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🦎 Animals of Madagascar

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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 rabbitA badgerA squirrelA hedgehog

2. What do most lemurs mainly eat?

Grass seeds onlyFishMeatFruit and leaves

3. The world's smallest primate is a Malagasy animal. Which one?

A tree shrewA marmosetA tarsierA mouse lemur

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

Only after rainOnly at duskOnly at nightDuring the day

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

Moult their skinHibernateFeed on krillBreed and raise their calves

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

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

7. In a lemur troop, who is usually in charge?

An adult femaleNobody, they take turnsThe largest maleThe oldest male

8. How does the satanic leaf-tailed gecko avoid being eaten?

It looks exactly like a dead leafIt buries itself in sandIt sprays venomIt plays dead and smells bad

9. Archaeoindris, an extinct Malagasy lemur, was about the size of what?

A horseA house catA gorillaA mouse

10. Madagascar broke away from India roughly how long ago?

About 500,000 years agoAbout 8 million years agoAbout 400 million years agoAbout 88 million years ago

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