1. Acinonyx jubatus is the Latin name for an African wildcat.

2. The most dangerous scorpions are the ones with the big pincers.

3. Baby elephants suckle with their mouths, not their trunks.

4. An elephant's ears make up 20% of its total skin surface area and are efficient cooling systems.

5. Fruit bats make their way around by echo location (a sort of radar).

6. Giraffe and hippopotamus belong to the same order.

7. A traditional belief holds that the buffalo thorn tree (ziziphus mucronata) is immune to lightning.

8. The resourceful and apparently fearless honey badger stays in a well-constructed den.

9. Baby white rhinos usually walk in front of their mothers, while black rhino babies follow behind.

10. The sub-order sauria includes lizards, skinks, agamas, geckos and chameleons. Only the geckos are vocal.

11. How is your taxonomy? Which three classifications are missing from this list: kingdom, phylum, --1--, --2--, family, --3--, species? And, question 4, at which stage of classification would a leopard and a giraffe be separated?

12. Which of the following tribes are not South African: Zulu, Venda, Matabele, Xhosa, Shona, Ndebele?