Wildlife of Africa quiz

More questions about Wildlife of Africa

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1. 1 Easy

   What birds draw crowds to Boulders Beach near Cape Town?

   Answer: Penguins

   Why: In 2024 the African penguin became the first penguin species ever listed as Critically Endangered.

2. 2 Medium

   Which animals are among the rock hyrax's closest relatives?

   Answer: Elephants

   Why: Like an elephant's, a hyrax's small tusks grow from incisors, while most other mammals' tusks grow from canines.

3. 3 Hard

   What trait spread among Gorongosa's elephants in Mozambique's civil war?

   Answer: No tusks

   Why: Tuskless females were about five times as likely as tusked ones to survive the war, because the poachers were after ivory.

4. 4 Easy

   Which cat is the only one with a tufted tail tip?

   Answer: Lion

   Why: Inside the tuft, some lions hide a hard spur about 5 mm long, and nobody knows what it is for.

5. 5 Medium

   Which animal is the striped okapi's closest living relative?

   Answer: Giraffe

   Why: Split hooves give the okapi away: giraffes have them too, while zebras and horses have one solid hoof per foot.

6. 6 Hard

   Which striped animal died out at an Amsterdam zoo in 1883?

   Answer: Quagga

   Why: Since 1987, South Africa's Quagga Project has bred plains zebras with fewer stripes to bring back the quagga's look.