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🦎 Animals of Madagascar

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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 12 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. What do most lemurs mainly eat?

Grass seeds onlyFishMeatFruit and leaves

2. The fossa is Madagascar's biggest meat-eating mammal. What does it mostly hunt?

FishLemursSealsAntelope

3. What was the elephant bird?

A giant flightless bird that is now extinctA kind of batA bird that rides on elephantsA very small hummingbird

4. About half of the world's species of which reptile live on Madagascar?

CrocodilesPythonsChameleonsSea turtles

5. Madagascar's day geckos (Phelsuma) are unusual among geckos because they are active when?

During the dayOnly at nightOnly at duskOnly after rain

6. Why can a fossa climb down a tree trunk head first?

Its front legs are much longerIt has a gripping tailIts claws hook backwardsIts ankles turn almost backwards

7. How do male ring-tailed lemurs usually settle a dispute?

By calling loudly all nightWith a stink fight, wafting scent from their tailsBy wrestling until one gives upBy racing to the top of a tree

8. What does a female giraffe weevil do with a leaf?

Eats it wholeWeaves it into a nest with othersUses it as an umbrellaRolls it into a tube around a single egg

9. The fat-tailed dwarf lemur is the only primate known to do what?

Change colourFlyLive entirely under waterHibernate for months at a time

10. Madagascar's boa snakes are most closely related to boas living where?

South AmericaWest AfricaAustraliaIndia

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