Test Your Wildlife Knowledge

Test Your Wildlife Knowledge

Think you know the wild? Let’s find out.

We stumbled across this classic wildlife true-or-false quiz from an 2000 Farmers’ Almanac, and it’s the perfect reminder that nature is way weirder (and cooler) than most of us remember. Some of these sound obvious… until they’re not.

TRUE OR FALSE?

1. Ocean water is 8 percent salt.
2. Geese mate for life.
3. A deer has five stomach chambers.
4. The female bald eagle is larger than the male.
5. The nest of an osprey may be as big as a yard in diameter.
6. Turtle eggs are fertilized after the female lays them.
7. A tarantula spider is more dangerous than a black widow.
8. An elephant is bigger than a blue whale.
9. Bass are color-blind.
10. Turtles have teeth.
11. Young birds such as ducks, geese, and shore birds are born with their eyes open.
12. The coyote is often referred to as the “prairie wolf.”
13. Nitrogen is made into organic material by green plants, bacteria, and algae.
14. Mount Rainier National Park is named after a volcanic mountain.
15. The duckbill platypus and the spiny anteater are the only two mammals that lay eggs.

*SEE PAGE 63 FOR ANSWERS!
©2000 Farmers’ Almanac

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Test Your Wildlife Knowledge Answers

1. False, it’s actually 3.5 percent.
2. True
3. False, it has four.
4. True
5. True
6. False, they’re actually fertilized while within the female’s body.
7. False
8. False
9. False
10. False
11. True
12. True
13. True
14. True
15. True