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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. What do most lemurs mainly eat?

Fruit and leavesGrass seeds onlyMeatFish

2. A tenrec looks most like which familiar animal?

A hedgehogA squirrelA badgerA rabbit

3. Roughly what share of Madagascar's wild species is found nowhere else on Earth?

About 50%About 30%About 10%About 90%

4. The Madagascan flying fox is the island's largest what?

BatBirdFoxOwl

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

Eats it wholeUses it as an umbrellaRolls it into a tube around a single eggWeaves it into a nest with others

8. What does the aye-aye do with its long, thin middle finger?

Holds on while it sleepsDigs burrowsCombs its furHooks grubs out of holes in wood

9. What is unusual about the aye-aye's front teeth?

They keep growing throughout its lifeThere are only two of themThey are hollowThey are made of bone, not enamel

10. What is the Malagasy name for the indri?

BabakotoFanalokaAngonokaVazimba

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