Over at the goddycoddling National Geographic site, science writer Ed Yong has constructed two quizzes testing your ability to suss out what animal David Attenborough is talking about. (Yong has also ranked 79 episodes of Attenborough’s shows in a piece at The Atlantic.) There are two quizzes: A “Really Hard” one, and a “Really, Really Hard One.” As Yong notes,

Each consists of ten quotes from one of his classic series, from Life on Earth in 1979 to Life in Cold Blood in 2008. Your job is to work out which animal he’s talking about. Enjoy!

You get a choice of four animals for each quote.

And boy, did I do poorly! I got only 3 of the 10 correct in the “Really Hard” quiz, but 4 in the “Really, Really Hard” quiz. Still, I had to guess a lot.

Of course you will take both quizzes and post your results below!

h/t: Mark Sturtevant

Reader Dom sent me a link to a quiz on How Stuff Works that purports to be a pseudoscience quiz. Well, it’s not all about pseudoscience, but also involves misconceptions about matters scientific, which isn’t really “pseudoscience”. But that quibble aside, click the link below to take the quiz, called “Everyone says it must be so.” It covers a lot of stuff. When you get to the page below, click on the arrow to begin; there are 35 multiple-choice questions:

My score, which I consider just okay but not stellar:

Be sure to report your score in the comments below.

From The Dodo, we have a selection of  “Strange-looking animals you had no idea existed.” There are 41, and I knew all but the following ten. See if you know the ones below, then head over to The Dodo, look at the other 31, and see how many you recognized in toto. You don’t have to know the precise species name, or even the common name, but simply have known that the species existed.

h/t: Diane G.