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🦎 Animals of Madagascar

Years 8 to 11 · Read up first

10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 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. A tenrec looks most like which familiar animal?

A badgerA rabbitA squirrelA hedgehog

2. Where do most lemurs spend their time?

On the open beachIn riversUndergroundIn the trees

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

FishLemursSealsAntelope

4. What gives the ring-tailed lemur its name?

The circles it runs inIts long black and white striped tailRings around its eyesA ring of fur around its neck

5. When is the aye-aye active?

At nightAt middayOnly at dawnOnly in winter

6. What was the elephant bird?

A giant flightless bird that is now extinctA very small hummingbirdA bird that rides on elephantsA kind of bat

7. Humpback whales gather off Madagascar's east coast each winter to do what?

Breed and raise their calvesMoult their skinFeed on krillHibernate

8. How did the tomato frog get its name?

Its round shape and green skinIts bright red-orange colourIt lives in tomato plantsIt only eats tomatoes

9. How does the Madagascar hissing cockroach make its hissing sound?

By scraping its legs on the groundBy clicking its jawsBy rubbing its wings togetherBy forcing air out through its breathing holes

10. Chameleons of the genus Brookesia are remarkable for being what?

Among the smallest reptiles in the worldThe longest-lived reptilesThe only venomous lizardsThe fastest lizards

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