Biology Quiz

No ideas?
Hint; it's not easy because it takes a lot of counting.

 

Oh - is the the number of suckers on one of the tenticles?

 

Correct the male has 1 less sucker on the 7th arm.
I learned this little fact while working at a sealife center.
The previous octopus had died as it turned out to be a female when it laid eggs.
So a small inside bet was set up, in the time I worked there the winner wasn't revealed though.
No eggs, nor someone crazy enough to try and count all suckers on the moving, cornersqueezing animal.

 

My biology is limited - open question!

 

there must be at least one question that you can ask

 

Until Ricky realises he does know biology, or anybody else thinks of anything, I have another one.
Feel free to cut me off and post your own though.

Of the following animals at least 1 does not exist, which? (it can be any amount of those mentioned below)

1- 12 cm monkeys (real)
2- neverlanding alks (fake)
3- hunting snails (real)
4- salamander the size of a child (real)
5- maneating shark (fake)
6- flesheating sheep (real)
7- vegeterian piranha (real)
8- penguin from the tropics (real)
9- flesheating plants (real)
10-spidereating insects (real)

 

Does "maneating" mean it hunts human beings, or that it doesn't mind eating a human when nothing else is available or when it's an easy catch?

 

Maneating shark - as most human attacks are (apparently) a case of mistaken identity. How do they know? Do they ask the shark why they attacked the guy?

"Sorry mate, I thought you were a seal - here, let me help you with that bandage"

 

Ok, let's get this one straight quickly.
There are no sharks that actively hunt humans.
Sharks will only eat human flesh on the rare occasion of extreme hunger or the even rarer case of an available human corpse, but even then they are quite likely to pass on it.
The occurence of sailors from a sinking ship being attacked/eaten by sharks are negletible few when thoroughly checking the story.
The few times it actually did happen can be attributed to high doses of blood in the water combined with the omnipresent splashing of the sailors.
These factors are known to send sharks in feeding frenzies in which they sometimes even prey on each other.
The annual surfer attacks are for 99% sure all cases of mistaken identity.
Sharks have acute senses, however their sight is quite poor, also note that the great white and other fast hunting sharks withdraw their eyes from harm when going in for the kill.
It has been tested on open sea with dummies, and it can be considered proven that a human on a surfboard resembles a seal as far as sharks are concerned.
In most of the cases when a surfer is bitten by a shark it is actually a nibble in shark terms.
Sharks think humans taste disgusting.

In my question I meant a shark that actually hunts people, which does NOT exist, so lets cross that one of the list.
In the dutch language there is actaully the word "manshark" short for maneating shark, and nearly always referring to the great white shark.
I almost always get a fit when anybody uses the term.
When I saw a "nature quiz" on tv where a question was asked with manshark in it referring to great white, I took out pen and paper, jotted down all other errors made on that show (I even didn't stop at biology mistakes) and send it in a letter to network.
I never saw the show again except for a commercial in which it said something along the lines of "information might not be 100% accurate".

BTW- your comment did make smile Ricky :lol:

 

Come on now there's at least 1 more fake in the list.

 

I'm guessing carnivorous sheep, but that's just because of their general image of harmless furry animals...

 

hunting snails?

 

Spider-eating insects.

 

Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Sheeps in a certain northern region (scotland IIRC) are known to eat the carcasses of birds there to enrich their diet.
There are several species of seasnails which actively hunt their prey.
Such as the tigersnail who tracks his victim slimetrail and then swallows it whole, or the conesnails which shoot poisonous barbs at fish then drag them in and eat them.
Several species of wasps have specialised in taking on tarantulas or other large spiders.
They paralyse them, lay eggs on them, bury them, and let their larve eat it alive and paralysed.
List will be edited again, 6 options remaining.

 

Crossed a real one of by random selection.
Didn't think this would be that hard.
Unless someone else thinks of a nice question I'll make the next list easier

 

Vegetarian piranhas! You can't beat a good cliché.

 

Wrong again 4 left, random guessing should get you the right one.

I can't recall the english name, but the local name for them can be translated as nutcracker.
As some of the keepers at a zoo found out, after having left over walnuts from the christmas party, that name is quite appropriate.

 

flesheating plants? i think by flesheating you mean human?

andrew

 

Nope, just those insecteating plants we all know like the venusflytrap.

 

Answer revealed.
Still open to everyone.