Narwhal Quiz

Narwhals have a horn on their head that is called the tooth.​

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Answer explanation

The horn is called the “tusk”.​

As a narwhal grows, their tusk tooth grows through their head, not out of their mouth.​

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Answer explanation

It grows through their skin like a piercing.​

Only male narwhals have tusks.​

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Answer explanation

SOME female narwhals have tusks too.​

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Most other animals with tusks have two curved tusks, unlike narwhals.​

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Answer explanation

Narwhal tusks are straight and have a spiral pattern. Each narwhal with a tusk has only 1, not 2.​

Narwhals can’t feel anything using their tusks.​

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Answer explanation

Tusks work like your teeth; they have nerves in them which help sense the narwhal’s surroundings.​

Scientists can easily study narwhals.​

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Narwhals live around the north pole and spend most of the day in the deep ocean. This means scientists can only observe SOME of their behavior when they’re close enough and when scientists are present.​

Scientists think that narwhals use their tusks to communicate with others.​

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Answer explanation

Nerves in the tusk help detect signals about the narwhals’ surroundings. Scientists believe they communicate by touching tusks.​

Bonus: Which of the following is NOT part of the NARWHAL Way here at TOPS

• Never Swim Backwards

• Always Advocate

• Work to be Wise

• Leap at Oportunities

Answer explanation

Work to be WELL ROUNDED