WorksheetsWorld wildife Day
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The unique Charity Bird Hospital was floated by Acharya Shanti Sagar of Digambar Jain Temple in 1926 as a first– aid centre. It became a charity hospital for birds in 1957. Where is it located?
delhi
MADRASH
PATNA
KANPUR
DARBHANGA
Name the only animal on earth, other than man, known to contract leprosy:
Ninebanded Armadillo
Elk (AIces alces
Tiger
King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
Name the tiger specialists who provided the first ever photographic evidence of the role of the male tiger in post– natal care and peaceful interaction with its cubs, thus refuting charges against it of infanticide:
Kailash Sankhala and Guy Mountfort
Valmik Thapar and Fateh Singh Rathore
Jim Corbett and Keshri
MUKESH KUMAR
Who wrote the autobiographical book, My Life: My Trees?
Joy Adamson
Richard St. Barbe Baker
Konard Lorenz
K.M. Tewari
Which is the only animal in the world to have four horns?
Elk
Chausingha (Tetracerus quadricornis)
Black Buck
Bharal
Name the only country in the world where both the lion (Panthera leo) and the tiger (Panthera tigris) are found in the wild:
Zaire
NEPAL
Pakistan
INDIA
Name the tanker that gutted itself on Bligh Reef and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The incident took the lives of more than 100,000 birds:
Sagar Kanya
Exxon Valdez
Amoco Cadiz
Hathi
Out of 150 species of frog in Madagascar, how many are endemic, i.e., found nowhere else in the world?
141
146
142
148
Which group of fish can remain out of water for the longest duration?
Salmon
Mudskipper
Hilsa
Shark
Which is the world’s largest private international nature conservation organization?
Bombay Natural History Society
World Wide Fund for Nature
Audubon Society
Ranthambhore Foundation
Where is the headquarters of the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) located?
CAMBRIDGE
Jakarta
DELHI
PATNA
Name the explorer by whom the birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae) were made known to Europe:
Webster
Magellan
Bharat Bhusan
PADAMSHREE
Name the person who rediscovered the Jerdon’s or Doublebanded Courser (Cursorius bitorquatus) in India:
Herly
Megellan
Bharat Bhusan
Kailash Sankhala
Which Indian emperor formulated laws for wildlife preservation?
Babur
Akbar
Ashoka
Jafar
Name the person known as the ‘Man of the Trees’:
Katharine Payne
William Langbauer
Richard St. Barbe Baker
Jane Goodal
