Trivia

1. c) The American Pygmy Shrew needs to eat constantly and never sleeps for more than a few minutes. Its pulse clocks in at over 1,000 beats per minute!

2. c) The Blue Whale is the largest animal we know of, so at 30 metres long and weighing over 150 tonnes, it can eat up to 3.6 tonnes of krill (a type of crustacean, like shrimp) a day — that has the same number of calories as about 7,000 chocolate bars!

3. a) Hummingbirds need a lot of food to maintain their powerful wings which can flap up to 80 times a second. Their heart beats up to 20 times per second and they eat up to twice their weight in nectar every day!

4. b) Star-Nosed mole. It eats faster than any other mammal. It swallows its food typically in less than a quarter of a second, which is about as fast as you blink.

5.True. Little Brown Bats weigh only about eight grams (a little more than a toonie), but they can eat 1,000 mosquitoes in a single hour.

6. False. Carpenter Ants don’t eat wood — they burrow into wood to build their nests. As they burrow, sawdust-like shavings are thrown from the nest. Carpenter ants eat insects and other small invertebrates..

1. Which animal loses sleep so it can eat enough food to equal three times its body weight in a day?

a) Canada Goose b) Baltimore Oriole c) American Pygmy Shrew

2. The most food known to be eaten by an animal in one day would be the same as you eating:

a) 250 pieces of broccoli b) 423 blocks of cheese c) 7,000 chocolate bars d) 3,000 green grapes

3. Which is the hungriest bird?

a) Hummingbird b) Snowy Owl c) Downy Woodpecker d) Chickadee

4. Which land animal is the fastest to swallow its food?

a) White-Tailed Deer b) Star-Nosed Mole c) Black-Footed Ferret d) Barren-Ground Caribou

5. True or False: The Little Brown Bat, which is no bigger than 10 centimetres long, can eat 1,000 mosquitoes in one hour.

6. True of False: Carpenter Ants eat wood, which is why they are a nuisance to homeowners.