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Animal Stereotypes

Can you guess the animal that best fits each of these stereotypes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_animals
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2015-2-march-april/green-life/9-myths-about-animals-you-probably-think-are-true
Quiz by islabonita
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Last updated: August 18, 2021
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First submittedFebruary 18, 2020
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Average score73.1%
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Stereotype
Animal
King of the jungle
Lion
Man's best friend
Dog
They have nine lives
Cat
Busy
Bee
Tempted Eve in the garden
Snake
Never forgets
Elephant
Are enraged by the color red
Bull
Slow, patient, clever, ancient
Tortoise
If they stop swimming, they will die
Shark
Touching them gives you warts
Toad
Formal like a butler
Penguin
They symbolize peace
Dove
Quiet
Mouse
Stereotype
Animal
They have a three-second memory span
Goldfish
They store water in their humps
Camel
They jump off cliffs in mass suicides
Lemming
Blind
Bat
Like to play dead
Opossum
Fat, greedy, filthy
Pig
Wise
Owl
Disease carriers
Rat
Innocent, Christ-like
Lamb
Their stench can be undone with tomato juice
Skunk
Bringer of newborn babies
Stork
Foretellers of death and destruction
Raven
They hide their heads in the sand
Ostrich
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Level 77
Jan 8, 2021
I can't believe there's an actual wikipedia page for this.
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Level 75
Jan 8, 2021
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Level 78
Jan 25, 2021
Not believe doesn't mean doubt.
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Level 78
Jan 25, 2021
I believe no one doubts that, and I doubt anyone believes that.
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Level 74
Jan 9, 2021
May you accept pigeon for dove?
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Level ∞
Jan 9, 2021
That will work now.
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Level 73
Jan 12, 2021
Why? They're not the same.
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Level 48
Jan 25, 2021
dude it accepts mosquito for rat wtf
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Level 73
Jan 25, 2021
Cause they're also plague carriers...
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Level 24
Aug 30, 2023
Yeah they carry malaria, duh
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Level 54
Jan 25, 2021
@Pharley, doves and pigeons are scientifically speaking the same 308 species of birds.
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Level 66
Jan 27, 2021
Indeed they are the same (Columb... something haha columbae columbide... wait let me look it up.. ah almost.. columbidae). English is one of the few (maybe even only? Not sure) language that seperates them based on appearance. But still it wasn't any old pigeon that came to the ark. So I am torn about if you should accept pigeon (you should, because that is the animal... )
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Level 62
Jan 25, 2021
A pigeon is also known as a rock dove.
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Level 76
Jan 10, 2021
One of the dumbest birds in the wild called wise... Someone's been laughing up their sleeve backhanding compliments all around.
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Level ∞
Jan 11, 2021
Unlike humans, owls don't spend all day checking their social media, eating junk food, or pursuing other self destructive habits. So who are we to insult their intelligence?

kidding, kidding...

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Level 56
Jan 25, 2021
#relatableinquarantine
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Level 66
Jan 27, 2021
Too bad you added kidding, quite true actually. People are pretty stupid. If you take away their technology and things other people made for them (which they couldn't have done on their own but is wisdom carried over through the ages) most would be completely lost. Not much people are good at solving new problems.
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Level 66
Nov 10, 2021
*many people
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Level 64
Jan 13, 2021
Should buffalo / bison be an option for jumping off cliffs? It's how the Native Americans hunted them to near extinction.
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Level 45
Jan 13, 2021
That's a fact that bison were forced off cliffs. This quiz is looking or stereotypes. Primarily FALSE attributes. Thanks for playing!
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Level 66
Jan 27, 2021
I think you are confusing myth with sterotype
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Level 65
Jan 25, 2021
It's not the natives that hunted them that way, it's the american settlers that wanted to kill the native tribes to have their land. Bison was one of the main source of food for the natives, there would no reason for them to massacre these animals.
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Level 28
Jan 25, 2021
Archeological evidence dates buffalo jumps as far back as 10,000 BCE. The reason to kill en masse was to reduce the effect of training the bison to further avoid humans and thus make hunting harder. Although this method of hunting had largely ended with the introduction of horses, it was still practiced occasionally as late as 1800 AD.

Europeans hardly ever used buffalo jumps, since they had plenty of guns and ammo, which was enough to nearly wipe them out completely by 1900.

EDIT: It's probably more correct to say that the practice had completely ended by 1800, as it seems that the accounts from then were not first hand. Anyway, the point is, there were some 50 million bison on the plains around 1800, and only a few thousand remained by 1900.

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Level 74
Jan 27, 2021
@TableFor1 Yes buffalo jumps were used by some Indigenous nations for hunting (e.g. hence the memorable place name Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump). But when Europeans showed up in the Americas, there were an estimated 30-50 million buffalo. By the end of the 19th century there were only several hundred animals left. Buffalo lost habitat to ranchers, were commercially over-hunted, had bounties put on them, were shot from trains. The attempted extermination of buffalo was even official army and govt policy for a few decades; it was seen as a way to starve and force Indigenous people onto reservations. Blaming Native Americans / Indigenous nations for the near-extinction of the buffalo is ahistorical.
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Level 79
Jan 25, 2021
I tried goat for the lemming stereotype.
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Level 49
Jan 25, 2021
Mosquito is the new rat.
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Level 33
Jan 25, 2021
WTH is a Opossum I know what a Possum is
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Level 76
Jan 25, 2021
Opossums are an order of American marsupial. The only species in Canada and the US is the Virginia opossum, which usually has its "o" dropped and is referred to as just a "possum."

You might also be thinking of the Australian animal that is also called a "possum," which is not very closely related to opossums but looks similar enough that it was named after them.

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Level 71
Jan 25, 2021
Can you accept "flea" for the clue about disease carriers? Because that was the first thing I guessed (followed by mosquito... I was really only thinking about insects for that one)
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Level 57
Jan 25, 2021
The disease carriers are humans, several million of us carry COVID
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Level 58
Jan 26, 2021
you might as well as put every plant and animal down as disease carries by that logic
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Level 22
Jan 25, 2021
Can you accept fish it took me a while to get gold fish
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Level 84
Jan 25, 2021
I think blue tang should be accepted for three-second memory span because Dory.
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Level 22
Dec 20, 2021
I AGREE
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Level 44
Jan 25, 2021
Business Goose
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Level 56
Jan 26, 2021
for some reason my brain went to "ant" for a stereotypically quiet animal. It's true that they're pretty quiet, but I guess they're just not famous for it
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Level 75
Jan 26, 2021
My husband said you should accept Anders for the three-second memory clue. (That's the only one I missed. I tried fish but didn't realize there was a specific answer.) Personally, I thought Ander would better fit the slow, patient, clever, ancient one but I guess it isn't all about me.
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Level 66
Jan 27, 2021
Hehe :)
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Level 66
Jan 27, 2021
The only one I missed was lamb. Good to see it scoring far below the others, so I am not alone :)

I actually tried cow. I thought innocent christlike = holy. So holy cow :D

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Level 35
Feb 1, 2021
what the hell is a lemming
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Level 92
Feb 9, 2021
A small rodent that lives in arctic regions.
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Level 67
Dec 13, 2021
It doesn't actually jump off of cliffs though. That stereotype is very much a myth.
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Level 53
Aug 18, 2021
Feel like "mice" should be an acceptable answer for mouse.
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Level 68
Feb 11, 2022
Human should be an acceptable answer for pig.
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Level 68
May 10, 2022
i typed in mosquito and it accepted it for rat! Please fix
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Level 68
Sep 19, 2022
HELLO!
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Level 24
Aug 30, 2023
Good quiz, but camels store fat in their humps, not water
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Level 87
Dec 30, 2023
With the possible exception of busy bees, NONE of these “cliches” are factually correct - I think that was the point
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Level 56
Sep 28, 2023
i wouldve NEVER gotten lemmings lmaoo