How much do you know about the animals of our beautiful planet?

How much do you know about the animals of our beautiful planet?

Question 1 of 10

What is the most massive macropodine marsupial?

Question 2 of 10

When British Museum zoologist George Shaw received a pickled specimen of this animal in 1798, he was convinced it was a hoax. What was it?

Question 3 of 10

This mammal is buoyant enough to float: to eat food at the bottom of rivers, it exhales and sinks. What is it?

Question 4 of 10

Which pair of animal species and type is correct?

Question 5 of 10

In 1859, Australia's Thomas Austin had 11 kids and two dozen of what animal, which produced about ten billion descendants?

Question 6 of 10

What makes up most of an elephant's trunk?

Question 7 of 10

The Dutch actually call it the gnu, from the Khoikhoi imitation of its grunt. Our name for it comes from the Dutch, too. What is it?

Question 8 of 10

A small furball called the hyrax joins dugongs and manatees in a taxon called Paenungulata, making them the nearest relatives of what unlikely animal?

Question 9 of 10

Ailurus fulgens is better known as the red panda. It has another name, but I can't remember it. Maybe I'll use a search engine on my web browser. What is that other name?

Question 10 of 10

It may not give a crap, and it make take it wants, but Mellivora capensis isn't actually a badger. What do we call it?

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