Statistics for Extinct Animals: A-Z

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This quiz has been taken 29 times
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	Clue	Species	% Correct
D	Flightless bird endemic to the island of Mauritius	Dodo	88%
T	Named after the Australian state in which it is located	Tasmanian tiger	69%
V	Dinosaur known for its role in Jurassic Park	Velociraptor	65%
A	Predecessor of the domesticated cow	Auroch	58%
E	Enourmous flightless bird that lived on the island of Madagascar	Elephant bird	58%
W	One of the most recognisable animals of the Pleistocene (Ice age)	Woolly mammoth	54%
P	Common name derived from the French word 'passager' as a reference to the migratory patterns of the animal	Passenger pigeon	50%
Q	South African plains zebra, only ever photographed once	Quagga	50%
S	Predatory mammal characterised by long, curved canine teeth	Saber-toothed cat	50%
G	Bright orange amphibian endemic to Costa Rica	Golden toad	42%
J	Located on an Indonesian island until its extinction in the mid 1970s	Java tiger	35%
L	Bird named for its outwardly cheerful appearance	Laughing owl	35%
Z	Leopard population known to have been located on Unguja Island	Zanzibar leopard	23%
C	Ranks among the largest cats to ever exist, last sighted as recently as 1998	Caspian tiger	15%
F	Commonly referred to as the warrah	Falkland Islands wolf	15%
K	Hawaiian bird previously regarded as a member of the Australo-Pacific honeyeaters	Kauaʻi ʻōʻō	15%
H	Extinct species of New Zealand wattlebird	Huia	12%
I	Species of snail whose name is synonymous with 'disrupted'	Interrupted rocksnail	8%
N	Bird known by the Maori name of koreke	New Zealand quail	8%
O	Genus of tree snails endemic to Hawaii	O'ahu tree snail	8%
R	Alternatively referred to as Dubois' wood-rail	Réunion rail	8%
Y	Australian marsupial referred to as the Lesser bilby	Yallara	8%
B	Potoroid marsupial indigenous to Australia	Broad-faced potoroo	4%
M	Large butterfly located in Portugal	Madeiran large white	0%