Let’s Play an Exciting Combo Animal Names Quiz

Can you name the animals whose names are made of two combined animal names?

Let’s freshen our knowledge about animals. Below are specific descriptions and clues for each animal whose name is a combination of two animal names. Let’s play and hope you get them all right.

1. Identification: A popular arachnid plus an intelligent long-tailed primate
* Clue: This animal prefer the warm tropical forests of South and Central America. Adults of this animal can reach two feet tall and can sports fur color can be black, tan, golden, brown, or red fur color. Its diet includes leaves, flowers as well as insects.

2. Identification: Slow moving shelled reptile plus an offering bird
* Clue: Its Latin name is Streptopelia turtur. A European and North African bird which is much smaller than its domesticated cousin. Adult of this one measures 28 cm long. It is slim-bodied, reddish brown body plumage, blue-gray head, and a grayish tail with a white tip.

3. Identification: Thanksgiving bird and a scavenging raptor
* Clue: A bird-of-prey found mostly in America. A large bird that measures 64–81 cm on length, 0.85–2.26 kg in weight and with a wingspan of 170–183 cm . It has dark brown to black plumage, a bald reddish head, and an ivory-colored beak.

4. Description: Wild canine and an arachnid
* Clue: A common household pest that range from 1cm to 4 cm in length. A hairy animal but has excellent eyesight. Females have the distinctive trait of carrying their egg sacs stuck at the back of their abdomen.

5. Description: Australian marsupial and an urban rodent
* Clue: a small rodent endemic to North America inhabiting arif areas particularly sandy or soft soils. This animal is characterized by its relatively large head, short front legs and large hind legs. Adults can reach 23-41 cm long (including the very long tail). It feeds mostly on seeds.

6. Description: Colony dwelling insect and the king of the jungle
* Clue: The larvae stages of this insect is known for making funnel-shaped to trap ants.

The adult sports two pairs of long, tapered wings and a long, slender abdomen. In North America, the animal’s larva is often called “doodlebug” because of the peculiar winding, trails it leaves in the sand while searching for a perfect site to build its trap.

7. Description: A mythological fire breather and a household pest
* Clue: This animal is characterized by an elongated body, two sets of strong transparent wings and large multifaceted eyes. It has a life span The life span from about 6 months to over 7 years, adult lives for only a few weeks. It is also one fastest insects in the world, with some species attaining a maximum speed of 10–15 meters per second.

8. Identification: Male bovine plus an amphibian
* Clue: The largest frog in North America that average about 9–15 cm in body length. It is typically green to greenish-brown in color. Male eardrum is larger than its eyes. Tadpoles can live up to two years before turning into frogs.

9. Description: A large African mammal plus tough insect
* Clue: It is one of the largest in their family that can reach 60 millimeters in length. Male owns 2 horns used in digging and fighting rivals during mating season. This animal is found in the rainforests of Southeast Asia and South America. It feeds on dead wood, fruits, leaves and grasses.

10. Description: Urban rodent and legless reptile
* Clue: Adults can reach 91-152 cm long. They come in variety of colors including black, gray, yellow, red, and brown. They are found in a wide variety of habitats including forests, swamps, rocky hills, barns and abandoned buildings. Adults feed on mice, squirrels, birds, as well as bird eggs.

Here are the answers to each questions. did you get it all right?

1. Spider monkey

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2. Turtledove

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3. Turkey vulture

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4. Wolf spider

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5. Kangaroo rat

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6. Antlion

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7. Dragonfly

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8. Bullfrog

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9. Rhinoceros Beetle

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10. Rat snake

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Animals with Astonishing Powers – Part Two

10 more animals gifted with astonishing powers.

Here are 10 more animals with exceptional powers! From the fastest land animals, to the fastest flying bird down to a weird-looking mammal using electroreception to hunt prey, they are truly marvels of Nature. Read to know more about them.

Cheetah- Superb Speed on Land

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With lightning-like speed, the Cheetah is the fastest land animal on earth! For the record, here is our cool cat’s speed credentials: it can attain a top speed of 112 to 120 km/h; it can sprint up to 500 m; and it can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/hour in just three seconds. Incredible speed, isn’t it?

However, speed has also its drawback; during a long chase, its body temperature rises up and to cool it down and to catch its breath, this long-legged sprinter needs to rest for half an hour. A poor climber, cheetah hunts by vision, stalking its prey within 10–30 m, then chased and tripping its prey with a fatal bite to the neck. Cheetahs diet includes: gazelles, impalas, hare, and other small animals.

Perigrine Falcon: The Super Flyer

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Superman gets lost! The Super Flyer is in town. The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest-flying bird on planet Earth. Equipped with razor-sharp beak, this Raptor can attain a top speed of 320 km/HR! The peregrine falcons known for their “moustache”, are medium-sized bird of prey sporting blue-gray upperparts and white belly.

Averaging 34 to 58 centimeters in body length and a wingspan of about around 80 to 120 centimeters, this super flyer of a bird, hunts its prey by dropping down on them from high altitude. Its diet consists of medium-sized birds like pigeons, waders and occasionally insects, reptiles and small mammals.

Octopus: Best Line of Defense

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How can this large blue-blooded mollusk, measuring to as much as 7 meters from one tip end to another tip end hides from its predator? The answer – by shape-shifting and invisibility. This soft-bodied creatures can make itself invisible from possible predators, using specialized skin, muscles that can instantly adopt the color and texture of its environment.

Next in its defense arsenals, is the black ink which it spews to make a fast escape from attackers. And lastly, when under threat, this big-eyed mollusk can spare an arm to distract a predator’s grasp, but is able to re-grow it later.

Gecko: Anti-gravity Suction Toes

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Nature’s original Spiderman – the Gecko – a small to medium-sized lizard is not only good at vocalizations but have many powers in his arsenal. Aside from the ability to shed its brittle tail as a deviation to escape a potential predator, it has also anti-gravity suction toes that adhere to most surfaces aiding it to climb up ceilings or vertical surfaces with relative ease.

These sticky toe pads have thousands of microscopic hairs (called setae) which aid it to do these amazing stunts even on smooth surfaces or hanging upside down. If an adult gecko is allowed to make contact with smooth glass even with one toe, it can support a weight of 133 kg or about eight times its body weight! How’s that for a tiny lizard with no eyelids.

Rhinoceros Beetle: Incredible strength

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A black beetle that can compete with Hercules in a weightlifting match? Got to believe that – Rhino Beetle is the world’s strongest animals, body proportion wise. Famous for their horn on the top of the head, these fierce-looking but gentle beetles can lift a 65 ton object or up to 850 times their own body weight. Among the largest of beetles, Rhino beetles average 50 – 60 millimeters in length when fully grown.

Spittle bug: World’s greatest leaper

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A leap worthy of an Olympic gold medal – the Spittle Bug or Froghopper can do such feat! The adult, just under half an inch in size can toss itself a monstrous 28 inches! Accomplishing such gigantic leap requires a force 400x greater than gravity. Spittle bugs are best known for their larvae stage, where the nymphs cover themselves in foamed-up plant saps to elude predators. Spittle bugs are typically dull green, gray or brown in color with a head resembling that of a frog. Most species of spittle bugs eat plants and shrubs.

Moth: Hypnotic Scent

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Searching for love – forget about Cupid’s arrows nor love spells, instead, why not bring along with you a moth. Numbering about 250,000 species, these winged insects emit a chemical called pheromones, a very special scent reaching miles away with a message – I’m in the mood for love! Moths too have astonishing defense mechanisms against probable predators.

Camouflage is one – adapting to objects in the surroundings, some moth resembles lichen, while others appear like bark of trees. Mimicry is another thing – creating markings on their wings to mimic other imposing animals like birds of prey or that of venomous snakes.

Sea Star: Spineless Wonder

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Sea stars or Starfish is echinoderms numbering to about 2,000 species, found in major marine environment worldwide. They come in different sizes, colors and shapes. Though most sea stars have five arms, other species with 10, 20, and even 30 arms exist. These “spineless wonders” have two remarkable features – the ability to regenerate injured, mutilated or cut off the arms and the remarkable ability to pry open bivalve shells, using their suction-cupped tube feet and digesting its prey by inserting its thin tongue into the opened shell. They feed mostly on clams, mussels, oysters, and occasionally small fish.

Dolphins: Ultrasonic hearing

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Dolphins are social marine mammals that have bonded well with humans. But what is so special about these affable, gentle toothed whales? They have acute eyesight and a highly developed sense of hearing! Though possessing small ear opening, dolphins have the ability to hear frequencies 10 times more sensitive than human ears.

Add to this remarkable hearing power – they hear with their teeth using a complex hearing process called echolocation. This process involved the release of instantaneous series of clicks done with the lower jaw, through the dolphin’s blow-hole. Also, dolphins have a good sense of touch, but very poor sense of smell.

Platypus: Electroreception!

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A bizarre-looking egg-laying mammal native to Australia, platypus owns an astonishing sixth sense: electroreception. Having poor vision, the web-footed platypus relies solely on electroreception to hunt for prey, These electroreceptors are located in the bill, which sense probable prey by detecting electric current produced by muscle movement.

Even on a totally dark surroundings, platypus can precisely pinpoint its victim! Also, the male platypus carries fatal venom that can kill small animals, or cause severe pain among humans.

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