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Q. What do we call a baby cow?
Options: A foal · A puppy · A chick · A calf
Answer: A calf
A baby cow is a calf!
Q. What do we call a baby dog?
Options: A foal · A calf · A chick · A puppy
Answer: A puppy
A baby dog is a puppy!
Q. What do we call a baby chicken?
Options: A calf · A puppy · A chick · A duck
Answer: A chick
A fluffy yellow chick is a baby chicken.
Q. What do we call a baby horse?
Options: A calf · A donkey · A mule · A foal
Answer: A foal
A baby horse is a foal.
Q. What do we call a baby frog?
Options: A tadpole · A minnow · A caterpillar · A pupa
Answer: A tadpole
A tadpole grows legs and turns into a frog!
Q. What does a butterfly look like when it's a baby?
Options: An earthworm · A maggot · A tadpole · A caterpillar
Answer: A caterpillar
A caterpillar. Egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → butterfly: it changes shape completely, which is called 'complete metamorphosis'.
Q. What do we call a baby swan?
Options: A kitten · A cygnet · A fawn · A joey
Answer: A cygnet
A baby swan is a cygnet! And a baby kangaroo is a joey.
Q. What do we call a baby deer?
Options: A cygnet · A gosling · An owlet · A fawn
Answer: A fawn
A baby deer is a fawn. A baby goose is a gosling!
🐘 Q. Does an elephant lay eggs, or give birth to live babies?
Options: It has live babies · It lays eggs
Answer: It has live babies
Elephants are mammals, so they have live babies.
🐢 Q. How is a turtle born?
Options: It's born as a live baby · It hatches from an egg
Answer: It hatches from an egg
A turtle lays eggs in the sand, and the babies hatch out of them.
🐔 Q. Which of these animals lays eggs?
Options: A cow · A pig · A chicken · A dog
Answer: A chicken
Chickens lay eggs, while cows and pigs have live babies.
🐸 Q. Where does a frog lay its eggs?
Options: In water · Up in trees · Underground · On rocks
Answer: In water
A frog lays its eggs in water, and tadpoles hatch out.
🐟 Q. How do fish usually have their young?
Options: They hold the eggs inside · They give milk · They lay eggs · They have live babies
Answer: They lay eggs
Most fish lay eggs.
🐦 Q. What are birds like sparrows and eagles born from?
Options: Eggs · A pupa · Live birth · A cocoon
Answer: Eggs
Every single bird hatches from an egg.
🍼 Q. What do we call the group of animals that feed their babies milk?
Options: Fish · Insects · Birds · Mammals
Answer: Mammals
If it feeds its babies milk, it's a mammal.
🐋 Q. Does a whale lay eggs, or have live babies?
Options: It lays eggs · It has live babies
Answer: It has live babies
A whale lives in the sea, but it's a mammal, so it has live babies and feeds them milk.
🦇 Q. How are baby bats born?
Options: From eggs · Live, and they drink milk
Answer: Live, and they drink milk
A bat flies, but it's a mammal, so it has live babies.
🐬 Q. What does a newborn baby dolphin drink?
Options: Fish · Seaweed · Its mother's milk · Seawater
Answer: Its mother's milk
Dolphins are mammals, so they drink their mother's milk.
🥚 Q. Which mammal is unusual because it lays eggs?
Options: A bat · An elephant · A platypus · A kangaroo
Answer: A platypus
The platypus is a special mammal: it lays eggs but still feeds its babies milk.
🦘 Q. Where does a baby kangaroo grow?
Options: A bird's nest · A hole in a tree · In its mother's pouch · In a burrow
Answer: In its mother's pouch
A baby kangaroo grows inside the pouch on its mother's tummy.
🐨 Q. Where does a baby koala grow?
Options: A bird's nest · In its mother's pouch · Underwater · Underground
Answer: In its mother's pouch
The koala is also a marsupial, raising its baby in a pouch.
🦘 Q. What do we call animals like kangaroos and koalas that raise babies in a pouch?
Options: Fish · Amphibians · Marsupials · Birds
Answer: Marsupials
Raise your baby in a pouch and you're a marsupial.
🥚 Q. About how many days does a hen sit on an egg before a chick hatches?
Options: About 3 days · About 60 days · About 100 days · About 21 days
Answer: About 21 days
A hen sits for about three weeks (21 days).
🐧 Q. Which emperor penguin keeps the egg warm?
Options: The aunt penguin · The grandmother penguin · The mother penguin · The father penguin
Answer: The father penguin
The emperor penguin dad balances the egg on his feet to keep it warm.
🐴 Q. Which seahorse carries and gives birth to the babies?
Options: Nobody carries them · The mother seahorse · Both together · The father seahorse
Answer: The father seahorse
Baby seahorses grow in a pouch on their dad's tummy.
🐦 Q. Where does a cuckoo lay its eggs?
Options: In another bird's nest · Underwater · On the ground · In a hole in a tree
Answer: In another bird's nest
The cuckoo sneaks its eggs into another bird's nest (this is called brood parasitism).
🐣 Q. What does a chick use to break out of its shell?
Options: Its wings · Its teeth · Its feet · Its beak
Answer: Its beak
It uses a hard little bump on the tip of its beak to crack the shell.
🐸 Q. What does a tadpole grow into?
Options: A snake · A lizard · A frog · A fish
Answer: A frog
A tadpole grows up into a frog.
🦋 Q. Caterpillar, then chrysalis — what comes next?
Options: A dragonfly · A butterfly · A fly · A bee
Answer: A butterfly
A butterfly (the grown-up insect) comes out of the chrysalis.
🦋 Q. What does a butterfly's life cycle start with?
Options: The adult · The chrysalis · The egg · The caterpillar
Answer: The egg
The order is egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → butterfly.
🐸 Q. As a tadpole grows, which legs come out first?
Options: The front legs · The tail · The back legs · Wings
Answer: The back legs
A frog's back legs come out first.
🐶 Q. What are a newborn puppy's eyes like?
Options: Wide open · Only one is open · Closed · Red
Answer: Closed
A puppy is born with its eyes closed and opens them about two weeks later.
🐼 Q. What does a newborn baby panda look like?
Options: Very tiny and pink · Just like its mother · Blue · Black and big
Answer: Very tiny and pink
A baby panda is about the size of your palm, pink, and almost hairless.
🦒 Q. How long after birth can a baby giraffe stand up?
Options: Right after it's born · Three years later · A month later · A year later
Answer: Right after it's born
A baby giraffe stands up on its own not long after being born.
🦓 Q. When does a baby zebra get its stripes?
Options: When it grows up · At one year old · It never has any · From the moment it's born
Answer: From the moment it's born
A zebra has its stripes right from birth.
🦁 Q. What does a lion cub have that fades as it grows up?
Options: Spots on its body · Whiskers · A tail · A mane
Answer: Spots on its body
A lion cub has spots that disappear as it grows.
🦘 Q. How big is a newborn baby kangaroo?
Options: As big as a cat · As big as a puppy · As big as an elephant · As tiny as a jelly bean
Answer: As tiny as a jelly bean
A baby kangaroo is born very tiny and climbs into the pouch.
🐬 Q. Which part of a baby dolphin comes out first when it's born?
Options: The head · The back · A fin · The tail
Answer: The tail
The tail comes first, so the baby doesn't run out of air underwater.
🦢 Q. Like 'The Ugly Duckling', what color is a baby swan at first?
Options: Black · Pure white · Grayish · Pink
Answer: Grayish
A baby swan is gray, and turns white as it grows.
🦩 Q. What color is a baby flamingo at first?
Options: Blue · Red · Pink · White or gray
Answer: White or gray
It slowly turns pink as it eats its food.
🦆 Q. What does a newly hatched duckling think the first moving thing it sees is?
Options: An enemy · Its mother · Food · Water
Answer: Its mother
Following the first thing you see as your mother is called 'imprinting'.
🐨 Q. Once a baby koala leaves the pouch, where does it ride?
Options: On its mother's back · At the top of a tree · In a burrow · In a puddle
Answer: On its mother's back
A grown baby koala rides around on its mother's back.
🐒 Q. How does a baby monkey get around?
Options: It swims · It flies · It walks by itself · It clings to its mother
Answer: It clings to its mother
A baby monkey holds on tight to its mother's tummy or back.
🐦 Q. Where does a swallow usually build its nest and raise its young?
Options: Under the eaves of a roof · Underground · In the sea · Underwater
Answer: Under the eaves of a roof
Swallows build mud nests under the eaves of people's houses.
🐤 Q. What does a mother bird use to feed her babies?
Options: Her feet · Her wings · Her beak · Her tail
Answer: Her beak
A mother bird carries food to them in her beak.
🐻 Q. When do bears usually have their cubs?
Options: In the autumn leaf season · In winter, while hibernating · In the rainy season · In the hot summer
Answer: In winter, while hibernating
Bears have their cubs in the den while they're hibernating through the winter.
🐧 Q. How does a penguin protect its egg and chick from the cold?
Options: It hides them underwater · It hides them in a cave · It buries them in sand · It rests them on its feet and tucks them in
Answer: It rests them on its feet and tucks them in
It rests them on its feet and covers them with its warm belly.
🐷 Q. About how many babies does a pig have at once?
Options: A hundred · Several (about 10) · Exactly one · A thousand
Answer: Several (about 10)
A pig has several babies at a time.
🐘 Q. About how long does a mother elephant carry her baby inside her?
Options: About 22 months · About a day · About a month · About 5 years
Answer: About 22 months
An elephant's pregnancy is about 22 months — really long.
🐸 Q. Why do fish and frogs lay so many eggs at once?
Options: The eggs are small · They grow fast · Most of them won't survive · There's lots of water
Answer: Most of them won't survive
They lay lots so that at least a few live to grow up.