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Here's a little different twist on Tuesday Trivia. Check out the eye picture to the right and guess which animal this is.
E-mail your answer by Wednesday at noon to trivia@dickersonparkzoo.org for a chance to win two admission passes to Dickerson Park Zoo. Remember to include your mailing address for your chance to win.
Check out FOZblog on Wednesday for the correct answer and for more information about this week's featured Tuesday Trivia animal.
It is true. Kookaburras do mate for life. In fact, they form communities around each mated pair where the offspring stay around to help raise the next set of hatched chicks. Offspring of kookaburras don't leave home until they turn four.
Native to the woodlands of Australia and Tasmania, kookaburras are also famous for their "laughing" calls which occur at dawn and dusk to mark their territory and are sometimes called the "Bushman's alarm clock."
Congratulations to Kaitlyn Grose from Ozark whose name was drawn for those submitting the correct answer this week!
Play along again next week for your chance to win a pair of one-day admission passes!
If you guessed that cheetahs are the fastest land mammal, you are correct! (Or, maybe you already knew this!) Cheetahs can reach speeds up to 70 miles per hour over short distances and can reach 45 miles per hour in two seconds.
They have non-retractable claws on all four feet (more dog-like than cat-like). Only one claw on each foot - the dew claw - is sharp. The dew claw never touches the ground and is used to knock down prey.
Cheetahs have few means of defense, and unfortunately, this often means their hard work chasing and capturing prey results in a "steal" by a more aggressive carnivore (lion, hyena or leopard) or vultures - who watch the action from high in the sky and swoop down in an attempt to scare off the cheetah.
Congratulations to Nicole Backerman from Carthage whose name was drawn for those submitting the correct answer this week!
We had a huge response this week to our Tuesday Trivia question. Play along again next week for your chance to win a pair of one-day admission passes!
The savanna monitor is a lizard (not a snake), and it isn't venomous. (However, the gila monster is, and Dickerson Park Zoo has two of those for our guests to see!)
Savanna monitors range throughout rocky savanna regions of western and central Africa and can grow to five feet in length. Here at the zoo, we feed our crickets and mice. They have powerful bites and use their tails as defense. The males tend to be highly territorial and display aggression by thrashing their tails and hissing loudly.
Congratulations to Amy Szura in Joplin - this week's Tuesday Trivia winner!
