Q 01/05

Often mistaken for a monkey, the kinkajou is really a rainforest cousin of which familiar mammal?

A) Opossum

B) Raccoon

C) Red fox

D) Skunk

Answer · why

B) Raccoon

Raccoon kin are meat-eaters by ancestry, yet the kinkajou's big eyes and gripping tail once led naturalists to file it with the primates.

Q 02/05

A kinkajou's taste for which sweet food gave the animal its best-known nickname?

A) Treacle

B) Molasses

C) Honey

D) Syrup

Answer · why

C) Honey

Honey put the first word in honey bear, a nickname the kinkajou shares with the sun bear of Southeast Asia.

Q 03/05

Which 2021 animated musical stars a music-loving kinkajou carrying a love song to a retiring singer?

A) Vivo

B) Encanto

C) Luca

D) Coco

Answer · why

A) Vivo

Vivo opens in a Havana plaza, where the kinkajou busks with his elderly owner before setting off with the song the old man never sent.

Q 04/05

The name kinkajou comes from quincajou, an old Canadian French word for which fierce northern animal?

A) Canada lynx

B) Porcupine

C) Fisher

D) Wolverine

Answer · why

D) Wolverine

Wolverine was the word's first meaning: early European accounts confused the two animals, and the name ended up on a tropical fruit-eater instead.

Q 05/05

Rotating its hind ankles backwards lets a kinkajou make which escape move on a tree trunk?

A) Leap to another trunk

B) Climb down headfirst

C) Slide down backwards

D) Hang by two toes

Answer · why

B) Climb down headfirst

Reversible feet let a kinkajou climb down headfirst, a quick exit from tree-climbing cats, and run backward along a branch as fast as forward.