Lion (Panthera Leo). National animal of Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya, Libya, Luxembourg, North Macedonia,Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Togo, England…. (Title Photo)a
Dear Readers, you knocked it out of the park again! Congratulations to Susan, Anne and Fran and Bobby Freelove who all got 30 out of 30, with Mike at Alittlebitoutoffocus with 28 out of 30 (though he gave me the idea for the quiz so I am going to give an extra 2 points, that puts him on 30 out of 30 as well). Well done everybody! Let’s see how we get on tomorrow. And I am thinking of something fiendish for over the Christmas break, so watch this space….
National Animals
1) E) – The noble Canadian Beaver
2) A) The Okapi, the national animal of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
3) H) The red squirrel is the national animal of Denmark
4) F) The beautiful gyrfalcon is the national animal of Iceland
5) B) The ring-tailed lemur is the national animal of Madagascar
6) D) The axolotl is the national amphibian of Mexico
7) I) The chimpanzee became the national animal of Sierra Leone in 2019
8) G) The Siamese Fighting Fish is the national animal of Thailand
9) J) The snow leopard is the national animal of Afghanistan
10) C) The emu is the national bird of Australia
Country Outlines
A) Democratic Republic of Congo
B) Madagascar
C) Australia
D) Mexico
E) Canada
F) Iceland
G) Thailand
H) Denmark
I) Sierra Leone
J) Afghanistan
All maps uploaded from https://freevectormaps.com/all a most excellent resource! Maps are free with attribution, or can be uploaded without attribution for a small fee.
Photo Credits
Title Photo By Kevin Pluck – Flickr: The King., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=755560
Photo One By Steve from washington, dc, usa – American Beaver, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3963858
Photo Two By Raul654 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47647
Photo Three By Tony Hisgett – Flickr: Red Squirrel 1c, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14621510
Photo Four By Falco_rusticolus_white.jpg: Ólafur Larsenderivative work: Bogbumper (talk) – Falco_rusticolus_white.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10719893
Photo Five By Alex Dunkel (Maky) – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8621909
Photo Six By Erzengel – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=584361
Photo Seven By Aram Kazandjian – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96750693
Photo Eight By ivabalk https://pixabay.com/pt/users/ivabalk-782511/ – Pixabay https://pixabay.com/pt/photos/beta-guerreiro-aqu%C3%A1rio-peixe-v%C3%A9us-3424566/, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79067216
Photo Nine By USAID Afghanistan – originally posted to Flickr as Rangers Protect Afghan EnvironmentUploaded using F2ComButton, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10856177
Photo Ten by By J. Folmer, nl:Gebruiker:Jcwf – Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124793
Thank you Viv! (Though I think I got the Gyrfalcon, Emu and Fighting Fish wrong. But no matter, it was a fabulous quiz!)