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Island Extinctions - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 140 times
- The average score is 4 of 17
Answer Stats
| Hint | Date | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| The largest pigeon species, a massive, flightless bird native to the island of Mauritius | ~1662 | Dodo | 96%
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| Wrangel Island in Siberia was the last refuge of this iconic Ice Age pachyderm | ~2000 BCE | Woolly Mammoth | 66%
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| Giant flightless birds native to New Zealand | ~1450 | Moa | 64%
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| The last outpost of this large, flightless species of seabird was the islet of Eldey in Iceland | 1844 | Great Auk | 30%
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| Doglike marsupial species historically associated with the island of Tasmania | 1936 | Thylacine | 27%
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| Giant bird species native to Madagascar known for laying the largest eggs of any animal | ~1050 | Elephant Bird | 25%
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| This North Pacific manatee/dugong relative died out within 20 years of European arrival in the remote Commander Islands of Russia | ~1768 | Stellers Sea Cow | 21%
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| Giant eagle native to New Zealand that specialized in hunting giant flightless birds | ~1450 | Haasts Eagle | 14%
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| The last induvidual, Lonesome George, lived for 40 years after scientists were unable to find any other living members of the species. | 2012 | Pinta Island Tortoise | 14%
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| Another species of giant flightless pigeon, native to the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius | ~1750 | Solitaire | 3%
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| ~300 lb horned turtle with a spiked tail, best known from Pleistocene Lord Howe Island in Australia, survived well into the Holocene on the island of New Caledonia | ~300 | Meiolania | 2%
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| Songbird native to the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, known for haunting calls captured in audio | 1987 | Kaua'i O'o | 1%
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| Family of ground sloths native to the Greater Antilles, the last surviving ground sloths after the Pleistocene extinctions | ~3000 BCE | Megalocnids | 1%
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| Lizardlike terrestrial, possibly tree-climbing crocodilian native to Melanesia | ~1000 BCE | Mekosuchus | 1%
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| Goatlike animal with forward-facing eyes/binocular vision native to Balaeric Islands of Spain | ~2500 BCE | Myotragus | 1%
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| Family of giant primates native to Madagascar. The largest species was the size of a gorilla | ~1500 | Sloth Lemurs | 1%
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| Massive gooselike ducks formerly native to the Hawaiian islands | ~1000 | Moa-nalu | 0%
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