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Quiz Monkey |
| Also known as the wisent |
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European bison | |
| More correct name for the American buffalo |
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Bison | |
| North American name for the elk |
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Moose | |
| More correct name (originating in the Cree language) for the deer that's commonly known in North America as the elk; there are also subspecies native to China, Mongolia and southern Siberia |
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Wapiti |
| Q: Which creature (or whale) is sometimes known as the … ? | A: | |
| Orca (and was formerly known as the grampus) |
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Killer whale |
| Cachalot |
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Sperm whale |
| Beluga or sea canary |
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White whale |
| Q: Which (animal) is sometimes known as the … ? | A: | ||
| Emmet (is an archaic and dialectical name for the) |
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Ant | |
| Ship rat, roof rat, house rat, Alexandrine rat, Old English rat |
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Black rat | |
| Sibbald's rorqual (after the Scottish physician who first described it scientifically) |
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Blue whale | |
| Bummalo (a fish native to the tropical areas of the Indo–Pacific) |
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Bombay duck | |
| Common rat, sewer rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat, wharf rat |
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Brown rat | |
| Galago (nocturnal tree–dwelling primate) |
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Bush baby | |
| Mourning Cloak (butterfly) – US name for |
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Camberwell Beauty | |
| Changthangi or pashmina (originating in Ladakh, Kashmir) |
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Cashmere goat | |
| Hunting leopard |
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Cheetah | |
| May bug, doodlebug, spang beetle or Billy witch |
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Cockchafer | |
| Prairie wolf |
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Coyote | |
| Nutria (also used for its fur) |
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Coypu | |
| Devil's darning needle |
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Dragonfly | |
| Sea cow |
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Dugong or manatee | |
| Spiny ant–eater |
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Echidna |
| Flying fox |
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Fruit bat | |
| Desert rat |
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Gerbil (or jerboa) | |
| Camelopard (obsolete) |
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Giraffe | |
| Silvertip bear |
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Grizzly | |
| Woodchuck or whistle pig |
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Groundhog | |
| Domestic cavy |
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Guinea pig | |
| Urchin: country dialect (and heraldic) word for a |
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Hedgehog | |
| River horse |
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Hippopotamus | |
| Ratel (Mellivora capensis) |
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Honey badger | |
| Desert rat |
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Jerboa | |
| Hamadryad (after a type of wood nymph in Greek mythology) |
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King cobra | |
| Honey bear (not a bear – related to the raccoon. Native to Central and South America) |
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Kinkajou | |
| Cranefly larva |
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Leatherjacket | |
| Alternative name for a jellyfish – originating in classical mythology |
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Medusa | |
| Suricate (Latin name Suricata suricatta) |
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Meerkat | |
| Angel shark or angelfish |
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Monkfish | |
| Barking deer |
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Muntjac | |
| Painted leopard or McNenney's wildcat |
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Ocelot | |
| Scaly ant–eater |
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Pangolin |
| River wolf |
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Pike | |
| Nanook is the Inuit name for the |
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Polar bear | |
| Foulmart, foul marten, fitch, fitcher or fitchet |
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Polecat | |
| Quill pig |
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Porcupine | |
| Pit viper |
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Rattlesnake | |
| Caribou (is the North American name for the) |
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Reindeer | |
| Smilodon (prehistoric animal – scientific name) |
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Sabre toothed tiger | |
| Sewin (Wales), finnock (Scotland), peal (West Country), and mort (North West England) are regional names for the |
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Sea trout |
| Aristotle's lantern |
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Sea urchin | |
| Burying beetle (stores dead insects in the ground as food by digging underneath them) |
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Sexton beetle | |
| Ounce |
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Snow leopard | |
| Thylacine (thought to have become extinct during the 20th century) |
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Tasmanian wolf or tiger | |
| Doctor fish (according to folklore, its slippery skin can heal other fishes) |
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Tench |
| White ant |
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Termite | |
| Water rat (it's not a rat, it's a ...) |
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Water vole | |
| Gnu |
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Wildebeest | |
| Glutton or carcajou |
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Wolverine | |
| Q: What is the (more) common name for the ... ? | A: | |
| Crane fly |
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Daddy long legs |
| Japanese Macaque |
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Snow monkey |
| Sea crayfish or sea crawfish |
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Spiny lobster |
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