Animal Groups

 Thank you for visiting Nature Trivia. In this column I will post some amazing facts about nature the whole family will enjoy.

You can also test your knowledge and play a Nature Trivia game with your children. Children are inquisitive little people that love to learn in fun ways. Draw up a score board and see who can get the most trivia questions correct.

Oh, and don’t forget about a reward for the winner! We play with bug stickers, it works great for future Entomologists. Depending on age, you can also play with counters, and whoever has the most chips gets to choose dinner, or better yet, desert.

Answers to the trivia questions will be posted at the bottom of the page in the following week’s column.

J.A. Mortenson ~Nurturing Nature ~

Nature Trivia: Animal Groups

- What are a group of bear called?

- What are a group of cattle called?

- What are a group of dogs called?

- What are a group of geese called?

- What are a group of horses called?

Did you Know?

-  The smallest bird in the world is the hummingbird, it only weighs      1 ounce.

-  The giraffe is the tallest animal in the world, sometimes reaching 18 feet. It’s tongue is more than a foot and a half long at 21 inches!

-  The largest bird egg in the world is that of an ostrich egg, 6-8 inches long. The average adult male weighs up to 345 pounds. No wonder they can’t fly. Yikes!

-  An elephant can smell water three miles away. I can smell pizza twice that far! A pair of nesting barn owls can catch and eat nearly 3,000 rats a year. If it were not for snakes and owls, we would be over-run by rodents. We would have to call on the Pied Piper to get rid of them. So there you have it, animals are crucial in balancing nature.

Answers to lasts weeks trivia

-  What bird has the largest wingspan? Answer: A wondering albatross, it’s wingspan is almost 4 meters.

-  What is the largest animal? Answer: The blue whale

-  What animal has the strongest poison? Answer: The arrow-poison frog.  It secretes it’s poison through its skin.

-  What does a camel’s hump store? Answer: Water. A camel can go for weeks without water.

-  Linen is made of what plant? Answer: Flax. Some species of this plant is also used for pharmaceuticals.

Thank you for visiting Nature Trivia!

If you have some great trivia or fun facts about nature, you can e-mail them to me at Judi@childcaremagazine.zzn.com and write “Nature Trivia” in the subject line. I will post your name and the state of where you live under the trivia question or fun fact that you provide.

This column will be a fun way for all of us nature nuts to share our knowledge about the world around us. 

~ J.A. Mortenson