27 April 2020
Quiz: Can you identify these weird and unusual animals?
Can you guess the unusual creature from just one picture? Identify cute, quirky, weird and wonderful animals from around the world with our fun and challenging quiz…
Right now, we’re all missing the world’s wildlife – but fortunately, the planet’s weird and wonderful creatures, big and small, will be waiting for us when the world reopens.
For now, let’s celebrate some of the slightly unusual species we see less often than the Big Five, perhaps because they’re so elusive, or there’s just a small number of them left in the wild.
How many of these quirky, adorable and slightly strange animals can you correctly identify? Let’s find out…
1. Can you name this cute wild cat?
Margay
Ocelot
Eurasian lynx
Serval
2. Can you name this unusual amphibian?
Tiger salamander
Axolotl, aka Mexican walking fish
Xenopus clawed frog
Nice try! This isn’t a real animal
3. Can you name this dog-like creature?
Mexican wolf
African wild dog
Aardwolf
Indian jackal
4. Can you name this star-nosed animal?
Star-nosed mole
Star-nosed badger
Star-nosed raccoon
Nice try! This is a CGI animal
5. Can you name this adorable mammal?
Collared pika
Mexican cottontail rabbit
Chilean chinchilla
Peruvian guinea pig
6. Can you name this bug-eyed buddy?
Marmoset
Sunda colugo
Flying squirrel
Philippine lemur
7. Can you name this rare, colourful primate?
Delacour’s langur
Udzungwa red colobus
Golden snub-nosed monkey
Red-shanked douc
8. Can you name this spotted feline?
Serval
Jaguar
Ocelot
Caracal
9. Can you name this spiky little fella?
Madagascan hedgehog
Streaked tenrec
Crested porcupine
Mouse lemur
10. Can you name this popcorn-scented creature?
Binturong
Raccoon dog
Sun bear
Jaguarundi
11. Can you name this American mammal?
Kinkajou
Asian palm civet
Fossa
Coatimundi
12. Can you name this otherworldly animal?
Naked mole rat
Pichi
Pink fairy armadillo
Nice try! That’s not a real animal
13. Can you name this baby long-nosed mammal?
Capybara
Springbok
Anteater
Tapir
