A quiz on elephants!

Let's see how well you know these gentle giants

I share a story each week for my young and old readers alike. But this week, as part of our Wildlife podcast series, I spent a little time researching about Project Elephant and came across a ton of trivia on elephants. I could write them all here. But then I thought, I’d put them down as a short quiz for you. The questions are ranked from easy to medium to difficult. Why don’t you go ahead and give them a shot! If you want to find out if you were correct, I have given all the correct answers at the end of this newsletter. You can check how many you got correct:)

Also, if you haven’t had a chance to listen to the delightful stories about tigers, lions, rhinos, vultures, elephants and more, click here. You can listen to the podcast series while you’re trying to answer these questions.

Let’s start with a really easy question on elephants.

Question 1

This was easy, wasn’t it! Now comes another easy question.

Question 2

Question 3 - this one’s sort of a moderately difficult question. Give it a try!

Question 4 - are you game for another moderately difficult question?

Question 5 - Here comes a difficult question. Rub your hands, take a deep breath and give it a try.

I hope you enjoyed the quiz.

Trivia: Elephants are being hunted wide and far for their ivory and we need to protect them. India launched Project Elephant to protect elephants from

• poachers and

• villagers who get angry at elephants that come into their orchards and eat up all their fruits, especially bananas.

Riddle for you: During the British era, elephants were taken to the islands of Andaman and Nicobar from mainland India. Guess how these elephants went there? I’ve narrated this story in this podcast episode. Click here to listen to this story.

Answers to the quiz questions

Question 1 - Tusks of elephants are nothing but their teeth

Question 2 - A herd of elephants is headed by a female elephant

Question 3 - Elephants use their tusks for digging the ground

Question 4 - An elephant’s pregnancy lasts for 22 months

Question 5 - In the food chain, an elephant’s predator is only humans (so it is none of the above)

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