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Google What's the Difference? - Animals

Fill the blanks in these Google autocompletes that start with "What's the difference between".
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First submittedApril 26, 2014
Times taken92,704
Average score75.0%
Rating4.93
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What's the difference between ...
an Alpaca and a Llama
a Bison and a Buffalo
a Hare and a Rabbit
a Jaguar and a Leopard
a Mastodon and a Woolly Mammoth
a Centipede and a Millipede
a Mule and a Donkey
a Porpoise and a Dolphin
What's the difference between ...
a Frog and a Toad
a Crocodile and an Alligator
a Slug and a Snail
a Malamute and a Husky
a Lynx and a Bobcat
a Porcupine and a Hedgehog
an Octopus and a Squid
a Tortoise and a Turtle
What's the difference between ...
a Crow and a Raven
a Monkey and an Ape
a Buzzard and a Vulture
a Sea Lion and a Seal
a Wallaby and a Kangaroo
a Butterfly and a Moth
a Pigeon and a Dove
a Dugong and a Manatee
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93 Comments
kalbahamut
+20
Level 79
Jul 9, 2014
Most of these were very easy, but I never heard of a dugong before.
deathscythe002
+43
Level 60
Jul 9, 2014
i thought of the pokemon dewgong lol
summer19
+3
Level 41
Aug 24, 2023
lol, the only reason I know what a dugong is is because once I got curious what dewgong was modeled after, googled it and got my answer which came in handy for this quiz
HydratedMite
+3
Level 68
Aug 24, 2023
Skill issue
JonesBones
+3
Level 42
May 8, 2025
you must be a real funny guy
nycbarb
+1
Level 43
Jul 9, 2014
Me neither. I missed that one and "bobcat". Fun quiz!
MeMeMe333
+1
Level 71
May 9, 2025
I kept guessing 'mountain lion', 'cougar' and 'puma'. :(
smartcookie17
+2
Level 44
Jul 9, 2014
It's got to be the funniest word EVER!
McLerristarr
+2
Level 62
Mar 26, 2016
I know the dugong, but I only got manatee because I actually looked up the difference between them the other day after seeing manatee on a picture quiz.
ander217
+6
Level 73
Sep 7, 2018
Jaguar was the only one that gave me trouble. I went through the whole cat family before I finally thought of the answer.
JWatson24
+4
Level 71
Apr 9, 2021
I got all of them except Malamute. Never heard of it.
dunkinggandalf2
+6
Level 72
Apr 9, 2021
Dugongs are the same as manatees. Or are they? I should google that.
gewehr6628
+5
Level 47
Apr 16, 2021
yeah. google "whats the difference between a dugong and a manatee"
Kaminfeuer
+3
Level 57
May 8, 2025
They are in the same order but in different families. There are three species of manatee, living around the Carribean, the Amazon, and Western Africa, but only one species of dugong living in the Indian Ocean and Pacific. You identify them best by their tails. Manatees have a paddle-shaped tail while a dugong's is fluked :]
Xxfraser599xX
+1
Level 22
Jul 9, 2014
@chrisdoyle me too
mikeb
+1
Level 65
Jul 11, 2014
What about "jenny" for mule and "colt" for pony?
ecp
+19
Level 42
Jul 11, 2014
Only people who know much about horses are likely to be familiar with the terms "colt" and "jenny" (especially "jenny"), and those people are considerably less likely to be googling the difference between horses and ponies, or mules and donkeys.
ander217
+1
Level 73
Sep 7, 2018
Jenny makes no sense because it is a female donkey. That's like googling the difference between a person and a girl. It would work if one googled the difference between a jenny and a hinny, or a jack and a jenny. Pony no longer appears on the quiz, but seems to me that colt would make sense if it did. I'm surprised that colt isn't more well-known.
howard38
+4
Level 62
Sep 7, 2018
It makes sense if you don't know what a jenny is.
aarnold222
+9
Level 32
Jul 27, 2020
Also, let's not forget that this quiz is based on the google auto complete for the given input. If google doesn't auto complete that for jenny or colt, then it doesn't meet the parameters of the quiz.
dragonspike
+1
Level 28
Jul 11, 2014
100% 3:30 left
redsplat
+1
Level 72
Apr 27, 2018
100% 4:50 left. Animal nerds unite!
KiwiQuizWhiz
+1
Level 39
Jul 20, 2020
100% with 4:31 left!😜 Hooray for Animal Nerds!
gewehr6628
+1
Level 47
Apr 16, 2021
i hate pets and i got 100% with 5:08 left
greenapple7
+1
Level 62
Sep 15, 2020
100% 3:12 left. I love animals :)
starfast
+1
Level 57
Jul 12, 2014
I got all of them except the last one. Never heard of a dugong before.
Strider
+4
Level 27
Jul 13, 2014
Difference between a dove and a PIGEON!?!? Seriously?
Arp2600
+26
Level 89
Oct 8, 2014
I don't know what you mean, but doves and pigeons are very closely related...
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Apr 9, 2021
Yes, they are in the same family, so similar species have different names in different places. It is similar to the Shag/Comorant question.
ing
+24
Level 73
Apr 11, 2021
Wouldn't know... I've never shagged a cormorant.
jmellor13
+12
Level 68
Apr 11, 2021
Then you haven't lived, my friend.
McLerristarr
+13
Level 62
Mar 26, 2016
If you'd looked it up yourself, you'd see that they're essentially the same animal.
RobNobody
+3
Level 80
Sep 7, 2018
Yeah, a pigeon is basically just a soot-stained dove.
Hominka
+5
Level 81
Nov 11, 2014
That was an easy one -- knock off about 2 minutes to make it more interesting.
davemcarlson
+7
Level 54
Sep 19, 2015
I hardly ever say this, but I agree. Finished it with over 5 mins left, and I think cutting off 2 or 3 mins could be useful.
gewehr6628
+2
Level 47
Apr 16, 2021
same
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 81
Apr 2, 2016
Fun!
interopia
+3
Level 90
Apr 4, 2016
got them all except malamute, which i had never heard of!
interopia
+9
Level 90
Apr 25, 2018
Two years later, tried again and got them all!
Algernon
+1
Level 74
May 7, 2018
I'd never hard of a Malamute either.
howard38
+2
Level 62
Sep 7, 2018
I only knew it because of Jack London stories.
OfficerDibble
+8
Level 86
Apr 24, 2018
I was hoping it would be a Jaguar and a Daimler.
Anzi
+1
Level 68
Sep 7, 2018
He he he
Findlay
+15
Level 80
Apr 30, 2018
The difference is, obviously, that there's yet to be a Human Millipede movie made. And I think we can all be thankful for that.
kalbahamut
+7
Level 79
Sep 7, 2018
That's a great name for a potential sequel.
mikeb
+4
Level 65
Sep 7, 2018
Frog/toad difference = Only a frog is a Muppet.
Anzi
+1
Level 68
Sep 7, 2018
I thought a bobcat was a kind of JCB
Tsizzle
+2
Level 78
Sep 7, 2018
ok, so you can butcher the spelling of a lot of things in jetpunk and still get credit; however, you couldn't accept "wolly mammoth". I know it's only one "o" short, but come on. You know i knew the answer.
jmellor13
+4
Level 68
Sep 7, 2018
Yeah, but that's not phonetic. If you were missing an L (i.e., "wooly," it would still sound right, so that's a reasonable misspelling. "Wolly" doesn't sound the same as "woolly," so it's not a likely misspelling. You're basically asking the quizmaster to accept every possible misspelling that is off by one letter, which sounds like a lot of work for QM.
slicethemic
+1
Level 34
May 8, 2025
just type mammoth
spoolygoo
+4
Level 77
Sep 7, 2018
You'll have you wait 'til later to see an alligator but you'll see a crocodile after a while.
stalintime
+12
Level 81
Sep 8, 2018
how the hell is a buzzard like a vulture?
IntelVoid
+5
Level 66
Sep 13, 2018
People read/hear of buzzards feeding on carrion, and the first familiar bird that comes to mind is a vulture.

So they associate them without ever knowing what a buzzard looks like.

roleybob
+5
Level 73
Dec 19, 2018
We're not all ornithologists
caesaria
+1
Level 79
Mar 27, 2019
I was asking myself the same question. I mean, they look totally different and buzzards are better known for hunting mice and other rodents than for eating carrion.

Then again, I grew up in an area where buzzards are fairly common, so maybe that's why the difference is so clear to me...

Quizmaster
+11
Level ∞
Apr 9, 2021
I looked it up. Because to me, buzzard and vulture are two words for the same thing. But it turns out that this is an Americanism. In American English, the turkey vulture is known as a buzzard. In Europe, there is another bird called a buzzard which doesn't resemble a vulture at all.
OllyVer85
+10
Level 61
Apr 9, 2021
Quite. This Englishman tried Kite, Hawk, Falcon and Raptor before moving on rather confused.
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 74
Apr 25, 2024
Yeah I tried Kite first, then remembered from somewhere that I'd heard people talk about buzzards as though they were vultures. Interesting little deviation :)
determinedtobeatthis
+1
Level 68
Apr 9, 2021
Yeah, I'm an American and use the words interchangeably.
tigersue
+3
Level 75
Apr 14, 2021
Thanks for explaining that Quizmaster - as another Brit I was equally baffled as to why people might conflate the two!
Kaz60
+2
Level 48
Feb 5, 2019
Got them all except buzzard!!!
Kazakhstankitten
+2
Level 32
Nov 20, 2020
I got stuck on the bison one for a full 2 minutes because i couldn't spell buffalo correctly ´༎ຶ ͜ʖ ༎ຶ
FacterLiger0804
+1
Level 40
Apr 9, 2021
24/24 wth 3:56 left

I love animals :)

triviaolivia
+2
Level 63
Apr 13, 2021
So a hairy elephant is not a thing. OK. Cool.
tigersue
+1
Level 75
Apr 14, 2021
I really wish it was....
gewehr6628
+5
Level 47
Apr 16, 2021
well the difference is that a buffalo is a dad, and "bison" is what he says when he drops his kid off at school
HydratedMite
+1
Level 68
Apr 25, 2021
I know pretty much all of them. Mostly because I search pretty much all of them.
ZooTuber3000
+4
Level 51
May 30, 2021
Knowing as much about animals as I do, it kind of disgusts me that some people confuse these things.
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 66
Sep 7, 2021
same! Though I am pretty sure a Dove is a female Pidgeon.
9876542
+1
Level 37
May 7, 2025
Pigeons and doves are just slightly different. What is known in most cities as pigeons are actually rock doves, yet they were the ancestors of all modern pigeon breeds.
DLamers
+1
Level 66
Nov 25, 2022
Same although a lot are kinda understandable but the buzzard and vulture threw me totally off guard
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 66
Sep 7, 2021
I only missed Husky
ItzIngenious
+4
Level 66
Sep 7, 2021
You should add Herons and Cranes and Pengolins and Armadillos
aetherel
+1
Level 51
Jul 14, 2022
The odd capitalization in this quiz is disorienting.
flowerpot101
+2
Level 65
Aug 24, 2023
How about adding Rook for Crow?
wolfcat95
+1
Level 66
Aug 29, 2023
But "rook" is not how google autocompletes, "what is the difference between a crow and ...". A misspelling is understandable, but there is only ONE correct answer for each question.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Aug 24, 2023
22/24, missed woolly mammoth and vulture
equivallent
+1
Level 54
Aug 26, 2023
butterfly and moth? seriously?
brandybuck96
+4
Level 82
Mar 14, 2024
That's a complicated question that a lot of people might not know the answer to given there is, according to the Butterfly Conservation website, no straight answer and the difference is more cultural than scientific. So it's no surprise people are googling it.
Tooper
+1
Level 39
Sep 21, 2023
100%
FoxyFoxster
+1
Level 35
Apr 24, 2024
People low-key research the difference between a slug and a snail ?!
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 74
Apr 25, 2024
Jaguar / Cougar / Mountain Lion / Puma / Leopard (Snow / Clouded) ...

Lynx / Caracal / Bobcat / Ocelot / Serval / Pallas Cat ...

I get so confused with small- to medium-sized wild cats!

Pandryf
+3
Level 63
Aug 13, 2024
Tortoise - turtle

Porpoise - purple...

bunbud
+2
Level 61
Apr 2, 2025
“What’s the difference between monkey and ape” 💀💀
Polandball6
+3
Level 47
Apr 14, 2025
Could you accept gator for alligator
Baton793
+1
Level 58
May 7, 2025
Great quiz, though a bit hard for ESLs
JMM
+1
Level 60
May 7, 2025
As a naturalist this was easy, as a Brit the Buzzard one nearly got me till I remembered the American version.
Unobtainium
+1
Level 49
May 7, 2025
I have a lot of things to look up now.

Never heard of a Malamute.

malamuer
+1
Level 44
Jul 12, 2025
I love malamutes:))
superfasticarus
+1
Level 37
May 7, 2025
porcupine and hedgehog are so different !! i can't people don't even know...
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 64
Mar 13, 2026
That's the only one I missed. Didn't occur to me at all.
szucska
+1
Level 46
May 10, 2025
Had a moment with the mammoth, but the most difficult one was the vulture. And it was a lucky guess after trying the falcon/hawk et al birds, when i had no more ideas and still had 3+ minutes.

Not an english native, but QuizMaster gave the explanation, so I learnt something new today, too.

RoboquizM86
+2
Level 61
Sep 1, 2025
What's the difference between a kraken and a giant squid
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