97 Zoo Animals Trivia Questions with Answers
97 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which bird is the fastest animal in a dive, exceeding 300 km/h while hunting?
Answer
Peregrine falcon
What is the name of the red panda’s scientific genus?
Answer
Ailurus
Which bird has the largest eyes of any living land animal?
Answer
Ostrich
Which animal has a false sixth finger that helps it grasp bamboo?
Answer
Giant panda
What is the largest rodent species kept in many modern zoos?
Answer
Capybara
What is the scientific name of the African bush elephant, the largest living land animal?
Answer
Loxodonta africana
What is the collective name for a group of lions?
Answer
Pride
Which animal is the only known venomous primate?
Answer
Slow loris
Which animal is the world’s largest living amphibian?
Answer
Chinese giant salamander
Which bird can fly backward, making it the only bird known to do so?
Answer
Hummingbird
Which primate is the largest living member of the great ape family?
Answer
Eastern gorilla
Which animal is the world’s largest land carnivore by average body mass?
Answer
Polar bear
How many toes does a rhinoceros have on each foot?
Answer
Three
Which mammal group is the hippopotamus’s closest living relative?
Answer
Cetaceans
Which primate is the world’s smallest by average body mass?
Answer
Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur
Which blood pigment gives a horseshoe crab’s blood its blue colour?
Answer
Hemocyanin
What is the name of the elongated tooth that forms a narwhal’s tusk?
Answer
Left canine tooth
What material makes up most of a rhinoceros’s horn?
Answer
Keratin
Which sex of emperor penguin incubates the egg after it is laid?
Answer
The male
What gives flamingos their characteristic pink or reddish colour?
Answer
Carotenoid pigments
How many chambers does a cow’s stomach have?
Answer
Four
Which bird is the tallest living bird species?
Answer
Common ostrich
What percentage of a giant panda’s diet is typically bamboo?
Answer
About 99%
How long is an African elephant’s gestation period?
Answer
About 22 months