Free Quiz Questions on animals. Topics include names, types, dangerous animals, food, and habitat.

  1. What do rats prefer to eat: cheese or boiled sweets?

    Boiled sweets

  2. What British wild animal makes a nest for itself that is known as a 'form'?

    Hare

  3. What animal, also known as a bobcat, shares its name with a top-selling brand of underarm deodorant?

    Lynx

  4. Are numbers of Goldfinches in Britain booming, or are the birds nearly extinct [2006]?

    They are booming

  5. What type of animal is a natterjack?

    A toad

  6. What animal has a better chance of catching you on land: a crocodile or an alligator?

    Alligator

  7. What are there most of in the world: Sheep, Chickens or Human Beings?

    Chickens

  8. What do you call a female giraffe: Bitch, Cow or Mare?

    Cow

  9. Only one sex of mosquito feeds on human blood; is it the male or female?

    female

  10. Only one sex of wasp can actually sting you: is it the male or the female?

    Female

  11. Which animal from the following list causes most human fatalities in Africa every year: Lion, crocodile or elephant?

    Lion

  12. Which flightless bird’s latin name is 'struthio camelus', meaning “sparrow camel”?

    Ostrich

  13. What are there most of in Britain: squirrels, rats or humans?

    Rats

  14. What of these animals can run fastest: a zebra, a rabbit or a wild turkey?

    Zebra

  15. Which animals killed three people in Florida in May2006: Bears, Alligators or Hyenas?

    Alligators

  16. Who or what lives in a formicarium

    Ants

  17. What kind of animals are the only types of animal on Earth apart from humans that can contract leprosy: panthers, elephants or armadillos?

    armadillos

  18. What is the only food of the giant panda?

    Bamboo Shoots

  19. Which animals kill more people around the world every year: snakes or bees?

    Bees

  20. What kind of animal is a Booby: a bird, a fish or a mammal?

    bird

  21. Are wild crocodiles only found in North America, only found in Africa or found in both?

    Both

  22. What is a male elephant called: a bull, a jack or a stallion?

    Bull

  23. What type of animals are bactrians and dromedaries?

    Camels (one hump or two)

  24. Which species has a greater population in the wild: chimpanzees, gorillas or orang utans?

    Chimpanzees

  25. Which snake is the world’s biggest killer of humans: Anaconda, Cobra or Rattlesnake? (kills 40,000 a year)

    Cobra

  26. What is a termite more closely related to: an ant or a cockroach?

    Cockroach

  27. What kind of animal is a lurcher

    Dog

  28. Is the most poisonous animal in the world: a frog, a snake or a bat?

    Frog

  29. Who are vegetarian: Gorillas, Chimpanzees or Baboons?

    Gorillas

  30. What type of shark kills most people every year: Great White Shark, Tiger Shark, or Hammerhead Shark?

    Great White

  31. The dunnock is another name for which common bird?

    Hedge Sparrow

  32. What type of bird is an Egret?

    Heron

  33. What large animal's name translates as 'water horse'?

    Hippopotamus

  34. Which animal kills the most people in Africa every year: Lions, Hippos or Elephants?

    Hippos

  35. What is a Daddy Long Legs an insect, a spider, or a type of small bird?

    Insect (Crane fly)

  36. Is the hippopotamus part of the pig family, the horse family or the rat family?

    It's a member of the pig family

  37. What is a baby rabbit called: a puppy or a kitten?

    Kitten

  38. Is a hippopotamus part of the pig family, the horse family or the rat family?

    Pig

  39. What type of farm animal is a Gloucestershire Old Spot?

    Pig

  40. A Squab is the young of which bird?

    pigeon

  41. Which are the only animals said to actively hunt humans: tigers, polar bears or vultures?

    Polar Bears

  42. Which bird is also known as the sea parrot because of the shape of its beak

    Puffin

  43. Who are there more of in the UK: squirrels, rats or Human beings?

    Rats. (76 million rats!)

  44. What is the more common name for a 'bander macaque'?

    Rhesus Monkey

  45. The leaves of the mulberry tree are the favourite food of which creature? The silkworm, the three-toed sloth or the South American monkey ant?

    silkworm

  46. What type of animal is a krait: a horse, a snake or a monkey?

    Snake

  47. What is the favourite food of the sperm whale: Squid, Jellyfish or Sperm?

    Squid

  48. What animal lives in a drey and has a name which means shadow-tailed?

    Squirrel

  49. What is the largest species of Beetle in the U.K. called?

    stag beetle

  50. What is the most observed bird in Britain: Blackbirds, Blue Tits or Starlings?

    Starlings

  51. What kind of animal is a leatherback: snake, toad or turtle?

    Turtle

  52. How many pounds of hay and grain does the average horse eat in a day?

    26 lbs