Mammals of Oceania Trivia Questions

Sample Mammals of Oceania Questions

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1. 1.This grey tree-dweller sleeps up to 20 hours a day on a diet that would poison most other animals.

   
   • Common Spotted Cuscus
   • Northern Common Cuscus
   • Leadbeater's Possum
   • Koala

2. 2.This egg-laying swimmer hunts with its eyes shut, finding prey by the electric fields of their muscles.

   
   • Western Long-beaked Echidna
   • Short-beaked Echidna
   • Platypus
   • Herbert River Ringtail Possum

3. 3.This is the largest marsupial alive, and it can cover eight metres in a single bound.

   
   • Long-tailed Pygmy Possum
   • Feathertail Glider
   • Eastern Grey Kangaroo
   • Red Kangaroo

4. 4.This stocky burrower has a backward-facing pouch and produces droppings that come out as cubes.

   
   • Red-necked Wallaby
   • Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
   • Feathertail Glider
   • Common Wombat

5. 5.This stocky black scavenger has the strongest bite for its size of any living mammal, and eats bone and all.

   
   • Tasmanian Devil
   • Numbat
   • Spotted-tailed Quoll
   • Yellow-footed Antechinus

6. 6.This spine-covered egg-layer has no teeth and gathers ants on a sticky tongue that flicks 100 times a minute.

   
   • Short-beaked Echidna
   • Platypus
   • Western Long-beaked Echidna
   • Red-tailed Phascogale

7. 7.This is the most abundant large marsupial, and mobs of it graze the outskirts of Canberra and Brisbane.

   
   • Eastern Grey Kangaroo
   • Green Ringtail Possum
   • Western Ringtail Possum
   • Western Grey Kangaroo

8. 8.This small Rottnest Island marsupial has a permanent grin and a reputation for posing for photographs.

   
   • Eastern Pygmy Possum
   • Rufous Bettong
   • Eastern Bettong
   • Quokka

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