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Think humans are at the top of the food chain? Prove it by passing this animal quiz! The fancy scientific name of an animal is listed in each question. All you have to do is pick the animal with that name. Now make like a penguin and dive right in!

An African bush elephant on the grassland

If You Know 12/15 Of These Animals By Their Scientific Name, You'll Have My Respect

Don't be scared of the bear--it's one of the least likely animals to attack you. The omnivores prefer foraging for plants and insects to hunting large prey.

You bear-ly made it past that one! Sorry, that was corny...

Living in family groups called mobs of 10 to 30 individuals, meerkats are a member of the mongoose family and live in southern Africa.

Also called the suricate!

Deforestation has left both the Bornean orangutan and its cousin the Sumatran orangutan endangered, with only a few thousand left in the wilds of southeast Asia. These intelligent apes sleep in nests they build every night.

I'll go ape if you pull off this win!

A colony of bees has a single queen who lives for up to five years, while worker bees live just a few weeks. Believe it or not, bees communicate by dancing!

You're grade on this quiz is a "Bee"!

The "big bad wolf" still gets a bad rap, even when there has never been a documented case of a healthy wild wolf killing a human in North America.

Beware if you're a little pig or Little Red Riding Hood!

Great whites can go through thousands of teeth in their lifetime, regularly losing them and replacing them with newer, sharper teeth. Despite what the movie _Jaws_ would have you think, humans are not usually on the shark's menu.

Not to be confused with the Okay white shark!

Sloths spend over half their day sleeping and only come down to the forest floor to poop once a week!

"Sloth" isn't just one of the deadly sins!

The "bicornis" in its scientific name refers to its two horns, while its one-horned cousin the Indian rhino is _Rhinoceros unicornis_. And yes, it is believed that one-horned rhinos inspired the mythical unicorn!

How do you stop a rhino from charging? Take away its credit card!

The largest mammals on land, male African bush elephants can weigh up to 5 U.S. tons (4536 kilograms). Their female counterparts have the longest pregnancy of any mammal, lasting 22 months!

Time to address the elephant in the room...

Ticks can survive for close to two decades between meals, but when they do feed, they can swell with up to 600 times their body weight in mammal blood! Ticks can also carry diseases like Lyme disease, so wilderness hikers and campers are advised to check themselves regularly.

You'll be ticked off if you don't pass this quiz!

The fastest animal on land, the cheetah can run at up to 70 miles per hour (112 kilometers per hour) to chase its antelope prey, but it can only keep up this speed for short bursts. To help grip the ground when they run, cheetahs are the only cats whose claws never fully retract.

The one type of cat you should never play cards with!

The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live on Earth, weighing over 150 U.S. tons (136 metric tons) and growing to nearly 100 feet (30 meters)! Despite their massive size, their diet consists of some of the world's smallest animals: tiny plankton and krill.

You may feel blue, but I'm having a whale of a time!

The largest lizards in the world, Komodo dragons live on only four Indonesian islands: Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang. Thanks to six venom glands in their jaws, they can hunt prey much larger than themselves, including water buffalo!

This quiz just keeps dragon' on...

So-called "koala bears" are not bears at all; they are marsupials native to Australia. Koalas have a diet consisting entirely of eucalyptus, almost never have to drink water and are said to smell like cough drops.

Aren't they adorable?

Gorillas are the largest primates in the world and critically endangered. Dominant males, called silverback, can weigh up to 500 pounds (227 kilograms), yet their diet consists almost entirely of plants.

It was the gorilla? _Really??_

You'll never get this last one...Gorilla gorilla?

Maybe you're more of a people person than an animal lover. Not happy with your score? Play the quiz again after a trip to the zoo or a documentary binge session and get 100%!

Ruff Time

You're not an expert yet, but you're still no bird brain. This is a normal score, but if you want to brag to your friends about your animal awareness, you've got a bit more research to do. Maybe play the quiz again and get all these animals memorized!

You must have aced biology in high school with your vast knowledge of the animal kingdom. Now play the quiz again and get 100%!

Animal Expert

Not a single one wrong! You're not just an animal expert, you could be the next Steve Irwin! Now go share your wild side with the world!

Purr-fection!!

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