Name That Mammal Quiz #3

Sea lions technically are seals.

Sea lions and seals are actually very different - they are as similar to each other as a walrus is to either one of them. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/seal-sealion.html

@THobbes1651: The specification was required due to there being two different species of seal in the quiz.

Dugong should be accepted for manatee.

tricky quiz

Should replace the nutria question. Only a 5% success rate. Way too hard.

Agreed - looks like just another beaver to me.

I guessed river otter. Never even heard of a nutria :)

Eh, not really. They were only ever mentioned in elementary school and I still remembered. It adds that little bit of extra difficulty.

I agree with dannozanno. The nutria is way too hard!

Coypu also works for nutria. That's what I know it as.

it would not be hard if u knew what it was

because people learning new things is bad?!?

Agreed! One of the reasons I'm on this website so often is to learn things.

@GeckoIX: The dugong and manatee are two different mammals

They awfully look similar o.o!

Beluga whales are cute.

@olytrojan: Really? OK.

Didn't know how to spell "Narwhal", spelled it "Narwal" and it wasn't counted. Would be helpful if it was changed!

I dunno, but they are all really cute! except for the beluga whale

nutria is the translation for otter. Did you mean river otter?

@Mithol The other name for dugong is sea-cow as I recall.

god, I typed seal elephant at least a dozen times. I need to quit drinking.

good quiz, nice array of similar animals to make you think hard - took me a bit to remember the other name for "pilot whale" but I finally remembered. However, since you were being pretty specific - you properly accepted "orca" for killer whale (killer whale being more of a nickname), so you probably should accept "cachalot" for sperm whale, as that is it's real name and sperm whale is another nickname like above.

Lol, how come "elephant seals" only have 34%! They are sooo easy to recognise~!

@KatM, I knew it was a seal, I just couldn't for the life of me remember which type. I knew it wasn't your typical seal, though. I knew narwhal, too, but couldn't think of it in time.

screw the sperm whale. 14/15

I agree orca should be accepted. I was always told off at school for calling them killer whales. But other then that it was a really good quizz.

I got most of them right i got stuck on nutria and i spelled manatee wrong

Missed Beluga whale -face palm-

good quiz .pretty easy exept 4 the nuetria.14/15 to back up that its kinda easy part, this is coming from a 10 year old oh and sea lions are NOT technecly seals an i can pove it there are tones of distinguishing features

100% with 3:18 to go

I got them all with 1:48 left. It helps that I've seen almost all of them in person -- except the sperm whale and the narwhal, which are very distinctive. I've only seen a hippo in a zoo, but I've seen the rest in the wild. Nutria are a real pest in Lousiana swamps and have spread to South Florida and even South Carolina. They were introduced to Louisiana by McIlhenny (the Tabasco Sauce family), who was raising them for the pelts.

Could you get a WORSE picture of a nutria?

@Thobbes.....sea lions and seals are 2 different species of animal

Every time I see a picture of an Orca it trips me out, I went 20+ years thinking their eyes were in those white spots.

If you accept "Beluga" for "Beluga" whale, than can you accept "Humpback"?

15/15 with 2 minutes left. Easy quiz

There are tons of nutria here in Oregon too. But I have noticed people from other places generally have no clue. I like to describe them as giant river rats.

Never heard of a nutria....looked like a river otter to me.

What's a nutria? I thought it was another otter.

100% 3:19

That Narwhal thing looked like pears floating in water with cocktail sticks poking out of the tops. But I thought that maybe the answer wouldn't be that long...

PS - manatee - I recognised it, but couldn't remember the name. Aren't they the things that sailors in the old days took for mermaids? Mind, you'd have to have been at sea for a VERY long time . . .

or drunk. On cheap grog.

I totally spaced on the narwhal. Kept wanting to call it a unicorn whale.

Curses, half-heartedly entered in coypu (I assume would have accepted it) but didn't spell it right. I enjoyed the quiz!

I thought the nutria was a muskrat at first.

Is it just me, or does the Manatee look really depressed?

He does look depressed :( Or she.

I had nutria but I spelled it nutrea. That spelling should be accepted.

I thought narwhals were made up

NO! Narwhals are amazingly real and awesome!

Can you please accept "sea elephant" for elephant seal? Thanks.

Beavers aren't mammals, they're rodents.

Beavers are rodents.....rodents are mammals, cetaceans are mammals, mustilids are mammals, they're all mammals.

I totally guessed on Nutria because it is hard to tell in the water. Perhaps a different photo of one standing. They are more distinct looking that way.

How the heck did I get nutria but miss sea lion?