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World wildife Day

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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?

a)

delhi

b)

MADRASH

c)

PATNA

d)

KANPUR

e)

DARBHANGA

2.

Name the only animal on earth, other than man, known to contract leprosy:

a)

Ninebanded Armadillo

b)

Elk (AIces alces

c)

Tiger

d)

King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)

3.

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:

a)

Kailash Sankhala and Guy Mountfort

b)

Valmik Thapar and Fateh Singh Rathore

c)

Jim Corbett and Keshri

d)

MUKESH KUMAR

4.

Who wrote the autobiographical book, My Life: My Trees?

a)

Joy Adamson

b)

Richard St. Barbe Baker

c)

Konard Lorenz

d)

K.M. Tewari

5.

Which is the only animal in the world to have four horns?

a)

Elk

b)

Chausingha (Tetracerus quadricornis)

c)

Black Buck

d)

Bharal

6.

Name the only country in the world where both the lion (Panthera leo) and the tiger (Panthera tigris) are found in the wild:

a)

Zaire

b)

NEPAL

c)

Pakistan

d)

INDIA

7.

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:

a)

Sagar Kanya

b)

Exxon Valdez

c)

Amoco Cadiz

d)

Hathi

8.

Out of 150 species of frog in Madagascar, how many are endemic, i.e., found nowhere else in the world?

a)

141

b)

146

c)

142

d)

148

9.

Which group of fish can remain out of water for the longest duration?

a)

Salmon

b)

Mudskipper

c)

Hilsa

d)

Shark

10.

Which is the world’s largest private international nature conservation organization?

a)

Bombay Natural History Society

b)

World Wide Fund for Nature

c)

Audubon Society

d)

Ranthambhore Foundation

11.

Where is the headquarters of the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) located?

a)

CAMBRIDGE

b)

Jakarta

c)

DELHI

d)

PATNA

12.

Name the explorer by whom the birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae) were made known to Europe:

a)

Webster

b)

Magellan

c)

Bharat Bhusan

d)

PADAMSHREE

13.

Name the person who rediscovered the Jerdon’s or Doublebanded Courser (Cursorius bitorquatus) in India:

a)

Herly

b)

Megellan

c)

Bharat Bhusan

d)

Kailash Sankhala

14.

Which Indian emperor formulated laws for wildlife preservation?

a)

Babur

b)

Akbar

c)

Ashoka

d)

Jafar

15.

Name the person known as the ‘Man of the Trees’:

a)

Katharine Payne

b)

William Langbauer

c)

Richard St. Barbe Baker

d)

Jane Goodal