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Confusing Animal Names - Picture Quiz

These animals are named after different animals. Can you complete their common names?
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Star___
Prairie ___
Flying ___
Guinea ___
Sea_____
Bear___
Dragon___
Maned ____
Horny ____
Electric ___
Horseshoe ___
American _______
Mantis _____
Flying _____
King _____
Elephant ____
Lady____ (British English)
Mountain _______
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25 Comments
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Level 30
Aug 18, 2020
love this quiz! Didn't get Flying Lemur or Mountain Chicken.
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Level 88
Sep 6, 2020
Glad you enjoyed it :)
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Level 78
Mar 4, 2021
Mountain chicken? That name is really puzzling
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Level 88
Mar 4, 2021
Yeah, tastes like chicken apparently!
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Level 66
Jun 29, 2021
I had a chance to try it (years ago, before it was endangered) and chickened out.
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Level 81
Feb 24, 2025
Frog's Legs in France tastes a little like chicken so makes sense.
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Level 79
Feb 24, 2025
I think it's a specialty from Dominica. In Guadeloupe we call it poulet Dominique.

(Never had it)

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Level 50
Apr 4, 2021
The original panda is actually the red panda, so the name isn't misleading after all...
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Level 99
Jun 7, 2021
Fun quiz, thank you! Nominated (along with 5 others of your quizzes today, on a nomination frenzy!!)
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Level 77
Oct 23, 2022
Killer whales are whales, are they not?
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Level 70
Jun 12, 2023
Nice quiz, but they're not actually called koala bears, just koalas. Mountain chicken had me in stitches!
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Level 18
Oct 11, 2024
Exactly! This frustrated me a little. :)
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Level 88
Feb 18, 2025
Added a note.
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Level 40
Jan 19, 2024
Since when were mountain goats not goats? That one actually caught me by surprise.
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Level 88
Jan 19, 2024
From the intro to the mountain goat wiki page:

Despite its vernacular name and both genera being in the same subfamily (Caprinae), the mountain goat is not a member of Capra, the genus that includes all true goats (such as the wild goat (Capra aegagrus), from which the domestic goat is derived); rather, it is more closely allied with the other bovids known as “goat-antelopes”, including the European chamois (Rupicapra), the gorals (Naemorhedus), the takins (Budorcas) and the serows (Capricornis), of Japan and eastern South Asia.

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Level 88
Feb 18, 2025
Removed it now, anyway.
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Level 34
May 17, 2024
ok who decided the frog looked like chicken?
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Level 73
Feb 20, 2025
Tastes*
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Level 52
Jul 6, 2024
Missed opportunity to add electric eel or any penguin
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Level 88
Jul 6, 2024
Missed opportunity to look at the answers in the quiz.
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Level 62
Feb 24, 2025
Great work, nice one.
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Level 63
Feb 24, 2025
I think this quiz would be better with yellow box.
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Level 88
Feb 24, 2025
Hmm, could do. The stats don't convince me though. Curious if you got some accidentally and which ones.
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Level 86
Mar 4, 2025
Now I'm confused - what's confusing about American buffalo?
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Level 88
Mar 4, 2025
They are bison. Bison and buffalo are technically two different groups of species.

"American buffalo" (or just "buffalo") is a common/colloquial name for the American Bison.