OT: Another Pinotbear Challenge...

[wire chief]

...what with the delay to our next game.
DO NOT REPEAT QUESTIONS; DO NOT HIT REPLY.

1..Hawaii's most serious invasive problem, the _____ ____ snake.

2..Bonobo's more famous cousin?

3..Breed of Nick and Nora Charles' pet, Asta (Skippy)?

4..Masai, Reticulated & Rothschild are types of..?

5..The household pet with just about zero clean-up-waste concerns.

6..The ______ elephant is Africa's smallest.

7..To see in the distance, a Kalahari Bushman stands on..?

8..India's Gir Forest is the only place in all of Asia to find..?

9..Only 60-70 A___ Leopards are thought to be left in the wild.

10..The Marsican or Apennine _____ ____ is found in Italy's Abruzzo area.

11..A lesser ABBA title is The _____.

12..Birds of prey and Arctic foxes in northern Scandinavia are most likely fattening up on________.

13..Fastest of all snakes?

14..Forgetting subspecies, there are only 2(?) North American deer.

15..The smallest kangaroos?

16..Estimate of Yellowstone grizzlies, 100, 250, 380, 550, 700, 1000?

17..According to Peter Paul & Mary, what else did the old lady swallow after the fly?

18..World's largest rodent?

19..Only one southern border state is thought to have no wild pigs (boars). Which?

20..Two species of seals(?) make up the bulk of the polar bear diet.

21..Roosters under a year old are called _________.

22..Weighing up to 2200 pounds is the largest(?) of all antelopes.

23..The mustelidae family we commonly call..?

24..Known for bathing in Japanese hot springs?

25..The chinstrap penguin is one. Name the 3 others which breed in Antarctica.

I await.

 

[pinotbear]

well, I've been kinda laying back to let other folks have the first shot, but, let me at least get the ball rolling, here..

1. I think the answer is brown tree snake
2. chimpanzee
4. WAG - zebra
7. termite mounds
8.lions
skipping ahead to 16, seeing as how it's a bear question - at its' nadir (1970's and 80's, I think), the Yellowstone grizzly population may have dropped under 180 bears. Now, that seems like a lot, but, when you factor in gender, age, and the fact that sow grizzlies breed roughly every 3 years, that means that there were about 15 receptive females in any given year. You lose, literally, a handful of those bears to auto accidents, poaching, other mortality, and it makes for a very fragile population - and a very narrow genetic profile. Being an apex omnivor/predator almost always means Mother Nature programs in a small population with slow reproductive rate. In Yellowstone, during this time frame, the bear population was teetering on the edge of elimination.

The good news is, the bear has bounced back quite well. In the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, which includes Grand Teton, surrounding National Forest land, etc. - grizzlies, particularly adult males, have large territories - estimates run to at least 700 bears, and could be approaching Chief's top number of 1,000. In fact, the states in which Yellowstone exists (Idaho, Montana, and primarily Wyoming) are campaigning to have the grizzly reclassified as no longer endangered, so as to permit hunting and to loosen development restrictions that currently protect bear habitat.

That's enough for now - let's have some other folks take a shot at some of these!

 

[meyers7]

11. Tiger?
13. Don Prudhomme
15. Baby ones? Joeys.
18. Great Mole Rat. Zemmiphobia.

 

[OldAlum]

This is hard when I have to keep going back to see the questions!
2 Chimp
3 Wire fox terrier
4. giraffe
6. pygmy?
7. termite mound
12. lemmings
14. Mule & White-tailed
18. Capybara?
22. Wildebeest
23. weasels
24. monkeys, but I don't remember what kind!

 

[Rocket009]

5.. Tortoise
6..Pygmy
7..Termite mound
11..A lesser ABBA title is The Game
12..Lemmings
16..1000
17..Spider
18..Nutria
19..Arizona
20..Elon
25..Emperor

 

[pinotbear]

let's take a shot at a few more..
9. Asiatic
13. Mamba
17. Spider, cat, dog, horse ... there maybe something I'm forgetting between spider and cat.
19. California
20. Harp and Ringed
22. Eland

 

[wire chief]

15..You'd find it immensely helpful to recall, "Tie me kangaroo down".

11..It's about spreading wings.

4..Originally from Mongolia

9..There's some foliage north of San Francisco named after John ____. If you get that, and then you drop 1 letter, you got our leopard.

6..The pygmy lives in Borneo, which, you'll admit, is way down the road from Africa. Now the full name of the foliage in #9 may help you with the elephant. Maybe.

20..Ringed is fine. For the 2nd, think Orthodox men.

25..G_____, E______, A____

10..Like last time, Pinot dismisses this relative.

21..Kind of a diminutive of another name for the male.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

I can't help with the clued answers, except the obvious that John's last name was Muir. Muir Woods. Beautiful, or at least it was 20 or so years ago when we went.

I will agree with:
4 -Giraffe, I'm pretty sure, but zebra if not.
18 - Capybara. One of the "symbols" of our local zoo. Some people have tried to keep them as pets. They do not - repeat not - make good pets. I always wonder - why?
19 - Don't know about wild boars in AZ but we do have Javalina, that look like one. Another species that some folks find cute. They rummage in trash, some folks feed them and even let them in the house. Problem is, if they don't get fed, they get destructive.

 

[OldAlum]

21. Cockeral?