The animal kingdom is stranger than any cartoon, and we'd know. The Sole is smugly reciting Latin names, the Apple is guessing 'dolphin' for everything, and the Wiper has forgotten what a wombat is. Off you go.
Animal Facts Quiz: 10 Questions Most People Get Wrong
All the questions in this quiz
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- What shape is wombat poo?
- What colour is a polar bear's skin?
- How many hearts does an octopus have?
- What is a group of flamingos called?
- Which animal has fingerprints almost impossible to tell apart from ours?
- Which of these animals has no stomach?
- In a 2016 study, the oldest Greenland shark was estimated to be roughly how old?
- Sharks have been around longer than which of these?
- In a University of Washington study, what made wild crows scold people on sight?
- Which is the only bird that can truly fly backwards?
Sources
- Why Wombats Make Cube-Shaped Poos (Smithsonian)
- Polar Bear Skin is Black (Churchill Polar Bears)
- How many hearts does an octopus have? (BBC Science Focus)
- A Flamboyance Of Flamingos And Other Bird Group Names (Thesaurus.com)
- Koalas Have Human-like Fingerprints (Live Science)
- Why the Platypus Will Never Have a Stomach (Live Science)
- Greenland Shark Nearly Four Hundred Years Old (Maritime Executive)
- Are sharks older than trees? (Discover Wildlife)
- Angry Crows Recognize Humans (Discover Magazine)
- There's only one bird species that can truly fly backwards (IFLScience)
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