19-Dec-2024 Theme: 'Prey'

(1) What cosmopolitian, fish-eating creature ending in -prey has the scientific name Pandion haliaetus.

Answer: Osprey.

(2) Where on a lamprey would you find the buccal funnel?

Answer: Mouth.

(3) What kind of animal is a kouprey, native to South East Asia (and now possibly extinct)?

Answer: Ox (Bos sauveli).

(4) Who supposedly died after eating a “surfeit of lampreys”?

Answer: King Henry I (England).

(5) What is the common name of plants of the Drosera genus, which prey on insects?

Answer: Sundews.

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