Sleeping

C) Walking

D) Feeding

Answer · why

B) Sleeping

Sleeping took up only about two hours a day for the two herd leaders tracked, and several times they went without any rest for nearly two days.