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Memorize these and you could recognize 12.1% of all Animals clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the polar bear | 42 | Traveling at over 5 miles an hour, this is the best swimmer of all bears |
| 2 | the elephant | 33 | The only living representatives of the Proboscidea |
| 3 | a bat | 24 | The only mammal capable of sustained flight |
| 4 | the armadillo | 24 | World Book says the flesh of these bony-plated mammals is good to eat |
| 5 | a sloth | 22 | Spending almost all of their life hanging upside-down, they come in 2 & 3 toed varieties |
| 6 | bats | 21 | Divided by eating habits, these mammals are fruit-eating, insectivorous & bloodsucking |
| 7 | a sheep | 21 | The kea parrot of New Zealand is known to attack these wooly animals for their kidney fat |
| 8 | the zebra | 21 | In Joan Embery's "Amazing Animal Facts", the only "Q" & "Z" entries are the extinct quagga & this living relative |
| 9 | a horse | 20 | In the Disney film, "Tonka" was this, not a toy truck |
| 10 | a monkey | 20 | A macaw is a bird, & a macaque is one of these |
| 11 | the fox | 20 | The fennec is smallest of these animals, but the common red is best known |
| 12 | the hippopotamus | 20 | Pigging out makes this cousin of the pig 3rd largest living land animal by weight |
| 13 | the giraffe | 19 | World's tallest animal |
| 14 | the wolf | 19 | To ward off poverty is to keep this animal "from the door" |
| 15 | a camel | 18 | They can drink up to 25 gallons of water at a time, but they don't store it in their hump |
| 16 | a fish | 18 | A Moorish idol isn't an actor who plays Othello, it's a tropical variety of these |
| 17 | the walrus | 18 | Carroll's carpenter's companion |
| 18 | a rhinoceros | 16 | The African & Sumatran species of this animal have 2 horns; the Indian & Javan species have 1 |
| 19 | a pig | 16 | While "equine" is horselike & "vulpine" is foxlike, "porcine" refers to this animal |
| 20 | the tiger | 16 | The largest of all cats |
| 21 | prairie dogs | 15 | Named for their canine-like bark, these rodents live in "towns" only burrows apart |
| 22 | a turtle | 15 | The alligator snapper is a large freshwater one of these |
| 23 | the yak | 15 | The helmets of Queen Elizabeth"S household cavalry are adorned with this Himalayan animal's hair |
| 24 | a bird | 14 | If the booby prize you've just won is a real booby, you've won this type of animal |
| 25 | the eyes | 14 | A spitting cobra aims its poison at this part of a victim |
| 26 | the lion | 14 | This animal is the zebra's main enemy |
| 27 | rodents | 13 | This order runs from tiny creatures weighing 1/3 oz. to the capybara who tips the scales at over 100 lbs. |
| 28 | rabbits | 12 | The disease mixomatosis was introduced to Australia in the 1950s to control them |
| 29 | elephants | 12 | They're the only living members of the mammalian family Proboscidea |
| 30 | a lizard | 12 | The double-crested basilisk, this type of reptile, can run across water |
| 31 | a tail | 12 | From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this |
| 32 | an antelope | 12 | The reebok isn't a sneaker, but, like the impala, one of-these swift African animals |
| 33 | the Gila monster | 12 | The only truly venomous lizards are the beaded lizard of Mexico & this "monster" |
| 34 | a cobra | 12 | 2 species of these snakes native to India are the Indian & the King |
| 35 | a deer | 12 | The white-tailed type of this is Nebraska's state mammal |
| 36 | the komodo dragon | 12 | Named for an island, this gigantic Indonesian lizard occasionally dines on wild pigs & small deer |
| 37 | Australia | 11 | 1 of the world's most dangerous spiders is this country's Sydney funnel web |
| 38 | the orangutan | 11 | It's the only great ape found in Asia |
| 39 | a leopard | 11 | As the saying goes, this animal can't change its spots |
| 40 | an anaconda | 11 | Reaching over 20 feet in length, this snake of the boa family is the longest snake in the Western Hemisphere |
| 41 | a goat | 11 | The Himalayan ibex is a wild one of these |
| 42 | a dog | 11 | Though its name means "Flemish cowherd", a Bouvier des Flandres is a breed of this |
| 43 | teeth | 10 | It's believed elephants rarely lived beyond 60, about the age the last of these wear out |
| 44 | South America | 10 | The largest wild animal on this continent is the hoglike tapir, which grows as large as a pony |
| 45 | marsupials | 10 | Females of this mammal order found mainly in Australia have twin wombs & birth passages |
| 46 | Madagascar | 10 | Lemurs live chiefly on The Comoros & this other island country off Africa's southeast coast |
| 47 | horses | 10 | Instead of saying, "Wait a moment!" many people say, "Hold" these animals |
| 48 | Africa | 10 | The crocodylus niloticus has lived, at one time or another, on almost all parts of this continent |
| 49 | a skunk | 10 | Its name is from the Algonquian "skekawa", meaning "mammal who urinates" |
| 50 | a cat | 10 | During the Dark Ages some of these common household pets were actually put on trial for witchcraft |