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Old 27-03-2008

We do the Liverpool Echo quiz at work.
Today one of the questions was
Which animal's tongue is twice the length of its body?
One of my colleagues answered - "anteater" - can you imagine? lol!
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Old 28-03-2008

Isn't it a chameleon?
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Old 28-03-2008

Yep! Everyone got the first question right - what type of animal is an okapi - mammal, insect or amphibian? And most got dead leaf, paper kite, blue striped crow and great egg fly are all types of what?
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Old 28-03-2008

butterfly?
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Yes, I'd be surprised if there was an animal question you couldn't get right! ha. Have you ever considered junior mastermind?
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Old 28-03-2008

Haha Jonathan Beilby, specialist subject, Penelopides hornbills!!

Any more questions?

How about we make a zoobeat questionnaire, sending our questions, and answers to sim! Then he could compile them all into a big questionnaire, and then we have to send it back to him. The winner wins the glory of being the smartest on zoobeat!
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An animal questionnaire sounds fun!
the only other animal themed question I can find from the Echo is 'How many eyes does a tarantula have?'
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Old 28-03-2008

Eight! They have EIGHT EYES!
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Yes again! I love the ten character rule for posting.
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Old 28-03-2008

I think I may have an alternative (and possibly better) answer - the sword-billed hummingbird.
I did a little research (a one page Google search) and found this scan of a skeleton http://www.ups.edu/Images/SlaterMuse...llskelFull.jpg: I think that its tongue will be almost as long as its bill.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

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Old 28-03-2008

what about the giant hawk moth of Madagascar? Its proboscis must be well over twice its body length.
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Old 28-03-2008

there used to be a quiz thread. we played by the rules that whoever answered correctly got the right to ask the next question. it worked on an honesty basis, that nobody was using google!
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Old 28-03-2008

We could start another quiz thread again if theres enought interest
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I'm in.....
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Me too!

Should we start a new thread, or carry on with this one?
 


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