What process lets hibernating bears use urea-derived nitrogen to make amino acids?
Answer
urea nitrogen salvage
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
In obligate hibernators, torpor is interrupted by periodic warm-ups called what?
Answer
euthermic arousals
Which prairie dog is listed on Wikipedia as an obligate hibernator?
Answer
white-tailed prairie dog
Which bird family includes the common poorwill, noted for extended torpor?
Answer
Caprimulgidae
In which California range did Edmund Jaeger find a hibernating common poorwill in 1946?
Answer
Chuckwalla Mountains
Who definitively described hibernation-like torpor in the common poorwill in 1948?
Answer
Edmund Jaeger
Which plant family contains the Albany pitcher plant as its only living species?
Answer
Cephalotaceae
Which Nepenthes species is known only from Mount Kelam's granite cliff faces?
Answer
Nepenthes clipeata
Which bladderwort had an 82-megabase genome reported in 2013?
Answer
Utricularia gibba
Which Mexican butterwort grows in gypsum soils near San Luis Potosi?
Answer
Pinguicula gypsicola
Which Heliamphora species can produce its own proteolytic enzymes?
Answer
Heliamphora tatei
What is the largest confirmed carnivorous plant species?
Answer
Triphyophyllum peltatum
What 1882 book by George Romanes helped name early comparative psychology?
Answer
Animal Intelligence
Who formulated Morgan's Canon for explaining animal behavior?
Answer
C. Lloyd Morgan
What animal-memory term means remembering what happened, where, and when?
Answer
episodic-like memory
Which French neuroscientist researches bee cognition including zero and addition?
Answer
Aurore Avargues-Weber
Which bear species learned to choose larger or smaller dot quantities on a computer screen?
Answer
American black bear
Which bat is recognized as the world's smallest bat species?
Answer
Kitti's hog-nosed bat
Which moth has the widest recorded wingspan of any living insect?
Answer
White witch
Which millipede was the first known species with more than 1,000 legs?
Answer
Eumillipes persephone
Which porpoise is the smallest living cetacean?
Answer
Vaquita
Which parrot is the heaviest living parrot species?
Answer
Kakapo
Which crab is the largest terrestrial arthropod?
Answer
Coconut crab
Which bird has been recorded flying non-stop for 84 hours over 6,760 km?
Answer
Great snipe
What term describes fish migrations that occur wholly within the sea?
Answer
Oceanodromous
During migration, nearly all Swainson's hawks funnel through which Central American land bridge?
Answer
Isthmus of Panama
U.S. Navy sonar linked diel vertical migration to what ocean sonar feature?
Answer
deep scattering layer
What venomous fish species has the scientific name Trachinus draco?
Answer
Greater weever
What venomous fish family includes stonefishes and scorpionfishes?
Answer
Scorpaenidae
What venomous snake is also called the fer-de-lance on Martinique?
Answer
Bothrops lanceolatus
What Central American pit viper is also widely called the terciopelo?
Answer
Bothrops asper
What venomous snake uses a spider-like tail tip to lure birds?
Answer
Spider-tailed horned viper
What venomous shrew species has the scientific name Neomys fodiens?
Answer
Eurasian water shrew