Wild Wisdom Quiz

In 1999, a cyclone devastated Odisha, India. Upon investigation, it was discovered that removal of what feature for prawn farm harvesting led to the mass-scale destruction? These features also helped save thousands of lives by reducing the destruction caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.<br />

• a. Mangroves

• b. Coconut Trees

• c. Cactus

• d. Beaver Dams

Found mainly in the Amazon rainforest of South America, which predator’s name comes from the Native American word meaning “he who kills with one leap”?

• a. Cheetah

• b. Leopard

• c. Puma

• d. Jaguar

Its main body mass is in the leaf-litter below, where it is feeding by decomposing organic matter, helping to form the soil that nourishes the forest. Some are essential for seed germination and tree growth, connecting with a tree’s roots to provide minerals and nutrients. A rainforest could not exist without _____

• a. Algae

• b. Fungi

• c. Spiders

• d. Frogs

Standing at 176cm, which of these is the tallest flying bird in the world?

• a. Sarus Crane

• b. Andean Condor

• c. Bar headed Goose

• d. Black Stork

Across Sumatra and Borneo, farmers big and small are setting fires to clear land for planting which of these plants?

• a. Oil Palms

• b. Rubber Trees

• c. Bamboo

• d. Banana Trees

* Which river rises from Taurus mountains in Turkey, through Syria and Iraq and empties in the Persian Gulf?

• a. Tigris

• b. Euphrates

• c. Volga

• d. Amur

An area in Central Africa called – The Mountains of Moon, gets its name because it is covered in _________.

• a. Lichens

• b. Dust

• c. Fog

• d. Pollution

Billions of these birds inhabited eastern North America in the early 1800s. Which migratory bird was hunted to extinction by man?

• a. Dodo

• b. Passenger pigeon

• c. Labrador duck

• d. Laughing owl

This lake is an interesting hydrological phenomenon, most of the year it is a small 35-km wide freshwater lake, but in the monsoon, it gets its flow reversed and the additional rainwater is added to the lake making it 105km wide. What lake in Cambodia is this?

• a. Lake Baikal

• b. Lake Balkhash

• c. Lake Tonle Sap

• d. Lake Toba

Found in the Eurasian Steppes, what kind of creatures is Przewalski’s also known as Takhi in Mongolia?

• a. Falcons

• b. Yaks

• c. Horses

• d. Wolves