Animal Exploits 130115

Animal Exploits 130115 is a selection of 10 questions. Animal Exploits 130115 is the filename to differentiate it from other Animal Exploits quizzes.

1   Pâté de foie gras, is a food product made from the livers of which specially fattened and force-fed animals?
A   Goose (or can be a duck) (foie gras is French for fat liver) (outside of France it is occasionally produced using natural feeding) (it’s illegal in some countries and US states)

2   What is the name of the process that turns animal rawhide into a durable and flexible material?
A   Tanning – a chemical treatment that changes the chemistry of animal hides to make them more durable and less likely to decay.

3   What do bees use to extract nectar from flowers?
A   Their tongues (they then store it in a special sac called a Honey Stomach, before they then spit it out into one of the hive cells)

4   From the hide of which animal is chamois leather produced?
A   sheep, goats or deer hide, but mostly sheep (Chamois Leather gets its name from the short-horned goat-like antelope (Rupicapra rupicapra) found in the mountains of Europe and Asia Minor. Their skins, when tanned and divided, produce a soft absorbent and non-abrasive leather. Today however, mass market chamois is most produced from sheep, goats or deer hide.)

5   The hair of which animal is used to produce mohair fabric?
A   The Angora goat (not Angora wool which comes from the fur of the Angora rabbit)

6   Rennet extracted from the stomach of which animal is used in the production of non-vegetarian cheeses?
A   Slaughtered un-weaned calves for cows milk (slaughtered kid goat for goat’s milk and slaughtered lamb for sheep’s milk)

7   How many pelts does a single, full-length coat made from chinchilla fur require?
A   150 pelts (their use for fur led to the extinction of at least one species)

8   Which country requires by law the testing of all beauty products on animals before allowing them on the market?
A   China (other countries still allow testing on animals, but in China it is mandatory)

9   What do the French do with the bodies of edible frogs?
A   They eat whole, headless of frogs (gutted and sautéed with butter, garlic, parsley, etc.; it’s the Americans that popularised eating only the legs)

10   What is the name of the ritual method of slaughtering food animals by bleeding them to death?
A   Dhabihah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhabihah)