Scavenger+Hunt+Answer+Key

=**Kangaroos**= 1. What is the difference between how the grey kangaroo hops and how the red kangaroo hops?
 * Answer: The grey Kangaroo hops with a more vertical axis while the red hops more horizontal.

2. Kangaroos live in social groups. What are these called? (ie: a flock of geese, a herd of horses, etc.)
 * Answer: Their social group is considered a mob.

3. Who are the largest residents at Roo Heaven? How much can they weigh?
 * Answer: The largest residents are Red Kangaroos. They can weigh up to 190 lbs.

4. What does Red Kangaroo’s diet consist of?
 * Answer: They are herbivores, so they eat mostly plants.

5. What is the percent chance that a young joey out in the wild will survive? =Flamingos=
 * Answer: The joey has only a 40%chance of survival.

1. How do flamingos sleep?
 * Answer: They sleep with one leg up and their head on their backs.

2. What is the lifespan of flamingos?
 * Answer: Flamingoes live between 20 and 30 years with some wild flamingoes living up to 50 years.

3. What disease is believed to be cured by Chilean flamingo fat?
 * Answer: Tuberculosis

4. What body part of the flamingo was considered a delicacy by Roman Emperors? =Hippos= 1.There is a myth that Hippos sweat blood. What is the actual substance, and how does it benefit the Hippo?
 * Answer: Tongue
 * Answer: The liquid is an oily red substance, which gave rise to the myth that they sweat blood. The liquid is actually a skin moistener and sunblock that may also provide protection against germs.

2.Though the hippopotamus was once thought to be related to the horse and more recently the pig, what is the actual closest living relative of the hippopotamus?
 * Answer: Evidence, first from blood proteins, then from molecular systematics and DNA and the fossil record, show that their closest living relatives are cetaceans—whales, porpoises and the like.

3. Hippos are the third largest land mammal. The two land mammals that are larger than the hippo are the and the.
 * Answer: Elephant and White Rhinoceros

=Elephants = 1. What will an elephant do if it feels threatened?
 * Answer: If threatened, an elephant will us its trunk to make loud trumpeting noises as a warning.

2. What are some of the foods that an elephants diet consists of?
 * Answer: Grasses, leaves, bamboo, bark, roots. Elephants are also known to eat crops like banana and sugarcane which are grown by farmers.

3. How do elephants talk?
 * Answer: Elephants talk to each other by making sounds called "tummy rumbles." They also make a "trumpeting" sound to call to each other.

=**Lions**=

1. Where are the lions habitat?
 * Answer: Lions are generally seen on grassy plains, savannas, and dry woodlands but never seen in heavily forested areas.

2. What are the roles of the male and female lions?
 * Male's defend the pride's territory and female lions are the pride's primary hunters.

3. What order do lions eat in?
 * The male lions eat first, than the females, and than the cubs eat whatever is left.

4. What is the most frequently used killing method used by lions?
 * The most frequently used killing method is suffocation.