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• Animal Sounds And Communication

Which three predators are distinguished by vervet monkey alarm calls?

Answer

Leopards, eagles and snakes

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Animal Sounds And Communication

What acoustic behavior lets a humpback whale repeat a changing sequence of sounds?

Answer

Whale song

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Animal Sounds And Communication

Which structure produces the buzzing sound of a cicada?

Answer

Tymbal

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• Animal Sounds And Communication

What is the distinctive individual whistle that a bottlenose dolphin develops called?

Answer

Signature whistle

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• Animal Sounds And Communication

What type of low-frequency call allows elephants to communicate over long distances?

Answer

Infrasound

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• Animal Sounds And Communication

What honeybee communication dance indicates the direction and distance of a food source?

Answer

Waggle dance

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Flowers And Plants

Which plant is the traditional national flower of India and is sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism?

Answer

Lotus

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Flowers And Plants

What is the oldest known fossil genus of vascular land plants, dating from the Silurian Period?

Answer

Cooksonia

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Flowers And Plants

Which plant produces the world’s largest unbranched inflorescence, famous for its foul smell when it blooms?

Answer

Titan arum

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Flowers And Plants

What is the world’s tallest flowering plant species, with eucalyptus trees exceeding 100 metres?

Answer

Eucalyptus regnans

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• Flowers And Plants

Which flower is the main source of saffron, with the spice collected from its red stigmas?

Answer

Crocus sativus

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• Flowers And Plants

The spice vanilla comes primarily from the cured fruit of which type of flowering plant?

Answer

Orchid

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