Page 96 - World of Animals - Issue #33

Animal trivia

Test your animal knowledge

1. BUTTERFLY WINGS 3. OTTERLY DIFFERENT

What substance are butterfly wing Can you name the otter species?

scales made of?

2. MEET THE TORTOISES a. b.

Do you know which of these tortoises is the rarest,
biggest, smallest and newest?

a. b. c. d.
Angonoka tortoise Eastern Santa Cruz tortoise
4. GORILLA KINGDOM

How many subspecies of gorilla are there?

a. Four b. Five
c. d.
Speckled tortoise Galápagos tortoise c. Three d. Six

5. WHO AM I?

Match the animal to its alien behaviour
a. b. c. d. e.

“An English settler “I can eat 20 “I was introduced “I have all but wiped “I was brought to

introduced me to small fish in half into new territory out one of the America because of

Australia” an hour” to curb the fire ant icons of the British a link to a poem by
population” countryside” Shakespeare”

© Thinkstock; Dreamstime European starling European rabbit Cane toad Lionfish Grey squirrel

96 Answers 1. Chitin 2. a) Rarest b) Newest c) Smallest d) Bigges 3. a) Sea otter b) Short-clawed otter c) Giant river otter d)European otter 4. a) Four 5. a) European rabbit b) Lionfi sh c) Cane toad d) Grey squirrel e) European starling