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Animal Anatomy Quiz

Can you name these animal body parts based on a description?
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Last updated: April 13, 2021
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First submittedApril 21, 2011
Times taken55,452
Average score65.0%
Rating4.21
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Definition
Body Part
Long nose of an elephant
Trunk
Front of a pig's face
Snout
Horse's neck hair
Mane
Horse foot
Hoof
Insect feeler organ
Antenna
Outer shell of an insect or crustacean
Exoskeleton
Upper section of a crustacean's
outer shell
Carapace
Arthropod's claw
Pincer
Bird's claw
Talon
Needle-like spine used for
porcupine defense
Quill
Definition
Body Part
Marsupial pocket
Pouch
Fish's breathing organ
Gill
Bird organ that grinds ingested food
Gizzard
The middle of three insect body sections
Thorax
Flattened limb used for swimming by
penguins, turtles, whales, and dolphins
Flipper
Fish appendage, used to propel itself
Fin
The loose skin that hangs from
a turkey's neck
Wattle
Long, pointed tooth of a snake
Fang
Milk producing organ of a cow
Udder
A squid has 8 arms and two of these
Tentacles
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Level 77
Apr 21, 2011
good quiz
+1
Level 70
Apr 22, 2011
Well don't I feel dumb? I missed "talon" although 76% of people got it. I got gizzard though.
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Level 14
Apr 23, 2014
lol I missed 'mane' :(
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Level 75
Apr 22, 2021
I've been taking too many US states quizzes, couldn't think of the correct spelling for a while...
+1
Level 41
Aug 1, 2011
good quiz
+2
Level 37
Nov 15, 2011
Reading Animorphs when I was a kid payed off it seems
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Level 39
Oct 14, 2020
OMG I LOVED that series when i was a kid :):)
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Level 32
Feb 18, 2012
Missed the pincer question...I feel stupid.
+1
Level 51
Apr 25, 2015
I missed it, too, and I should have known it. I also missed pouch. That was really silly!
+1
Level 88
Feb 29, 2020
Lobsters have pincher claws and crusher claws.
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Level 14
Jul 9, 2012
100% with 1:17 left. OH yeah!!
+2
Level 15
May 10, 2013
Great quiz! Challenging but not too hard!
+2
Level 66
Dec 20, 2018
exactly, really enjoyed this one. Something you COULD all now, but still have to do a bit of thinking and not just typing.
+3
Level 45
Apr 21, 2014
Got everything except the crustacean shell. The closest I came was "chitin".
+2
Level 49
Apr 26, 2014
Some crustaceans have claws distinguished by pincer and crusher.
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Level 54
Jul 26, 2014
I'm an idiot, I spelled mane, like the state maine.
+3
Level 49
Dec 19, 2014
I tried to put "gizzard" for the turkey neck skin question, then it popped up for the bird organ one.
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Level 15
Jun 8, 2022
Buh
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Level 47
Jan 25, 2015
As someone who raised turkeys for like seven years, I totally, missed wattle the first time. Technically, the wattle hangs from the throat. I kept getting to complicated and guessing caruncles.
+1
Level 84
Oct 17, 2017
I think my grandpa was part turkey.
+1
Level 28
Dec 7, 2015
Finally thought of quill with one second left XD
+1
Level 61
Oct 6, 2016
Accept crop for gizzard too!

Also, talons mostly only apply to birds of prey in that they're grasping and sharp-clawed for hunting, definitely not the case with all bird feet.

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Level 66
Oct 6, 2016
The crop is where some birds store food before it goes to the gizzard to be ground up. It's a different organ so shouldn't be allowed as an alternate here.
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Level 66
Dec 20, 2018
I guess the word claw allready sort of indicates that. The question is not birds feet ( atleast not anymore,,)
+1
Level 33
Dec 2, 2016
Got thorax at the last second.
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Level 66
Dec 20, 2018
Loved this quiz. I only missed three, I think this can be hard enough if you do it in your own language, so I am happy I only missed three. Wattle and carapace I had never heard of, and for flipper I had tried several things.. (fin dorsal fin, fluke which I remember from another quiz as the "tail" of whales) but seeing as (together with the before mentioned two) it is nearly the lowest, I am not the only one that had a hard time with that one. (while the answer is quite obvious)
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Level 66
Dec 20, 2018
Now I look at it again, I see wattle and it actually does ring a bell, but in my head it sounds like waddle ( but that is like how a duck walks isnt it?)

Ps I LOVE the word talon. I learned at a later age (hardly learned any new words after 12/14) and I ve loved it ever since :)

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Level 75
Apr 22, 2021
Mitch McConnell should have been a valid answer for the turkey neck
+1
Level 53
Apr 22, 2021
Take my +.
+4
Level 65
Apr 22, 2021
Consider accepting dewlap for the turkey question?
+2
Level 46
Apr 22, 2021
does a squid have 8 tentacles and 2 arms?
+1
Level 63
Apr 22, 2021
The shell of a turtle is a carapace. Probably a more common use for that term than- upper portion of a crustacean.
+1
Level 74
Apr 22, 2021
Spiders have carapaces too. Personally I've never heard anyone refer to a turtle's carapace as opposed to its shell. But we might swim in different circles :)
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Level 71
Apr 26, 2021
In turtles, the upper shell or back is called the carapace, and the lower shell or belly is called the plastron.
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Level 79
Apr 22, 2021
I missed flipper lol. There is literally a famous dolphin and movie named "Flipper". Come on brain.
+2
Level 62
Apr 24, 2021
Chicken chow mein mane
+1
Level 67
Jan 3, 2022
Now I'm hungry
+1
Level 67
Jan 3, 2022
17
+1
Level 45
Sep 1, 2023
Squids have two of a lot of things, actually.