75+ Animal Riddles Jokes and Brain Teasers with Answers

Animal Riddles - Riddles About Animals

Funny animal riddles from the original Riddles website.  These are the best animal riddles, jokes, and brain teasers for kids and families.  Entertain your siblings or share riddles with your friends.

1. Riddle: What four-legged animal can jump higher than a house?
Answer: Any, Houses can't jump.

2. Riddle: How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?
Answer: None, it was Noah.

3. Riddle: What animal is the best at baseball?
Answer: A bat.

4. Riddle: What animal is most likely to eat a relative?
Answer: An ant-eater!

5. Riddle: Why don't African animals play games?
Answer: There are too many cheetahs!

6. Riddle: Where do animals go to get their new tails when they're broken?
Answer: Retail Shop.

7. Riddle: What flower would remind you of a certain animal that took a great deal of care about its appearance?
Answer: A dandelion (dandy lion).

8. Riddle: I can spell yet I have no mouth I can speak to animals but can't speak to humans I am fierce but small. What am I?
Answer: I am a bee.

9. Riddle: I eat animals but I don't hunt or kill. What am I?
Answer: A vulture.

10. Riddle: Through a sea of green and islands of brown, leaving a crystal path behind, safe inside a spiral cave, preparing to come out again. What animal am I?
Answer: A snail.

11. Riddle: What kind of animal can do Kung fu?
Answer: Kung fu pandas!

12. Riddle: What kind of animal is a slope?
Answer: A Hypote-moose.

13. Riddle: What animal is it the hardest to have a staring contest with?
Answer: A fish. They cannot blink!

14. Riddle: Add 10 to nothing and you get what animal?
Answer: Unanswered.

15. Riddle: A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
Answer: A Minotaur.

16. Riddle: What animal would you get crossed a duck, a beaver, and an otter?
Answer: A platypus.

17. Riddle: What animal has more lives than a cat?
Answer: A frog, it croaks every night!

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18. Riddle: Add a letter to an animal, and make a building. What is it?
Answer: Sable, stable.

19. Riddle: How are people like animals?
Answer: We have bare (bear) feet, frogs in our throats, calves on our legs and bull on our tongue.

20. Riddle: What animals would be the best at playing video games?
Answer: An octopus.

21. Riddle: What animal probably likes doors?
Answer: A door mouse.

22. Riddle: What is 1 animal that can see at night but be blinded at day?
Answer: A bat.

23. Riddle: With what two animals do you always go to bed?
Answer: Two calves.

24. Riddle: What animal has no wings, but yet will fly?
Answer: A caterpillar has no wings, but will fly when it matures and becomes a butterfly.

25. Riddle: Use all letters of this sentence once each only to spell out three animals. 'TALL ELEPHANT OR APEMAN' What are the three animals?
Answer: PANTHER, ANTELOPE, LLAMA

Bear Riddles - Riddles about Bears

26. Riddle: Why did Tigger go to the bathroom?
Answer: He wanted to find his friend, Pooh!

27. Riddle: What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear.

28. Riddle: Why couldn't Goldilocks sleep?
Answer: Because of night-bears.

29. Riddle: Why are teddy bears never hungry?
Answer: Because they are stuffed.

30. Riddle: A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
Answer: White, the house is built directly on the North Pole.

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31. Riddle: There are 30 cows in a field, and 28 chickens. How many didn't?
Answer: 10. Listen closely: 30 cows, and twenty-eight chickens. Say EIGHT and ATE. They sound the same. Therefore, it means 20 ATE chickens. 30-20=10, so 10 cows didn't eat any chickens.

32. Riddle: There are two bodies on the floor. They are surrounded by water and broken glass. How did they die?
Answer: The bodies were goldfish because their fishbowl got knocked over onto the floor and broke.

33. Riddle: It has a long neck, a name of a bird, feeds on ships cargo, and is not alive. What is it?
Answer: A crane.

34. Riddle: Which bird does not belong in this group? Finch, gull, eagle, ostrich, or sparrow?
Answer: The Ostrich. It's the only bird that doesn't fly.

35. Riddle: There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?
Answer: Just four, in a square formation.

Cat Riddles - Riddles About Cats Riddles

36. Riddle: When is it bad luck to see a black cat?
Answer: When you are a mouse.

37. Riddle: I act like a cat, I look like a cat, Yet I am not a cat. What am I?
Answer: Kitten.

38. Riddle: While on my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Answer: Just one, me.

39. Riddle: If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?
Answer: Five minutes.

40. Riddle: I'm found in socks, scarves, and mittens. I'm found in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn.

Chicken Riddles - Riddles About Chicken

41. Riddle: There are 30 cows in a field, and 28 chickens. How many didn't?
Answer: 10. Listen closely: 30 cows, and twenty-eight chickens. Say EIGHT and ATE. They sound the same. Therefore, it means 20 ATE chickens. 30-20=10, so 10 cows didn't eat any chickens.

42. Riddle: If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
Answer: Roosters don't lay eggs.

43. Riddle: Why did the turkey cross the road?
Answer: To prove he wasn't chicken.

44. Riddle: If a chicken says, "All chickens are liars". Is the chicken telling the truth?
Answer: Answer: Chickens cannot talk.

45. Riddle: If it takes 5 microwaves 5 minutes to cook 5 chickens, how long does it take 100 microwaves to cook 100 chickens?
Answer: 5 minutes. We can assume that one chicken is placed in each microwave and that each chicken takes 5 minutes to cook.

Dog Riddles - Riddles about Dogs

46. Riddle: If there are four sheep, two dogs, and one herds-men, how many feet are there?
Answer: Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet.

47. Riddle: All of Mrs. Smith's pets are dogs except one, and all her pets are cats except one. How many cats and dogs does she have?
Answer: Mrs. Smith has one cat and one dog.

48. Riddle: How can you tell the difference between dogs and trees?
Answer: By their bark.

49. Riddle: What animal keeps the best time?
Answer: A Watchdog.

50. Riddle: To you, rude would I never be, Though I flag my tongue for all to see. What am I?
Answer: A dog!

Duck Riddles - Riddles About Ducks

51. Riddle: There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?
Answer: Just four, in a square formation.

52. Riddle: What happened when the rubber duckie fell into the bathtub?
Answer: It quacked up.

53. Riddle: What do you call a crate of ducks?
Answer: A box of quackers!

54. Riddle: Arnold Schwarzenegger's is really long. Michael J. Fox's is short. Daffy Duck isn't human. Madonna doesn't have one. What am I?
Answer: The last name.

55. Riddle: A mouse, a squirrel, a duck, a chicken, and an elephant are sitting on the side of the road. Someone offers them a lift, but one prefers to stay. Who preferred to stay?
Answer: The Elephant Stayed. If you didn't know, elephants are scared of mice.

Fish Riddles - Riddles About Fish

56. Riddle: Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?
Answer: There was the father, his son, and his son's son. This equals 2 fathers and 2 sons for a total of 3!

57. Riddle: I am a word of six; my first three letters refer to an automobile; my last three letters refer to a household animal; my first four letters is a fish; my whole is found in your room. What am I?
Answer: A carpet.

58. Riddle: There are two bodies on the floor. They are surrounded by water and broken glass. How did they die?
Answer: The bodies were goldfish because their fishbowl got knocked over onto the floor and broke.

59. Riddle: What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
Answer: A map.

60. Riddle: If fish lived on land, where would they live?
Answer: In Finland.

Pig Riddles - Riddles About Pigs

61. Riddle: A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have?
Answer: Ten Cows. We can call the pigs cows but it doesn't make them cows.

62. Riddle: What do you call pigs that write letters to each other?
Answer: Pen Pals.

63. Riddle: You walk into a room with a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig eating slop, and a chimp holding a banana. Which animal in the room is the smartest?
Answer: You, hopefully.

64. Riddle: Why can't you play basketball with pigs?
Answer: Because they will "hog" the ball!

65. Riddle: Why did Momma Pig leave her husband?
Answer: Because he was a boar. 

66. Riddle: What do you call a pig that does karate?
Answer: A Porkchop.

Rabbit Riddles - Riddles About Rabbits

67. Riddle: What type of music do rabbits listen to?
Answer: Hip hop.

68. Riddle: Do rabbits use combs?
Answer: No, they use hare brushes.

69. Riddle: How can you say rabbit without using the letter R?
Answer: Bunny.

70. Riddle: How many hairs are in a bunny rabbit's tail?
Answer: None. They are all outside.

71. Riddle: Where does a rabbit go for shampoo?
Answer: To a hare-dresser.

Turkey Riddles - Riddles About Turkeys

72. Riddle: Who is never hungry during Christmas?
Answer: The turkey because he is always stuffed.

73. Riddle: Why did they let the turkey join the thanksgiving band?
Answer: Because he had the drumsticks.

74. Riddle: Why did the turkey cross the road?
Answer: To prove he wasn't chicken.

75. Riddle: Why didn't the turkey finish its dessert?
Answer: Because it was stuffed.

76. Riddle: What kind of key do you use on Thanksgiving?
Answer: A tur-key.

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