Across
- What Arctic bird migrates 44,000 miles a year?
- Orangutans rear their young for many years and therefore have the longest time period between births of any animal. They give birth only once every approximately how many years?
- Octopus, chimpanzees, monkeys, dolphins and crows all use...
- The threatened Pacific ... uses floating ice for resting, birthing and nursing calves, and protection from predators. The young can spend up to 5 years with their mothers. This species has the lowest reproductive rate of any pinniped.
- This Californian's numbers in the wild were down to 22 in 1987. Today, through intense conservation there are 187 in the wild.
- Male Northwestern Pacific Orcas carry almost 150 parts per million of ...
- Which eagle's population was down to 412 nesting pairs in the 1950's? A major cause being DDT which weakens their egg shells.
- Rabbits were brought to New Zealand in the 1800s. They quickly multipied so stoats were brought to the Island to prey on the rabbits. But the stoats didn't eat the rabbits, they instead like to eat the babies of this endangered, flightless bird endemic to New Zealand.
- One female cat and her offspring 'could be' responsible for the birth of 20,000 kittens in how many years?
- A partly striped, shy relative of the giraffe who can wash its eyelids and ears with its tongue.
- A Chinese blue tiger, also the name of a dog...
- What bug can eat over 100 aphids a day? Or 5,000 aphids during its three-to-six-week life.
- This type of fur coat was very popular in the 1930s and 1940s.
- This European bird is a symbol of good luck, likes to build nests on roofs and delivers babies...
- What red-haired mammal regularly uses an umbrella?
- The world's fastest growing food production industry?
- A group of jellyfish is called a bloom or a...
- Has both canine and feline characteristics, but a member of the dog family.
- All species of these turtles are listed as threatened or endangered.
- This panda spends a good deal of time in trees and is a relative of the racoon.
- What equine female squirts eggs into the male's pouch?
- Before the turtle excluder device (TED) one of the Loggerhead's and Kemp's Ridleys greatest threats was shrimp...
- Cashmere goats give cashmere wool. Angora goats give...
- Bearded ruminant with rectangular pupils and pale irises.
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is an invasive species in Hawaii, but threatened in its native lands...
- 200 years ago the Indian mongoose was brought to Hawaii to save the sugar cane crop from the....which was also brought to Hawaii by earlier settlers. But the mongoose is awake during the day and the .... is awake at night, so instead the mongoose ate the native birds and other island inhabitants that are awake in the day.
- Are self aware and use a variety of tools.
- The invasive freshwater zebra mussel, native to the Black and Caspian seas, probably arrived in the Great Lakes via this type of a ship's water...
- Reptile skin, horns and hair are made from keratin. As well as bird's beaks and...
- If a female ferret cannot find a mate she will stay in heat. This will cause an excess of estrogen in her system which will make her anemic and eventually cause her to...
- In just the 15 years, between 1866 and 1881, more than 30 million were slaughtered by hunters and fur traders. By 1890, less than 750 were left.
- Since 1980, at least 120 species of frogs, toads, and salamanders have gone...
- Found on every continent except Antarctica. Has a movable heart and is legless.
- This helmeted bird's often colorful ivory is used as a carving material for netsuke. Found in Africa and Asia.
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Down
- Lynx are protected from all hunting in the U.S., except in the state of...
- Humpback whales will often work together to net fish using...
- The largest known commercial fishing net is large enough to hold how many Boeing 747 airplanes.
- The poultry and egg industry consumes approximately 100 billion pounds of this yearly.
- A mythological seven headed serpent...
- An absorbant creature that can live to 200 years and form reefs.
- Main source of food for blue whales.
- When interacting with her cubs, cheetah mothers...
- This Japanese species washes its food, bathes in hot springs and makes snowballs...
- What insects wings bend and twist while flying?
- Bluefin tuna fisheries are near...
- Elephants are the only animal that can't...
- The all-female New Mexico whiptail lizard is parthenogenic so these are not necessary...
- Anemonefish, parrotfish and bluehead wrasse can reverse their...
- Some of these slow pokes have lived longer than 150 years.
- What animals' fingerprints are so similar to human fingerprints; that even with an electron microscope, it can be difficult to tell them apart?
- A subfamily of cats that can roar, includes Tigers, Lions, Jaguars, and Leopards. The Florida ... belongs in another subcategory of cats native to the Americas.
- A jellyfish is 95%?
- Many of these night crawlers are invasive species in North America. They come to the surface after a heavy rain so they do not drown.
- Name a creature active on the web?
- A horse measurement generally equaling about 4 inches?
- What animal has the largest eyes in relation to its body?
- A group of Kangaroos is called a...
- The most 'known' marsupial in America.
- It takes a lobster four to seven years to reach how many pounds?
- A hairless sea mammal that uses echolocation. There are almost 40 different species.
- The blue poison arrow frog obtains their toxins from ants, on which they feed. Many amphibians, insects and reptiles advertise their noxious properties with their striking...
- Due to rising CO2, the world's oceans are becoming more...
- Which fish is the most popular fish raised in U.S. aquaculture farms?
- During mating season male kangaroos do this to try and win mating rights...
- A moose in North America, this in Europe...
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