2017 WILDLIFE REVIEWER

1. Bats in Africa transmit Ebola virus to primates and other species through contact with their dropping, half-eaten fruits or bodily
fluids of diseased bats. What is the English name of this bat?
Answer: African fruit bat

2. It is one of the cuckoos in the country that lays egg in other bird’s nest?
Answer: Oriental cuckoo (Cuculus saturates)

3. The Philippine frogmouth (Batrachostomus septimus) LC is a/an:

a. amphibian b. mammal c. bird d. reptile

4. The species of flameback present in Negros, Panay, Ticao, Masbate and Guimaras is:
a. Red-headed Flameback b. Yellow-faced Flameback
c. Buff-spotted Flameback d. Greater Flameback

5. What is the most popular wetland in the country when it comes to migratory birds?
Answer: Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary

6. In what countries do the migratory birds in the Philippines come from?

Answer: China, Australia, Siberia and Northern Japan

7. This endangered migratory shorebird was recorded to be found only in Tibsoc wetland in San Enrique and Pontevedra towns since
2012. Give its English name.
Answer: Nordmann’s or Spotted Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) E

8. The wetland in the Philippines that host the most number of shorebirds is the _____________.
Answer: Bago-Ilog Coastal Wetland or NOCWCA

9. This species of bird was believed to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1992 in a small patch of limestone forest in the central
Cebu protected landscape. What is its English name and scientific name?
Answer: Cebu Flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor) - CR

10. What is the rarest critically endangered species of hornbill in the Philippines?
Answer: Sulu Hornbill (Anthracocerus montani) - CR

11. What is the smallest species of cloud rat in the Philippines (south of Mindoro)?
Answer: Ilin Island bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys paulus) - DD

12. Dinagat island bushy-tailed cloud rat was rediscovered in 2012 in Dinagat Island. What is its IUCN status?
Answer: Critically Endangered

13. Name the two places in the Philippines where the Visayan warty pig was previously reported but is now extinct.
Answer: Cebu and Masbate

14. How many species of bleeding-heart pigeon are there in the Philippines which are critically endangered?
Answer: 3 (Sulu bleeding-heart pigeon, Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon and Negros bleeding-heart pigeon - CR); Luzon bleeding-
heart pigeon (NT) and Mindanao bleeding-heart pigeon (V)

15. How many species of purple crabs were discovered in the remote areas of Palawan in 2013?
Answer: 4 (Insulamon magnum (biggest), Insulamom porculum (smallest); Insulamon johannchristiani; Insulamon palawense

16. What is the name of the newly-discovered flying fox endemic in the island of Mindoro?
Answer: Mindoro Stripe-faced Fruit bat (Styloctenium mindorensis) - DD

17. In what specific place was the bubble shark discovered?

Answer: Philippine’s Verde Island Passage

18. The strangest-looking bat that is endemic in the island of Sibuyan, Negros and Cebu rainforests?
Answer: Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene rabori) - E

19. What is the name of the bird that was killed at UP lagoon last November 9, 2014?
Answer: Black bittern (Dupetor flavicollis)

20. What is the world’s tiniest shell?

Answer: Pisidium

21. What is the Philippine’s smallest woodpecker?

Answer: Philippine pygmy woodpecker (Picoides maculatus) - LC
22. What is the smallest hawk owl in the Philippines?
Answer: Luzon hawk owl or Luzon Boobook (Ninox philippensis) LC

23. The only endemic falcon in the Philippines.

Answer: Philippine falconet (Microhierax erythrogenys)

24. It refers to a condition in which each fish is born male and then change to female when the sole breeding dies.
Answer: Protandry (e.g. percula clownfish)

25. This species of bird is the hummingbird counterpart of Americas. Give its English name. (Ilonggo name: siwit)
Answer: Maroon-naped sunbird (Aethopyga guimarasensis) or Flaming sunbird (Aethopyga flagrans guimarasensis) - NT

26. Irrawaddy dolphin is only recorded in Guimaras, Bago City, Pulupundan and _________ in Palawan.
Answer: Malampaya Sound (first sighting)

27. This bird is oftentimes mistaken by locals as “aswang” bird.

Answer: Rufous-night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)

28. It is otherwise known as “100 pace snake” in reference to the legend: once bitten, a person walks a 100 pace and drop dead.
Answer: Philippine Pit Viper (Tremeresurus flavumaculatus) - DD

29. What is the only species of monkey found in the Philippines?

Answer: Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) - LC

30. What is the smallest hornbill in the Philippines?

Answer: Visayan tarictic hornbill (Penelopides panini) - E

31. What is the largest kingfisher in the Philippines?

Answer: Spotted wood kingfisher (Actinoides lindsayi) - LC

32. What is the most critically endangered sea turtle in the Philippines?
Answer: hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) - CR

33. What is the smallest frog in the Philippines?

Answer: Pygmy Forest Frog (Platymantis pygmaeus) - V

34. What is the new species of metal-eating plant recently discovered in the Philippines?
Answer: Rinorea niccolifera

35. What is the name of the new species of sawshark discovered in the Philippines?
Answer: Pristiophorus lanae

36. The World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on ____________.

Answer: May 10

37. The first ever hornbill to have gone extinct due to human related pressure is ______________.
Answer: Ticao Island taricitic hornbill (Penelopides panini ticaensis)

38. One of the main sponsors of the Philippine Wildlife is SOS? SOS stands for:
Answer: Save Our Species

39. It refers to the periodic departure and return of an organism.

Answer: migration

40. It refers to similar individuals that are alike in their structural and functional characteristics and breed only with each other.
Answer: species

41. Who is the Father of Taxonomy?

Answer: Carolus Linnaeus

42. It refers to the heaviest flying fox in the Philippines.

Answer: Golden-crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus) - E

43. What is the largest member of rat and mouse in the world?
Answer: Southern Luzon slender-tailed cloud rat (Phloeomys cumingi) - NT

44. What is the second largest bushy-tailed cloud rat in the Philippines that can be found in the island of Panay?
Answer: Panay bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys heaneyi) - E
45. The fourth subspecies of tarsier was discovered in the island of ______________?
Answer: Dinagat

46. What is the meaning of IUCN?

Answer: International Union for Conservation of Nature

47. What is declared as the 6th Ramsar site in the Philippines?

Answer: Las Piňas-Paraňaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area or Freedom Island

48. Black shama (Copsychus cebuensis) is an endemic bird in the island of Cebu. What is its IUCN status?
Answer: Endangered

49. This term is used when a known, named form within a species is newly recognized as specifically distinct.
Answer: split

50. Where can we find the Naujan Lake National Park?

Answer: Mindoro Oriental

51. R.A. 9147 is also known as _________________________.

Answer: Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of 2001

52. What is the smallest ungulate in the Philippines?

Answer: Tragulus nigricans (Balabac mouse deer) - E

53. The Philippine flying lemur is a:

a. cat b. bat c. lemur d. civet

54. It is known as the world’s epicenter of marine life abundance and diversity.
Answer: Coral Triangle

55. When was the Philippine bare-backed fruit bat rediscovered in Cebu? in Negros?
Answer: 2001; 2003

56. IBA stands for:

Answer: Important Bird Areas

57. What species is used as the logo of Philippine Reef and Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Inc. (PRRCI)?
Answer: Sea Turtle

58. What is the name of the newly-discovered hanging parrot in Camiguin Island in 2004?
Answer: Philippine hanging parrot (Loriculus philippensis)

59. What is the largest wetland in the Philippines?

Answer: Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary

60. What is the largest frog in the country?

Answer: Philippine flat-headed frog (Barbourula busuangensis) - V

61. It is known as the world’s “Center of The Center of Marine Shorefish Diversity”.
Answer: Verde Island Passage Marine Corridor (VIPMC)

62. What is the other name for Visayan Writhed hornbill?

Answer: Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) CR

63. What is the rarest and most expensive seashell in the Philippines?
Answer: Conus gloriamaris or Glory of the Sea

64. These birds are considered as the neotropical counterparts of hummingbirds?

Answer: Sunbirds

65. It comprises an area which assures the natural conditions necessary to protect naturally significant species, groups of species or
physical features of the environment.
Answer: Wildlife Sanctuary

66. Tamaraw Month is celebrated during the month of ______________.

Answer: October

67. It is one of the world’s rarest trees that is endemic in Cebu?

Answer: Cebu Cinnamon Tree (Cinnamomum cebuense) - CR
 68. Name the three islands for turtle production in the Philippines.
Answer: Apo Reef, Sarangani Bay and Turtle Island

69. What is the R.A. of NIPAS Act of 1992?

Answer: R.A. 7586
1. RA 9512 - Declaration of Wildlife Month/National Environmental Awareness & Education Act of 2008
RA 9072 (National Caves and Cave Resources Management and Protection Act)
RA 9147 (Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of 2001 or Philippine Wildlife Act)
RA 7942 (The Philippine Mining Act of 1995)
RA 8550 (The Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998) R.A. 10586
RA 8371 (The Indigenous People’s Right Act of 1997)
PD 1586 (The Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System - EIA)
RA 9275 (Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004)
RA 8749 (Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999)
RA 9003(Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000)
RA 6969 (Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990)
R.A. 9729 (Climate Change Act of 2009)
P.D. 1152 (Philippine Environment Code)
RA 3915 (National Park Law)
P.D. 705 or Forestry Law

70. What is the third Rafflesia species documented to exist in the Philippines and is endemic in Panay and Negros?
Answer: Rafflesia speciosa

71. What is the IUCN status and scientific name of the Philippine duck?
Answer: Vulnerable; Anas luzonica

72. What is the IUCN status of the Philippine Pond Turtle?

Answer: Critically Endangered

73. What are the six Philippine Faunal Regions?

Answer: Greater Luzon, Greater Mindoro, Greater Palawan, Greater West Visayas (Negros-Panay) and Greater Sulu
 Greater Luzon (Luzon Island with Catanduanes, the Pollilos and other small satelite islands)
 Mindoro (which is surrounded by deep water and has only very few small islands around it that were connected to it then,
such as Ilin Island)
 West Visayas (Negros, Panay, Cebu, Guimaras, Masbate & Ticao)
 Greater Mindanao (Mindanao mainland including Samar, Leyte, Bohol and smaller islands such as Basilan, Dinagat and
Surigao)
 Greater Palawan (Palawan, Balabac, Busuanga, Culion, Cuyo, and adjacent small islands)
 Sulu Archipelago (Tawi-Tawi, Jolo etc.)
Besides these faunal regions, there are some smaller islands/Island groups that were not connected to other islands at that time,
such as the Batanes and Babuyan Islands, Romblon and Tablas, Siquijor & Camiguin Sur. These smaller islands also developed their
own set of animals, many of which are unique to each island.

74. Philippine camia is also known as the Philippine garland. What is its scientific name?
Answer: Hedychium philippinensi

75. What is the largest layer of tropical rainforest that contains the majority of large trees?
Answer: canopy layer
Layers of Tropical Rainforest: Emergent layer, Canopy Layer, Understory layer, Forest Floor

76. What is the scientific name of red lauan and white lauan?
Answer: Shorea negrosensis (RL); Shorea contorta (WL)

77. What is the IUCN status of red lauan and white lauan?
Answer: Critically endangered

78. What are largest and smallest bats in the Philippines?

Answer: Largest - Large flying fox
Smallest - Philippine bamboo bat

79. The Little Golden-mantled flying fox is a species of bat in the Pteropodidae and is found in the Philippines and Indonesia? What is
its scientific name?
Answer: Pteropus pumilus - NT

80. What is the name of the Philippine’s extinct dwarf carabao?

Answer: Bubalus cebuensis (Cebu dwarf buffalo)

81. It is a new list given by the IUCN which gives recognition to protected areas that are successfully meeting their objectives.
Answer: Green List of Protected Areas
82. The name of the largest of the 4 newly-discovered purple crabs in Palawan is ___________________.
Answer: Insulamon magnum

83. How many species of giant clams are found in the Philippines?
Answer: 7

84. A fishing town in Sorsogon province which serves as the sanctuary of a group of 40 whale sharks?
Answer: Donsol

85. When is the butanding festival celebrated?

Answer: April

86. This place is declared as the best among the 9 “amazing sandbars” in the Philippines by the website scanner in 2014.
Answer: Kalanggaman Island in Palompon Leyte

87. What are the two Southeast Asia’s Most Treasured Parks in the Philippines?
Answer: Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Palawan and Hamiguitan Range in Davao Oriental

88. What is the total number of ASEAN Heritage Parks in the Philippines?
Answer: 8
 Mt Apo Natural Park (Davao Oriental)
 Mt Kitanglad Range Natural Park (Bukidnon)
 Mt Malindang Range Natural Park (Misamis Occidental)
 Mt Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary (Davao Oriental)
 Mts Iglit-Baco National Park in Occidental Mindoro
 Mt Makiling Forest Reserve in Laguna
 Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Palawan
 Mt Timpoong-Hibok-Hibok Natural Monument (Camiguin)

89. How many species of rats and mice are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 66 species (6 cloud rats; 60 forest species)

90 How many species of rats in the Philippines can cause damage to crops?
Answer: 6 (cloud rats)

91. What is the recent up to date scientific name of the Rufous-headed hornbill/Visayan writhed hornbill?
Answer: Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni - CR

92. Give the English name of the species of cloud rat found in the logo of PBCFI?
Answer: Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat/ Luzon bushy-trailed cloud rat (Crateromys schadenbergi) - E

93. How many genera of cloud rat exist in the Philippines?

Answer: 5 (Phloeomys, Carpomys, Musseromys, Batomys and Crateromys); 2 - true cloud rat

94. What do you call the permit issued by the DENR to any individual or entity who wants to engage in non-commercial scientific or
educational undertaking to collect and or survey wildlife and its derivatives?
Answer: Gratuitous permit

95. It is a type of wetland with thick water-logged organic soil layer made of dead and decaying plant material. These are carbon-rich
ecosystems, containing twice as mud carbon stock as entire forest biomass of the world and when disturbed can become significant
sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Answer: peatland

96. The species of cloud rat endemic to an island northeast of Mindanao was once believed to be extinct until it is rediscovered thru
an accidental encounter in 2012 by Czech researchers. Give the complete English name of this species.
Answer: Dinagat Island bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys australis) - CR

97. This act provides that the state shall promote national awareness on the role of natural resources in economic growth and the
importance of environmental conservation and ecological balance toward sustained national development.
Answer: National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

98. Give the R.A. of the law that declares November as the “Environmental Awareness Month”.
Answer: R.A. 9512

99. The Visayan spotted deer now only exists in Negros and Panay and is extinct on Guimaras, Cebu and ___________.
Answer: Masbate
100. All species of bleeding heart pigeons have red markings on their breast except one. Which species has the only yellow markings
on its breast?
Answer: Sulu bleeding heart pigeon

101. This is one of the genera of trees in lowland forest ecosystems with over 1200 species of animal depending on its fruit. It is
characterized by unique pollination system by having a specific predator pollinator called wasps.
Answer: Ficus

101. What is the name of the largest species of egret in the Philippines?
Answer: Great White Egret (Ardea alba)

102. Xanthostemon verdugonianus yields the hardest of the Philippine timber. Give the local name of this tree?
Answer: Mangkono V

103. What are the oldest known land vertebrates and accordingly have been ideal subjects to study evolution?
Answer: amphibians

104. The Mindoro or Wallace’s striped-face fruit bat (Styloctenium mindorensis) is endemic to Mindoro that was discovered in 2006.
What is the IUCN status of this species?
Answer: Data Deficient

105. In 2012, two new species of hawk-owls were discovered that are endemic to single islands in the Philippines. The Cebu hawk-
owl (Ninox rumseyi) and the ________________.
Answer: Camiguin hawk-owl (Ninox leventisi)

106. What is the collective term used to non-living chemical and physical ecological factors or components e.g. temperature, light,
soil, etc. that affect the ecosystem? (Biotic - living component of ecosystem)
Answer: Abiotic

107. This is the only endemic water bird in the Philippines. Give its English name.
Answer: Philippine duck or Philippine mallard

108. Of the 5 species of bleeding heart pigeons in the Philippines, how many are categorized as critically endangered of the IUCN?
Answer: 3 (Mindoro Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba platenae), Sulu Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba menagei) and Negros Bleeding-heart
(Gallicolumba keayi)

109. What is the IUCN status of the largest flying fox?

Answer: Near Threatened

110. In what genera does the large flying fox belong?

Answer: Pteropus

111. What is the largest species of bat in the world?

Answer: Large flying fox

112. This mountain located in Davao Oriental is one of the 26 new UNESCO World Heritage Site for 2014. What is the name of this
mountain?
Answer: Mt. Hamiguitan; others Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park and the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

113. True or False: Hornbills are only found in the African and Asian continent.
Answer: True

114. What do you call the place or set of environmental conditions where a particular organism lives?
Answer: Habitat

115. __________is a type of ecological relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of
the other.
Answer: Parasitism

116. __________is the state of the air and temperature at a particular place: the temperature and other outside conditions (such as
rain, cloudiness, etc.) at a particular time and place.
Answer: Weather

117. What is the term used for plant fungus or microorganisms that parasitize fungi and live on dead or decomposing matter?
Answer: Saprophyte

118. Organisms that produce their own food are known as producers or ______________.
Answer: autotrophs
119. Organisms that cannot make their own food are known as consumers or ___________.
Answer: heterotrophs

120. True or False: Palawan is biogeographically part of the Philippines.

Answer: False

121. This place is considered by many as the last frontier of Philippine biodiversity.
Answer: Palawan

122. The only place in the Philippines where 4 species of flying fox can be found in relatively the same rooting areas?
Answer: Dalaguete, Cebu

123. When was the Philippine eagle found dead recently outside the protected area on Mt. Apo? What is the name of the eagle?
Answer: August 14, 2015; Pamana

124. How many species of sunbirds can be found in the Philippines?

Answer: at least 15-16 species

125. How many percent of sunbirds are endemic in the Philippines?

Answer: 50%

126. These birds are the Old World (Asia-Africa) counterpart of the hummingbird of the New World (Americas)?
Answer: sunbirds

127. The resemblance of sunbirds to hummingbirds is due to________________.

Answer: convergent evolution

128. Harlequin flying frog is a colorful frog which has extensive webbing between its fingers and toes that allows it to climb from
branch or across the forest canopy. What is its scientific name?
Answer: Rhacophorus pardalis - LC

129. It is considered as the largest remaining cover in Negros Island.

Answer: Northern Negros Natural Park

130. This species of sunbird is endemic in the island of Negros, Panay and Guimaras.
Answer: Maroon-naped sunbird (Aethopyga guimarasensis) - NT

131. What natural park is featured in P 1000 peso bill?

Answer: Tubbataha Reef Natural Park
P500.00 - Subterranean River National Park; Blue-naped parrot (Tanygnathus lucionensis)
P1000 - Tubbataha Reef Natural Park; South Sea Pearl (Pinctada maxima)
P200 - Bohol Chocolate Hills; Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)
P100 - Mayon Volcano; Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus)
P 50 – Taal Vocano; Maliputo (Caranx ignobilis)
P20 – Banaue Rice Terraces; Palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus philippinensis)

132. In what genera does the bleeding-heart pigeon belong?

Answer: Gallicolumba

133. The Golden-crowned flying fox, the heaviest fox in the world, can be found anywhere in the Philippines except in:
Answer: Palawan

134. What is the name of the honey bee that attacked the 5 students while they were on field work at the Guintubdan Wilderness
Park in Brgy.Ara-al, La Carlota on June 2, 2015?
Answer: Asian Giant Honey Bee (Apis dorsata)

135. What is the other name of cloud rat?

Answer: cloud runner

136. What is the largest group of lizard found in the Philippines?

Answer: water monitor lizard

137. How many species of hornbill are there in the Philippines?

Answer: 10

138. These species of birds are known as the world counterpart of toucans in America?
Answer: Hornbill
139. Bignay or bugnay (Antidesma spp) is a widely cultivated tree in gardens and orchards. Eaten raw or made into juice or wine, this
is also a food plant for fruit-eating birds. How many species of bignay are endemic in the Philippines?
Answer: 14 (22 total species in the Philippines)

140. When is the International Day of Forests celebrated?

Answer: March 21

141. When is the International World Wildlife Day celebrated?

Answer: March 3

142. It refers to a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere, typically caused by fine suspended particles.
Answer: Haze

143. What causes haze in Indonesia?

Answer: forest fire due to slash-and-burn farming

144. In what genera does the Sulawesi hornbill belong?

Answer: Rhabdotorrhinus

145. The Sunlight Eco-tourism Island Resort in Culion, Palawan is facing charges for illegal logging of ________.
Answer: narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus) - V

146. Who is the Father of Philippine Conservation Art and the Founder of the Philippine Biodiversity Conservation Foundation, Inc?
Answer: William Oliver

147. It is a frugivorous lizard that feeds mostly on fruits and flowers and occurs only on Panay.
Answer: Panay Monitor Lizard (Varanus mabitang) - E

148. It is one of the largest bats in the world with an average wingspan of 1.5 m, forearm length ranges from 180 to 120 mm and
body weight ranges from 0.6 kg to 1.1 kg. It has long pointed ears and a dog-like or fox-like face and head.
Answer: Large Flying Fox (Pteropus vampyrus) - NT

149. An act mainstreaming climate change into government policy formulations, establishing the framework strategy and program
on climate change, creating for this purpose the climate change commission, and for other purposes.
Answer: R.A. 9729 - Climate Change Act of 2009

150. Illegal cutting of trees are prohibited under the Revised Forestry Code or Presidential Decree No.________.
Answer: 705

151. Who is the present director of the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB)?
Answer: Theresa Mundita Lim

152. White flower or Polygala is known from white flower oil used to ease aches, congestion, headaches and etc. Polygala is more
popularly known as:
Answer: snakeroot or milkroot

153. Where can we find the first Golden Crowned Flying Fox roost sanctuary that is officially established in the Philippines?
Answer: Mambukal Resort Bat Sanctuary

154. How many endangered species of bats can be found in Mambukal resort?
Answer: 1 (Golden Crowned Flying Fox)
155. This endemic species which is also locally called "bantol" in Cebu is restricted to a few islands in the Philippines. This reptile can
go unnoticed in forest understory as it easily blends with the surroundings.
Answer: Negros forest dragon (Gonocephalus sophiae) - DD

156. What is the other name of Visayan Flowerpecker?

Answer: Black-belted Flowerpecker (Dicaeum haematostictum) - V

157. What species of brown dove is endemic to Negros and Panay?

Answer: Grey-breasted brown dove (Phapitreron maculipectus) - NT

158. How many species of brown dove are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 6 (White-eared brown dove, Mindanao brown dove, Tawi-tawi brown dove, Amethyst Brown Dove, Grey-breasted brown
dove and Cebu Brown Dove)

159. How many species of bulbul are there in the Philippines?

Answer: at least 13 species

160. How many species of flowerpeckers are there in the Philippines?

Answer: 15 (13 are endemic)

161. How many species of robins are there in the Philippines? Give one example of a robin in the Philippines.
Answer: 4 (3 are endemic); Magpie robin

162. This bird species is locally known as "pokpok" because of the monotonous call it makes repeatedly. The sound is like that of a
coppersmith striking metal with a hammer hence the name of the bird.
Answer: Coppersmith Barbet

163. What is the other name of Crimson Sunbird?

Answer: Magnificent Sunbird

164. The bony crest on the top of the bill of the hornbill is known as ________________.
Answer: casque

165. Visayan Flowerpecker (Dicaeum haematostictum) (V) known only to occur in the islands of Negros, Panay and ____________.
Answer: Guimaras

166. Northern rufous hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax) is hunted by______ using bow and arrows for its hornbill or casque.
Answer: Ilongots

167. How many species of hornbill are there in the Negros-Panay faunal region?
Answer: 2 - Visayan tarictic hornbill (Penelopides panini panini) – E and Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) -CR

168. The first hornbill declared extinct in the world.

Answer: Ticao Island tarictic hornbill (Penelopides panini ticaensis)

169. In what genera does the Tarictic hornbill belong?

Answer: Penelopides

170. Which among the tarictics is not sexually dimorphic (dimorphic = the male looks different from the female)?
Answer: Mindoro Tarictic Hornbill

171. The Visayan warty pig is now considered extinct in the island of Guimaras, Cebu, Masbate and ___________.
Answer: Ticao Island

172. It refers to any distinct change in measures of climate lasting for a long period of time.
Answer: Climate Change

173. The only endemic falcon in the Philippines.

Answer: Philippine falconet (Microhierax erythrogenys)

174. Give 5 examples of greenhouse gases

Answer: carbon dioxide (CO2). Nitous oxide (N2O), hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), petrofluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride
(SF6)

175. What species of bird was rediscovered in Northern Negros Natural Park during the 2014 biological assessment conducted by the
PBCFI?
Answer: Rufous-headed hornbill
176. What is the IUCN status of Rufous-headed hornbill and Visayan tarictic hornbill?
Answer: RHH - Critically endangered
VTH - Endangered

177. True or False: The male Visayan tarictic hornbill is smaller than female Visayan tarictic hornbill?
Answer: False

178. True or False: Negros bleeding-heart pigeon is endemic only in Negros?

Answer: False; it can also be found in Panay

179. What is the current status of Visayan spotted deer in Masbate?

Answer: extinct or functionally extinct

180. Flame-templed Babbler is endemic to the islands of Negros and Panay. What is its scientific name and IUCN status?
Answer: Dasycrotapha speciosa; Endangered

181. What is the usual color of the female Maroon-naped sunbird?

Answer: dark green

182. What is the host plant of Rafflesia speciosa?

Answer: Tetrastigma spp.

183. Type of wetland which occurs along coastlines and are influenced by tides and often by freshwater from runoff, rivers, or
ground water.
Answer: Tidal (coastal) marsh

184. Type of wetland which is fed primarily by surface water inputs and are dominated by trees and shrubs and is characterized by
very wet soils during the growing season and standing water during certain times of the year.
Answer: Swamp

185. It refers to portions of land and water set aside by reason of their unique physical and biological significance, managed to
enhance biological diversity and protected against destructive human exploitation.
Answer: Protected Areas

186. CITES stands for:

Answer: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

187. What is the IUCN status of Black-bearded Tomb Bat (Taphozous melanopogon)?
Answer: Least Concern

188. This plant from Mount Mingan made it to the newly-discovered species in 2015. It has elongated, repeatedly branching, and
rough-textured tubers that grow above ground. These peculiar tubers give this root parasite from the Philippines a coral-like
appearance distinct from the more typical underground tubers of related species.
Answer: Balanophora coralliformis, CR

189. How many species of wild pig are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 3 (Visayan Warty Pig (Sus cebifrons) CR, Palawan bearded pig (Sus ahoenobarbus) V and Philippine warty pig (Sus
philippensis) V, Mindoro or Oliver’s warty pig (Sus oliveri) V

190. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Negros shrew?
Answer: Crocidura negrina; E

191. The largest endemic mammal of the West Visayas Faunal Region?
Answer: Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi) - E

192. Which of the following animals are warm-blooded (homeotherm/endotherm)?

a. birds b. fishes c. reptiles d. amphibians

193. It refers to relief features on the walls, ceilings and floor of any cave or lava tube which are part of the surrounding bedrock,
including but not limited to anastomoses, scallops, meander niches, petromorphs and rock pendants in solution caves and similar
features unique to volcanic caves.
Answer: Speleogem

194. Which of the following is newly described Philippine monitor Lizard discovered in 2010 in the Sierra Madre mountain Range?
Answer: Varanus bitatawa – not yet listed in IUCN

195. What term refers to the complex web linking air, water, animals, plants and every other life form in the biosphere?
Answer: Ecosystem
196. __________is referred as an ancient continent that included all major continental land mass in the Permian and Triassic that
split into Laurasia and Gondwana.
Answer: Pangea or Pangaea/ Panthalassa (ocean mass)

197. The largest groups of species of bats with wingspan as wide as a meter are called___________. These are the same group of
bats found in Mambukal Resort in Murcia.
Answer: Flying Foxes

198. What is the collective term used when referring to reptiles and amphibians?
Answer: Herpetofauna or herps

199. What is the most threatened species of hornbill in Western Visayas region?
Answer: Visayas Writhed Hornbill/ Rufous-headed hornbill

200. This law declared November as the “Environmental Awareness Month”. Give the R.A. of this law.
Answer: RA 9512

201. This Gekko is only found in Panay and was discovered in 1974 and was declared vulnerable by IUCN. What species is this?
Answer: Gekko gigante V

202. The West Visayas Faunal Region is composed of the island of Negros, Panay, Cebu, Guimaras, Ticao Island and ________.
Answer: Masbate

203. What is the scientific name of Negros Cave Frog?

Answer: Platymantis spelaeus – E; other species: Platymantis hazelae – E; Platymantis negrosensis – E; Platymantis visayanus - V

204. Glaciation is a natural process that dictated biogeography in most archipelagos such as Indonesia and the Philippines. How
many glaciations have occurred since the Earth began?
Answer: 21

205. In 2012, a new species of hawk owl Ninox rumseyi, was discovered in Cebu. What is the current IUCN status of this species?
Answer: Endangered

206. What ferry of 2Go shipping lines caused an oil spill off the coast of cebu province after the collision with Sulpicio lines (MV
Sulpicio Express Siete) in August 2012
Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas I

207. Iron Wood produces the hardest wood in the country. One of the iron wood species is locally called “mangkono” What is its
scientific name?
Answer: Xanthostemon verdugonianus - V

208. This is an agricultural technique of clearing land by slashing and burning trees and plowing the ashes under for fertilizer. This is
one of the greatest threats of deforestation. Give the term of this farming practice?
Answer: kaingin

209. __________are non-flowering or seed-bearing plants that have ovules borne on scales that are usually arranged in cone-like
structures. (angiosperms - flowering plants)
Answer: gymnosperms

210. Siebenrockiella leytensis is critically endangered species of freshwater turtle found to be extinct in Leyte. However, it was found
to be widespread and common in Palawan. What is this is turtle called?
Answer: Philippine pond turtle, Philippine Forest Turtle; Laughing terrapin

211. An area of land where surface water from rain converges to a single point at a lower elevation usually to the exit of the basin
where the water joins?
Answer: watershed

212. Earth hour is celebrated since 2007 in order to stand against climate change. In what country did the initiative took place?
Answer: Australia

213. Give the scientific name of the new species of hawk owl endemic to Tablas named after Tim Fisher.
Answer: Ninox spilonotus Fisheri – DD

214. ________a symbiotic relationship combination of algae and fungi that is in its vegetative biology acts as a photosynthetic
organism.
Answer: Lichen

215. ______are burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona that is associated with wet tropical climates.
Answer: Caecilian
216. ____________refers to species whose activity are crucial for the maintenance of the ecosystem integrity.
Answer: Keystone species

217. ___________a non-taxonomic grouping of organisms based on shared behavioral dependencies and/or ecologically influential
biological population.
Answer: Guild

218. In 2013, a new species of ground-dwelling bird was discovered in Sierra Madre. Give the English name of this species.
Answer: Sierra Madre Ground Warbler Napothera thompsoni or Robsonius thompsoni - NT

219. ___________total amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted into the atmosphere each year by a person, family, building,
organization, or company.
Answer: Carbon footprint

220. There are three orders under class Amphibia. Anura, Caudata and Gymnophiona. Of these 3 orders, which does not exist in the
Philippines?
Answer: Caudata (salamanders)

221. Wildlife comes in small and large sizes. What is the smallest endemic ungulate in the Philippines?
Answer: Balabac Mouse Deer (Tragulus nigricans) - E

222. The faunal region in the Philippines with the highest number of threatened terrestrial vertebrate taxa is ______________.
Answer: Greater Negros-Panay Region (12- CR; 17 - Endangered; 29 - Vulnerable)

223. What are the two species of Rafflesia discovered in Panay?

Answer: Rafflesia speciosa and Rafflesia lobata

224. Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park was declared a National Park by Presidential Proclamation No. 721 on August 8, 1934 and revised by
Proclamation No. _______on May 8, 1997.
Answer: No.1005

225. What are the two mountain peaks in Northern Negros Natural Park?
Answer: Mt. Silay and Mt. Mandalagan

226. Mt Talinis-Twin Lakes Forest Reserve (MTTLFR) is located at the southeastern mountain ranges of Negros Island with the
highest point of 1,800 meters above sea level. It is otherwise known as:
Answer: Cuernos de Negros Range

227. The type of forest that can be found along the mountains in about 1200 altitude high. Most of the mountainous areas have
moist climate in which mossy forest mostly developed.
Answer: Mossy Forest
1. Dipterocarp forest - covers the largest forest areas in the Philippines. It is situated from the coastal flats going up to
approximately 800 meters in the altitude. The dipterocarp forest is the biggest source of lumber supply in the country.
2. Fine forest - usually developed in the country’s high plateau regions. This is in the altitude ranging from seven to eight meters
above the sea level.
3. Mangrove forest - has trees that have special root formations. The fruits and the seeds of the mangrove trees can survive; can
germinate and can float in the seawater. This type of forest is tidal and it can be found along the clayed seashore as well as in the
tidal zones in the river estuaries.
4. Beach forest can be found along the beach; this kind of forest forms a narrow strip along the sandy coast of the beach.

228. The species of birds that are relatively found in the relative island.
a. endemic b. threatened c. near endemic d. extinct

229. Which of the following plant is listed as coniferous or cone-bearing species?

a. almaciga b. mahogany c. narra d. white lauan

230. It is globally threatened marine mammal that feeds almost exclusively on seagrass.
a. Butanding b. Sting ray c. Dugong dugon (mammal) d.Dolphin

231. True or False: The Philippine eagle is found only in Mindanao.

Answer: False (Luzon, Samar and Leyte)

232. When is the International Biodiversity Day celebrated?

Answer: May 22

233. True or False: Philippine tarsier can also be found in other parts of the Philippine other than the island province of Bohol
(Samar, Leyte and Mindanao).
Answer: True
234. Which of the following is NOT an amphibian?
a. skink (reptile) b. newts c. caecillian d. frog

235. It refers to a variety of living organisms considered at all level of organization, including genetic species as well as other
processes involving on it.
Answer: biodiversity

236. Site where humans are restricted or prohibited and where conservation of biodiversity as the primary goal.
Answer: Protected Areas

237. The strip of managed land or sea adjacent to or around protected areas and serves as additional layer of protection for native
wildlife.
Answer: buffer zone

238. The SE country that has the most Marine Protected Area.
Answer: Philippines

239. An alternative form of tourism which is encouraged in protected areas and ecologically sensitive areas.
Answer: Eco-tourism

240. This frog species is one of the two-cave dwelling species of platymanthis in the Philippines. All specimens of these species were
collected from two caves in Negros Island.
Answer: Negros Cave Frog

241. A non-native species that spreads rapidly and out-competed preys on and otherwise eliminates population of native species.
Answer: invasive species

242. The critically endangered fruit dove is only known from the female, from which mountain was the specimen collected.
Answer: Mt. Kanlaon

243. True or False: A species is considered extinct when there are no members of the species or family in existence.
Answer: True

244. In 2006, 9916 were recognized species of birds in the world. The highest bird diversity were Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador
and__________.
Answer: Indonesia

245. Gallirallus calayanensis is a species of flightless bird that was discovered in 2006 and found to be endemic in the Philippines.
What is its common name?
Answer: Calayan rail V

246. The national agency designated as the CITES Management Authority for terrestrial wildlife in the Philippines.
Answer: PAWB (Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau); Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB)
For aquatic wildlife except for dugong and turtle - BFAR

247. The IUCN identifies three categories that are described as “threatened” except:
a. near threatened b. critically endangered c. endangered d. vulnerable

248. This endemic species was feared to have become extinct in the 1970s and due to severe habitat destruction and overwhelming.
However, this was captured in 2001 in Cebu and was found in 2003 in Negros Island.
Answer: Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia chapmani) - CR

249. Of the 117 important bird areas identified by the Birdlife International in 2001, 5 were found in the island of Negros. Which of
the following is not included in the Negros IBA?
a. NNNP b. Mt. Kanlaon c. Banban d. Ayungon
(Negros IBA – Hinobaan, Mt. Talinis (Cuernnos de Negros), Northern Negros Natural Park, Mount Kanlaon Natural Park, Ban-ban and
Southwestern Negros)

250. Butanding, the largest fish in the world is a_________________.

a. mammal b. shark c. seal d. dolphin

251. What is the maximum penalty for a person guilty of selling or buying the Visayan Spotted Deer?
Answer: imprisonment of 1 year and a fine of P200T
Critically Endangered Endangered Vulnerable
Killing 6 yrs/100k-1M 4 yrs/50k-500k 2 yrs/30k-300k
Inflicting Injury 4 yrs/50k-500k 2 yrs/30k-300k 1 yr/20k-200k
Buying and Selling 2 yrs/5k-300k 1 yr/2k-200k 6 mos/1k-100k

252. What is the scientific name of the newly described Philippine monitor Lizard in 2010 which can be found in Sierra Madre?
Answer: Varanus bitatawa
253. It is an endemic tree species that can be found in Cebu, ranking among the world’s rarest trees.
Answer: Cebu cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum cebuense) - CR

254. What is the name of the wounded dolphin saved by the eight-year old boy?
Answer: Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus)

255. Plant eaters are known as _______

Answer: herbivores

256. What is the only mammal that can fly?

Answer: bat

257. What is the first country to celebrate Earth Hour in 2007?

Answer: Australia

258. True or False. Sea grasses are the flowering plants in the sea.
Answer: True; Sea grasses are plants and not algae

259. True or False: Balabac mouse deer can be found in Palawan.

Answer: True; a.k.a Palawan mouse deer E

260. Fruit-eating animals are known as:

Answer: frugivores
Sanguivore – blood drinking; Insectivore – insect-eating; Granivore – seed-eating; Piscivore – fish-eating; Nectarivore – nectar-
drinking

261. ____________ is defined as the weather condition prevailing in an area over a long period of time.
Answer: climate

262. Which of the following is not an island for turtle production?

a. Apo reef b. Turtle Island c. Saranggani Bay d. Sumilong Island

263. Which of the following bats are not present in Mambucal resort?
a. Golden crown flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) b. Island flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus)
c. Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) d. Mottled Wing flying fox (Pteropus leucoptess)

264. True or False: Coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea. Corals are plants submerged in water and serve as habitat for marine
animals.
Answer: False

265. What is the scientific name of saltwater crocodile?

Answer: Crocodylus porosus - LC

266. What is the ultimate source of energy?

Answer: sun

277. True or False: Philippine has only one species of cat.

Answer: True

278. What is largest bird in the Philippines?

Answer: Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) -CR

279. 78% of earth’s atmosphere is composed of ____________.

Answer: Nitrogen (21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, 0.03 percent carbon dioxide, and the remaining 0.07 percent is a mixture
of hydrogen, water, ozone, neon, helium, krypton, xenon, and other trace components.

280. What is the maximum penalty for a person guilty of selling or buying of talunon or Visayan Warty Pig?
Answer: 2 years of imprisonment and a fine of 300k

281. What is the Philippine’s largest native mammal or the largest endemic ungulate in the Philippines?
Answer: Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) CR

282. The navigation and foraging of dolphin is governed by_____________

Answer: echolocation

283. What is the scientific name of Philippine pond turtle?

Answer: Siebenrockiella leytensis
284. True or False: The male seahorse gets pregnant.
Answer: True

285. The largest naturally occurring CO2-storage or carbon sink.

Answer: rainforest

286. The smallest freshwater fish in the Philippines.

Answer: Pandaka pygmea

287. The legislation that recognizes the importance of IBA.

Answer: RA 9147 (Philippine Wildlife act or Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act)

288. The group of plants producing naked seeds in cones.

Answer: gymnosperms

289. The white-appearance of corals is known as__________.

Answer: bleaching

290. The mammal that is extinct already in the island of Cebu and Masbate but can still be seen in Panay and Negros.
Answer: Visayan Warty Pig

291. A megabat that lives on Negros Island and two small populations live on Cebu Island in the Philippines; was thought to be
extinct in the Philippines, has recently been rediscovered, on the islands of Cebu in 2001 and Negros in 2003.
Answer: Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia chapmani) - CR

292. Which of the following is not a carnivorous type of plant?

a. venus flytrap b. pitcher c. waling-waling d. butterworts

293. To what group of animals do bats belong?

Answer: mammals

294. Name one critically endangered species of mammal in Negros.

Answer: Visayan warty pig, Philippine Bare-backed Fruit Bat

295. It refers to any natural mineral formation or deposit occurring in a cave or lava tube, including but not limited to any stalactite,
stalagmite, helictite, cave flower, flowstone, concretion, drapery, rimstone or formation of clay or mud.
Answer: Speleothem

296. Lolong is what kind of crocodile?

Answer: saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) LC

297. The WV faunal region includes Cebu, Negros, Panay, Guimaras, Ticao Island and ___________.
Answer: Masbate

298. True or False: The Philippines has 8% species of mammals but it has only one species of cat.
Answer: True

299. The following are the wetlands in the Philippines except:

a. Balingasan Twin lake b. Olango Island in Lapu-lapu, Cebu
c. Naujan Lake National Park in Oriental Mindoro d. The Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary

300. What is the largest endemic mammal in Negros?

Answer: Visayan Spotted Deer (Rusa alfredi) E

301. It refers to the populations of species that are still in existence.

Answer: extant

302. What is the Philippine’s largest native mammal.

Answer: tamaraw

303. There have been no confirmed sightings of this bird since 1953 in Mt Kanlaon Natural Park and is considered “functionally
extinct”.
Answer: Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus)

304. Siebenrockiella leytensis was found to be common in Palawan. What is its English name?
Answer: Philippine pond turtle, Philippine Forest Turtle

305. The species of turtle that can be found in the Philippines are the following except:
a. Caretta caretta (loggerhead sea turtle) b. Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle)
c. Dermochelys coriacea (leatherback sea turtle) d. Natator depressus, the flatback sea turtle
306. This frog species does not follow the general cycle of frog growth and development. From eggs, it immediately hatches into
frog-like appearance, skipping the tadpole stage.
Answer: Platymanthis spelaeus - E

307. Give at least one species of flying fox found in Negros.

Answer: Golden-Crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) - E; Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) - NT; Island flying fox (Pteropus
hypomelanus - LC; Little Golden Mantled Flying Fox (Pteropus pumilus) - NT

308. Name one of two species of owl that were discovered August 17, 2012 in the Philippines.
Answer: Cebu hawk owl, Ninox rumseyi and Camiguin hawk owl, N. leventisi

309. RA 7586 is known as:

Answer: NIPAS Act of 1992 (The National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992)

310. The smallest bat in the world.

Answer: lesser bamboo bat (Tylonycteris pachypus)

311. It refers to the release into the environment by one plant of a substance that inhibits the germination or growth of other
potential competitor plants of the same or another species.
Answer: Allelopathy

312. Give the name of the other species of Bubalus aside from Bubalus mindorensis or tamaraw found in the Philippines.
Answer: Bubalus cebuensis

313. What is the scientific name of White-throated Jungle Flycatcher, an endemic bird species in Negros, Guimaras and Panay?
Answer: Rhinomyias albigularis - E

314. The Northern Negros Natural Park (NNNP) was declared as a protected area by Presidential Proclamation No.______on August
15, 2005.
Answer: 895

315. It refers to area of marsh, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or
flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including area of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six (6) meters or a land
where saturation of water is the dominant factor which determines the nature of soil development and the type of plant and animal
communities living in the soil and its surface.
Answer: Wetland

316. This tree is one of the few conifer timber species endemic to the Philippines.
Answer: Almaciga (Agathis philippinensis) V

317. Ebola virus has claimed many lives and is now considered a global threat. Which vertebrate groups are considered carriers of
the Ebola virus?
Answer: Mammals

318. The sunbirds are neotropical counterparts of humming birds? These birds are pollinators of many ornamental and flowering
plants in the forests. Give one sunbird found in Negros.
Answer: Olive-backed sunbird, magnificent sunbird or crimson sunbird, maroon-naped sunbird and brown-throated sunbird

319. The NIPAS law is a national decree for the protection of important biodiversity areas in the country. What does NIPAS stand
for?
Answer: National Integrated Protected Areas System

320. The gigante gecko is only found in a tiny island in Panay and was first discovered in 1974? What is the name of the island where
the species is found?
Answer: Gigante Island/Gigantes Island or Isla de Gigante

321. This is one species of butterfly found only in the forest of Mt. Kanlaon. What is the scientific name of the endemic butterfly?
Answer: Parantica davidi (David’s Tiger) - CR

322. There are now more than 650 plus species of birds recorded in the Philippines. Among the biggest and largest birds in the
country is the Dalmatian pelica. There is another species of pelican that is now presumed extinct in the country. What is the English
name of this pelican?
Answer: Spot-billed pelican or grey pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) - NT

323. One species of shrew endemic to Negros Island has a distinct white marking on the outlines of its ear. What is the English name
of this shrew?
Answer: Negros shrew - E
324. There is a number of Protected Area in Negros. Which of the following is not a Protected Area?
a. Mt. Kanla-on National Park b. NNNP c. Sagay Marine Reserve d. Danjugan Island

325. Limestone forests in the Philippines are one of the poorly protected ecosystems. In Negros Island, two of the species are known
to be restricted to this type of habitat. One is the Philippine bare-backed fruit bat and the other is _______________.
Answer: Negros Cave Frog

326. This Philippine endemic species was the first ever mammalian species that was discovered extinct until it was rediscovered in
Cebu and was also found at the South Western Negros forest. What is this species?
Answer: Philippine bare-backed fruit bat

327. The convention on Wetlands of International Importance, called the _______________, is the intergovernmental treaty that
provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their sources.
Answer: Ramsar Convention

328. In 2012, a new species of hawk owl, Ninox rumseyi, was discovered in the island of Cebu. What is the current IUCN status of this
species?
Answer: Endangered

329. O3 is also called___________________.

Answer: Ozone or Trioxide

330. Name the only city in the Philippines located within the three nationally-declared protected areas.
Answer: San Carlos City (Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park, NNNP and Taňon Strait Protected Seascape)

331. There are at least two species that has been declared as “functionally extinct” in Negros by Bird Life International. This includes
the Rufous-headed hornbill and the ______________.
Answer: Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus) - CR

332. There are several cloud rat species in the Philippines distinctly distributed in Southern Luzon, Northern Luzon, Ilin Island, Panay
and _________________.
Answer: Dinagat Island

333. In 1991, the “Only in the Philippines” or “Sa Pilipinas Lamang” poster series was launched to raise awareness on the importance
of endemic species in the Philippines? Give the name of the painter.
Answer: William Oliver

334. When is World Habitat Day celebrated?

Answer: October 3

335. This species of shorebird was recently sighted at Danjugan Island in Cauayan, Negros Occidental and is considered “Near
Threatened” by the IUCN?
Answer: beach stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris) or beach thick-knee

336. The first mammals appeared approximately 200 million years ago during the__________Period.
Answer: Jurassic

337. What is the oldest group of mammal that is alive today?

Answer: monotreme

338. This era is considered to be the “age of mammals”.

Answer: Cenozoic Era

339. What is the number of species of hawk owl in the Philippines?

Answer: 7 (Luzon Hawk Owl (Ninox philippensis) LC; Cebu hawk owl (Ninox rumseyi)- E; Camiguin hawk owl (Ninox leventisi)- E;
Mindoro Hawk Owl (Ninox mindorensis) - V; Sulu Hawk Owl (Ninox reyi) - V Romblon Hawk Owl (Ninox spilonotus, comprising two
subspecies, one of which is a newly described, i.e. Ninox spilonotus Fisheri from Tablas Island and Ninox spilonotus spilonotus from
Sibuyan)- V; Mindanao Hawk Owl (Ninox spilocephala) - NT; (2E, 3V, 1 NT, 1 LC)

340. In what genera does the hawk owl belong?

Answer: Ninox

341. Who is the Father of Philippine Wildlife who started his expedition in 1953?
Answer: Dr. Dioscoro Rabor

342. This species of snake is born alive (unlike some snakes that are laid in eggs) and feeds mainly on small bird, frogs and lizards.
Answer: Asian Vine Snake
343. What are the three species of deer in the Philippines?
Answer: 3
1. Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi: Cervus alfredi) – E- are still found in the remaining forests of Negros and Panay islands.
They were previously reported in Cebu, Guimaras and Masbate Islands but excessive hunting and deforestation lead to their
extinction in these places.
2. Calamian hog deer (Axis calamianensis; old: Cervus porcinus calamianensis) – E - endemic in Busuanga, Calauit and Culion
(group of islands at the northern tip of Palawan) islands)
3. Philippine brown deer (Rusa mariana) - V

344. Give one example of kingfisher in Negros?

Answer: Spotted Wood Kingfisher (Actinoides lindsayi)

345. It refers to a taxon at the species level that has never before received a valid scientific name.
Answer: new species

346. Where can we find the biggest wildlife sanctuary in the Philippines?
Answer: Calauit Island in Palawan

347. It is the largest species of Eutropis that occurs in the Philippines. It is one of the more conspicuous lizards as it is diurnally active
and thrives in disturbed lowland habitats.
Answer: Common Sun Skink (Eutropis multifasciata)

348. This bird species follows cattle and carabao, often times perched on its back and separated from other egrets by its small size
and yellow bill.
Answer: Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)

349. Give one example of the migratory bird in the Philippines.

Answer: Common greenshank; common redshank; grey wagtail; little egret, oriental cuckoo

350. Give one example of the non-migratory or resident bird in the Philippines.
Answer: Olive-backed sunbird; barred rail; rufous night heron

351. This bat is formerly endemic to Panay but was declared extinct in 1996.
Answer: Panay giant bat (Acerodon lucifer)

352. What is the IUCN status of Gekko gigante?

Answer: Vulnerable

353. How species of turtle are there in the Philippines? (1 CR; 1 E; 3V)
Answer: 5 (Caretta caretta (loggerhead sea turtle) V; Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle) E; Dermochelys coriacea (leatherback sea
turtle) V - largest; Eretmochelys imbricata (hawksbill sea turtle) CR; Lepidochelys olivacea (olive ridley sea turtle) V

354. A natural or artificial reservoir that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite
period.
Answer: carbon sink

355. Collective term for hardwood trees.

Answer: Dipterocarp (apitong, bagtikan, lauan, tangile, guijo, and yakal)

356. What are the three groups of mammals?

Answer: Marsupial/Metatherian – pouched mammal e.g. kangaroo; Eutherian – placental mammal e.g. human, dog, cat;
Monotremes or Prototherian – egg-laying mammals e.g. platypus

357. Which of the following is NOT a rodent?

a. rat b. chipmunk c. rabbit d. squirrel

358. What are the 4 Orders of the Living Reptile?

Answer: Rhyncocephalia (tuatara), Chelonia (Turtle and tortoise), Squamata (snake and lizard, skink), Crocodilia (alligators,
crocodiles, gavians and caimans)

359. Waling-waling is the Queen of Philippine orchids. What is its scientific name?
Answer: Euanthe sanderiana or Vanda sanderiana - NT

360. What is the maximum penalty for a person guilty of killing the Philippine Eagle?
Answer: 6 yrs of imprisonment and a fine of 1M

361. What is the other name for CITES?

Answer: Washington Convention
362. The remaining forest cover in Negros is how many percent?
Answer: 4%
363. What are the seven sites in the Philippines declared as Wetlands of International Importance?
Answer: Agusan Marsh Wildlife Santuary in Mindanao, Naujan Lake National Park in Oriental Mindoro, Olango Island Wildlife
Sanctuary in Cebu, Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park in Palawan, and the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Sulu
Sea and Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA); Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation
Area

364. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Visayan Leopard Cat?
Answer: Prionailurus bengalensis rabori; Least Concern

365. Give one example of endangered mammal in Negros Island?

Answer: Visayan spotted deer, Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat, Negros shrew

366. Give one example of endangered bird in Negros Island?

Answer: Visayan tarictic hornbill and Flame- templed babbler

367. How many species of fruit bats are endemic in the Philippines?
Answer: 12

368. How many species of flying fox (fruit-eating bats) are present in Mambukal Resort?
Answer: 4 (Golden Crown flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) -E; Island flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) - LC; Large flying fox (Pteropus
vampyrus) - NT and Little Golden Mantled Flying Fox (Pteropus pumilus)- NT

369. What is the scientific name of the subspecies of Visayan warty pig in Negros?
Answer: Sus cebifrons negrinus

370. The golden- crowned flying fox is found in the Philippines. What is its IUCN status?
Answer: Endangered

371. How many species of Kingfishers are endemic in the Philippines?

Answer: 9 (total species of kingfisher in the Philippines - 16)

372. What species of kingfisher which can be found in the islands of Negros, Cebu, Camiguin, Mindanao, Siquijor, Semirara,
Romblon, Tablas, Sibuyan, Tawi-tawi, Semirara, Basilan, Jolo and Bongao, was recently elevated to full status category?
Answer: Dimorphic kingfisher (formerly Variable dwarf kingfisher) – Ceyx margarethae

373. It refers to a species of subspecies that is facing extremely high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future.
Answer: critically endangered

378. It refers to species or subspecies which is naturally occurring and found only within specific areas in the country.
Answer: Endemic species

378. This type of forest covers the largest forest areas in the Philippines. It is situated from the coastal flats going up to
approximately 800 meters in the altitude.
Answer: dipterocarp forest

379. Organism that is active during the night is known as ____________.

Answer: Nocturnal

380. It is an international agreement among the 37 industrialized countries and the European community to reduce the emission of
greenhouse gases.
Answer: Kyoto Protocol
Montreal Protocol - an international negotiation which aims to the phase CFC production

381. The process by which a body of water becomes rich in dissolved nutrients from fertilizers or sewage, thereby encouraging the
growth and decomposition of oxygen-depleting plant life and resulting in harm to other organisms.
Answer: Eutrophication

382. Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis “Chavit” Singson and his daughter are under fire from a wildlife protection group after pictures posted
online showed them shooting and killing what endangered species?
Answer: Philippine duck or Anas luzonica

383. Oxygen makes up how many percent of the Air?

Answer: 21%

384. It refers to the role of an organism within its natural environment that determines its relations with other organisms and
ensures its survival.
Answer: Niche
385. It is the process by which trees and plants absorb carbon dioxide, release the oxygen, and store the carbon.
Answer: Carbon sequestration

386. Sampaguita is the country’s national flower. What is its scientific name?
Answer: Jasminum sambac

387. How many Wetland Forest Reserve in Negros Occidental is under the nationally-declared Protected Area?
Answer: 3 Ilog-Hilabangan WFR, Kabankalan WFR and Bago River WFR
388. What is the only marine reserve in Negros Occidental that is under the nationally-declared Protected Area?
Answer: Sagay Marine Reserve

389. What is the name of the rare and threatened aquatic species can be found in the coastal waters of Pulupandan, and Bago City?
Answer: Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) - V

390. True or False. Male Visayan warty pigs have darker bristles than females.
Answer: False (males often have light brown or silvery bristles)

391. What is the life span of Visayan warty pig?

Answer: 10-15 years

392. The young of spotted deer is known as ___________.

Answer: fawn

393. The Upper Imbang-Calimban watershed area is located in the_________________.

a. NNNP b. Mt. Kanla-onNP c. Talinis-Twin Lakes Forest Reserve d. South Negros Forest Reserve

394. When did the first joining of the Philippines in the Earth Hour?
Answer: 2008

395. It is a relatively large area not materially altered by human activity where extractive resource uses are not allowed and
maintained to protect outstanding natural and scenic areas of national or international significance for scientific, educational and
recreational use.
Answer: Natural Park

396. What is the most common sunbird found in the garden?

Answer: Olive-backed sunbird

397. Harlequin flying frog (Rhacophorus pardalis) occurs only in Mindanao, Bohol, Luzon and___________.
Answer: Negros

398. What is the main diet of forest kingfisher?

Answer: earthworm

399. It refers to the behavior of birds if they are attracted to new things?
Answer: neophilia

400. It is a type of forest growing along tidal mudflats (shore) and along shallow water coastal areas extending inland along rivers,
streams and their tributaries where the water is generally brackish.
Answer: Mangrove Forest

401. The World Wetland Day is celebrated on____________.

Answer: February 22
April 22 - International Earth Day
March 22 – World Water Day
September 16 - International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer or World’s Ozone Layer Day
October - Tamaraw Month; World Wildlife Month
November - Wildlife Month in Negros Occidental
End of March - observance of Earth Hour

403. What is the name of the Visayan warty pig adopted by Mar Roxas and Korina Sanchez in 2010?
Answer: Marko

404. What is the only species of sea turtle in the Philippines that is critically endangered?
Answer: Eretmochelys imbricata (hawksbill sea turtle)

405. It is a poorly known species known to occur in the islands of Basilan, Tawi-tawi, Sulu and satellite islands as well as in southern
tip of Zamboanga. A poorly known species where there are no definitive records/reports on its population and status in over 70 yrs.
Answer: Gray-headed flying fox (Pteropus speciosus) DD
406. It refers to the process by which the absorption of infrared radiation by the atmosphere warms the Earth.
Answer: Greenhouse effect

407. In the context of climate change, refers to human intervention to address anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by
sinks of all GHG, including ozone- depleting substances and their substitutes.
Answer: Mitigation

408. It refers to the adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which
moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Answer: Adaptation

409. It refers to the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal
factors of disasters, including through reduced exposure to hazards, lessened vulnerability of people and property, wise
management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for adverse events.
Answer: Disaster Risk Reduction

410. Which of the following is a volant (flying) mammal?

a. Visayan spotted deer b. Visayan Warty Pig c. Large Flying Fox d. Negros shrew

411. What year celebrates the biggest Earth hour in history?

Answer: 2014

412. These are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers.
Answer: mudflats

413. ________________is the largest of the bushy-tailed cloud rat in the Philippines.
Answer: Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat/ Luzon bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys schadenbergi)

414. The Philippine cockatoo occurs nowhere else in the world. What is its scientific name and IUCN status?
Answer: Cacatua haematuropygia; CR

415. How many species of crocodiles are there in the Philippines?

Answer: 2 (Crocodylus porosus LC and Crocodylus mindorensis CR)

416. It refers to the number of species in a community or collection.

Answer: Species richness

417. It refers to the relative abundance of in a community or collection.

Answer: Species evenness

418. The Wetlands of International Importance are also known as ____________________.

Answer: Ramsar Sites

419. It is the symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a living plant.

Answer: Mycotrophy

420. A collective term for four-legged animals (reptiles, mammals, birds and amphibians).
Answer: Tetrapod

421. Brgy. Tibsoc is a new birding site in Negros occidental. Where is it located?
Answer: San Enrique

422. Animals with even number of toes such as pig belong to the Order_______________.
Answer: Artiodactyla

423. It is a bony outgrowth on head of deer.

Answer: Antler

424. The Convention on Wetlands was signed in 1971 in ___________.

Answer: Ramsar, Iran

425. It is the Philippines' first wetland of international importance for waterfowl.

Answer: Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary

426. What species is used as the logo of Negros Forest and Ecological Foundation, Inc?
Answer: Visayan Spotted Deer

427. It is the world’s first global, legally binding treaty to prevent emissions and releases of the notorious heavy metal, with the goal
of eventual phase out by 2020.
Answer: Minamata Convention
428. It is the third Rafflesia species documented to exist in the Philippines, after R. manillana and R. schadenbergiana and is endemic
in the island of Panay.
Answer: Rafflesia speciosa

429. Ozone protects humans and other life forms on earth by shielding us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays,
particularly______.
Answer: UV-B

430. They are the flowering plants of the sea.

Answer: Sea grasses

431. What are the countries under the Coral Triangle?

Answer: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste

432. It refers to substances that significantly deplete or otherwise modify the ozone layer in a manner that is likely to result in
adverse effects on human health and the environment such as, but not limited to, chlorofluorocarbons, halons, and the like
Answer: Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS)

434. They are known as habitats of threatened species and designated as such based on scientific data taking into consideration
species endemicity and/or richness, presence of man-made pressures/threats to the survival of wildlife living in the area, among
others.
Answer: Critical habitats

435. The wing membrane of the bat is known as______________.

Answer: patagium

436. The Philippine Environment Code is otherwise known____________________.

Answer: P.D. 1152

437. What is the name of a puppy-size female spider killed by a Harvard researcher "in the name of education"?
Answer: South American Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi)

438. The Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) was sighted in 2014 at the North Negros Natural Park (NNNP) in Negros
Occidental and __________________in Negros Oriental.
Answer: Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park

439. Aside from Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni), what are the other types of hornbill in the Philippines?
Answer: Northern rufous hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax) and Southern rufous hornbill (Buceros mindanensis)

440. What are the six species of true cloud rat?

Answer:
Dinagat Island Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat Crateromys australis CR– known from only one specimen in Dinagat Island in 1975; was
rediscovered in 2012 in Dinagat Island;
Panay Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat Crateromys heaneyi - E – not discovered until 1987; already seriously threatened by the drastic extent
of deforestation;
Giant Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat Crateromys schadenbergi -E– largest of the bushy-tailed cloud rat; confined to the forest of the
Cordillera Central in Northern Luzon;
Southern Luzon Slender-tailed Cloud Rat Phloeomys cumingi - V - the largest cloud rat and the largest member of the rat and mouse
family in the world;
Northern Luzon Slender-tailed Cloud Rat Phloeomys pallidus – LC – distributed through at least 14 provinces in Central and
Northern Luzon;
Ilin Island cloud rat Crateromys paulus - DD - found only in the Ilin Island south of Mindoro is on the verge of extinction; smallest
among the cloud rats in the Philippines

441. Organisms that are active during the day are ______________.
Answer: Diurnal

442. The water monitor lizards are also known as ________________.

Answer: Varanids

443. In what genera does the brown dove belong to?

Answer: Phapitreron

444. The White-eared brown dove is endemic to the islands of Calagna-an, Cebu, Guimaras, Masbate, Negros, Panay, Sibuyan, Tablas
and Ticao. What is its scientific name?
Answer: Phapitreron leucotis nigrorum - LC
445. What are the four species of taricitic hornbill?
Answer: Luzon taricitic hornbill (Penelopides manillae) LC; Mindoro taricitic hornbill (Penelopides mindorensis) E;
Visayan taricitic hornbill (Penelopides panini panini) E; Mindanao taricitic hornbill (Penelopides affinis), Samar Tarictic
Hornbill (Penelopides samarensis)

446. What are name of the two new species of spiders discovered in Mt. Makiling?
Answer: orb-weaver spider (Prolochus junlitjri) and the comb-footed spider (Chrysso makiling)

447. What is the name of the hog reared by William Oliver?

Answer: Pygmy hog, Porcula salvania

448. What are the two world’s most critically endangered hornbills that can be found in the Philippines?
Answer: Visayan writhed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) and Sulu hornbill (Anthracoceros montani)

449. What is the subspecies of Luzon Tarictic hornbill which can be found in Polillo Islands?
Answer: subnigra

450. How many species of hawk owl are endangered in the Philippines?
Answer: 3 (Luzon Hawk Owl (Ninox philippensis); Cebu hawk owl (Ninox rumseyi); Camiguin hawk owl (Ninox leventisi)

451. Elegant tit (Parus elegans) is endemic in the Philippines except in _____________________.
Answer: Palawan

452. The Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) is endemic in the Philippines but it has one exceptional record in what country after the
typhoon?
Answer: Hongkong

453. This bird which is locally known as “tagbaya” or “tagmaya” is the most common species of bulbul in the Philippines?
Answer: Visayan bulbul (Ixos guimarasensis)

454. This bird is the most abundant forest bird in Negros.

Answer: Visayan bulbul (Ixos guimarasensis)

455. The spotted wood kingfisher can be found in Luzon, Negros and __________ islands.
Answer: Panay

456. What are the three groups of Philippine pygmy woodpecker (Picoedes maculatus)?
Answer: Northern Philippines Group including Mindoro and Visayas
Mindanao Group including Eastern Visayas, Basilan and Dinagat
Tawi-tawi Group of islands

457. What is the most easily identified kingfisher in the Philippines?

Answer: Collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris)

458. This large ground-dwelling bird, which inhabits beach forests and smaller islands, is also known as Philippine Scrubfowl or
Tabon Scrubfowl. This is an uncommon bird in Danjugan Island close to the town of Cauayan and Sipalay City.
Answer: Philippine megapode (Megapodius cumingii)

459. This sun bird only occurs in the Philippines within the following island group: Tablas, Romblon, Negros, Panay, Masbate and
Cebu.
Answer: Crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja)

460. This rootless and parasitic plant occurs only in Negros and Panay and is found only in Mt. Kanlaon NP in Negros Is.
Answer: Rafflesia speciosa

461. It is one of the larger species Platymantis dorsalis group. This species is common in the limestone forest of Negros island
particularly in Basay, Cauayan, Hinoba-an and Candoni forest.
Answer: Negros Cave Frog

462. This species of frog occurs at high elevation on the mountains of Negros and possibly Masbate islands in the Philippines. It is
one of the poorly known species of forest frogs in the country. It is also likely to occur in Panay Island.
Answer: Hazel’s Wrinkled Ground Frog (Platymantis hazelae)

463. This snake has been recorded in several localities in the Philippines. This is one of the poorly understood and known species of
snakes.
Answer: Dog-toothed Cat Snake

464. What is the largest of all terns in the Philippines?

Answer: Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
465. This bird is otherwise known as Maria Capra?
Answer: Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica)

466. This bird can only be found in the lowland forests of Negros and Panay and is among the sought-after for bird enthusiasts.
Answer: Flame-templed babbler (Dasycrotapha speciosa) - E

467. The Flame-templed babbler can be best seen in Murcia (Mambukal to Wasay) and _____________.
Answer: Gawahon Ecopark

468. This plant has a unique relationship with ants and scale insects. The scale insects inhabit the flowers and fruits of lipstick vine
where they produce a sweet substance called honeydew.
Answer: Lipstick vine (Aeschynanthus)

460. This species of bird is also known as “siloy”. It gives a melodious whistle as it announces its presence.
Answer: Mangrove blue-flycatcher (Cyonis rufigastra)

461. The first vertebrates to become adapted to life on land.

Answer: Amphibians

462. What Order of reptile is nearly extinct?

Answer: Rhyncocephalia

463. Parantica davidi (David’s Tiger), a critically endangered species of butterfly can only be found in the forest of ___________.
Answer: Mt. Kanlaon

464. What are the top 5 Asian countries which produce majority of plastic in world’s oceans?
Answer: China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand

465. What are the four threatened bird species that are endemic in Cebu?
Answer: Cebu Flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor) CR, Black Shama (Copsychus cebuensis) E, Cebu Hawk-owl (Ninox rumseyi) E and
the Cebu Brown Dove (Phapitreron frontalis) CR

466. One example of anuran is _______________.

a. frogs b. salamanders c. newts d. caecilians

467. What are the five megadiverse countries in Asia?

Answer: Philippines, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and India

468. It refers to natural phenomenon of nesting of hundreds of thousands of turtles.

Answer: Arribada

469. Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsomia chapmani) has been adopted as a flagship species by what municipality in Cebu?
Answer: Carmen (Calatong, Cebu)

470. True or False: The Large flying fox is endemic in Negros Island.
Answer: False

471. Which of the following amphibians are under the Order Gymniophiona?
a. frogs b. salamanders c. newts d. caecilians

472. Ninox rumseyi is endemic in what island?

Answer: Cebu

473. True or False: Unlike the other fruit bats, the large flying fox does not possess echolocation.
Answer: True

474. Which of the following mammals is a chiropteran?

a. Large flying fox b. Visayan warty pig c. Visayan spotted deer d. Negros shrew

475. It refers to the study of mammals.

Answer: Mammalogy
Ornithology - birds; Herpetology - reptiles; Batrachology - amphibians; Ichthyology - fishes

476. Lichen is a symbiotic relationship between ________ and ______________.

Answer: algae and fungi

477. The casting off of the part of the body of the animal when it is caught or attacked by a predator is called______.
Answer: Autotomy
478. It refers to a permit to take or collect from the wild certain species and quantities of wildlife for commercial purposes.
Answer: Wildlife collector’s permit

479. How many species of true cloud rat are under the genus Crateromys?
Answer: 4 (Dinagat Island Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat Crateromys australis, Panay Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat Crateromys heaneyi; Giant
Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat Crateromys schadenbergi, Ilin Island cloud rat Crateromys paulus)

480. It comprises an area which assures the natural conditions necessary to protect nationally significant species, groups of species,
biotic communities or physical features of the environment where these may require specific human manipulation for the
perpetuation.
Answer: Wildlife sanctuary

482. How many species of cloud rat are under the genus Phloeomys?
Answer: 2 (Southern Luzon Slender-tailed Cloud Rat Phloeomys cumingi and Northern Luzon Slender-tailed Cloud Rat Phloeomys
pallidus)

483. True or False: Visayan tarictic hornbills are sexually dimorphic (male looks different from female).
Answer: True

484. What is the only species of cloud rat that is critically endangered?
Answer: Dinagat Island Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat (Crateromys australis)

485. This species of dove is thought to be extinct on Cebu due to horrendous levels of deforestation in the island.
Answer: Amethyst Brown Dove (Phapitreron amethystina frontalis)

486. This environmentalist was killed when he exposed corruption in Palawan and accused the former governor (Joel Reyes) of
misusing the Malampaya fund, sourced from operations of the Malampaya gas and oil fields off the coast of the province.
Answer: Gerry Ortega

487. How many genera of true cloud rat exist in the Philippines?
Answer: 2 (Phloeomys and Crateromys)

488. This species of hornbill in the Philippines is not usually included by other taxonomist as a distinct hornbill.
Answer: Samar Hornbill (Penelopides samarensis)

489. What is the flagship wildlife species of Victorias City?

Answer: Rufous-headed hornbill

490. What species is in the cover page of “State of Cebu's Biodiversity” booklet- a joint initiative of Department of Environment and
Natural Resources Region 7 (DENR 7), Foundation for Philippine Environment (FPE) and Philippines Biodiversity Conservation
Foundation Inc. (PBCFI)?
Answer: Cebu hawk owl (Ninox rumseyi)

491. What species of owl in Negros Island and Panay was elevated to full species status?
Answer: Negros or West Visayan Scops Owl (Otus nigrorum)

492. What is the color of the eye of Cebu hawk owl (Ninox rumseyi)?
Answer: yellow; Camiguin hawk owl (blue)

493. What word describes an animal that eats both meat and vegetation?
Answer: Omnivore

494. Mammals include all animals without feathers and scales?

Answer: False (amphibians don’t have feathers and scales)

495. What sort of food does a frugivorous animal eat?

Answer: fruit

496. The theory that animals change over time to adapt to their surroundings is known as what?
Answer: Evolution

497. Which of these animal groups appeared on Earth first?

a. mammals b. amphibians c. reptiles d. fish

498. The most primitive mammals lay eggs. By what name are such mammals known collectively?
Answer: monotremes

499. Where is it thought that life appeared on our planet?

a. on land b. in rivers c. in the oceans d. in the air
500. Who wrote the Origin of Species?
Answer: Charles Darwin

501. Which flying creatures hunt using a natural form of radar?

Answer: bats

502. What is the world’s largest living reptile?

Answer: saltwater crocodile

503. What is a caiman?

a. a type of reptile b. a lizard c. a freshwater turtle d. a snake

504. What do woodpeckers eat?

a. wood b. beetle c. leaves d. fungus

505. What type of forest is home to the greatest number of species?

Answer: Tropical rain forest

506. It refers to a complete change of physical form.

Answer: metamorphosis

507. The process of changing feathers or fur.

Answer: molting

508. What reptiles are doing when they shed their skin?
Answer: sloughing

509. True or False: The first bird appeared on Earth before the first mammals.
Answer: False

510. In a food chain, are plant-eating animals, primary or secondary consumers?

Answer: primary consumers

511. A young dolphin is known as _____________.

Answer: calf

512. True or False: caecilians are tailless animals.

Answer: False

513. Which mammals are grouped into the order Ungulata?

Answer: hoofed animals e.g. deer, pig
Other Order: Chiroptera - flying mammals e.g. bats; Rodentia - gnawing mammals e.g. Rats, squirrel, chipmunks and mice
Lagomorpha - mammals with four incisor teeth e.g. Rabbits; Edentata - toothless mammals e.g. armadillo, sloth and anteaters;
Cetacia – order of dolphins and porpoise; marine water; Sirenia – order of dugong, manatee; freshwater; Proboscidea – trunk-
nosed mammals e.g. elephant; Carnivora – flesh-eating mammals e.g cat, dog, lion, tiger

514. It means a group of eggs laid at the same time.

Answer: clutch

515. The eggs of frogs and toads are commonly called what?
Answer: spawn

516. Two types of mammal lay eggs? Name one of them.

Answer: echidna (spiny anteater) or duck-billed platypus

517. The dung of bats known as guano is collected for use as what?
Answer: fertilizer

518. Is Tasmanian devil, a mammal, a reptile or a bird?

Answer: mammal

519. The largest living mammal on Earth?

Answer: Blue whale

520. What is the name of the rare bird killed by a Harvard researcher "in the name of education"?
Answer: moustached kingfisher

521. What is the new name of Protected Area and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB)?
Answer: Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB)

522. Give one example of flowerpecker in Negros Island.

Answer: Visayan flowerpecker

523. True or False. Protection of Dugong and Tortoise are governed by BFAR.
Answer: False (PAWB)

524. In what biome does our country belong to?

Answer: Tropical rainforest

525. Rufuos-headed hornbill is present only in what islands?

Answer: Guimaras, Negros and Panay

526. What is the local name of Rufous-headed hornbill and tarictic hornbill?
Answer: RHH - "talarak", "talalak" or "kalaw"; VTH - "talosi", "tolarik", "terek" or "tariktik"

527. The first wetland of international importance (Ramsar Convention) in the Philippines and is the host of the largest
concentration of migratory birds.
Answer: Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary

528. In what places did the Philippine bare-backed fruit discovered in 2001?
Answer: Catmon and Carmen in Cebu

529.___________are terrestrial vertebrates whose eggs are characterized by having several layers of protective membranes (the
amnion, chorion and allantois).
Answer: Amniotes

530 How many Rufous-headed hornbills were seen in Mt. Silay Mountain Range in NNNP?
Answer: five (composed of two males and three females); (1male and 2 females in Balinsasayaw Twin Lakes)

531. How many new species were discovered in the Academy’s 2015 expedition to the Philippines in the Verde Island Passage?
Answer: more than 100 species

532. How many species of bleeding heart pigeon are monotypic (no subspecies)?
Answer: 3 (Mindoro Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba platenae), Sulu Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba menagei) and Negros Bleeding-heart
(Gallicolumba keayi)

533. This bird species is endemic in Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park.

Answer: Black Noddy (Anous minutus worcesteri)

534. True or False. All tarictics are only found in the Philippines except Palawan.
Answer: True

535. What are the 10 species of hornbill in the Philippines? (2 LC, 1 NT, 3 V, 2 E, 2 CR)
Mindanao Writhed Hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus) NT, which is restricted to mainland Mindanao, Camiguin and Dinagat.
Rufous-headed Hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) CR, which is presumed to have been found on the islands of Panay, Guimaras
and Negros. It is now believed to be extinct on Guimaras, and functionally extinct on Negros. The Panay population clings to last few
forest patches on the island.
Palawan Hornbill (Anthracoceros marchei) V, which is found on Palawan and its satellite islands.
Sulu Hornbill (Anthracoceros montani) CR, which is restricted to the Sulu archipelago.
Northern Rufous Hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax) V, which is found on Luzon
Southern Rufous hornbill (Buceros mindanensis) V which is found in Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Panaon, Biliran, Calicoan and Buad,
Dinagat, Siargao, Mindanao (plus Balut, Bucas and Talicud) and Basilan
Mindanao Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides affinis) LC, which occurs in mainland Mindanao, Siargao, Dinagat, Bohol, Leyte, Samar and
its adjacent islands and Basilan.
Luzon Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides manillae) LC, which is found on mainland Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and its neighboring
islands, Polillo and Patnanungan.
Mindoro Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides mindorensis) E, which is found on Mindoro, and have been recorded on Ilin and Ambulong
although a recent search failed to find any on those two islands.
Visayan Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides panini) E, which was known to occur on Panay and its neighboring islands of Boracay, Sicogon
and Pan de Azucar, Guimaras, Negros, Masbate and Ticao. It is now extinct on Ticao and Boracay, presumably extinct on Sicogon and
Guimaras, and either extinct or close to extinction on Masbate.

536. What are the two endangered hornbills in the Philippines?

Answer: Mindoro Hornbill and Visayan Hornbill

537. Who invented the Sustainable Alternative Lighting (SALt) lamp?

Answer: Aisa Mijeno
538. What do PENRO and PEMO stand for?
Answer: Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office: Provincial Environment and Management Office

539. An edible frog that is known from Masbate, Cebu, Negros, Guimaras, Panay and Siquijor (the central islands) in the Philippines.
Answer: Visayan fanged frog or Giant Philippine Woodland Frog (Limnonectes visayanus) - V

540. What is the specific predator pollinator of Ficus trees?

Answer: wasp

541. The Dinagat Island bushy-tailed cloud rat was rediscovered in Dinagat Island in what year?
Answer: 2012

542. In what year was the Cebu flowerpecker rediscovered?

Answer: 2012

543. If the sunbird is the hummingbird counterpart of America, the _____________ is the toucan counterpart of America.
Answer: hornbill

544. In what type of forest does the Negros cave frog live?
Answer: Limestone forest

545. What is the most numerous species of true cloud rat?

Answer: Northern Luzon Slender-tailed Cloud Rat

546. What is the smallest flying fox in the Philippines?

Answer: Mindoro Pallid Flying Fox (Desmalopex microleucopterus)

547. In what province can we find the Calamian deer?

Answer: Palawan

548. Give one example of woodpecker in Negros Island?

Answer: Philippine pygmy woodpecker (Picoides maculates)

549. True or False: Sunbirds are distributed in Africa, Asia to northern Australia.
Answer: True

550. Hornbills primarily feed on _______________.

Answer: figs

551. In what genera does the warty pig belong?

Answer; Sus

552. True or False: Only flying foxes can be found at Mambukal Resort Bat Sanctuary.
Answer: True

553. When was the Cebu hawk owl and the Camiguin hawk owl discovered in Cebu and Camiguin?
Answer: 2012

554. In the Paris agreement on climate change, the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, each country should have how
many percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030?
Answer: 70

555._____ is the largest international diplomatic conference on climate ever organized by France in 2015.
Answer: 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21)

556. 179 countries and the EU spent two weeks in Paris last December 2015 hammering out the final wording of an agreement to
keep global temperature increase well below how many degrees?
Answer: 2°C

557. Where can we found the largest population of Black Shama (Copsychus cebuensis) or Siloy?
Answer: Alcoy and Boljoon, Cebu

558. What is the total land area of Apo Island Protected Landscape and Seascape (Dauin, Negros Oriental)?
Answer: 691.45 hectares

559. What is the country's largest marine protected area?

Answer: Cagayancillo
560. The bird, Culicicapa helianthea panayensis is endemic in Biliran, Cebu, Leyte, Mindanao, Negros, Palawan and Panay. This race
was thought extinct in Cebu until this was rediscovered in what year?
Answer: 2002

561. The Southern Indigo-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo nigrirostris) is a three-toed kingfisher that lives along clean freshwater streams
inside forest up to 1,500 meter elevation and restricted only to Negros, Panay and _____.
Answer: Cebu

562. Pulang Tubi waterfalls in Patag, Silay can be found in what protected area in NIR?
Answer: Northern Negros Natural Park

563. How many species of White-browed shama (Copsychus luzoniensis superciliaris) are endemic in the Philippines?
Answer: 4

564. The White-browed shama (Copsychus luzoniensis superciliaris) is distributed only in the islands of Negros, Panay, Masbate and
_____________.
Answer: Ticao Islands

565. What is the local name of Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni)?

Answer: Dulungan

566. How species of birds are endemic in Cebu?

Answer: 4 (Black Shama (endangered), Cebu hawk owl (endangered), Cebu brown dove (critically endangered), Cebu flowerpecker
(critically endangered).

567. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of iIang-ilang and narra?
Ilang-ilang - Cananga odorata; NA Narra - Pterocarpus indicus; Vulnerable

568. When is the World Ocean Day celebrated?

Answer: June 8

569. How species of flower pecker are there in the Philippines?

Answer: There are 44 species under the family Dicaeidae (del Hoyo et al 2008) represented by two genus: Prionochilus (six species
globally and two species in the Philippines) and Dicaeum (38 species globally and 15 species in the Philippines - 40%).

570. What is the new species of ground orchid discovered in the Philippines?
Answer: Gastrodia cajanoae – LC (The orchid was observed in Mt. Apo Natural Park, Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park, Northern
Negros Natural Park, and in Mt. Province and discovered by Pieter Pelser, Julie Barcelona, Peter O'Byrne, and Paul Ormerod and Kim
John Doble

571. It is recently declared as the 7th Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Site) of the Philippines.
Answer: Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area (NOCWCA) - NOCWCA has a continuous coastline of 109.52
kilometers covering 52 coastal barangays in 10 local government units, including the cities of Bago, Himamaylan, Kabankalan, and
towns of Pulupandan, Valladolid, San Enrique, Pontevedra, Hinigaran, Binalbagan and Ilog; total land area: 230,000 hectares

572. Name the globally threatened marine turtles that can be found in Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area?
Answer: Critically endangered Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), endangered Green turtle (Cheloria mydas) and the
vulnerable Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)

573. How many species of waterbirds were recorded in the NOCWCA in 2014?
Answer: 72

574. When was the NOCWCA inaugurated?

Answer: October 20, 2016

575. A faunal boundary line which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the
animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia?
Answer: Wallace Line

576. How species of plants are there in the Philippines?

Answer: 9,850 species

577. What is the largest booby in the Philippines?

Answer: Masked booby (Sula dactylatra personata)

578. A freshwater fish that is known only in Naga, Cebu and believed to be extinct?
Answer: Sicyopus cebuensis – DD

579. The only Rafflesia flower in the Philippines shared by two islands: Negros and Panay.
Answer: Rafflesia speciosa
580. What is the name of the 13th Rafflesia species recently described by Galindon J.M.M. et al?
Answer: Rafflesia consueloae – the smallest among the Rafflesia species

581. What are the 6 PAs of NIR?

Answer: Apo Island Protected Landscape and Seascape, Northern Negros Natural Park, Tañon Strait Protected Seascape, Mt. Kanlaon
Natural Park, Sagay Marine Reserve and Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park

582. Among the three groups of mammals, which one exists in the Philippines?
Answer: Eutherian

583. What is the collected term used when referring to hoofed-mammals?

Answer: Ungulate

584. What is the IUCN status of the largest mammal in the Negros-Panay Faunal Region?
Answer: Endangered

585. What is the scientific name of the largest species of egret in the Philippines?
Answer: Ardea alba

586. The living ecological factors such as plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms are collectively known as _______.
Answer: Biotic

587. What species of true cloud rat that is covered by orange fur?
Answer: Dinagat Island Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat

588. Ninox leventisi is endemic in the island of _________________.

Answer: Camiguin

589. How many species of true cloud rat are endangered?

Answer: 2 (Panay bushy tailed cloud rat and Giant bushy tailed cloud rat)

590. The Father of Orchidology

Answer: Eduardo Quisumbing

591. What is the local name of Camiguin hawk owl?

Answer: Kugkug

592. The NIR has how many protected areas?

Answer: 6

593. When will be date of the celebration of the 11th Philippine Bird Festival?
Answer: November 24-26, 2016

594. Who is the current DENR-NIR Director?

Answer: Al Orolfo

595. Who is the current secretary of DENR?

Answer: Regina Lopez

596. It is the modification of Wallace Line which separates Palawan from eastern Philippines.
Answer: Huxley’s Line

597. A line that separates Taiwan from Northern Philippines.

Answer: Kano’s line

598. Negros shrew can be found only in what particular place in Negros island?
Answer: Cuernos de Negros

599. In what Phylum do mammals belong to?

Answer: Chordata

600. The Visayan Taricitic Hornbill was recently recorded in what place in Sipalay?
Answer: Simpang

601. The only protected area in Negros which supports the largest remaining population of Rufous-headed hornbill.
Answer: Northern Negros Natural Park

602. Penelopides panini is endemic in Panay, Sicogon, Guimaras, pand de Azucar, Negros, Masbate and _________.
Answer: Ticao Island
603. What is the meaning of CPA and EBA?
Answer: Conservation Priority Area; Endemic Bird Area

604. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of White-vented whistler?
Answer: Pachycephala homeyeri - V

605. Plants synthesize protein from________________.

Answer: amino acid

606. They are the oldest known land vertebrates and have the ideal subjects to study the theory of evolution.
Answer: amphibians

607. Most of the red, blue and purple of plants are due to _______________-.
Answer: anthocyanin

608. Of the following taxonomic categories, which one is the most inclusive? the most exclusive?
a. Family b. Class (in) c. Order d. Genuse. Species (ex)

609. T/F. Hornbills are found in the South American and Asian continents.
Answer: False (only African and Asian)

610. This group of animals represents more than 95% of species diversity but little attention is given to them in research, policy and
economic conservation.
Answer: invertebrates

611. In what municipality was the Rufous-headed hornbill rediscovered in 2014?

Answer: Victorias City

612. Of the 5 species of the bleeding heart pigeon, how many are categorized as CR of the IUCN?
Answer: 3 Negros, Mindanao and Sulu Bleeding heart pigeon

613. What is the total land area of Northern Negros Natural Park?
Answer: 80, 000 ha (actual is 80,454 ha); 30, 178 rainforest

614. These are places of international importance for the conservation of biodiversity through protected areas and other governance
mechanism.
Answer: Key Biodiversity Area

615. The Negros Sphenomorphus arborens is a Philippine endemic species of reptile where it has been recorded from the island of
Negros, Panay, Pand de Azucar and Masbate? What is the IUCN status of this species?
Answer: DD

616. What is the common English name of Strongylodon macrobotrys?

Answer: Jade vine

617. This snake was not known to exist in Negros until 2014 where it was recorded in NNNP by PBCFI. What is this species?
Answer: Philippine Pit Viper (Tremeresurus flavumaculatus) DD

618. In what genus did the 2 hornbill species belong prior to Rhabdotorrhinus?
Answer: Aceros

619. When was the NNNP declared as a Protected Area through Presidential Proclamation No. 895?
Answer: August 15, 2008

620. NNNP is the main source of water for how many municipalities and cities? In Negros Occidental?
Answer: seventeen (17)

621. It is the largest remaining evergreen forest in Negros island and in the Central Philippines.
Answer: NNNP

622. The NNNP falls within the jurisdiction of what cities and municipalities?
Answer: Talisay, Silay, Victorias, Cadiz, Sagay and San Carlos; and the municipalities of: E. B. Magalona, Murcia, Toboso, Calatrava
and Don Salvador Benedicto.

623. The Visayan flowerpecker is also known as _____________.

Answer: Black-belted flowerpecker - V

624. Zika is spread mostly by the bite of an infected ____________ mosquito

Answers: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
625. Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in what animals?
Answer: monkeys

626. Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area (NOCWCA) was declared the 7th Ramsar site based on Ramsar no.
_____________.
Answer: 2271

627. In the Paris agreement of the climate change, the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, each country should have
how many percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030?
Answer: 70

628._____ is the largest international diplomatic conference on climate ever organized by France in 2015.
Answer: 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21)

629. Where can we found the largest population of Black Shama (Copsychus cebuensis) or Siloy?
Answer: Alcoy and Boljoon, Cebu

630. What is the IUCN status monitor lizard Varanus nuchalis and Philippine Sailfin lizard Hydrosaurus pustulatus?
Answer: monitor lizard – NT; Philippine sailfin lizard – V

631. What is the total land area of Apo Island Protected Landscape and Seascape?
Answer: 691.45 hectares

632. What is the country's largest marine protected area?

Answer; Cagayancillo

633. What is the previous name of Northern Negros Natural Park?

Answer: Northern Negros Forest Reserve

634. What is the IUCN status of the McNamara’s Burrrowing snake, Negros Spotted water snake and Spotted-bellied short-headed
snake?
Answer: Vulnerable

635. NNFR was proclaimed in 1935 under the Presidential Proclamation No. __________.
Answer: 798

636. In Negros Occidental province, there are two roosting colony for Golden-crown flying fox, one roosting colony is found in
Mambukal Resort and the other population is _______________.
Answer: Canlusong in E.B. Magalona.

637. In what places where the Gastrodia cajanoae discovered?

Answer: Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park, Mt Apo Natural Park, NNNP and Mountain province

638. Species of birds that were no longer observed in NNNP in the last 20 years.
Answer: Celestial monarch Hypothymis coelestis, Spotted imperial pigeon Ducula carola, Philippine Cockatoo Cacatua
haematorupygia and Nicobar pigeon Caloenas nicobarica.

639. What are the two new island records of bats for NNNP in 2010?
Answer: Clear-winged woolly bat Kerivoula pellucida and Round-eared tube-nosed bat Murina cyclotis

640. How many species of birds are endemic in Cebu?

Answer: 4 (Black Shama (endangered), Cebu hawk owl (endangered), Cebu brown dove (critically endangered), Cebu flowerpecker
(critically endangered).

641. Species of birds that were not observed in NNNP in the last 10 years.
Answer: Philippine falconet and Grey-breasted brown dove

642. How many roosting sites of Golden crowned flying fox are there in Western Visayas?
Answer: 4 (Boracay, Mambukal, Canlusong, Mt Kanlaon)

643. _________________a new species of mistle toe discovered in the Philippines.

Answer: Lepeostegeres cebuenses - DD

643. What Philippine province is found on the left of Huxley’s line (modified Wallace line)?
Answer: Palawan

644. What is the IUCN status of Mindanao bleeding heart pigeon?

Answer: Vulnerable
645. With 359, 486 ha, what is the largest protected area in the Philippines?
Answer: Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park

646. The government agency mandated to establish and manage protected areas, conserve wildlife, promote and institutionalize
ecotourism and manage coastal biodiversity.
Answer Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB); old name: PAWB (Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau)

647. A form of biological resemblance in which a noxious or dangerous organism equipped with a warning system such as
conspicuous coloration is mimic by a harmless organism.
Asnwer: Batesian mimicry

648. How many species of hornbill are found between Mindoro, Visayas and Mindanao faunal region?
Answer: 6 (Southern Rufous hornbill (Buceros mindanensis) NT; Mindanao Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides affinis) LC; Mindoro
Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides mindorensis) E; Visayan Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides panini) E); Rufous-headed hornbill
(Rhabdothorrinus waldeni) – CR; Mindanao Writhed Hornbill (Aceros leucocephalus) NT

649. The species of landbird with a global breeding range of less than 50, 000 km2?
Answer: restricted range species

650. In what genus does the largest hornbill belong?

Answer: Buceros

651. What is the scientific name of the pitcher plant discovered in the mountain of Sierra Madre?
Answer: Nepenthes barcelonae - CR

652. Thru the recent taxonomic review, the Sulawesi hornbill was put in the Rhabdotorrhinus along with Rufous-headed hornbill and
writhed hornbill. With this change, the genus where the Sulawesi hornbill formerly belongs becomes an endemic genus of the
Philippines where it is composed of four species? What Philippine hornbill genus is this?
Answer: Penelopides

653. ________is a multisectoral and decision making body for each of the protected area established under the NIPAs.
Answer: Protected Area Management Board

654. Discovered in 2014 in the lowland evergreen forest of Surigao del Norte, the Rafflesia ______is the most recent addition to the
diverse list of Phillipine rafflesia.
Answer: Rafflesia mixta

655. How many of the 21 species of owl in the Philippines are endemic in the country?
Answer: 18

656. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Calamian deer?
Answer: Axis calamianensis – E

657. The largest family of the flowering plants of which the Philippines has more than endemic 1000 species?
Answer: Orchidaceae

658. It is the natural process by which certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat that would otherwise escape to space keeping the
planet warms
Answer; greenhouse effect

659. It occurs when mating occurs between individuals or organisms that are genetically related.
Answer: inbreeding

660. There are a total of 27 species of widelip orchids or Liparis known to occur in the Philippines. Five of these species are endemic
to the Philippines with one species restricted only to Negros Island. What is the scientific name of this species?
Answer: Liparis nigrosiana

661. What are the subspecies of Luzon bleeding-heart pigeon and Mindanao bleeding-heart pigeon?
Luzon: (3)
Catanduanes race (Gallicolumba luzonica rubiventris) V
North Luzon race (Gallicolumba luzonica griseolateralis) NT
South Luzon race (Gallicolumba luzonica luzonica) NT

Mindanao
Mindanao and Dinagat, and Eastern Visayas race (Gallicolumba crinigera leytensis) V
Basilan race (Gallicolumba crinigera barletti) CR

662. What is the largest category into which the organisms have been classified?
Answer: Domain
663. It refers to a group of organisms that have the same characteristics and are capable to interbreed.
Answer: species

664. What are the examples of organisms under the kingdom Archaebacteria?
Answer: methanogens, halophiles (salt-loving), thermophiles (heat-loving)

665. In what Kingdom do the true bacteria belong?

Answer: Eubacteria

666. In what Kingdom do the algae, dinoflagellates, paramecium, amoeba and euglenoids belong?
Answer: Kingdom Protista

667. What is the largest group of algae?

Answer: Brown algae

668. What is the name of the dinoflagellates that cause red tide?
Answer: Pyrodinium bahamense var compressum

669. T/F: Fungi can produce their food.

Answer: False

670. They are known as the simplest form of animal organisms.

Answer: sponges

671. What is the name of the stinging cells present in the tentacles of the jellyfish?
Answer: nematocyst

672. The maximum environment size an organism can support.

Answer: Carrying capacity

673. The first evolutionist to believe that organisms change over time.
Answer: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (proposed the Theory of Need; Theory of Use and Disuse; Theory of Acquired Characteristics)

674. Who proposed the theory of Natural Selection?

Answer: Charles Darwin

675. Structure in different organisms that are similar in function but different in origin.
Answer: Analogous structure

676. This method is used to tell the age of the decaying organic matter.
Answer: Carbon dating

677. They are probably one of the first and the oldest organisms on Earth.
Answer: Invertebrates

678. Different organisms that are similar in structure but serve different functions.
Answer: Homologous structure

679. The measure of population per unit area.

Answer: Population density

680. The ability of an ecosystem to be self-regulating and again become steady after disturbance.
Answer: Stability

681. It refers to a change of species over time.

Answer: Evolution

682. In what era can the oldest fossil be found?

Answer: Pre-cambrian era

683. Where can we find the Mt. Timpoong-Hibok-Hibok Natural Monument?

Answer: Camiguin

684. An environmental conditions that keep a population from over increasing in size and thus help balance ecosystem.
Answer: limiting factor

685. True or False: Ilin Island is part of Mindoro Faunal region.

Answer: True
686. What are the five KBAs in Negros Island?
Answer: NNNP, Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park; Southwestern Negros, Cuernos de Negros Mt. Talinis; Banban

687. It refers to a permanent, close association between one or more organisms of different species.
Answer: Symbiosis (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism)

688. A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither harmed nor benefited.
Answer: Commensalism

689. A path of energy from producer to consumer.

Answer: food chain

690. A theory which states that organisms with favorable variations survive, reproduce, and pass their variations to the next
generation “survival of the fittest”.
Answer: Theory of Natural Selection

691. How many threatened species of frogs are found in Negros island?
4 (Platymantis spelaeus – E; Platymantis hazelae – E; Platymantis negrosensis – E; Limnonectes visayanus – V)

692. How many species of bleeding heart pigeon are polytypic (with subspecies)?
Answer: 2 (Mindanao bleeding-heart pigeon and Luzon bleeding-heart pigeon

693. In what phylum does jellyfish belong?

Answer: Cnidaria
Phylum Porifera spore-bearing sponges
Phylum Cnidaria stinging cells jellyfish
Phylum Platyhelmenthis flatworms tapeworms, planaria, fluke
Phylum Nematoda round worms nematodes
Phylum Annelida segmented worms earthworms
Phylum Echinodermata spiny-skinned starfish
Phylum Mollusca soft-bodied snails
Phylum Arthropoda joint-legged insects
Phylum Chordata vertebral column mammals, fish, bird, reptiles

694. What are the 3 Natural Parks in the Philippines that made it in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
Answer:
Natural
Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary (2014)
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park (1999)
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (1993)

Cultural
Baroque Churches of the Philippines (1993)
Historic City of Vigan (1999)
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras (1995)

695. What is the smallest protected area in the Philippines?

Answer: Bongsanglay Natural Park (Masbate)

696. How many species of hornbill are found between Luzon, Mindoro and West Visayas Faunal region?
Answer: 5

697. Among the 10 species of hornbill in the Philippines, how many are critically endangered?
Answer: 2 (Rufous-headed hornbill and Sulu hornbill)

698. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Sulawesi hornbill?
Answer: Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus – V; formerly Penelopides exarhatus

699. The species of hornbill in the Philippines have how many genera?
Answer: Buceros, Anthracoceros, Aceros/Rhabdothorrinus and Penelopides

700. A form of biological resemblance in which a noxious or dangerous organism equipped with a warning system such as
conspicuous coloration is mimic by another dangerous organism.
Asnwer: Mullerian mimicry

701. Species that gather in globally significant numbers at a particular site and at a particular time in their life cycle for feeding,
breeding or resting (during migration).
Answer: Congregatory species
702. __________ an ecological unit composed of a group of organisms of population of different species occupying a particular area,
usually interacting with each other and their environment.
Answer: community

701. True or False: Camiguin Sur is located 10 km North coast of Mindanao, is part of Mindanao Faunal Region including Bohol,
Samar, Leyte and Dinagat Island.
Answer: False

702. All members of Rafflesia family are incapable of photosynthesis.

Answer: True

703. ______ is the term used to describe an organism that lives on/or another organism and benefits by deriving nutrients at the
host expense.
Answer: parasitism

704. By land, what is the smallest faunal region in the Philippines?

Answer: Greater Sulu/Greater Sulu Tawi-tawi

705. What is the largest ungulate in the Philippines?

Answer: Tamaraw

706. True or False: In IUCN red list categories, there are only 3 “threatened” categories namely CR, EN and NT.
Answer: False (Vulnerable instead of NT)

707. What species of hornbill is found in Mindanao, Camiguin Sur and Dinagat Island?
Answer: Mindanao writhed hornbill

708. Give the scientific name of the most threatened species of wild pig in the Philippines.
Answer: Sus cebifrons

709. What is the most threatened hornbill in the world with an estimate of 27 individuals in the wild?
Answer: Sulu hornbill (Anthrococerus montani) - CR

710. During the 13th ASEAN Ministerial meeting on environment in Vietnam last October 16, 2015, the Philippines has gained its 8 th
ASEAN Heritage Park. What is the name of that park?
Answer: Mt. Timpoon Hibik-hibok Natural Monument (Camiguin) - 3,739.14 ha

711. What is the IUCN status of Nepenthes barcelonae?

Answer: CR

711. This bat is discovered in 2006 in Mt. Siburan and the only 2nd known species in the genus characterized by three white stripes?
Answer: Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat (Styloctenium mindorensis) - DD

712. What are the twelve Critically Endangered Birds in the Philippines?
1. Black-hooded Coucal (Centropus steerii) - is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is endemic in Mindoro Island.
2. Isabela oriole (Oriolus isabellae) - endemic to Luzon in the Philippines. It is known from three localities in Bataan province
and five in the north-east of the island.
3. Blue-winged racket-tail (Prioniturus verticalis) - a species of parrot in the Psittaculidae family. It is endemic to the
Philippines.
4. Negros Bleeding Heart Pigeon (Gallicolumba keayi)
5. Mindoro Bleeding Heart Pigeon (Gallicolumba platenae)
6. Sulu Bleeding Heart Pigeon (Gallicolumba menagei)
7. Sulu Hornbill (Anthracoceros montani) – the rarest critically endangered species of hornbill in the Philippines; has estimated
population of only 40 individuals scattered in the forests of Tawi-Tawi and other islands in the Sulu archipelago
8. Rufous-headed hornbill (Aceros waldeni) - has higher numbers, between 1,500 to 3,749 individuals found in the mountains
of Negros and Panay in Western Visayas
9. Cebu Flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor)
10. Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi )
11. Negros fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus) – functionally extinct
12. Philippine Cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia)

713. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Palawan bearded pigs?
Answer: Sus ahoenobarbus – V

714. In what mountain does the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat discovered?
Answer: Mt. Siburan (Barangay Batong Buhay, Sablayan Municipality in Mindoro Occidental)

715. How many of the 7 species of hawk owl in the Philippines are endangered?
Answer: 3 (Cebu hawk owl (Ninox rumseyi)- E; Camiguin hawk owl (Ninox leventisi)- E; (2E, 3V, 1 NT, 1 LC)
716. IUCN Red List classified the species into how many groups?
Answer: Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups, set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area
of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmentation.
1. Extinct (EX) – No known individuals remaining.
2. Extinct in the wild (EW) – Known only to survive in captivity, or as a naturalized population outside its historic range.
3. Critically endangered (CR) – Extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
4. Endangered (EN) – High risk of extinction in the wild.
5. Vulnerable (VU) – High risk of endangerment in the wild.
6. Near threatened (NT) – Likely to become endangered in the near future.
7. Least concern (LC) – Lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at-risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included
in this category.
8. Data deficient (DD) – Not enough data to make an assessment of its risk of extinction.
9. Not evaluated (NE) – Has not yet been evaluated against the criteria.

717. These mountains located in Mindoro Occidental is one of the ASEAN Heritage Parks in the Philippines. What is the name of this
mountain?
Answer: Mts Iglit-Baco

718. The Common Mock Viper is a harmless, back-fanged snake with a large head, this species looks almost like a true viper hence
the name Mock Viper. It is mostly light to dark brown or greyish with a typical bifurcating pattern on top of the head. It feeds on
frogs, geckos and skinks. It ranges from the Indian Subcontinent, through Indochina and parts of Southern China to Peninsular
Malaysia, most of Indonesia and the Philippines. Give the scientific name and IUCN status of this species.
Answer: Psammodynastes pulverulentus – LC

719. A WWF program to unleash the potential of geothermal energy in Southeast Asia.
Answer: Ring of Fire

720. It is an endemic species of tree known only to occur in Ilin Island in Mindoro and in Batangas, Luzon.
Answer: Philippine teak (Tectona philippinensis) - CR

721. When is the International Shorebird Day celebrated?

Answer: September 6

722. How many UNESCO’s World Network of biosphere reserves are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 3 (Albay Biosphere Reserve; Palawan Biosphere Reserves; Puerto Galera Biosphere Reserves)

723. The only UNESCO biosphere reserve in the country that contains a Ramsar Wetland Site (Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park) and
two UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Tubbataha Reefs National Park and the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park).
Answer: Palawan Biosphere Reserve

724. What is the first national park in the Philippines?

Answer: Mt. Arayat National Park

725. What is the largest Ramsar site in the Philippines?

Answer: Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area

726.__________ is the latest to be added to UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves in 2016.
Answer: Albay Biosphere Reserves

727. _________ are ‘Science for Sustainability Support Sites’ comprising terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems. Each reserve
promotes solutions reconciling the conservation of biodiversity with its sustainable use.
Answer: Biosphere reserves

728. These are areas of national significance which are characterized by the harmonious interaction of man and land while providing
opportunities for public enjoyment through recreation and tourism within the normal lifestyle and economic activity of these areas.
Answer: Protected landscapes

729. It is a relatively small area focused on protection of small features to protect or preserve nationally significant natural features
on account of their special interest or unique characteristics.
Answer: Natural monument

730. Species or subspecies considered as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or other accepted categories of wildlife
whose population is at risk of extinction
Answer: Threatened species
731. These are forest reservations essentially of natural wilderness character which have been withdrawn from settlement,
occupancy or any form of exploitation except in conformity with approved management plan and set aside as such exclusively to
conserve the area or preserve the scenery, the natural and historic objects, wild animals and plants therein and to provide
enjoyment of these features in such areas.
Answer: National Parks
732. What is the scientific name of the begonia plant discovered from Nahulugan Falls, Gigmoto, Catanduanes Island in 2016?
Answer: Begonia titoevangelistae - CR

733. ___________ is a new myrmecophytic species of Naucleeae (Rubiaceae) from Carmen, Cebu, Philippines.
Answer: Neonauclea connicalycina

734.It is an area of land identified by BirdLife International as being important for habitat-based bird conservation because it
contains the habitats of restricted-range bird species, which are thereby endemic to them.
Answer: Endemic Bird Area

735. __________ is a new narrow-leaved species of Capparis (Capparaceae) from Mt. Victoria in Central Palawan, Philippines.
Answer: Capparis tagbanuorum

736. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of the Philippine pangolin?
Answer: Manis culionensis - E

737. Philippine pangolin is endemic in what faunal region?

Answer: Palawan

738. It refers to the number of species within a given sample, community, or area.
Answer: Species richness

739. A species whose status provides information on the overall condition of the ecosystem and of other species in that ecosystem.
They reflect the quality and changes in environmental conditions as well as aspects of community composition.
Answer: Indicator species

740. Any species or lower taxon of wild animals, in which a significant proportion of the members of the entire population or any
geographically separate part of the population cyclically and predictably crosses one or more national jurisdictional boundaries.
Answer: Migratory species

741. It is something related to, living on, or located at the banks of a watercourse, usually a river or stream.
Answer: Riparian

742. A species that has been observed in the form of a naturally occurring and self-sustaining population in historical times.
Answer: native species

743. It refers to how close in numbers each species in an environment is.

Answer: species evenness

744. It is the only known trans-boundary protected area in the Philippines and in the world.
Answer: Turtle Islands Heritage Protected Area (TIHPA)

745. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Manggis Tree?
Answer: Koompassia exelsa – LC

746. What are the two subspecies of leopard cat in the Philippines?
Answer: Visayan leopard Cat – Prionailurus bengalensis rabori V (West Visayas Faunal region); Palawan leopard Cat Prionailurus
bengalensis heaneyi - LC (Palawan Faunal Region)

747. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Philippine Flying Lemur?
Answer: Cynocephalus volans - LC

748. What is the scientific name of the pitcher plant discovered from Mount Hamiguitan in Davao Oriental province in 2016?
Answer: Nepenthes justinae

749. What is the scientific name of the pitcher plant discovered from Ilocos Norte province in Luzon Island in 2016?
Answer: Nepenthes aenigma

750. What is the only Natural Park in the Philippines declared as one of the UNESCO Heritage sites, Ramsar Sites and ASEAN Heritage
Parks?
Answer: Tubbataha Reef Natural Park

751. Birds that walk along the coastline on sandy beach or river estuaries are known as __________.
Answer: Shorebirds

752. Who used an imaginary line to describe the separation of Oriental and Australian faunal regions?
Answer: Alfred Russel Wallace

753. Who used an imaginary line to describe the separation of Oriental and Australian faunal regions?
Answer: Biome
754. True or False: Sunbirds are only found in the African, Asian and Northern Australian continent.
Answer: True

755. The Dimorphic dwarf kingfisher is formerly known as Variable dwarf kingfisher with a scientific name of Ceyx____________.
Answer: lepidus

756. This mountain located in Bukidnon is one of the ASEAN Heritage Parks in the Philippines. What is the name of this mountain?
Answer: Mt. Kitanglad

757. It refers to the aggregation of all ecosystems or the sum of all of the organisms of the earth and their environment.
Answer: Biosphere

758. Who proposed the theory which says that organs not in use will disappear while organs in use will develop?
Answer: Jean Baptiste Lamarck

759. Gastrodia cajanoae is a new species of ground orchid recently discovered in Northern Negros Natural Park. What is the IUCN
status of this species?
Answer: Least Concern

760. The male Visayan tarictic hornbills look different from female. It means that are sexually _____________.
Answer: Dimorphic

761. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Binturong (Palawan bearcat)?
Answer: Arctictis binturong whitei - V

762. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Palawan peacock?
Answer: Polyplectron napoleonis - V

763. They are existing protected areas of the ASEAN member countries which have been recognized as regionally important based
on their conservation value.
Answer: ASEAN Heritage Parks

764. The largest ASEAN heritage park in the Philippines.

Answer: Tubbataha Reef Natural Park (97 030 ha)

765. The smallest ASEAN heritage park in the Philippines.

Answer: Mt. Timpoong-Hibok-Hibok Natural Monument (2 227.62 ha)

766. A law promoting the creation of “green jobs” or employment activities that contribute substantially to preserving the quality of
the environment.
Answer: Republic Act (RA) 10771, or the Philippine Green Jobs Act of 2016

767. Climate Change Consciousness Week

Answer: November 21-25

768. The only bay in the Philippines listed in the “Club of the Most Beautiful Bays of the World” by the Paris-based Club Des Plus
Belles Baies Du Monde in 2005.
Answer: Muelle Bay (Puerto Galera)

769. An international treaty regulating the use and trade of mercury, a highly toxic substance that poses threats to human health
and the environment.
Answer: Minamata Convention

770. The largest species of Rafflesia in the world.

Answer: Rafflesia arnoldii (Indonesia)

771. The smallest species of Rafflesia in the world from Luzon island Philippines.
Answer: Rafflesia consueloae

772. How many species of Rafflesia can be found in the Philippines? (6th species from Luzon)
Answer: 13 (R. consueloae; R. philippensis; R. leonardi; R. lagascae; R. aurantia; R. schandenbergiana, R. speciosa, R. panchoana, R.
mira, R. manillana R. lobata, R. leonardi, R. banahawensis and R. baletei)

773. What is the scientific name of the two orchids discovered in Bukidnon?
Answer: Epicrianthes aquinoi (in honor of Pinoy) and Dendrobium lydiae

774. The largest species of Rafflesia in the Philippines.

Answer: Rafflesia schandenbergiana
775. Rafflesia shares its characteristic corpse-smelling flowers to what plant?
Answer: Pungapung Arum plant (Amorphophallus titanum)

776. What is the IUCN status of Panay golden-capped fruit bat (Acerodon lucifer)?
Answer: Extinct

777. It is considered the Queen of Parasite.

Answer: rafflesia

778. What is the total land area of Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park?
Answer: 359, 486 ha

779. As of 2013, how many protected areas are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 240

780. Declared as Philippine Eagle Week.

Answer: June 4-10

781. Species or subspecies which do not naturally occur in the country.

Answer: Exotic species

782. It refers to a cave which contains materials possesses features that have archaeological, cultural, ecological, historical or
scientific value as determined by the DENR in coordination with the scientific community and the academe.
Answer: Significant cave

783. This species of monitor lizard is endemic to the Philippines, where it is known only from southern Luzon, Catanduanes and
Pollilio.
Answer: Gray’s Monitor Lizard (Varanus olivaceus) V

784. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Palawan hornbill?
Answer: Anthracoceros marchei V

785. The pygmy woodpecker (Picoedes maculatus) has how many groups?
Answer: 3

786. In what genus does the smallest hornbill belong?

Answer: Penelopides

787. He is known as the Father of Biogeography.

Answer: Alfred Russel Wallace

788. What is usually the color of the face of the male taricitic horn bill?
Answer: pink; blue (female)

789. The type of evolution wherein there is an increase in similarities among species from different ancestors as a result of similar
adaptation to similar environment
Answer: Convergent Evolution

790. What is the scientific name and IUCN status of Bornean bearded pigs?
Answer: V

791. Orange-fingered Myotis (Myotis rufopictus) is a species of bat endemic in the Philippines. It has been recorded from Luzon
(Bulacan, Camarines Sur, Isabela, Nueva Viscaya, and Rizal provinces), and from Negros, Palawan and Sibuyan. Only one specimen has
been collected on Palawan although there is no information on the locality. What is the IUCN status of this species?
Answer: DD

792. What kind of animal is the Palawan bearcat?

a. bear b. civet c. cat d. wolf

793. The largest and one of the most productive coral reefs in Asia.
Answer: Apo Reef Natural Park

794. In what province in the Philippines can we find the Calayan Rail (Gallirallus calayanensis)?
Answer: Batanes

795. The young of whale shark is known as _______________.

Answer: pup (fawn – young of visayan spotted deer; pup – young of bat; nestling – young of bird; fry – young of fish ; calf – young of
whale; infant – young of primate (e.g. tarsier)

796. When is the Coral Triangle Day celebrated?

Answer: June 9

797. Mangkono yields the hardest of Philippine timbers. It is restricted to the eastern tip of Leyte and the islands of Homonhou and
___________.
Answer: Dinagat

798. The six major faunal regions in the Philippines is also known as the __________ islands.
Answer: Ice-age islands or Greater islands

799. True or False: Romblon and Tablas islands are part of the Mindoro Faunal Region.
Answer: False (other islands not part of any faunal region: Batanes and Babuyan Islands, Siquijor & Camiguin Sur.

800. The Palawan fruit bat is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found only in the Palawan Faunal Region. What is its scientific
name and IUCN status?
Answer: Acerodon leucotis – V

801. Describe the three types of cave.

Answer: Class I caves are limited to mapping, photography, educational and scientific purposes, and are closed for ecotourism
activities; Class II have sections with hazardous conditions and high quality ecosystems that are highly sensitive to human activities,
making it necessary to close these sections either seasonally or permanently except for experienced cavers and guided tours or
visits; Class III caves have no known threatened species within them or significant archaeological, geological, natural history, cultural
and historical values. Such caves are open to inexperienced yet guided visitors. They may also open to guano extractors and birds’
nest collectors, if any.

802. The country which is known as the center of diversity of Rafflesia.

Answer: Philippines

803. What line biogeographically divides Palawan from other provinces in the Philippines?
Answer: Huxley’s line

804. A group of plant that lacks xylem and phloem which is generally considered as nonvascular plant.
Answer: Bryophyte

805. The movement of bird from one habitat or another in response to seasonal and food supply changes.
Answer: Migration (Emigration – one-way outward movement; Immigration – one-way inward movement)

806. An orderly change of the ecosystem from the original stage to a mature or stable community.
Answer: Ecological succession

807. The Palawan bearcats are arboreal species. Arboreal means:

Answer: They live on trees (Terrestrial – those that live on the ground; Fossorial– those that live underground; Aquatic – those that
live in or near water)

808. The term used to be in a dormant state resembling sleep over the winter while living off reserves of body fat, with a decrease in
body temperature and pulse rate and slower metabolism.
Answer: Hibernation (Estivation - resembling sleep over the summer)

809. Organisms which are mostly active at dawn and dusk.

Answer: Crepuscular (Nocturnal - sleep during the day and are active at night e.g. bats, tarsiers; Diurnal - active during the day and
sleep at night)

810. An individual that produces both sperm/pollen and egg/ova.

Answer: Hermaphrodite

811. Groups of fruit bats roosting in treetops.

Answer: Camps

812. The ability to slow down the body’s metabolism and lower body temperature to conserve energy during periods of inactivity or
low food supply
Answer: Torpor

813. The resting area of bats is known as ___________.

Answer: Roost

814. The often brightly colored marking of animals possessing chemical defenses. The coloration provides a caution to their
predators.
Answer: Camouflage/Warning Coloration

815. How species of brown dove are there in the Philippines?

Answer: 4
816. The type of evolution wherein there is an increase in difference among descendants of a single ancestral species at time passes.
Answer: Divergent evolution

817. It refers to the remains of once living things.

Answer: fossil

818. In what faunal region does the new species of warty pig has been discovered?
Answer: Sulu Faunal Region

812. The Philippine warty pig has how many subspecies?

Answer: 2 (S. p. philippensis being confined to and endemic to the ‘Greater Luzon Faunal Region’ (i.e. the islands of Luzon, Polillo,
Catanduanes and, formerly, Marinduque); and S. p. mindanensis being confined and endemic to the ‘Greater Mindanao Faunal
Region’ (i.e. Samar, Leyte, Biliran, Bohol, Mindanao, Camiguin Sul, Basilan and associated smaller islands

813. A 1,013,340 hectares covering both the coastal and offshore waters in Palawan was recently declared as marine protected area.
What is this place?
Answer: Cagayancillo

814. It is considered as the largest marine protected area in the country.

Answer: Cagayancillo

815. The Philippine Earth Hour National Capital.

Answer: Santa Rosa City, Laguna

816. Global Earth Hour Capital.

Answer: Paris, France

817. What are the three most environmentally-progressive cities in the Philippines.
Answer: Santa Rosa City, Laguna; San Carlos City, Negros Occidental and Makati City

818. She was given the posthumous Hero of the Environment award for her campaign against illegal, unreported and unregulated
fishing (IUUF) in the town of Sagñay in Camarines Sur.
Answer: Gerlie Menchie Alpajora

819. A 63-year-old fisherman from Ilocos Norte was given the Hero of the Environment award who saved an adult
______________ trapped in fishing net.
Answer: rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis)

820. It is known as the clock of the mountain.

Answer: hornbill

821. The biggest game preserve and wildlife sanctuary in the Philippines.
Answer: Calauit Wildlife Sanctuary

822. How many species of widelip orchids are endemic in the Philippines?
Answer: 5

823. How many species of white-eye (bird) are endemic in the country?
Answer: 5

824. The subspecies of monitor lizard in Mindanao which was elevated to new species?
Answer: Mindanao monitor lizard (Varanus cumingi) - LC

825. In what province can we find the Polillo Groups of islands?

Answer: Quezon

826. The largest hornbill in the Philippines.

Answer: Rufous hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax)

827. The arrival of this migratory bird signal the start of migration season.
Answer: Brown shrike (Lanius cristatus)

828. The most common raptor in the country.

Answer: Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus)

829. The most common bulbul in the country.

Answer: Visayan bulbul (Ixos guimarasensis)

830. The only blue-eyed owl in the world.

Answer: Camiguin Hawk Owl

831. The two species of owl that can be found in Negros and Panay.
Answer: Negros Scops Owl and Luzon Hawk Owl

832. The only species of owl that can be found in Negros and Panay.
Answer: Negros Scops Owl

833. The main cause of extinction of species.

Answer: Habitat Loss

834. What is the name of the true frog that can be found only in Mindoro? This is another poorly known endemic frogs of the
Philippines.
Answer: Leptobrachium mangyanurom

835. In what biogeographical region in Southeast Asia does Palawan belong to?
Answer: Sundaic Region

836. In what biogeographical region in Southeast Asia does the Philippines except Palawan belong to?
Answer: Wallacean Region

837. Of the five species of bleeding-heart pigeons that occur in the Philippines, all have bright red mark, except for one. Which
species is this?
Answer: Sulu bleeding heart pigeon (Gallicolumba menagei) CR

838. Widelip orchids or Liparis are well represented in the country. There are 5 species endemic to the country. Which one is
endemic to Negros?
Answer: Liparis nigrosiana

839. This species of ground orchid was recently described from a species collected from Northern Negros Natural Park. Give the
scientific name of this species?
Answer: Gastrodia cajanoae

840. This act was created to address the critical importance of protecting and maintaining areas with biologically unique features to
sustain human life and development as well as plant and animal act.
Answer; RA 7856 or NIPAS Act

841. T/F: The newly declared Ramsar site – Negros Occidental Coastal Wetland Conservation Area is a NIPAs Protected Area.
Answer: False

842. This species is found in Panay, Negros and Guimaras but has been extirpated from the latter due to extensive lowland forest
habitat loss. Give the English name and its IUCN Status.
Answer: Visayan Flowerpecker (Dicaeum haematostictum) (V)

843. The endemic fish tawilis (Sardinella tawilis) is an economically important species and is found only in one lake in the Philippines.
In what lake can you find ‘tawilis’?
Answer: Taal Lake in Batangas

844. Restricted-range species is defined as those landbirds with global breeding range of less than_______ km2 in historical times.
Answer: 50, 000

845. Green plants absorb light energy using ________ found in their leaves.
Answer: chlorophyll

846. How many subspecies of leopard cat are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 2, Prionailurus bengalensis rabori (Negros, Panay and Cebu) and Prionailurus bengalensis heaneyi (Palawan Island)

847. The Southern Indigo-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo nigrirostris) requires clean and clear streams and rivers within forests in order
to survive. It is endemic to 3 islands in Negros-Panay Region. In which island is the species feared extinct?
Answer: Cebu

848. The process by which different kinds of organisms are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of
earth.
Answer: Evolution
849. T/F. The Philippine Flying Lemur is an herbivore, feeding on tender leaves of trees.
Answer: True

850. Calamian deer is only known to occur in Calamian group of islands. In what province in the Philippines can you find the
Calamian group of islands?
Answer: Palawan

851. This beautiful bird is found only in Negros, Panay and Masbate and is a lowland forest specialist that has suffered extremely due
to high historical forest loss across its range. Give its English name and IUCN status.
Answer: Yellow-faced flameback E

852. Give one IUCN threatened endemic volant mammal species found in Negros.
Answer: Golden-crowned Flying Fox, Philippine bare-backed fruit bat, Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat

853. T/F. Unlike most plants, ferns do not produce flowers, fruits or seeds.
Answer: True

854. This is the largest terrestrial protected area located solely in Negros oriental where several of the threatened species are found.
It was proclaimed protected area by Presidential Proclamation no. 44 on November 12, 2000. Give the proper name of this
protected area.
Answer: Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park

855. All frog species of the genus_________ undergo direct development from eggs, it immediately hatches into froglets skipping
tadpole stage.
Answer: Platymantis

856. Two of the 10 species of hornbills in the Philippines are critically endangered including the Rufous-headed hornbill. Give the
name of the other critically endangered hornbill.
Answer: Sulu hornbill

857. Manggis or Koomnasia excela is one of the tallest trees in the Philippine forest. Many of the threatened endemic cavity nesting
birds favors this tree. What is its IUCN status?
Answer: LC

858. Give one terrestrial protected areas in Negros under the National/Natural Park.
Answer: Northern Negros Natural Park, Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park, and Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park

859. Give one marine protected areas in Negros under the National/Natural Park.
Answer: Apo Island Protected Landscape and Seascape, Tañon Strait Protected Seascape and Sagay Marine Reserve

860. What is the scientific name of Jade Vine?

Answer: Strongylodon macrobotrys

861. T/F: In order for the seed of orchids to germinate in natural conditions, it has to be infected with specific fungi.
Answer: True

862. T/F: Seaweeds are marine algae while sea grasses belong to flowering plants.
Answer: True

863. The Sulu boobook, categorized as Vulnerable is known only from six islands in Sulu. Give its scientific name.
Answer: Ninox reyi

864. There are 44 species under the family Dicaedae represented by two genus Prionochilus and Dicaeum. Of the 15 species found
in the Philippines, 2 are Vulnerable and 1 is critically endangered. Give the English name of the critically endangered species.
Answer: Cebu flowerpecker

865. What is the scientific name of the hawk owl found in Romblon?
Answer: Ninox spilonotus
866. It refers to an area encompasses the overlapping breeding ranges of restricted range species, such as the complete range of 2
or more restricted range species with boundary.
Answer Endemic Bird Area

867. How many species of cloud rat are found in the Philippines?
Answer: 18

868. What are the three levels of biodiversity?

Answer genetic biodiversity, species diversity and ecosystem biodiversity

869. How many species of pangolin are there in the Philippines?

Answer: 1

870. How many species of Rafflesia are found in the Philippines?

Answer: 13

871. _______is another term used to describe cold-blooded animals whose regulation of body temperature depends on external
sources such as sunlight or a heated rock surface.
Answer: Ectothermic

872. Palawan is the only island in the Philippines that was connected to Asia land mass during Pleistocene. In what island was
Palawan connected during Pleistocene?
Answer: Borneo

873. In an orchid flower, one petal is modified into highly ornate and rather complicated structure? What is the name of the
structure?
Answer: Lip or Labellum

874. This the most illegally threatened animal in the world. It is estimated that since 2000, more than 1 M of this species have been
traded illegally in the international level.
Answer: Pangolin

875. ________ is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystem in geographic space and through geological time.
Answer: Biogeography

876. T/F. The yellow-faced flameback is only found in Negros and Panay.
Answer: False (can be found also in Masbate)

876. What places have never been connected with six biogeographical regions in the Philippines?
Answer: Batanes and Babuyan Islands, Romblon and Tablas, Siquijor & Camiguin Sur

877. The Mindoro warty pig, Sus oliveri was named after whom?
Answer: William Oliver

878. The term used to describe the differences in appearance between male and female of the same species such as color, shape
and structure.
Answer: Sexual Dimorphism

879. T/F. The Palawan peacock pheasant is found only in the mainland Palawan.
Answer: True

880. By the total land area, what is the largest biogeographical faunal region in the Philippines?
Answer: Greater Mindanao Region

881. There are three species of wart pig in the Philippines such as Philippine warty pig, Visayan warty pig and ____________.
Answer: Mindoro warty pig

882. The Penelopides hornbills are widely distributed in the Philippines except Palawan and _____________.
Answer: Sulu; Tawi-tawi
883. T/F. All bleeding-heart pigeons are canopy dweller except for Sulu bleeding-heart pigeon.
Answer; False

884. In the summary statistics conducted by the IUCN of Species, assessed under the Red List, it was shown that the
_________group, by average, is the most threatened taxa.
Answer: Amphibians

885. The lady slipper orchids are so called because the fused petal form a pouch that resembles a slipper or shoe. The Pointed
Toothed Paphiodelium or Paphiopedilum acmodontum is endemic only to what island in the Philippines?
Answer: Negros

886. T/F. As Australia drifted northward and began to collide with Asia tectonic pressure caused parts of the Pacific seafloor to uplift,
producing volcanoes that gave rise to the Philippine archipelago.
Answer: True

887. World Tourism Day

Answer: September 27

889. _______ has the highest concentrations of mammals in the world.

Answer: Luzon

890. How many species of flying fox are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 9

891. How many species of cloud rat are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 18

892. T/F. Philippine flying lemur can be found anywhere in the Philippines.
Answer: False (can only be found in the Greater Mindanao region)

893. International Day of Cat

Answer: August 9

894. By the total land area, what is the smallest biogeographical faunal region in the Philippines?
Answer: Sulu Region

895. This is earthworm-eating rat which lives on moist upland and in mossy forests, can be found only in Mt. Isarog in Camarines Sur.
Answer: Isarog Striped Shrew-Rat (Chrotomys gonzalesi) CR

896. Tawsi, one of the three critically endangered hornbills of the world, can be found in what island?
Answer: Tawi-tawi

897. Luzon Water-redstart is endemic to the island of Luzon, Philippines, where it occurs mainly in the Cordillera Central but also
Sierra Madre mountains.
Answer: Phoenicurus bicolor

898. What are the two new elevated species of Glossy Swiftlet?
Answer: Grey-rumped swift (Collocalia marginata) and Ridgetop swift (Collocalia isonota)

899. What is the scientific name of the newly discovered giant shipworm found by a team of scientists in a marine bay on the island
of Mindanao in the Philippines?
Answer: Kuphus polythamia

900. The Brent goose or Black branta was first recorded in La Paz, Iloilo last February 4, 2017. What is its scientific name?
Answer: Branta bernicla nigricans

901. What species of bird was killed by the son-in-law of the vice mayor of Ilocos Norte in 2014?
Answer: Rufous hornbill

902. What is the largest pigeon in the Philippines?

Answer: Imperial Pigeon
903. How many species of imperial pigeons are there in the Philippines?
Answer: 7

902. How many imperial pigeons are endemic in the Philippines?

Answer: 3 (Pink-bellied imperial pigeon, Mindoro imperial pigeon and Spotted imperial pigeon)

903. How many species of owl are there in the Philippines?

Answer: 23

904. World Lizard Day

Answer: August 15

905. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol reported that test specimens confirmed the presence of HPAI subtype H5 in the town of
San Agustin in San Luis, Pampanga, killing 37,000 birds covering six farms particularly poultry, quail and ducks. HPAI
means_________.
Answer: highly pathogenic avian influenza

906. The Visayan Leopard Cat is a distinct, diminutive and highly threatened subspecies, endemic to the Negros, Panay and
____________.
Answer: Cebu

907. This Filipino conservation advocate was heralded as one of the Top ASEAN Heroes of 2017 for championing coastal resource
management and terrestrial biodiversity conservation
Answer: Dr. Angel Alcala

908. It is a beach forest and small island specialist bird with unique breeding behavior.
Answer: Philippine megapode or Tabon

909. The root parasites of some trees are known as ___________.

Answer: Balanophora

908. World Environment Day.

Answer: June 5

909. World Wildlife Day

Answer: March 3

910. Convention on Migratory Species and Convention on Wetlands is otherwise known as __________.
Answer: Ramsar Convention

911. T/F. Negros Occidental Coastal Wetland Conservation Area is the only Ramsar Site in the Philippines that is not a protected
area.
Answer: True

912. It is known as the newest (4th) East Asian Flyway Network Site in the Philippines.
Answer: Negros Occidental Coastal Wetland Conservation Area

913. The largest cave-dwelling insect-eating bat in the Philippines.

Answers: Diadem leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros diadema)

914. Give one East Asian Flyway Network Site in the Philippines.
Answer: Negros Occidental Coastal Wetland Conservation Area, Naujan Lake National Park Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary and
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Sulu Sea

915. The largest watershed of Negros Occidental and the largest forest cover in Western Visayas.
Answer: Northern Negros Natural Park

916. The Northern Negros Natural Park covers an approximately ________ hectares of rainforest forest.
Answer: 30, 178.7 hectares

917. What level of biodiversity which deals with different genes and combination of genes within the population?
Answer: genetic biodiversity
918. In what genera does the flameback belong?
Answer: Chrysocolaptes

919. Of the 5 species of the bleeding heart pigeon, how many are categorized as Vulnerable by the IUCN?
Answer: 1 (Mindanao Bleeding-heart pigeon, Gallicolum bacriniger)

920. Which among the five species of bleeding-heart pigeon is the most numerous?
Answer: Luzon bleeding-heart pigeon NT

921. Which among the three species of deer in the Philippines is the most numerous?
Answer: Philippine brown deer (Rusa mariana) - V

922. What is the name of the vulnerable species of turtle that can be found in Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation
Area (NOCWCA)?
Answer: Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea); others: hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) – CR; green turtle (Chelonia
mydas) – E

923. Which among the four species of flying fox found in Mambukal Resort is classified by IUCN as Least Concern?
Answer: Island flying fox

924. The lady slipper orchids are so called because the fused petal form a pouch that resembles a slipper or shoe. What is its
scientific name?
Answer: Paphiopedilum acmodontum E

925. What is the scientific name and IUCN status Philippine flying lemur?
Answer: Cynocephalus volans LC

926. What is the scientific name and IUCN status Palawan pheasant peacock?
Answer: Polyplectron napoleonis V

927. The science of wetland.

Answer: Paludology

928. Tawsi, one of the three critically endangered hornbills of the world, can be found in Tawi-tawi? What species of hornbill is
Tawsi? Give its English name.
Answer: Sulu Hornbill (Anthracoceros montani)

929. At the time of Dr. Dioscoro Rabor’s Death, he had nearly _______ entries in his field catalog of birds.
Answer: 60 000

930. This plant was first collected and formally described in by an English collector. In 1854, the Royal Horticultural Society of
England bestowed its grand prize on this plant, now regarded as one of the most gorgeous and striking tropical plants. Give the
scientific name of this plant.
Answer: Medinilla magnifica V

931. Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis is endemic to the Philippines. Most recent records come from Mindanao but there have
been records also from Luzon, Negros, Sibuyan, Samar, Dinagat, Basilan and Tawi tawi. What is its IUCN status?
Answer: V

932. What is the scientific name of the endemic fish that can be found only in Taal Lake, Batangas?
Answer: Sardinella tawilis

933. Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park was proclaimed protected area by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. _____ on
November 21, 2000.
Answer: 414

934. How many species of widelip orchids or Liparis are endemic in the Philippines?
Answer: 5
935. What species of greater flameback can be found in mainland Palawan, Balabac, Busuanga and Caluit?
Answer: Read-heade Flameback
Yellow-faced flameback (Chrysocolaptes xanthocephalus) – E can be found in Guimaras, Masbate, Negros, Panay and Ticao
Buff-spotted flameback (Chrysocolaptes montanus) – LC can be found in Mindanao
Red-headed flameback (Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus) – E can be found in Balabac, Busuanga, Palawan, Calauit
Luzon flameback (Chrysocolaptes haematribon) – LC can be found in Luzon, Catanduanes, Marinduque

936. What mountain in Misamis Occidental was declared as one of the ASEAN Heritage Parks in the Philippines?
Answer: Mt. Malindang

937. In what Philippine faunal region can’t we find the greater flameback?
Answer: Mindoro and Sulu Region

938. It is considered as the largest species of known monitor lizard in the Philippines.
Answer: Varanus bitatawa

939. T/F. The Greater Sulu Faunal region is comprised of Jolo, Tawi-tawi and Basilan.
Answer: Basilan belongs to Greater Mindanao Region

940. What is the only species of sea turtle in the Philippines which is Endangered?
Answer: Green Sea Turtle

941. In what UNESCO world heritage site was the Nepenthes justinae discovered in 2016?
Answer: Mt. Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary

942. True or False. Marchie’s fruit dove can only be found in Greater Luzon region.
Answer: True

943. Which among the three species of deer in the Philippines is Vulnerable?
Answer: Philippine Mouse Deer (Rusa mariana)

945. How many species of hawk owl in the Philippines are Vulnerable?
Answer: 3 (Romblon, Sulu, Mindoro)

946. What is the IUCN status of Nordmann’s or Spotted Greenshank (Tringa guttifer)?
Answer: Endangered

947. The Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene rabori was named after whom?
Answer: Dioscoro Rabor

948. What is the number of endangered birds endemic in Negros-Panay Region?

Answer: 6

948. What is the number of critically endangered birds endemic in Negros-Panay Region?
Answer: 4

949. By land, what is the smallest faunal region in the Philippines?

Answer: Greater Sulu/Greater Sulu Tawi-Tawi/Sulu Tawi-Tawi

950. True or False. All members of the Rafflesiaceae family are incapable of photosynthesis.
Answer: True

951. What is the largest endemic ungulate in the Philippines? Give its English name.
Answer: Tamaraw/Mindoro White Buffalo

952. The ____ is a multisectoral and decision making body for each of the Protected Area established under NIPAS Answer:
Protected Area Management Board

953. The ______ family is the largest family of the flowering plants of which the Philippines has almost 1000 endemic species. Many
of them have showy brightly colored and attractive flowers.
Answer: orchids/orchidaceae

953. ______ is the natural process by which certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat that will otherwise escape to space
Answer: Greenhouse Effect

954. True or False. In the IUCN redlist category there are only 3 “threatened” categories: CR, EN and NT.
Answer: False
955. The hornbill is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found in 3 islands Mindanao, Camiguin sur, and Dinagat. Give the English
or scientific name.
Answer: Writhed hornbill, Mindanao writhed hornbill, Mindanao wrinkled hornbill, Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus

956. Term used when mating occurs between individual organisms that are genetically related through common ancestry which
often results in decreased vigor, size because of the combined effect of harmful genes.
Answer: Inbreeding

957. Most Threatened species of wild pig in the Philippines. Give the English or scientific name.
Answer: Visayan Warty pig (Sus cebifrons)

958. During the 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the environment in Vietnam last October 16, 2015, the Philippines has gain its 8 th
ASEAN Heritage Park. What is the name of this park?
Answer: Mt. Timpoong Hibok-Hibok Natural Monument in Camiguin

959. What Phil. Province is found on the left of the Huxley’s line (modified Wallace line)?
Answer: Palawan

960. What is the IUCN conservation status of the Mindoro stripe – faced fruit bat?
Answer: Data Deficient

961. The Mindanao bleeding heart pigeon is found in the island of Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Dinagat, Mindanao and Basilan. What is the
IUCN status of this bird?
Answer: Vulnerable

962. The white – eared phil. Brown dove, Phapitreron leucotis found in Western Visayas now known as Buff-eared brown dove,
Phapitreron nigronum. What is the IUCN status of this bird?
Answer: Least Concerned

963. With 359,486 ha, the _______ is the largest protected Area in the Philippines.
Answer: Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park

964. What is the former name of the biodiversity mgt. bureau BMB?
Answer: Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau

965. How many species of hornbill are found between Mindoro, West Visayas and Mindanao Faunal Regions?
Answer: (6) Mindoro Hornbill, Visayan hornbill, Rufous-headed hornbill, Mindanao hornbill, writhed hornbill, southern rufous
hornbill

966. There are a total of 10 species under 4 genera of hornbills found in the Philippines, 10 are endemic. In what genus does the
largest hornbill in the Philippines belong?
Answer: Buceros

967. In Feb 2014 encountered a new species of pitcher plant named after botanist Julie Barcelona. What is the scientific name of this
plant?
Answer: Nepenthes barcelonae

968. The Sulawesi hornbill was put in the genus Rhabdotorrhinus, along with the rufous-headed hornbill and writhed hornbill. With
these change, the genus where the Sulawesi hornbill formery belongs, becomes an endemic genus of the Philippines, where it is
composed of 4 species. What Philippine hornbill genus is this?
Answer: Penelopides

969. Giant and bushy tailed cloud rats are only 6 species, found only in the Philippine forest. Bushy tailed clouds rats are classified in
the genus Crateromys, where giant cloud are classified in the genus _____
Answer: Phloeomys

970. Discovered in 2014 in the lowland evergreen forest of Surigao del Norte, the Rafflesia ____ is the most recent addition to the
diverse list of Philippine rafflesia. Provide the species or scientific name.
Answer: Rafflesia mixta

971. What is the total land area of Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park?
Answer:

972. What is the total land area of Balinsasayaw Twin Lake?

Answer:

973. The Palawan fruit bat is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found only in the Palawan Faunal Region. What is its
scientific name?
Answer: (Acerodon leucotis)
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