Get yourself ready, explorer - It’s time to enter a jungle of challenges and brain teasers and meet these animal riddles with answers! Behind the wordplay and funny puns, each riddle gives clues about an animal's unique features, behaviors, and habitat. The question is if you can find and interpret those clues and identify the animal hiding behind them. All these riddles are perfectly suitable for both adults and kids, giving everyone a fair chance to show off their amazing reasoning skills and knowledge of the animal kingdom. Are you prepared for these animal riddles or will you be stumped by the stump?
Animal Riddles
I’m an animal you might love, but I’m too big to be your pet. I have an extremely long trunk, and it’s said I never forget.
Answer: Elephant
A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
Answer: A Butterfly.
The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I?
Answer: A zebra.
I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?
Answer: A bat.
I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg. I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg. I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole. I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole.
Answer: Snake
Though desert men once called me God, today men call me mad. For I wag my tail when I am angry. And growl when I am glad.
Answer: Cat.
I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat. What am I?
Answer: A kitten.
Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.
Answer: Elephant
What always goes to bed with shoes on?
Answer: A Horse
Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport considered cruel, but that's because you never know me at all.
Answer: Cat
I have no legs or arms but I still eat with a fork everyday, What am I?
Answer: A snake.
I am an animal named after the animal that I eat. What am I?
Answer: An anteater.
A horrid monster hides from the day, with many legs and many eyes. With silver chains it catches prey. And eats it all before it dies. Yet in every cottage does it stay. And every castle beneath the sky.
Answer: Spider
I can honk without using a horn. What am I?
Answer: A goose.
What wears a coat in the winter and pants in the summer?
Answer: A dog.
I row with four paddles but never leave home. What am I?
Answer: A turtle.
When is it bad luck to see a black cat?
Answer: When you are a mouse.
What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
Answer: A kangaroo.
How good is your knowledge about the animals that share this world with us? Can you break the code and discover all the feathery, scaly, slimy, and furry friends hiding behind the wordplay and puns on these funny animal riddles? Challenge your skills and explore the animal kingdom like never before! Since they are based on animal trivia, these enigmas can also turn into amazing educational games to prompt both kids and adults to learn more about the world that surrounds us. So, why not turn into a competition of family riddles? Have fun showing off that you are an animal expert and surprising everyone with your talent to crack enigmas!
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
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