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: Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?

Answer: Because they’re that good at it.

Rating: 50%

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

Answer: Tired

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

Answer: A bat.

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: The starfish

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: 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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