Q 01/05

What plant makes up the vast majority of a giant panda's diet?

A) Ferns

B) Eucalyptus

C) Bamboo

D) Water lilies

Answer · why

C) Bamboo

Bamboo makes up nearly all of a giant panda's diet, even though it is a carnivoran whose meat-eater's gut draws little from the plant, so it spends te...

Q 02/05

Which branch of zoology is the study of animal behaviour?

A) Ornithology

B) Ethology

C) Entomology

D) Herpetology

Answer · why

B) Ethology

Ethology is the study of animal behaviour; one of its founders, Konrad Lorenz, showed that newly hatched geese bond with the first moving thing they s...

Q 03/05

Which type of animal relies on external sources to regulate its body temperature?

A) Mesotherm

B) Endotherm

C) Ectotherm

D) Homeotherm

Answer · why

C) Ectotherm

Ectotherms take their warmth from outside, basking in the sun or on hot rock; with no internal furnace to fuel, they get by on far less food than a wa...

Q 04/05

What is considered the fastest land animal?

A) Cheetah

B) Springbok

C) Pronghorn

D) Ostrich

Answer · why

A) Cheetah

The cheetah has been clocked at 93 km/h in GPS-tracked hunts, yet most of its chases ran at barely half that: its real weapons are explosive accelerat...

Q 05/05

Roughly how long is the gestation of the largest living land mammal, the longest of any mammal?

A) About 9 months

B) About 1 year

C) 1.5 to 2 years

D) About 3 years

Answer · why

C) 1.5 to 2 years

Elephants carry for 1.5 to 2 years, about 22 months in the African elephant, the longest gestation of any mammal; a cow then waits four or five years ...