Why do baboons have bare bottoms, and do all mosquitoes bite? Try our kids’ quiz

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Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brain-teasers for future quizzes

1.Why do baboons like the one pictured above have bare bottoms?
To help them be comfy when they are sitting down
So they don’t need to brush and clean the hair around their bottom
To keep their bottoms cool
The hair on baboons’ bottoms falls off when they are babies, as they keep sliding down tree branches, and it never grows back
2.Tristan, 9, asks: how many countries are there in the world?
There could be as many as 555
There could be as many as 206
Nobody has ever counted so we’re not sure
142
3.Lucia, 7 and a half, asks: do all mosquitoes bite?
Yes
No, only the males
No, only the females
No, only baby mosquitoes bite
4.Oak, 8, asks: what sound does a cassowary make?
A deep growl
A high-pitched squawk
It doesn’t make a sound
A chirping squeak
5.Kipp, 8, asks: how heavy is the heaviest wolf?
70kg – about the same as a washing machine
181kg – about the same as the heart of a blue whale
50kg – about the same as the world’s largest species of octopus
40kg – about the same as an average loo

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