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Children are curious to learn new things about their surroundings. They keep asking questions about the world around them. Of all things, perhaps, they are most fascinated by animals.
These creatures cohabit the world with us and are an integral part of the ecosystem. Every animal has a unique trait and is responsible for keeping the environmental balance. Some can run, while others can jump. Some are slow, a few of them are fast, and some can fly—the characteristics are as different as the animals themselves. Animals who eat plants are called herbivores, the ones who eat meat are carnivores, and those who eat both plants and meat are omnivores.
There are so many things to know about animals. To make it easy for your children to learn, we have compiled some trivia questions about animals for kids in this post.
Simple or tricky, these questions about animals for kids will ensure that your child knows more about animals.
1. How many pairs of wings do bees have?
Answer: Two
2. What is a doe?
Answer: A female deer
3. What is a baby sheep called?
Answer: A lamb
4. How many legs does an octopus have?
Answer: Eight
5. What bird is the symbol of peace?
Answer: Dove
6. The baby of which animal is called a joey?
Answer: Kangaroo
7. If a _____ colored cat crosses your path, it is considered bad luck. Which color?
Answer: Black
8. What is a group of lions called?
Answer: A pride
9. Which bird lays the largest eggs?
Answer: Ostrich
10. Which is the fastest animal?
Answer: Cheetah
11. What does a panda eat?
Answer: Bamboo
12. Which is the only mammal that can fly?
Answer: Bat
13. Which animal is known as the man’s best friend?
Answer: A dog
14. Which is the only land animal that cannot jump?
Answer: Elephant
15. Which is the fastest running bird?
Answer: Ostrich
16. Which is the bird that can fly backward?
Answer: Hummingbird
17. Which is the tallest bird in the world?
Answer: Ostrich
18. Which is the fastest bird?
Answer: Falcon
19. Which is the biggest animal in the entire world?
Answer: Blue whale
20. Which is the slowest animal?
Answer: Three-toed sloth
21. What is the horn of a rhinoceros made of?
Answer: Hair
22. Which animal can lift up to 50 times its body weight?
Answer: Ant
23. Which is the tallest animal?
Answer: Giraffe
24. What is a baby dog called?
Answer: A pup
25. Which is the longest snake?
Answer: Reticulated python
26. How many legs does a lobster have?
Answer: Ten
27. How many eyes does a spider have?
Answer: Eight (Some have six or fewer but always an even number)
28. Which is the largest mammal?
Answer: Whale
29. What is a group of crows called?
Answer: A murder
30. Which animal has three hearts?
Answer: Octopus
31. Which animal lives the longest (or has the longest lifespan)?
Answer: Arctic whale
32. Which animal does not drink water?
Answer: Kangaroo rat
33. Which animal never sleeps?
Answer: Bullfrog
34. What are amphibians?
Answer: Animals that live on land and water
35. How many bones do sharks have?
Answer: None
36. How many bones are there in a giraffe’s neck?
Answer: Seven (just like humans)
37. How many years can a snail sleep for?
Answer: Three years
38. What kind of animal is a Komodo dragon?
Answer: A lizard
39. What is a female sheep called?
Answer: Ewe
40. What is a baby goat called?
Answer: A kid
41. How do bats navigate?
Answer: They use echolocation (sound waves for navigating)
42. Which bird eats only bones?
Answer: Bearded vulture
43. Which is the world’s most poisonous spider?
Answer: Brazilian wandering spider
44. Which is the most venomous snake in the world?
Answer: Saw-scaled viper
45. Which bird’s eye is bigger than its brain?
Answer: Ostrich
46. Which are the two only egg-laying mammals?
Answer: Duck-billed platypus and anteater
47. Which is the smallest reptile?
Answer: Leaf chameleon
48. Which bird flies the highest?
Answer: Ruppell’s vulture
49. Which bird has the biggest wingspan?
Answer: Wandering albatross
50. How many heart chambers does a cockroach have?
Answer: Twelve
51. To which part of an ant’s body is its legs attached?
Answer: Its thorax
52. Are rabbits born blind?
Answer: Yes
53. Do sponges have a heart?
Answer: No
54. What is a female donkey called?
Answer: A jenny
55. Which animal breathes through its skin?
Answer: Frog
56. How long does it take for a sloth to digest its food?
Answer: Two weeks
57. Lemurs are native to which country?
Answer: Madagascar
58. Which was the first animal to be domesticated?
Answer: A goat
59. What do you call a group of fish?
Answer: A school
60. What is a nocturnal animal?
Answer: An animal that sleeps during the day and hunts at night
61. What is the color of a newborn flamingo?
Answer: Grey
62. How do snakes smell?
Answer: With their tongues
63. What does a caterpillar turn into after making a cocoon?
Answer: A butterfly
64. What color is a reindeer’s eyes in winter?
Answer: Blue
65. How many brains does an octopus have?
Answer: Nine
66. Which animal cannot look up?
Answer: Pig
67. How do honey bees taste food?
Answer: With their feet
68. How many glasses of milk does a cow give in its lifetime?
Answer: 200,000
69. Which animal can turn its head 270°?
Answer: An owl
70. Which animal can move its eyes independently?
Answer: Chameleon
71. Why don’t spiders stick to their webs?
Answer: Because they walk on the non-sticky threads
72. How can you determine the age of a lion?
Answer: By seeing its nose
73. Which animal has the strongest bite?
Answer: Hippopotamus
74. Where do dogs sweat?
Answer: The pads of their feet
75. Which is the national bird of New Zealand? (New Zealanders are often called by this name.)
Answer: Kiwi
76. How many compartments does a cow’s stomach have?
Answer: Four
77. Which is the largest animal in the squirrel family?
Answer: Groundhog
78. Which animal’s name means “water horse?”
Answer: Hippopotamus
79. How does a pufferfish respond to threats?
Answer: It puffs itself up like a balloon
80. Which species of bear has translucent fur?
Answer: Polar bear
81. How many legs does a honey bee have?
Answer: Six
82. What is the color of an ocelot?
Answer: Yellow with black markings
83. Which animal has the highest blood pressure?
Answer: Giraffe
84. What is a baby puffin called?
Answer: A puffling
85. What is a group of giraffes called?
Answer: A tower
86. What are male and female elephants called?
Answer: Bull and cow, respectively
87. Why do rats keep nibbling at things?
Answer: Because their teeth keep growing and they keep biting things to wear them off
88. What is a kakapo?
Answer: A parrot that cannot fly
89. Which animal’s heart is located in its head?
Answer: Shrimp
90. How many noses does a slug have?
Answer: Four
91. Which direction does a bat first turn after exiting a cave?
Answer: Left
92. Which animal doesn’t have vocal cords?
Answer: Giraffe
93. What is a polar bear’s skin color?
Answer: Black
94. What is a group of kittens called?
Answer: A kindle
95. Which is the only big cat that cannot roar?
Answer: Cheetah
96. What is the wingspan of a bald eagle?
Answer: Eight feet
97. Which is the biggest land animal?
Answer: Elephant
98. How are birds able to fly?
Answer: Because they have hollow bones
99. Which animal was worshipped in ancient Egypt?
Answer: Cat
100. Which is the fastest water animal?
Answer: Sailfish
101. Who does most of the hunting in a lion family?
Answer: Lioness does 90% of the hunting
102. Which animal holds hands in the water while asleep?
Answer: Otter
103. What is the color of a reindeer’s eyes in summer?
Answer: Gold or brown
104. Where are the glands of a cow located?
Answer: In its nose
105. Which animal can see all its four legs at once?
Answer: A donkey
106. What kind of animal is a Flemish giant?
Answer: A rabbit
107. Which animal has breeds named Jersey, Texas Longhorn, and Belgian Blue?
Answer: Cow
108. Which bird was first domesticated by man?
Answer: A chicken
109. How many eggs does a hen lay in a year on an average?
Ans: 227
110. How do frogs protect themselves in freezing temperatures?
Answer: They freeze themselves solid
111. How many hours do koala bears sleep in a day?
Answer: Up to 22 hours
112. What is a group of ferrets called?
Answer: A business
113. How do octopi taste?
Answer: With their arms
114. What color is a giraffe’s tongue?
Answer: Black
115. Which animal has the thickest fur?
Answer: Otter
116. What is a group of owls called?
Answer: A parliament
117. Which mammal has the longest tongue?
Answer: Giant anteater
118. How do butterflies taste?
Answer: With their feet
119. How do cockroaches smell?
Answer: With their antennae or feelers
120. Which underwater animal can sing?
Answer: Whale
121. What kind of animal is a mandrill?
Answer: A monkey
122. Which was the oldest panda that died in 2014 at the age of 114?
Answer: Jia jia
123. What is a group of rhinos called?
Answer: A crash
124. What is a baby fox called?
Answer: A kit
125. Which bird is the symbol of good luck?
Answer: Stork
126. What is a group of hedgehogs known as?
Answer: A pickle
127. Which animal’s scientific name is Hominoidea?
Answer: Ape
128. Which animal has breeds like a retriever, Mexican hairless, shepherd, and beagle?
Answer: Dog
129. Which is the only venomous snake found in the UK?
Answer: Adder
130. What is a crossbreed between a horse and a donkey called?
Answer: Mule
131. What is a crossbreed between a zebra and a donkey called?
Answer: Zonkey
132. What is a group of geese called?
Answer: A gaggle
133. What does it mean when a pig’s tail curls?
Answer: That they are happy
134. What is the underside of a horse’s hoof called?
Answer: A frog
135. Which bird cannot move their eyeballs?
Answer: Owl
136. Which bird can mimic human speech?
Answer: Parrot
137. Which sea creature contains pearls?
Answer: Oyster
138. Which animal is the national emblem of America?
Answer: Bald eagle
139. Which animal has breeds like Persian, British shorthair, and Russian blue?
Answer: Cat
140. What color is the blood of an octopus?
Answer: Blue
141. What is a group of flamingos called?
Answer: Flamboyance
142. The bite of which insect causes malaria and dengue?
Answer: A mosquito
143. Which animal has the biggest eyes?
Answer: Colossal squid
144. What do you call a rabbit’s tail?
Answer: Scut
145. Which bird reaches the highest speeds in its hunting dive?
Answer: Peregrine falcon
146. What is a group of deer called?
Answer: A herd
147. Where do you find blind dolphins?
Answer: The Indus river
148. Which is the smallest mammal?
Answer: Etruscan shrew
149. What is a group of young pigs called?
Answer: A drift
150. The fingerprints of which animal resembles human fingerprints quite closely?
Answer: Koala bear
151. Which animal has rectangular pupils?
Answer: Goat
152. What is Scotland’s national animal?
Answer: Unicorn
153. On which continent are chinchillas found?
Answer: South America
154. How many pairs of eyelids does an owl have?
Answer: Three
155. Which is the only snake that builds a nest?
Answer: King cobra
Did you enjoy our animal trivia for kids? We are sure your children will learn and share the facts with their friends. These questions are a fun way to pass on this knowledge to children and spend quality time with them. Not only young children but also teens can have fun sharing them.
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