Q: Can you tell which of these snakes is the cottonmouth and which is the brown water snake? Choose carefully, because the bite of the cottonmouth is poisonous and the brown water snake is harmless!
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Q: Can you tell which of these animals is the alligator (which lives in freshwater), and which is the crocodile (which lives in salt or brackish water)? Only alligators are found in Lake Okeechobee.
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Q: Can you tell which of these animals lives in Florida and which lives in California? (They are both otters, but one is a southern sea otter and one is a river otter).
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Q: Which of these birds is the endangered wood stork and which is the endangered Mississippi sandhill crane? (Only the wood stork lives in Florida).
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Q: Which of these animals is the black bear (a subspecies of which lives in Florida) and which is the grizzly?
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Q: Which of these toads might endanger your dog, and which might simply hop away if he barked! (The dangerous toad is a giant marine toad, an introduced species that can poison pets and small animals, while the other is an eastern spadefoot toad - totally harmless).
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Q: Which of these bats drinks blood and lives in south America, and which eats insects and lives in Florida?
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Q: Which of these creatures is an eel and which is a greater siren? (Eels are fish that breed in the Sargasso Sea (part of the Atlantic Ocean) but spend most of their lives in rivers, while sirens live all their lives in freshwater)?
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