If your child loves animals, they will love to answer some animal trivia questions for kids. These animal-related questions include different animal types and their habitats, characteristics, and food habits. You can compile a list of such questions and plan a quiz to help your child learn more about animals and their overall existence. Why stop there? Join in the fun and let your child ask you some questions to check your animal IQ. For some more fun, let your child invite some friends over and host an animal trivia quiz challenge at home. Read on to find some interesting and engaging animal trivia questions to share with your child. Your child can print out our list for the quiz and keep populating it with more questions as they learn more about animals.

155 Animal Trivia For Kids

Simple or tricky, these questions about animals for kids will ensure that your child knows more about animals.

  1. How many pairs of wings do bees have? Answer: Two
  2. What is a doe? Answer: A female deer
  3. What is a baby sheep called? Answer: A lamb
  4. How many legs does an octopus have? Answer: Eight
  5. What bird is the symbol of peace? Answer: Dove
  6. The baby of which animal is called a joey? Answer: Kangaroo
  7. If a _____ colored cat crosses your path, it is considered bad luck. Which color? Answer: Black
  8. What is a group of lions called? Answer: A pride
  9. Which bird lays the largest eggs? Answer: Ostrich
  10. Which is the fastest animal? Answer: Cheetah
  11. What does a panda eat? Answer: Bamboo
  12. Which is the only mammal that can fly? Answer: Bat
  13. Which animal is known as the man’s best friend? Answer: A dog
  14. Which is the only land animal that cannot jump? Answer: Elephant
  15. Which is the fastest running bird? Answer: Ostrich
  16. Which is the bird that can fly backward? Answer: Hummingbird
  17. Which is the tallest bird in the world? Answer: Ostrich
  18. Which is the fastest bird? Answer: Falcon
  19. Which is the biggest animal in the entire world? Answer: Blue whale
  20. Which is the slowest animal? Answer: Three-toed sloth
  21. What is the horn of a rhinoceros made of? Answer: Hair
  22. Which animal can lift up to 50 times its body weight? Answer: Ant
  23. Which is the tallest animal? Answer: Giraffe
  24. What is a baby dog called? Answer: A pup
  25. Which is the longest snake? Answer: Reticulated python
  26. How many legs does a lobster have? Answer: Ten
  27. How many eyes does a spider have? Answer: Eight (Some have six or fewer but always an even number)
  28. Which is the largest mammal? Answer: Whale
  29. What is a group of crows called? Answer: A murder
  30. Which animal has three hearts? Answer: Octopus
  31. Which animal lives the longest (or has the longest lifespan)? Answer: Arctic whale
  32. Which animal does not drink water? Answer: Kangaroo rat
  33. Which animal never sleeps? Answer: Bullfrog
  34. What are amphibians? Answer: Animals that live on land and water
  35. How many bones do sharks have? Answer: None
  36. How many bones are there in a giraffe’s neck? Answer: Seven (just like humans)
  37. How many years can a snail sleep for? Answer: Three years
  38. What kind of animal is a Komodo dragon? Answer: A lizard
  39. What is a female sheep called? Answer: Ewe
  40. What is a baby goat called? Answer: A kid
  41. How do bats navigate? Answer: They use echolocation (sound waves for navigating)
  42. Which bird eats only bones? Answer: Bearded vulture
  43. Which is the world’s most poisonous spider? Answer: Brazilian wandering spider
  44. Which is the most venomous snake in the world? Answer: Saw-scaled viper
  45. Which bird’s eye is bigger than its brain? Answer: Ostrich
  46. Which are the two only egg-laying mammals? Answer: Duck-billed platypus and anteater
  47. Which is the smallest reptile? Answer: Leaf chameleon
  48. Which bird flies the highest? Answer: Ruppell’s vulture
  49. Which bird has the biggest wingspan? Answer: Wandering albatross
  50. How many heart chambers does a cockroach have? Answer: Twelve
  51. To which part of an ant’s body is its legs attached? Answer: Its thorax
  52. Are rabbits born blind? Answer: Yes
  53. Do sponges have a heart? Answer: No
  54. What is a female donkey called? Answer: A jenny
  55. Which animal breathes through its skin? Answer: Frog
  56. How long does it take for a sloth to digest its food? Answer: Two weeks
  57. Lemurs are native to which country? Answer: Madagascar
  58. Which was the first animal to be domesticated? Answer: A goat
  59. What do you call a group of fish? Answer: A school
  60. What is a nocturnal animal? Answer: An animal that sleeps during the day and hunts at night
  61. What is the color of a newborn flamingo? Answer: Grey
  62. How do snakes smell? Answer: With their tongues
  63. What does a caterpillar turn into after making a cocoon? Answer: A butterfly
  64. What color is a reindeer’s eyes in winter? Answer: Blue
  65. How many brains does an octopus have? Answer: Nine
  66. Which animal cannot look up? Answer: Pig
  67. How do honey bees taste food? Answer: With their feet
  68. How many glasses of milk does a cow give in its lifetime? Answer: 200,000
  69. Which animal can turn its head 270°? Answer: An owl
  70. Which animal can move its eyes independently? Answer: Chameleon
  71. Why don’t spiders stick to their webs? Answer: Because they walk on the non-sticky threads
  72. How can you determine the age of a lion? Answer: By seeing its nose
  73. Which animal has the strongest bite? Answer: Hippopotamus
  74. Where do dogs sweat? Answer: The pads of their feet
  75. Which is the national bird of New Zealand? (New Zealanders are often called by this name.) Answer: Kiwi
  76. How many compartments does a cow’s stomach have? Answer: Four
  77. Which is the largest animal in the squirrel family? Answer: Groundhog
  78. Which animal’s name means “water horse?” Answer: Hippopotamus
  79. How does a pufferfish respond to threats? Answer: It puffs itself up like a balloon
  80. Which species of bear has translucent fur? Answer: Polar bear
  81. How many legs does a honey bee have? Answer: Six
  82. What is the color of an ocelot? Answer: Yellow with black markings
  83. Which animal has the highest blood pressure? Answer: Giraffe
  84. What is a baby puffin called? Answer: A puffling
  85. What is a group of giraffes called? Answer: A tower
  86. What are male and female elephants called? Answer: Bull and cow, respectively
  87. Why do rats keep nibbling at things? Answer: Because their teeth keep growing and they keep biting things to wear them off
  88. What is a kakapo? Answer: A parrot that cannot fly
  89. Which animal’s heart is located in its head? Answer: Shrimp
  90. How many noses does a slug have? Answer: Four
  91. Which direction does a bat first turn after exiting a cave? Answer: Left
  92. Which animal doesn’t have vocal cords? Answer: Giraffe
  93. What is a polar bear’s skin color? Answer: Black
  94. What is a group of kittens called? Answer: A kindle
  95. Which is the only big cat that cannot roar? Answer: Cheetah
  96. What is the wingspan of a bald eagle? Answer: Eight feet
  97. Which is the biggest land animal? Answer: Elephant
  98. How are birds able to fly? Answer: Because they have hollow bones
  99. Which animal was worshipped in ancient Egypt? Answer: Cat
  100. Which is the fastest water animal? Answer: Sailfish
  101. Who does most of the hunting in a lion family? Answer: Lioness does 90% of the hunting
  102. Which animal holds hands in the water while asleep? Answer: Otter
  103. What is the color of a reindeer’s eyes in summer? Answer: Gold or brown
  104. Where are the glands of a cow located? Answer: In its nose
  105. Which animal can see all its four legs at once? Answer: A donkey
  106. What kind of animal is a Flemish giant? Answer: A rabbit
  107. Which animal has breeds named Jersey, Texas Longhorn, and Belgian Blue? Answer: Cow 108. Which bird was first domesticated by man? Answer: A chicken
  108. How many eggs does a hen lay in a year on an average? Ans: 227
  109. How do frogs protect themselves in freezing temperatures? Answer: They freeze themselves solid
  110. How many hours do koala bears sleep in a day? Answer: Up to 22 hours
  111. What is a group of ferrets called? Answer: A business
  112. How do octopi taste? Answer: With their arms
  113. What color is a giraffe’s tongue? Answer: Black
  114. Which animal has the thickest fur? Answer: Otter
  115. What is a group of owls called? Answer: A parliament
  116. Which mammal has the longest tongue? Answer: Giant anteater
  117. How do butterflies taste? Answer: With their feet
  118. How do cockroaches smell? Answer: With their antennae or feelers
  119. Which underwater animal can sing? Answer: Whale
  120. What kind of animal is a mandrill? Answer: A monkey
  121. Which was the oldest panda that died in 2014 at the age of 114? Answer: Jia jia
  122. What is a group of rhinos called? Answer: A crash
  123. What is a baby fox called? Answer: A kit
  124. Which bird is the symbol of good luck? Answer: Stork
  125. What is a group of hedgehogs known as? Answer: A pickle
  126. Which animal’s scientific name is Hominoidea? Answer: Ape
  127. Which animal has breeds like a retriever, Mexican hairless, shepherd, and beagle? Answer: Dog
  128. Which is the only venomous snake found in the UK? Answer: Adder
  129. What is a crossbreed between a horse and a donkey called? Answer: Mule
  130. What is a crossbreed between a zebra and a donkey called? Answer: Zonkey
  131. What is a group of geese called? Answer: A gaggle
  132. What does it mean when a pig’s tail curls? Answer: That they are happy
  133. What is the underside of a horse’s hoof called? Answer: A frog
  134. Which bird cannot move their eyeballs? Answer: Owl
  135. Which bird can mimic human speech? Answer: Parrot
  136. Which sea creature contains pearls? Answer: Oyster
  137. Which animal is the national emblem of America? Answer: Bald eagle
  138. Which animal has breeds like Persian, British shorthair, and Russian blue? Answer: Cat
  139. What color is the blood of an octopus? Answer: Blue
  140. What is a group of flamingos called? Answer: Flamboyance
  141. The bite of which insect causes malaria and dengue? Answer: A mosquito
  142. Which animal has the biggest eyes? Answer: Colossal squid
  143. What do you call a rabbit’s tail? Answer: Scut
  144. Which bird reaches the highest speeds in its hunting dive? Answer: Peregrine falcon
  145. What is a group of deer called? Answer: A herd
  146. Where do you find blind dolphins? Answer: The Indus river
  147. Which is the smallest mammal? Answer: Etruscan shrew
  148. What is a group of young pigs called? Answer: A drift
  149. The fingerprints of which animal resembles human fingerprints quite closely? Answer: Koala bear
  150. Which animal has rectangular pupils? Answer: Goat
  151. What is Scotland’s national animal? Answer: Unicorn
  152. On which continent are chinchillas found? Answer: South America
  153. How many pairs of eyelids does an owl have? Answer: Three
  154. Which is the only snake that builds a nest? Answer: King cobra