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Quiz: How much do you know about exotic plants and animals?

BY READERS DIGEST

11th Oct 2018 Animals & Pets

Quiz: How much do you know about exotic plants and animals?
This quiz is dedicated to some of the odder worlds in the plant and animal kingdoms: test your knowledge of exotic creatures and see how well you do...

Question 1: What is a hamadryad?

  •  A poisonous Indian snake
  • A bird of prey
  • A sub-Saharan flowering bush

Question 2: What is brooklime?

  • The name of a slug's trail
  • A water plant related to the speedwells 
  • The seedpod of a spotted rock rose

Question 3: What is a cardoon?

  • A plant related to the artichoke
  • The ancestor of the horse
  • A species of pygmy antelope

Question 4: What type of animal is an onager?

  • A Russian bird
  • An American shrew
  • An Asian wild ass

Question 5: Where on a duck would you find its speculum?

  • Its beak
  • Its underbelly
  • Its wing

Question 6: From what is jojoba derived?

  • Sperm whale
  • A desert shrub
  • Avocado pear

Question 7: What is a crested caracara?

  • A colobus monkey
  • A European newt
  • An American bird of prey

Question 8: What are genets and civets?

  • Mammals related to the mongoose
  • Songbirds
  • Squirrels

Question 9: What is a wart-biter?

  • A leech
  • A bush cricket
  • An African wading bird

Question 10: What is an amethyst deceiver?

  • A migratory butterfly
  • A lizard
  • A type of fungus

Here are the answers: See how well you did!

  1. A poisonous Indian snake
  2. A water plant related to the speedwells
  3. A plant related to the artichoke
  4. An Asian wild ass
  5. Its wing
  6. A desert shrub
  7. An American bird of prey
  8. Mammals related to the mongoose
  9. A bush cricket
  10. A type of fungus
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