Animal Riddles

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?

47 Animal Riddles With Answers

Riddle: A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?

Answer: It was daytime.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?

Answer: Because they’re that good at it.

Rating: 50%

Riddle: Inside napper, bird chaser, quick stoker, small animal killer, fish eater. What is it?

Answer: Cat

Rating: 100%

Riddle: There are 10 dogs in a yard. 3 go out, 4 run behind a tree, and 2 jump in the hole. How many are left?

Answer: 10, because none of them left the yard.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you call a dog who meditates?

Answer: Aware wolf

Rating: 67%

Riddle: I wear a red crown but am not a king. I wake you up without a ring. What am I?

Answer: Rooster

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.

Answer: Elephant

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Feathers are my attire, a coop is my choir. In folktales, I inspire. What am I?

Answer: Chicken

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A warrior amongst the flowers, he bears a thrusting sword. He uses it whenever he must, to defend his golden hoard.

Answer: Bee

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat. What am I?

Answer: A kitten.

Rating: 67%

Riddle: I am a loving father who goes on an epic journey to find my son. Who am I?

Answer: Marlin (Finding Nemo)

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I communicate not with words, but with body and sound, a more loyal companion is seldom found. Who am I, homeward bound?

Answer: Dog

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I am an animal named after the animal that I eat. What am I?

Answer: An anteater.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What always goes to bed with shoes on?

Answer: A Horse

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I can honk without using a horn. What am I?

Answer: A goose.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

Answer: Roosters don't lay eggs

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you call the Easter bunny the day after Easter?

Answer: Tired

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.

Answer: A chick in an egg

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I have no legs or arms but I still eat with a fork everyday, What am I?

Answer: A snake.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I'm like a dog with a tail that wags and all but am not a dog. What am I?

Answer: I am a puppy.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: In idioms, I’m known to cross the road. What’s my motive, can you decode?

Answer: Chicken

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I row with four paddles but never leave home. What am I?

Answer: A turtle.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I sit in silence, in the dark I lay; Turning meals to treasures, as in a nest I stay. Who am I, with a golden touch, if I may?

Answer: Hen

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?

Answer: A bat.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I have four legs but I’m not a table, I bark but I’m not a tree, I love to run and play fetch, tell me, what could I be?

Answer: Dog

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is the most popular fish in the ocean?

Answer: The starfish

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I strut in the yard with feathers of gold. For my morning song, stories are told. What am I?

Answer: Chicken

Rating: 100%

Riddle: When is it bad luck to see a black cat?

Answer: When you are a mouse.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do dogs have that no other animal has?

Answer: Puppies

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I?

Answer: A zebra.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What wears a coat in the winter and pants in the summer?

Answer: A dog.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Why did the turkey cross the road?

Answer: To prove he wasn't chicken.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What did the buffalo say to her son on the first day of school?

Answer: Bison

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Which superhero likes spring the best?

Answer: Robin

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you call a fish with no eye's?

Answer: Fsh

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you call an elephant in a telephone booth?

Answer: Stuck

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is more amazing than a talking dog?

Answer: A spelling bee

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

Answer: A kangaroo.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Why do birds fly north in the spring?

Answer: Because it is too far to walk.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: With legs, I stand; with beak, I speak. No words, just clucks and peeps. Who am I?

Answer: Chicken

Rating: 100%

Riddle: With no hands, I build my nest, in your coop, I’m a common guest. Who am I?

Answer: Chicken

Rating: 100%

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: Thursday, January 23, 2025

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