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title: The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and… — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 126 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 10 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills

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**Tests:** 4 of 10 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 126 of the biology course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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«hyenas are just dogs that laugh, everyone knows» What is right?

- **1.** They look like dogs but are closer to cats and mongooses, and the giggle shows nerves — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** Right, they are a kind of wild dog — score 2
- **3.** Right, they are a kind of wolf, and the giggle is how they laugh at the other animals — no support
- **4.** Right, they laugh at jokes — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 47, line 10: «It is a myth that hyenas only steal from lions: spotted hyenas hunt most of their own food in many places, lions often steal from them, and they are closer rel…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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«Shenzi's the boss, but real hyena bosses are males, right» What is right?

- **1.** No, the cubs are in charge — no support
- **2.** Right, the biggest and strongest male always rules — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Right, hyenas have kings — no support
- **4.** No, in real clans the females are in charge — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 126, line 12: «Male mandrills have the brightest red and blue faces, and the most important male in a group has the strongest colours.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «important male» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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«2 hornbills + 3 mongooses, how many legs» How many?

- **1.** 16 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** 14 — no support
- **3.** 20 — no support
- **4.** 10 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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«4 hyenas fighting over 1 zebra, how many tails in that mess» How many?

- **1.** 4 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 1 — no support
- **3.** 8 — no support
- **4.** 5 — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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What would happen if a snake reached a hornbill's nest hole?

- **1.** The male would push it in — no support
- **2.** The mud wall leaves only a slit too narrow to get in — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It would eat the chicks easily through the open hole — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **4.** The mother would fly away at once — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 87, line 16: «The smallest snakes, threadsnakes, are about 10 centimetres long and eat ant and termite larvae; the reticulated python can grow longer than 6 metres.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«Rafiki lives on the savanna like a real mandrill» What is right?

- **1.** Wrong, mandrills live in deserts — score 3
- **2.** Right, mandrills live only on open grassy savannas, just like in the film — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** Real mandrills live in rainforests; savanna monkeys like that are baboons — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Right, mandrills live with lions — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 126, line 4: «Real mandrills live in the rainforests of Central Africa, not on the savanna, and have short stumpy tails; Rafiki's long tail and home are more like a baboon's.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «rainforests» (+3); the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «real mandrills» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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«mandrill showed its teeth at me in the zoo, it hates me» What is the best answer?

- **1.** A wide yawn with teeth is a warning to keep back, not hate — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It was showing its teeth so that a keeper would clean them — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** It was smiling at you because it likes you a lot — no support
- **4.** It was hungry for you — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 126, line 13: «Mandrills have very long canine teeth, and a wide yawn shows them off as a warning to rivals.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «teeth» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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«hyena just crunched a whole bone lol is it broken» What is right?

- **1.** Hyenas cannot eat bones — score 2
- **2.** It will be very sick afterwards, as bones are poison to hyenas — no support
- **3.** Yes, its jaw must be broken — no support
- **4.** Its strong bite can crush and digest bones — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 126, line 9: «Spotted hyenas have some of the strongest bites of any mammal and can crush and digest bones, so their dry droppings are white with calcium.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «bones» (+5); the same action «digest» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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When the hornbill chicks are big enough, what happens to the sealed nest?

- **1.** The chicks stay inside the sealed nest forever, even when grown — score 7
- **2.** The mother breaks out, and the chicks seal it again behind her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** The tree falls down — no support
- **4.** The male breaks it from outside — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 126, line 15: «A female red-billed hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud and droppings, and the male feeds her and the chicks through a narrow slit; the wall keeps…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «break out» (+4); the same doer «mother» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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«hornbill waiting outside the mongoose hole in the morning, weird» Why might it wait?

- **1.** It wants to catch and eat the young mongooses — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** It hunts insects the mongooses stir up when they wake — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It is guarding its own eggs — no support
- **4.** It is lost — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 126, line 16: «In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «catch» (+3); the same doer «hornbills» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/t10/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the feeding of the spotted hyena.

- **1.** It is incapable of the pursuit of large prey — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It obtains its food exclusively by theft from lions, being itself incapable of hunting — no support
- **3.** It is a proficient hunter which, in many regions, procures the greater part of its own food — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It subsists entirely upon vegetation — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the social organisation of the spotted hyena?

- **1.** The clan is governed by a single male, being the largest and strongest of its members — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The clan is governed by females, which exceed the males in size and strength — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The clan is governed by the youngest cubs — no support
- **4.** The clan possesses no hierarchy of any kind — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Identify the natural habitat of the mandrill.

- **1.** The rainforests of Central Africa — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The deserts of the Arabian peninsula — no support
- **3.** The open grassy savannas of East Africa — no support
- **4.** The high cold mountains of Central Asia — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the purpose for which the female red-billed hornbill seals the entrance to her nest with mud.

- **1.** The suppression of noise made by the chicks — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The exclusion of the male from the nest — no support
- **3.** The exclusion of snakes, monkeys and other thieves of eggs — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The exclusion of rainwater during the wet season — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/e4/)

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