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Inhaling water to spray for drinking or bathing, picking things up, greeting others, sensing predators, slapping for defense, and tearing up food are all
a) possible uses of an elephant's trunk.
b) methods that ungulates relate to other members of their family group.
c) unique techniques tapirs use their noses.
d) ways to tell the difference between mastadons and mammoths.

Elephants blow dust
a) as a means of sunscreen and insect repellant.
b) as a means of escaping predators by screening them from view.
c) to get oxfeeder birds off their backs.
d) to show other elephants where they are located.

What makes a wooly mammoth similar to (and still different from) an elephant?
a) A wooly mammoth has tusks that curl upward, and it is covered with long hair.
b) A wooly mammoth lives in the same region as elephants do--both in Africa and in Asia.
c) A wooly mammoth is about the same weight and size as an African elephant.
d) The dietary needs of a wooly mammoth are the same as an Asian elephant.

What is about the discovery of ice-encased mammoths in Siberia that makes them so intriguing to scientists?
a) All of the answers are true.
b) The mammoths' stomach contents are preserved in the freezing process.
c) They seem to be evidence that an ice age did cool portions of the earth many years ago.
d) They are evidence that Siberia was once not as cold as it is now.

What kind of habitat did mastadons live in?
a) Forests, eating mostly twigs and leaves.
b) Open plains, grazing on grasses and flowers.
c) Frozen tundra, living on buried potato mounds.
d) None of these answers is accurate.

How are horses and ponies different?
a) Their height and the thickness of their manes and tails.
b) Their teeth shape and number.
c) Their hoof size.
d) Their age.

What does it mean when a horse is labeled hot-, warm-, or cold-blooded?
a) They are terms to indicate its specific personalities, characteristics, and temperament.
b) They indicate where the horse lives and breeds.
c) They identify quarter horses from all other horses.
d) There is not a difference in them; all horses are warm-blooded.

What is a filly?
a) A female horse that hasn't fully grown.
b) A male horse that hasn't fully grown.
c) An adult male horse that has been neutered.
d) A fully grown female horse.

What is a foal?
a) Any horse that is not yet one year old.
b) Any horse that still residing in the same corral as its mother.
c) All of these answers are accurate.
d) A horse that is less than 14.2 hands tall.

What is a yearling?
a) A horse that is between one and two years old.
b) The wooly mammoth whose stomach contents are still distinctly evident.
c) A fully grown male.
d) A fully grown female horse.

What is a stallion?
a) A fully grown male horse.
b) A fully grown female horse.
c) A year-old horse.
d) A male horse that isn't fully grown.

What is a mare?
a) A fully grown female horse.
b) A fully grown male horse.
c) An adult male horse that has been neutered to make it calmer.
d) A horse that isn't a year old.

What is a colt?
a) A male horse that isn't fully grown.
b) A horse that isn't a year old yet--of either gender.
c) A female horse that isn't fully grown.
d) None of these answers is accurate.

What do all these have in common: body is smaller, ears are larger, voice is louder, personality is less compliant, mane hair is stiff, tail is tasseled, and names include jack, jennet, and burro.
a) These are all characteristics of a donkey.
b) These are all characteristics of a zebra.
c) These are all characteristics of a horse.
d) These are all characteristics of a mule.

What is the difference between a mule and a donkey?
a) All of these answers are accurate.
b) A mule cannot reproduce, while a donkey can.
c) A mule comes from a female horse mating with a donkey.
d) A hinney comes from a female donkey mating with a male horse.

What is unique about a zebra's stripes or markings?
a) Each zebra has a unique set of markings--much like humans' fingerprints.
b) Each zebra has an equal number of black stripes to white stripes.
c) A zebra's strips always start with black on the face and move back symmetrically between black and white.
d) Zebra stripes always end in white on the legs before the hoof.

Rhinoceroses are endangered because
a) people hunt them for their horns.
b) people capture them for pets.
c) people are taking more and more of their territory so they are dying out.
d) other animals have preyed upon rhinos and have nearly killed them off.

Of what is a rhino's horn made?
a) The same material as human hair.
b) The same material as its hooves.
c) The same material as its skin.
d) It is a hollow bone covered by skin.

How is a tapir like an elephant?
a) It has a proboscis.
b) It has hair over its entire body.
c) It is found only in Africa and Asia.
d) Its skin is tough like durable leather.

How are tapirs like pigs?
a) Tapirs's body shape is short and stout like a pig.
b) Tapirs cool themselves off in dry dirt pits like pigs.
c) Tapirs have babies called piglets.
d) Tapirs have a distinctive 'oink' sound similar to pigs.

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