Mammals of Oceania Trivia Questions

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  1. This grey tree-dweller sleeps up to 20 hours a day on a diet that would poison most other animals.

    Difficulty: Easy
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    • Common Spotted Cuscus
    • Northern Common Cuscus
    • Leadbeater's Possum
    • Koala
  2. This seagrass grazer has a fluked tail like a whale's and is a likely source of mermaid stories.

    Difficulty: Medium
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    • Australian Sea Lion
    • Hector's Dolphin
    • Dugong
    • Hawaiian Monk Seal
  3. This banded marsupial eats nothing but termites, taking 20,000 a day, and is active only in daylight.

    Difficulty: Hard
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    • Red-tailed Phascogale
    • Numbat
    • Brush-tailed Phascogale
    • Stripe-faced Dunnart
  4. This egg-laying swimmer hunts with its eyes shut, finding prey by the electric fields of their muscles.

    Difficulty: Easy
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    • Western Long-beaked Echidna
    • Short-beaked Echidna
    • Platypus
    • Herbert River Ringtail Possum
  5. This palm-sized marsupial sails between trees on a flap of skin and licks sap from wounds it gnaws.

    Difficulty: Medium
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    • Yellow-bellied Glider
    • Striped Possum
    • Sugar Glider
    • Greater Glider
  6. This is the largest marsupial that travels by air, sailing a hundred metres on membranes at its elbows.

    Difficulty: Hard
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    • Feathertail Glider
    • Lemuroid Ringtail Possum
    • Yellow-bellied Glider
    • Greater Glider
  7. This is the largest marsupial alive, and it can cover eight metres in a single bound.

    Difficulty: Easy
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    • Long-tailed Pygmy Possum
    • Feathertail Glider
    • Eastern Grey Kangaroo
    • Red Kangaroo
  8. This large-eared marsupial is the animal most often heard thumping across Australian roofs at night.

    Difficulty: Medium
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    • Northern Common Cuscus
    • Short-eared Possum
    • Ground Cuscus
    • Common Brushtail Possum

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