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GENERAL QUESTIONS ON ANIMALS

Q1. Which animal is believed to have appeared first on earth?
Fish - Devonian Era
Q2. What are Amphibians?
Animals capable of living on land and water. (Frog)
Q3. What are Pisces?
Fishes.
Q4. How the birds are called Zoologically?
Aves.
Q5. What are "Arboreal" of animals?
Animals which spend more time or live on trees are called so. Eg: Monkey, Leopard, etc.
Q6. How the hoofed animals are known zoologically?
Bovidae.
Q7. What are "Cold Blooded Animals"?
Animals that cannot regulate their body temperature and adapt themselves to the surrounding temperature. Scientifically called Ectothermes.
Q8. What are the animals coming under the category of Cold Blooded Animals?
All animals except bird and mammals are cold blooded animals.
Q9. How the Birds and Mammals, including Human being are called?
Warm Blooded Animals.
Q10. What are "Mammals"?
Animals, including human, who have mammary glands to feed their new born with milk.
Q11. What are "Crepusular" animals?
Animals that are primarily active during twilight.
Q12. What are "Carnivores" animals?
Animals that feed only on meat or flesh.
Q13. What are "Diurnal" animals?
Animals that are active during day time.
Q14. What are "Herbivores" animals?
Animals that feed on grass and plants.
Q15. What are "Haematophagy" animals?
Animals that feed on blood. Eg. Mosquitoes.
Q16. What are "Marsupial" animals?
Animals which have a pouch within their outer skin to carry their young ones - Eg. Kangaroo.
Q17. What are "Monotremmes" animals?
Mammals which lay and hatch their young one.
Q18. What are "Nocturnal" animals?
Animals which are active during nights. Eg: Cat, Rat, etc.
Q19. What are "Omnivores" animals?
Animals that feed on both flesh and plants.
Q20. What are "Oviparous" animals?
Animals which lay and hatch their young ones. Eg: Snake, Tortoise, Hen, etc.
Q21. What are "Ovoviparous" animals?
Animals that develop eggs within themselves and lay them only when they are ready to hatch.
Q22. What are "Ophiophagus" animals?
Animals that also eat their own family members / species. Eg: King Cobra eating other snakes.
Q23. What are "Precocial" in animals?
Young animals (new born) which are relatively mature and mobile from the movement of birth or hatching. Eg: Cattles, Snakes.
Q24. What are "Ruminant" animals?
Animals that digests it's food in two steps. First they eat them raw and by regurgitating a semi digested food called Cud and chew them. Eg: Most cattle cow, goat, sheep.
Q25. What are "Ungulate" animals?
Animals with hoofs like goat, sheep, horse, cow etc.
Q26. What are "Viviparous" animals?
Animals in which the embryo develops inside the body of the mother, as opposed to outside in an egg (oviparous) and then the mother gives birth.
Q27. What is "Moulting"?
The term for shredding of skin and feathers.
Q28. What is an "Opossum"?
An animal hanging by it's tail. A marsupial animal native to America.
Q29. What is the only mammal that can also fly?
Bat.
Q30. What are sedentary animals?
Animals that do not migrate.
Q31. What is the name of the chemical that certain animals emit during mating seasons for attraction?
Phermones.
Q32. The disease "Rinderpest" generally affects?
Cattles.
Q33. What is "Distemper" a disease of animals?
A viral disease of the dog (Also refers to a wall coating)
Q34. What is "Psittacosis" a disease of?
A disease of the birds -  specially parrots.
Q35. What is "Scrapie" a disease of?
A disease affecting the sheep.
Q36. What does "Rhinoceros" mean?
Nose horn.
Q37. Which animal feeds on ants & termites?
Pangolin.
Q38. Which animal lacks sweat glands making it to wallow in slush to keep the body cool?
Pigs.
Q39. What is "population" related to animals?
A technical name for a group of animals that belong to the same species, live in one area and inter breed.
Q40. What is "Bioluminescence"?
Means the production of light by living things like - Fire Flies.
Q41. What is the protein found in animal horns & nails?
Keratin.
Q42. What is "Parthenogenesis"?
Reproduction without any physical mating.
Q43. What is "Stribulation"?
The scientific name for the grating or chirping sound of crickets.
Q44. What is "Albino" related to animals?
Animals lacking pigmentation.
Q45. What are "Tadpoles"?
Common name for the larvae of frogs and toads.
Q46. What is the shape of a honey comb cell?
Hexagon (6 sides).
Q47. What is fed to certain bees to make them queen bees?
Royal Jelly - a secretion of the bees.
Q48. What is repellant acid produced by ants?
Formic acid.
Q49. What is "Breaching" related to whale?
A whale leaping clear of the water and plunging back into water.
Q50. Which mammal produces the largest off spring?
Blue Whale.
Q51. What is the customary way of measuring the height of a horse?
By hands - closed fist.
Q52. Which is the only monkey specie that is nocturnal?
Doroucoulie -- found in Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia.
Q53. Why rats are vulnerable to poison?
Because they cannot vomit.
Q54. What are Bi-pedal mammals?
Mammals that use two or more of their limbs for locomotion.
Q55. How is the underside (bottom) of the horse's hoof is called?
Frog (also an animal).
Q56. What is Aestivation?
The sleep of animals during summer, to tide out the summer.
Q57. Which animal is capable of producing two types of milk from their teats (breast, mammallary glands)?
Kangaroo - specifically Red Kangaroos.
Q58. What is the name for the shell on the back of a tortoise?
Carapace.
Q59. Which animal has the largest eyes, in the world?
The Giant Squid.
Q60. What is the natural protein produced by animal cells?
Interferon.
Q61. What is the wax like substance obtained from Whales, widely used in making perfumes?
Ambergris.
Q62. What is Avifauna?
Birds of a particular region.
Q63. Which is the largest flight less bird?
Ostrich.
Q64. Which is the only animal that has four knees and can bend all of them?
Elephant.
Q65. Which is the only bird that can fly backwards?
Humming bird.
Q66. Which animal has the characteristics of a mammal and a bird?
Platypus.
Q67. What are Anadromous and Catadromous?
Anadromous: Fishes that lives in fresh water but migrates to salt water for reproduction.
Catadromous: Water borne animals that live in salt water but migrates to fresh water for reproduction.
Q68. What are the larvae of House flies called?
Maggots.
Q69. What is the name for the resin produced by the lac insect?
Shellac
Q70. Which animal forms connecting link between Annelid and Arthropoda ?
Peripatus. (Annelid - segmented worms) (Arthropoda - an invertebrate animal having An exoskeleton, a segmented body and jointed appendages).
Q71. What are larvae of butterflies called?
Caterpillar.
Q72. What do you call a segment of tapeworm?
Proglottids.
Q73. What is the function of flame cells?
Excretion.
Q74. What are Apivorous animals?
Bee - eating animals.
Q75. What is the name for the larvae of Squilla?
Animal.
Q76. What is the host of Teenia Saginata?
Cow and buffalo.
Q77. What is the common name of Dentalium?
Tusk shell.
Q78. Name the anti-coagulant present in leech?
Hirudin.
Q79. Name an animal that contains chlorophyll?
Euglena.
Q80. What is the name of insect which is commonly found in our houses behind pictures on walls and amidst books causing damage to them?
Ctenolepisma species.
Q81. Which animal is commonly called as "Devil Fish"?
Octopus.
Q82. What is the biological name for praying mantis?
Mantis Religiosa.
Q83. What is the common name for Sepia?
Cuttle Fish.
Q84. Which sea animal is considered as a link between the vertebrates and the invertebrates?
Amphioxus.
Q85. Flying foxes are not foxes. Then what are they?
Bats.
Q86. Which order of mammals reproduce eggs but suckle their young?
Monotremes.
Q87. What is the fat of a whale (also some marine animals) called?
Blubber.
Q88. What are Cypselurus?
Flying fishes.
Q89. What are Syngnathus?
Pipe fishes.
Q90. Cold blooded vertebrates that live both on land and in water called?
Amphibians.
Q91. Which bird has no wings at all?
Kiwi.
Q92. Name the reptile that changes it's skin color?
Chameleon.
Q93. Which reptiles are called "limbless lizards"?
Snakes.
Q94. Which animal is called the "Ship of the Desert"?
Camel.
Q95. How many types of camels are there?
Two - (1) Dromedary - Single Humped. (2) Bactrian - Double Humped.
Q96. What is the common name for "Pterapus"?
Flying Fox.
Q97. What is the zoological name for Leopard?
Panthera Pardus.
Q98. What is the largest animal/mammal in the world?
Blue Whale.
Q99. Name the fish which is called as "sea-horse"?
Hippo-Campus.
Q100. What is the zoological name for Cat?
Felis Domesticus.
Q101. What is the biological name for Indian Cobra?
Naja Naja.
Q102. What are the classifications of animals on the basis of excretion?
Ammoniotelic - Excretes Ammonia. Ureotelic - Excretes Urea. Ureocotelic - Excretes Uric Acid.
Q103. What is the segment that helps animals to see in dim light?
Rhodopsin.
Q104. What is the term used for animals remaining dormant during summer?
Aestivation.
Q105. What are the three primary colors differentiated by the animal with the pigments in cones?
Red, Blue, Green.
Q106. What is the name of the blood pigment present in prawns?
Haemocyanin.
Q107. What is the name of modern horse according to evolution?
Equus.
Q108. Name the period which is called as "Age of Fishes"?
Devonian.
Q109. What is the earliest known fossil of the horse?
Eohippus.
Q110. What is the adaptation of fish made to offer minimum resistance to the current of water?
Stream lined body (Fusiform).
Q111. What is the name of the whales found in River Ganges?
Platanista Gangeticus.
Q112. Which specie of bat sucks the blood of horses, dogs and other warm blooded animals?
Vampyrus Spectrum.
Q113. Which particular animal gives birth to four off spring always?
Tatucia Novemcinta.
Q114. Where the Chimpanzees are found?
Africa.
Q115. Which is the slowest moving mammal?
Three toed sloth.
Q116. Where are the Rheas found?
South America.
Q117. Which flying bird keeps it's mouth open while flying so that they could catch the flying insects?
Nightjar.
Q118. Which is the smallest bird?
The Humming Bird.
Q119. Which bird has a melodies flute like call?
Oriole.
Q120. Which bird has a musical whistling call?
Lora.
Q121. Which bird holds the record for the longest migration?
Arctic Tern.
Q122. Which animal can look in two directions simultaneously?
Chameleon.
Q123. Which animal has the largest eyes?
Giant Squid.
Q124. Which Indian wild goat can survive at great altitudes near the snow line?
Ibex.
Q125. Which is the most primitive living mammal?
Platypus.
Q126. Which is the fastest swimming bird?
Gantoo Paguin
Q127. Which is the heaviest bird?
Kori Bustard.
Q128. Which is the fastest flying bird?
Spine tailed swift.
Q129. Toucans are from?
England.
Q130. Which bird has flippers instead of wings?
Penguin.
Q131. Which Indian bird is on the verge of extinction?
Great Bustard.
Q132. What is the national bird of India?
Peacock.
Q133. Which bird lays the biggest egg?
Ostrich.
Q134. Where the "Skunks" are found?
North America.
Q135. Which animal has the largest brain?
Sperm Whale - 9 kg in weight.
Q136. A Gorilla is identified from another by it's ........?
Nose print.
Q137. Name the animal which sustains itself in extreme desert conditions?
Yak.
Q138. Which animal / mammal has the longest gestation period?
Asiatic elephant, 20-22 months.
Q139. Giraffes are found mainly in .......?
Africa.
Q140. Name the only animal that cannot swim?
Camel.
Q141. Koala Bears are found only in .......?
Australia.
Q142. Which is the largest rodent in the world?
Capybara.
Q143. Zebras are mostly found in .......?
Africa.
Q144. Which is the largest and rarest lizard?
Komodo Dragon.
Q145. Which is the most common monkey of India?
Rhesus.
Q146. Badgers are found mostly in .......?
Europe.
Q147. Giant Panda mainly feeds on ........?
Bamboo shoots.
Q148. Camel's hump contains what?
Fat.
Q149. Which animal has the highest blood pressure?
Giraffe.
Q150. What does "Dinosaur" mean?
Terrible lizards.
Q151. Which is the most poisonous amphibian?
The arrow poison frog.
Q152. Which is the largest and widely distributed amphibian?
Frog & Toad.
Q153. To which class of vertebrates grass-snakes and slow worms belong?
Reptiles.
Q154. Is the "wood-louse" an insect or crustaceau?
Crustaceau.
Q155. To which order do the Gorilla and Chimpanzee belong?
Primates.
Q156. Which mosquito carries and transfer malarial parasites to human?
Anopheles Gambiae (Female Mosquito)
Q157. What is the scientific name for the bristles of an earth worm?
Chaetae.
Q158. What is the common name for "Nere"?
Sand worm.
Q159. How many true legs does a caterpillar possess?
Six.
Q160. What are young "trouts" called?
Alevin.
Q161. What is the name for the "Second Stomach" of a bird?
Gizzard.
Q162. Insects' blood color is ........?
Yellow.
Q163. How many species of living animals have been categorized by biologists so far?
About 1,20,000.
Q164. How many species of animals did Carlos Linnaes list in the book "System Nature" in 1758?
4200
Q165. What is a "Mexican Hairless"?
A hairless breed of dog.
Q166. Which are the earliest animals ever to possess a true voice?
Frogs.
Q167. When a domestic animal goes wild, it is called as?
Feral.
Q168. How many species of extinct animals have been identified by fossil study?
About one lakh.
Q169. What is "Palmiped" - related to birds?
Any bird with webbed feet.
Q170. Who was the first scientist to classify fossils?
George Curier.
Q171. What is "Aristotle's Lantern"?
A special arrangement of teeth in sea urchins.
Q172. Which fossil organism is usually regarded as the connecting link between reptiles and birds?
Archaeopteryx.
Q173. Which was the heaviest of all prehistoric animals?
Brachiosaurus.
Q174. Who is considered as the founder of modern entomology?
Jan Swammerdam.
Q175. Which was the first dinosaur to be scientifically described?
Megalosaurus.
Q176. What are Ganges, Baiji, Bhulan and Boto?
Fresh water dolphins --- (Ganges - India;  Baiji -- Yangtze, China;  Boto - Amazon, Latin America and Bhulan - Indus, Pakistan.)
Q177. What is the largest living terrestrial (land) mammal?
African Elephant.
Q178. Which is the largest terrestrial mammal ever to roam the earth?
Baluchitherium Grangeri.
Q179. Which are the most primitive multi cellular animals?
Sponges.
Q180. "Proboscis worms" are also known as ........?
Ribbon Worms.
Q181. Which are the simplest animals to have a nervous system and a gut?
Cnidarians.
Q182. Which are the simplest three layered animals alive today?
Flat worms.
Q183. Gordian Worms are also known as .......?
Hair Worm.
Q184. The name of which phylum is derived from a Greek word meaning "Sea Nymph"?
Nemertinea.
Q185. Which animal has one opening which serves as mouth and anus?
Cnidarians.
Q186. What are the stinging cells on the tentacles of corals, sea anemones, Jelly fish and hydra are called?
Nematocysts.
Q187. What are the soft internal partitions of a coral poly or sea anemone called?
Mesenteries.
Q188. Which is the longest tropical insect in the world?
Tropical stick insect.
Q189. Which simple animal has helped the scientists to deduce that there were 400 days in a year, 300 million years ago?
Coral.
Q190. Which insect is generally considered to be the loudest?
Male Cicadas.
Q191. The production of sounds by some insects by rubbing together parts of body, usually to attract a female is known as?
Stridulation.
Q192. Which are considered to be the longest lived insects?
Queen termites.
Q193. Pelagic fishes live along?
Near the top of the sea.
Q194. What is the staple diet of a basking shark?
Plankton.
Q195. Most Sharks are heavier than water. How do they keep selves afloat?
By movement through the water.
Q196. What is the swim bladder in a bony fish used for?
Buoyancy.
Q197. Which is the largest amphibian in the world?
Chinese Giant Salamander.
Q198. Which snakes uses "Constriction" method to kill it's preys?
Python.
Q199. Which snake has a fang which can be swiveled to lie flat in the mouth when not in use?
Pit Viper.
Q200. Which is the largest living member of the crocodile family?
Estuarine Crocodile.
Q201. How does the male snake locate the female for breeding?
By smell.
Q202. Which is the only snake to build a nest?
King Cobra.
Q203. Which is the longest venomous snake?
King Cobra.
Q204. Which is the largest of the living birds?
Ostrich.
Q205. Which is the smallest flightless bird?
Flightless rail.
Q206. Which bird has the highest energy consumption per unit of weight?
Humming Bird.
Q207. The red color of birds like Flamingoes is produced by pigment?
Zooerythrin.
Q208. Which is the oldest known specimen of a toothless bird?
Ichthyornis.
Q209. Penguins are found only in .......?
Antarctic ice fields only.
Q210. Which is the heaviest bird ever to have existed?
Elephant bird.
Q211. In birds, what is uncinate process?
An outer growth of the rib which strengthens the rib cage.
Q212. If a bird is said to be "raptorial" what kind is it?
Bird of prey.
Q213. What is the name for the song box of a bird?
Syrinx.
Q214. What is the main function of the bastard wing?
To control turbulence and prevent stalling.
Q215. What are the bird's wing flight feathers called?
Remiges.
Q216. What is the highest frequency which a bat can detect?
75000 vibrations / second.
Q217. The word "mammal" is derived from?
"Mamma" a Latin word meaning breast.
Q218. Which animal/ mammal has a natural sun-burn lotion?
Hippopotamus.
Q219. Mammals are divided into several orders. Which order includes the most advanced mammal?
Primate.
Q220. The pouch in which a Kangaroo mother keeps her young baby is called ........?
Marsupium.
Q221. Polar bears are found only in .......?
North Pole only.
Q222. Bats belong to which order of mammals?
Chiroptera.
Q223. How many chambers are there in a cow's stomach?
Four.
Q224. How the dung (excrete) of carnivores animals are called?
Scat.
Q225. It is bulky and heavy, but, can run faster than man. Which mammal is it?
Hippopotamus.
Q226. What is "Hinny" an animal?
An offspring of a female donkey and a male horse.
Q227. What is a "Mule" an animal?
An offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
Q228. Which are the only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their head?
Rabbit and Parrot.
Q229. Which is the smallest of the Bear specie that lives in South East Asia, Sumatra & Borneo?
Sun Bear.
Q230. What do "Formicivore" animals feed on largely?
Ants and Termites.
Q231. Kerala is also famous for elephants. How a trained elephant in Kerala is called?
Kumki.
Q232. What is the difference between a tortoise and a turtle?
The difference is that the tortoise cannot swim or float on water.
Q233. What is "Biosonar"?
The biological sound navigating system used by animals like bats to locate objects.
Q234. Which is the only fish specie that can blink with both eyes?
Shark.
Q235. What is the term for the light produced from the body of glow worm or any other living organism?
Bioluminescence.
Q236. Which is the tallest flying bird?
Saurus Crane - 5 feet.
Q237. What is the smallest dog in the world?
Chihuahua of Mexico.
Q238. What is the collective noun for a group of apes?
Shrewdness
Q239. What are Gastropods?
Animal species which have an external shell large enough to allow the soft part to withdraw into it - Eg: Snails.
Q240. What are Slugs?
Gastropods without a shell or with very small internal shells or without a shell.
Q241. Which is the largest flightless bird?
Ostrich.
Q242. Which lizard, native to Australian deserts, on which the rain water does not pass through the skin but blows in minute channels along it until it reaches the mouth where it is swallowed. Name this Lizard?
Moloch.
Q243. Which insects cultivate fungus in their colonies and allow only the queen, king, and young ones to eat it?
Termites.
Q244. The occurrence of two forms among the organisms of the same kind is known as?
Dimorphism.
Q245. Who wrote the book "Zoological Philosophy" in 1809?
Jean Baptiste Lamarck.
Q246. Which animal, other than a human being, can be infected with leprosy?
Armadillo.
Q247. What is the fastest land animal and what is it's speed?
Cheetah - 1.560 km per minute.
Q248. What is the "musth" condition of an elephant associated with?
Mating.
Q249. Which is the only bird that hibernates?
Whip-Poor Will.
Q250. Which fish swims the fastest?
Blue Finned Tunny.
Q251. What is the smallest breed of monkeys?
Marmoset.
Q252. Fishes breathe through?
Gills.
Q253. Development of an egg without fertilization is called?
Pathogenesis.
Q254. What is a Toxin?
A substance poisonous to an organism.
Q255. Which animal conserves water for a very long time?
Kangaroo Rat.
Q256. Which class of animals have good vision?
Birds.
Q257. Which is the second largest bird?
Emu.
Q258. Which animal washes it's food before eating?
Raccoon.
Q259. Which bird is also called "Laughing Jackals"?
Kookaburra.
Q260. Which bird is often seen in a group of seven?
Babbler.
Q261. Which is the biggest cell?
The egg of the Ostrich.
Q262. What is the respiratory organ of earthworm?
Skin.
Q263. What is the excretory organ of earthworm?
Nephridia.
Q264. Which is the heaviest bird that can fly?
Mute Swan.
Q265. Which is the most intelligent animal?
Chimpanzee.
Q266. What is the zoological name for cockroach?
Periplaneta Americana.
Q267. What is the chemical present in honey bee, used for communication among themselves?
Phermones.
Q268. What is the zoological name for "Shark"?
Scolidon Sorra Kowah.
Q269. Which is the fastest bird?
Swift.
Q270. What is the bi-sexual animal?
Earthworm.
Q271. What is the physical basis of inheritance of characters in animal?
Genes.
Q272. What is the name for the organism having characters of both plants and animals?
Euglena.
Q273. Which animal / creature has colorless blood?
Cockroach.
Q274. Which animal can look in two directions at the same time?
Chameleon.
Q275. Who is known as the "Father of Cloning"?
Eyan Wilmutt.
Q276. Which animal is brown in summer and white in winter?
Arctic Hare.
Q277. Which animal is the ancestor of the dog?
Wolf.
Q278. Which animal spreads influenza to horses?
The rat.
Q279. Which sense is dominant in Bears?
Smell.
Q280. Which is the largest snail?
African Giant Snail.
Q281. How long a whale can remain underwater?
20 minutes.
Q282. How many arms are there for a squid?
Ten.
Q283. A small animal that has strong teeth enough to fell a tree?
Beaver.
Q284. What is the smallest amphibians in the world?
Frog.
Q285. Which animal that has a tongue longer than it's body?
Chameleon.
Q286. Which is the heaviest snake in the world?
Anaconda.
Q287. what is the scientific name for dog?
Canis Familiaris.
Q288. Which liquid is generally used to preserve a specimen of animals?
Formalin.
Q289. Where is the poison stored in scorpions?
Tail.
Q290. How many chambers are there in a fish's heart?
Two.
Q291. In which sea animal, pearls are found?
Oyster.
Q292. Whales are mainly hunted for .......?
Oil.
Q293. The ridges on the shell of the mollusk indicates?
Age.
Q294. The acid present in red ants is .......?
Formic Acid.
Q295. Which bird has claws on its wings?
Hoatzin.
Q296. Which bird incubates it's eggs on it's feet?
The emperor penguin.
Q297. Which bird locates it's prey with help of sound?
Owl.
Q298. Which bird spends most of it's time on wings and often sleeps on them?
Swift.
Q299. Which bird weighs less than an insect?
Humming bird.
Q300. Which bird can turn it's head for 180 degree?
Owl.
Q301. Which is the Indian Bat largest in size?
Flying fox.
Q302. Which bird that eats stones?
Ostrich.
Q303. Which is the fastest running bird?
Ostrich.
Q304. Which bird is called the "Famous Thieves"?
Vultures.
Q305. Which bird is considered the most intelligent?
Blue tit.
Q306. Which is the most stupid bird in the world?
Turkey.
Q307. What is the body temperature of birds?
41 degree C.
Q308. The bee that dies soon after stinging some one?
Honey Bee.
Q309. How does an amoeba reproduce?
Through binary fission.
Q310. How long can a horn of a white rhino grows?
1.5 mtrs.
Q311. A spawn becomes a tadpole and then becomes a ........?
Frog.
Q312. Apis is the scientific name for?
Bee.
Q313. How many eyes does a cockroach have?
Two compound and three simple eyes.
Q314. From which insect commercial shellac is produced?
Tachardia Lacca. 2 lakh insects are killed to make 1 kg shellac.
Q315. What is the preferred diet of the silver fish?
Starch and Sugar.
Q316. How many pairs of wings does a Butterfly have?
Two.
Q317. How many teeth does the slug limax maximum have in it's flexible ribbon tongue?
40000
Q318. Bees cannot distinguish one color. What is it?
Yellow.
Q319. How many eyes does a butterfly have?
Two compound eyes.
Q320. What is the type of language used by honey bees?
Dance language.
Q321. In a honey bee colony, who are the workers?
Sterile females.
Q322. How many wings does a house fly have?
Four.
Q323. Which insect swims upside down on its back?
The Water Boatman.
Q324. The Bird of Paradise is hunted mainly for ....... ?
Tail feathers.
Q325. Which creature is with complete metamorphosis?
Butterfly.
Q326. Which animal carries it's house on it's back?
Snail.
Q327. Which specie of spider can change the color of their eyes?
Jumping spider.
Q328. With what sense does the female mosquitoes attract the male?
Sound.
Q329. Which land animal that has a flying specie?
Lizard.
Q330. Which insect has the longest life span?
Cicada lives for 17 years.
Q331. Which insect makes the loudest noise?
The male Cicada.
Q332. "Veal" is the meat of which animal?
Calf.
Q333. Why does the glow worm produce glow?
To attract a mate.
Q334. How many toes does a horse have in the hoof?
One.
Q335. How do mother animals recognize their young ones?
By the smell.
Q336. Which continent has the largest population of tiger?
Asia (India has the largest in the world).
Q337. White tailed Kaibab Squirrel is found in?
North of Grand Canyon, USA.
Q338. Nigai or Blue Cow belong to the family of .......?
Antelope (Tragocerinae).
Q339. How the tail of a fox is known?
Fox tail.
Q340. How the tail of a rabbit is known?
Scut.
Q341. Skunks are found in .......?
North America.
Q342. Where are the bearded pigs are found?
Indonesia.
Q343. Marbled cats are native of .......?
Himachal Pradesh.
Q344. Young beavers and rabbits are called as .......?
Kits.
Q345. Pangolins are .......?
Scaly ant eaters - a toothless mammal.
Q346. "Pudu" is a mammal belonging to .......?
Deer family.
Q347. Chinchilla is an animal belonging to .......?
Rodents family.
Q348. How a female goat is called?
Nanny.
Q349. A baby giraffe is called a .......?
Fawn.
Q350. A female hog is called a .......?
Sow.
Q351. Hart is a .......?
Grown up male red deer.
Q352. Animals which eat human flesh are called .......?
Feline.
Q353. How a young Kangaroo is called?
Joey.
Q354. In US, the buffalo is known as ..?
The Bison.
Q355. What is the scientific name of Indian ape?
Hylobates.
Q356. How the long lustrous hair of Angora goat is called?
Mohair.
Q357. How the female stag is called?
Hind.
Q358. The common name for Pteropus is ...?
Flying Fox.
Q359. Zoologically cat family is called .......?
Felidae.
Q360. The male of a wolf or fox is called .......?
Dog.
Q361. How the backs of an animal is referred?
Calf.
Q362. Which specie of sheep is rare?
Marco Polo.
Q363. Man eating tigers are mostly found in .......?
Sunderbans - West Bengal.
Q364. Which animal pretends to be dead when in danger?
Hyena.
Q365. Which animal is found on the crest of India's National Emblem?
The Lion.
Q366. Which animal, belonging to the cat family, cannot retract it's claws?
The Cheetah.
Q367. Which animal lives at the highest altitude?
Yak (Bison family).
Q368. Which sheep specie gives the finest wool?
The Merino.
Q369. Which specie of cats have no tails?
(1) the Manx, (2) the Siamese.
Q370. Which animal looks like the hump less camel?
Llamas.
Q371. Which is the fastest breed of dog?
The Saluki.
Q372. A group of fish is called .......?
Shoal.
Q373. How many claws does a crab has?
Five pairs (ten).
Q374. What are sea-wasps?
Jelly fish.
Q375. Giant Squids have ........?
10 arms (tentacles).
Q376. Platypus - an animal is native of .......?
Australia.
Q377. Average life span of a dolphin is?
30 years.
Q378. What is the actual name of the sea - cow is .......?
Manatee.
Q379. The larvae of an oyster is called .......?
Spat.
Q380. Animals living on the sea floor are called .......?
Benthic.
Q381. Animals that swim about in sea are called .......?
Pelagic.
Q382. Which bird is known as the "Indian Nightingale"?
The Red Vented Bul-Bul.
Q383. Which crab has a mobile home?
Hermit Crab.
Q384. Of which species of fish is the gold fish an ornamental variety?
The common carp.
Q385. Mosquitoes are least attracted to ..?
Luminescent Satin Cloth.
Q386. Which fish uses a fishing rod to catch it's prey?
The angler fish.
Q387. Which naturalist was murdered for her active efforts to save the Gorillas?
Dian Fossey.
Q388. Which mammal can survive without water for a whole year?
Addax.
Q389. Which animal / mammal gives the highest number of litters (young ones) per year?
Rabbits.
Q390. Where does the animal "Dodo" live?
Mauritius.
Q391. Which alligator specie is the smallest?
Chinese.
Q392. Which animal has horns raising to 3 or 4 feet above the head?
Antelopes.
Q393. What gives colorations to the Butterfly wings?
Melanin.
Q394. Which animal is associated with a variety of coffee, a costly one?
Common Palm Civet - Kopi Luwak Coffee.
Q395. "Lodge" is the home of .......?
Beaver - a large rodent.
Q396. What are the three most poisonous snakes in the world?
(1) The Fierce Snake - Australia. (2) Island Fer-de-Lance - South America. (3) Black Mamba.
Q397. "Lutra Lutra" is the scientific name of .......?
Otter.
Q398. How does the animal "Skunk" defend itself?
By squirting a noxious liquid called Mercaptan.
Q399. Which bird can deliberately fly backwards?
Humming bird.
Q400. Which animal has the largest eyes in the world?
Giant Squid - 500 mm or 20" across.
Q401. "Knuckle Walking" is associated with ..?
Gorillas.
Q402. From which specie of monkey, blood group has been named after?
Rhesus Monkey 0 Blood Group - Rh.
Q403. Which animal of Australia does not drink water and how it maintains the liquid level of the body?
Koala - a bear specie, does not drink water and maintains it's liquid level by feeding mainly on Eucalyptus leaves.
Q404. Which bird has the longest wing span?
Albatross has a wing span of about 12 feet.
Q405. What is "Fetlock" related to horse?
The portion just above the hoof.
Q406. Which animal's blood is blue in color?
Lobster.
Q407. Which is the heaviest insect specie?
Goliath Beetle.
Q408. What is the instrument used for incubation of eggs?
Incubator.
Q409. From which only bird leather can be obtained?
Ostrich.
Q410. Which animal has three hearts?
Octopus.
Q411. What is the name for the nesting site of Penguins?
Rookery.
Q412. How the milk secreting organ of a cow is called?
Udder.
Q413. How the meat of a deer is called?
Venison.
Q414. What is the name for the place where the pigs live?
Sty.
Q415. Other than Python, which other snake uses "Constriction" for killing their preys?
Boa Constrictor.
Q416. Which is the only animal (mammal) that can bend all it's knees?
Elephant.
Q417. Which flying animal / mammal uses echolocation to navigate through night?
Bat.
Q418. Which animal has the loudest roar?
The Lion.
Q419. What is unique about "the Mud snipper" a fish?
It can climb a tree.
Q420. Which specie of cat does not have hair?
Sphinx.
Q421. Which specie of bat sucks blood?
Vampire bat.
Q422. Which animal has the longest tongue?
Giraffe.
Q423. What is Gecko?
A lizard specie that has vacuumized pads on it's feet that allows it to walk on ceilings and often found indoors in warm climates.
Q424. What is the instrument used to assess the age of horses?
Galvayne's Groove.
Q425. What was the name for the first cloned dog?
Snuppy.
Q426. In which region snakes are rare to be found?
Polar region, Greenland, Ireland, New Zealand.
Q427. Which animal can live without water for the longest time?
Sand Cat - Sahara Desert.
Q428. Which is the only living animal living to the order of Proboscidea?
Elephant.
Q429. Which animal sleeps with one eye open?
Dolphins.
Q430. Which is the biggest and longest reptile?
Salt water Crocodile.
Q431. Which animal faints when frightened by the enemy?
Opossum.
Q432. What is Galumphing?
The clumsy looking walk of seals.
Q433. Which is the second largest living mammal?
Fin Whale.
Q434. Which is the only snake in the world to build a nest for laying eggs and incubation?
King Cobra.
Q435. Which is the fastest snake in the world?
Black Mamba.
Q436. Which is the most venomous snake in the world?
Black Mamba.
Q437. What is Tarsus?
Another name for animal foot.
Q438. Emperor, King, Marconi, Gentoos are .......?
Varieties of Penguins.
Q439. Parakeet, Lorikeet, Cockatoos, Cockatiels, Macaws are .......?
Varieties of Parrots.
Q440. What is water Moccasin?
A poisonous north American Viper.
Q441. Which anthropoid moves sideways?
Crab.
Q442. What are Bewick, Whooper, Mute?
Varieties of Swan.
Q443. What is Hart?
A male deer.
Q444. What is Harte Beest?
A type of Antelope found in Africa.
Q445. What is Hamster?
A rodent that can store food in it's cheeks.
Q446. What are Tree, Marsh, Edible?
Are all types of frogs.
Q447. What is Arrow Poison Frog?
A colorful South American Frog that secretes a deadly Venom.
Q448. What is the largest fish?
Whale Shark.
Q449. What are the Common American, German, Australian?
Types of Cockroaches.
Q450. Which Mosquito gives the buzzing sound?
The female mosquito.
Q451. Orca is another name for .......?
Killer Whale.
Q452. Dik Dik is a .......?
A small forest antelope.
Q453. What are Orb, Hammock, Scaffold?
Type of Spider webs.
Q454. Iguana is a .......?
Lizard.
Q455. Reindeer lives in .......?
Arctic and Antarctic regions.
Q456. Which is the only animal, apart from human, which can sun-burn?
Pigs.
Q457. Which is the only surviving wild horse?
Prezehevalaski.
Q458. Okapi is an animal belonging to .......?
The Giraffe family.
Q459. Dinosaurs died approximately ........?
65 million years ago.
Q460. Which is the world's smallest vertebrate?
Paedocypris Progenetica - a member of the carp family, found in Sumatra is the world's smallest vertebrates.
Q461. Which order of the mammal family is the largest in number?
Rodentia (Rodents).
Q462. What does Orangutan mean?
"Man of the Woods".
Q463. Which is the fastest bird?
Perigrime Falcon flies at more than 100 kmph.
Q464. Which specie of fish is known as "Fish Royal"?
Sturgeon - for it's delicacy.
Q465. What is Red Data List?
A comprehensive inventory of the living species and identifies those that are at risk of global extinction.
Q466. Spider's silk spinning organ is called .......?
Spinneret.
Q467. When and where, WWF -World Wild Life Fund started?
1961 at Morges in Switzerland.
Q468. What is "Spawning"?
The production or depositing of large quantities of eggs in water.
Q469. What is the largest cat specie?
Siberian Tiger.
Q470. Which is the world's first cloned mammal?
Dolly - a lamb.
Q471. Name the medicine that is illegally injected to the cattle to yield more milk?
Oxytocin.
Q472. Which is the fastest fish in the world?
Sail Fish.
Q473. Which animal produces the loudest noise?
Blue Whale - up to 188 decibels and can be heard up to 530 miles.
Q474. What is "Molting" related to animals?
The process of shedding hair, skin, scales, fur, and feathers.
Q475. Animals that hunt other animals for food are called ..?
Predators.
Q476. Which animal has the longest life span?
Tortoise. Go up to 200 years.
Q477. Which animal's milk has the highest protein in grams per litre?
The Porpoise.
Q478. Which is lacking in a shark with reference to buoyancy?
It lacks the "Pocket" gas filled bladder, because of which it has to keep swimming always or else it will sink.
Q479. If a small drop of liquor is dropped over it, it will become mad and sting itself to death. What is it?
Scorpion.
Q480. Which animal spits/ sprays an horrible smelling liquid at its enemies?
Skunk.
Q481. Which animal does not have to drink water in it's lifetime and why?
Kangaroo Rat - because the water produced metabolically within their cells during oxidation of food stuff is sufficient for their body.
Q482. Which is the largest nocturnal primate in the world?
Aye-Ay.
Q483. Which is the largest land carnivores animal?
Polar Bear.
Q484. What are Spiral orb, Cole/Tangle, Funnel, Tubular and Sheet?
They are spiders web shapes.
Q485. What is the speed at which a woodpecker can peck?
20 times a second.
Q486. Which country provides / protects more area for wild life than any other country?
Ecuador.
Q487. It quacks, but the sound does not echo. Nobody knows why?  what is it?
Duck.
Q488. Which is the smallest known mammal?
Bumble Bee Bat.
Q489. Which order of the animal kingdom has more described species than any other order?
Coleoptera.
Q490. Which bird can convert salt water into fresh water?
Penguin.
Q491. Which is the fastest bird in the world?
Peregrine Falcon - which can reach speed in excess of two hundred miles per hour.
Q492. Animals have a tendency or capacity to part with apart of their body as a self defense or to save themselves. What is the term for this special property?
Autotomy - Eg: common lizards (home) can part with their tails in such times, which later grow.
Q493. What is the smallest mammal on sea?
Sea Otter.
Q494. How many legs does a common centipede normally have?
15 pairs.
Q495. Titanoba Cerejonensis is considered as the world's longest .......?
Snake.
Q496. "Pavo Christatus" is the scientific name for .......?
Indian Peacock.
Q497. What is the collective noun for jelly fish?
Smack.
Q498. Unlike other fishes, sharks have no .......?
Bones.
Q499. What is the world's fastest insect?
Dragonfly.
Q500. Which is the largest rodent?
Capybara.
Q501. Which bird enters a crocodiles mouth and pecks at food particles on the teeth?
Plover.
Q502. "Ophiophagus Hannah" is the scientific name for ..?
King Cobra.
Q503. The greater danger facing most endangered species?
Habitat loss.
Q504. What is the collective noun for "Pelicans"?
Squadron.
Q505. Which animal can live 1100 days without sleep?
Snail.
Q506. What is the color of cockroach blood?
White.
Q507. Which carnivores specie of shark is also called "The White Pointer" and "White Death"?
Great White Sharks.
Q508. Which is the only animal to have a movable upper jaw?
Alligator.
Q509. What type of animal is a "Gerenuk"?
Antelope.
Q510. Which animal / mammal is considered as the most destructive, other than man?
Rat.
Q511. Which animal is the subject of the famous "Born Free" series of books?
Lion.
Q512. Which animal holds the record for having the longest horn?
Water Buffalo.
Q513. This beautiful hooved mammal is a small graceful antelope found in Israel. What is it?
Gazelle.
Q514. Which bird lays the largest egg?
Ostrich
Q515. Which bird is taken into mines to detect poisonous gas?
Canary.
Q516. Which is the only bird that drops its upper eye lid only to blink?
Owl.
Q517. Feathers of birds are made up of an insoluble protein, what is it?
Keratin.
Q518. Which bird migrates from North to South Pole?
Arctic tern.
Q519. Which sea animal weighs the most?
Blue Whale.
Q520. Which is the smallest snake in the world, recently discovered in 2009?
Leptotyphlops Carlae - Found in Barbados - just 4 inches in length and as thin as spaghetti.
Q521. A bird that lives on the ground and is also near blind. Lays only one egg per year. Despite that it has survived millions of years, from extinction. What is that bird?
Kiwi.
Q522. Which insect is called "Daddy Longlegs"?
Crane fly.
Q523. What is the name for the home of rodent Beaver?
Lodge.
Q524. Which rodent is also called a "Wood Chuck" or Land Beaver?
Groundhog.
Q525. Which is the first cloned camel?
Injaz.
Q526. What is "Mermaid's Purse"?
Skate's egg case.
Q527. What are Barn, Towny and Short eyed?
Varieties of Owl.
Q528. What is the shape of a nucleus in a cell?
Oval, Cylindrical or elongated.
Q529. What are the kinds of cell divisions?
Mitosis and Meosis.
Q530. Meiosis occurs only in .......?
Reproductive cells.
Q531. Metabolism takes place at ..?
Body temperature.
Q532. Skin breathing is done only by .......?
Slow moving animals.
Q533. Fishes breath through?
Gills.
Q534. Tracheal breathing is done by ..?
Certain insects.
Q535. Give an example of external fertilization animals?
Frogs and Toads. Plants also come under this category but the process is complex called Pollination.
Q536. Where was the first tiger census conducted?
Palamu in Jharkhand.
Q537. Which animal has the largest brain of all land mammals?
Elephant.
Q538. Where is the only known white humpback whale?
"Migaloo" in Australian Ocean.
Q539. Mosquitoes are attracted twice as much as that of other colors - What color is it?
Blue.
Q540. How many hearts does an Octopus have?
Eight.
Q541. Birds maintain a body temperature in the range of ..?
40-44 degree C
Q542. In the context of cattle what are "rument" and "Omasum"?
Two of the four compartment of the stomach of cattle.
Q543. What is the life span of Bats?
30 years.
Q544. Which bird has the longest wings?
Albatross.
Q545. Which animal can live without sleep for 1100 days at a stretch?
Snail.
Q546. Which animal's nest is called "Vespiary"?
Wasp.
Q547. Which fish has long been considered the world's smallest fish?
Paedo Cypris Progenetica.
Q548. What is the only bird that cannot fly but swim?
Penguin. It is also the only bird that can walk straight.
Q549. Frogs are divided into three orders. What are they?
Apoda - Those do not have limbs. Urodela - Limbs with equal size. Anura - Short fore limbs and long hind limbs.
Q550. How fast can a wild Turkey fly?
55 mph.
Q551. Which animals are capable of seeing objects behind their head without turning their head?
Rabbit and Parrot.
Q552. Which animal's milk never forms into curd?
Camel.
Q553. Which aquatic bird / animal lays its eggs only in the early morning?
Duck.
Q554. Which vitamin helps animals in recovering from wounds?
Vitamin A
Q555. Lifetime of Emu the bird is .......?
Around 60 years.
Q556. For what do fire flies use their light?
As a mating signal.
Q557. Which tiger specie is the largest among cats?
Amur or Siberiean Tiger.
Q558. Which is the third largest mammal by weight?
Hippopotamus.
Q559. What is considered as the world's largest amphibian?
Chinese Giant Salamander.
Q560. What type of animal is Quokka?
Marsupial.
Q561. What is a Zorilla?
A type of polecat and a member of the weasel family.
Q562. Which is the only bird that can fly all day and not flap its wings?
Albatross - they have narrow long wings and use wind energy to fly.
Q563. How the home of a wolf is called?
Lair.
Q564. Which bear is famous for hunting honey combs?
Sloth Bear.
Q565. Which is the only bird that hunts by its sense of smell?
Kiwis.
Q566. What is "Panning" related to animals?
The legs on one side of their body (fore and hind) advancing together in their movement.
Q567. What type of animal is "Kiang"?
Wild Ass.
Q568. What type of fish can produce electricity from their body?
Eel can sometimes produce up to 500 volts.
Q569. Which male fish build a nest with its saliva to enable the female to lay its eggs (sometimes 17000)?
Eel.
Q570. Which is the only animal that can sleep on its back?
Human.
Q571. The highest number of Asiatic Cheetah is found in .......?
Iran.
Q572. Give a few examples of non-ruminant single stomach and ruminant animals with multi chamber stomach?
NON-RUMINANT SINGLE STOMACH ANIMALS: Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Horse, Zebra, Ass, Pig, Man, Dog, Monkey, Rabbit, Hamster.
RUMINANTS WITH MULTI-CHAMBER STOMACH ANIMALS: Cattle - Buffalo, Sheep, Goat, Nilgai, Giraffe, Deer, Bison, Llama, Camels.