States
The state in which CWD was first discovered.
What is Colorado.
The only deer species with antlered females.
What is the caribou.
Where prions live before they go to the brain.
What is the lymphoreticular system.
Building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids.
A group of elk (not a herd).
What is a gang.
The number of states that have detected CWD in wild cervids as of May 2025.
What is 36.
Small deer species, but a giant version. (Hint: fangs, Cambodia, endangered)
What is a giant muntjac.
An organ we have that deer lack.
What is a gall bladder.
Proteins that assist in folding.
What are chaperones.
A group of zebra (also not a herd).
What is a dazzle.
The state with the most captive cervids.
What is Texas.
The smallest species of deer.
What is the pudu. (temperate forests of Chile and Argentina, <13 lbs)
The fastest growing tissue.
What is antler.
Protein aggregate with fibrillar morphology, a β-sheet secondary structure, and the ability to be stained with Congo red.
What is amyloid.
A group of bats.
What is a colony.
The state that is known as the only state to have eliminated CWD?
What is New York.
Number of species are in the deer (Cervidae) family?
43
Number of teats on a female deer.
What is 4.
A microtubule-associated protein in neurons that under pathological conditions, can assemble into insoluble aggregates leading to synaptic dysfunction, neuronal death, and a range neurodegenerative disorders.
What is tau.
A group of sea otters.
What is a raft.
The state DNR that spent the most on CWD in 2020?
What is PA or What is WI. (2.9M)
Deer species that was declared extinct in the wild but has been reintroduced. (Hint: Can be seen in the Wildcat Hills).
What is the Pere David's deer. (China)
The attachment point of an antler to the skull.
What is a pedicle.
A protein that is the major constituent of Lewy bodies, which are a pathogenic hallmark of all neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease.
What is alpha-synuclein.
A group of feral swine.
What is a sounder.