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ZOO CARD QUIZ

Let's see how much you learned about the animals in our virtual zoo. Take this quiz, and see if you are an animal expert.

Questions

1. What animals are reptiles?

2. What animals are mammals?

3. What animal has a pouch?

4. What animal is longer than Mystic the giraffe is tall?

5. What animal lives in the wild in the United States?

6. What animals live along coral reefs in the wild?

7. What animal lives in the Himalaya Mountains in the wild?

8. What animal will have a birthday in June, and how old will he be?

9. What animal likes to toss its food in the air to eat it?

10. What animal lives in the wild in South America?

Answers

1. Komodo dragon, reticulated python, Aldabra tortoise

2. Capuchin monkey, reticulated giraffe, eastern gray kangaroo, red panda, siamang

3. Eastern gray kangaroo

4. Reticulated python

5. Red-tailed hawk

6. Stars and stripes puffer fish, black-tipped reef shark

7. Red panda

8. Norbert the Aldabra tortoise will be age 45.

9. Wrinkled hornbill

10. Capuchin monkey

Sources: Information came from the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo; Cornell University Lab of Ornithology "All About Birds," www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide; and Honolulu Zoo at www.honoluluzoo.org.

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Click the links below to hear a zoo card animal or a zookeeper telling you more about it.

Aldabra tortoise	Capuchin monkey	Kangaroo	Komodo dragon
Puffer fish	Red panda	Red-tailed hawk	Reef shark
Reticulated giraffe	Reticulated python	Siamang	Wrinkled hornbill