MIGRATION BASICS & PHYSIOLOGY
This term describes animals that migrate as a part of their life cycle or else they will die.
What are obligate migrators?
This is known as the most stable cue for migrating animals
What is Earth's magnetic field?
Canada geese fly in this geometric formation to save energy during migration.
What is a V-shaped formation?
This acronym stands for the nightly migration of animals to the surface of the ocean.
What is DVM (Diel vertical migration)?
Female green sea turtles face discouragement from nesting on tourist beaches due to this type of human pollution.
What is artificial lighting / light pollution?
To limit calorie usage during migration, many of these animals shrink their organs, such as the male garden warbler.
What are birds?
This type of odor molecule represents something of specific importance and creates a nonvisual internal map.
What is an olfactory cue?
This species holds the record for the shortest land migration by walking instead of flying, shifting their ranges 30 miles in the springtime.
What is the Dusky Grouse?
This Danish researcher discovered in 1921 that American eels reproduce in the Sargasso Sea.
Who is Johannes Schmidt?
This acronym represents human-caused environmental changes that occur faster than animals can adapt.
What is HIREC (Human-Induced Rapid Environmental Change)?
When male garden warblers reach their breeding site, this specific reproductive organ expands by 300%.
What are their testes?
This is the theory that migratory animals can perceive the magnetic field through specialized organs or neurons.
What is magnetoreception?
This massive over-land migration involves about 6 million individuals traveling over 1,000 miles across South Sudan.
What is the great Nile migration?
Humpback whales travel until they reach this location around May because they prefer to birth their calves in shallow, warm coastal water.
What is Alaska?
This invasive snake species from Southeast Asia was imported to Florida, where they eat a lot and have few predators.
What is the Burmese python?
This type of migrator chooses to migrate based on certain conditions rather than absolute necessity.
What are facultative migrators?
This statistical response is the probability an animal will behave in a certain way based on the number of individuals who have already decided to do a behavior.
What is the Quorum Response?
This animal species migrates hundreds of miles to the south of the U.S. during the winter and relies heavily on terrain because they escape predators by running.
What is the Pronghorn (Antilocapra Americana)?
This specific regional species of humpback whales is noted in the presentation as not migrating at all.
What are the humpback whales in the Arabian Sea?
These large structures are placed over highways in wildlife collision areas to allow animals to migrate safely without altering their paths.
What are animal bypasses / land bridges?
This specific term refers to animals that choose not to migrate even if other members of their species migrate or have migrated in the past.
What are residents?
These space weather events can disrupt Earth's magnetic field and temporarily send migrating animals off course.
What are solar flares?
Hummingbirds can fly nonstop over this specific large body of water for over 500 miles.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
After living up to 50+ years inland, American eels travel back to the Sargasso Sea to perform this final life stage action before dying.
What is developing reproductive organs and giving birth?
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The phrase this puzzle says.
Long time, no see