Nature quiz: How many animals can you see?

Take a look. Take your time. How many animals do you see in the picture of a tidal pool below?

Now we’ll give you your chance to see how you did before the animals are revealed.

Okay. How many? What do you see?

You got the fish/eel. That’s easy, right. One.

The “big” hermit crab. Two.

More?

The littler hermit crab?

The shrimp? What shrimp you say? Well, there are four of them. Which brings our total to seven animals.

How close were you?

Six? Amazing.

Seven? Don’t lie to me. I still sort of like you. Here’s the close-up, minus one shrimp way over on the right.

Answer key

So, your score. You could have seen: one fish (very eel like), two crabs, four shrimp.

7: Natural genius. Darwin, Cousteau, and Audubon combined couldn’t do better.

6: Very, very sharp. You should’ve been a sniper.

5: Okay, but if you saw two of the shrimp, at least one more should have been easy.

4: Still pretty good.

3: Yeah, you’re not cut out for this but that’s not terrible.

2: You make a habit of giving up easily in life, don’t you?

1: Are you kidding? The fish or the crab?

And one last shot so you can better see what the shrimp look like.