What is Captive Breeding?
When humans raise animals in zoos or wildlife centers because they aren't surviving well in the wild
What is Captive Breeding?
They are modern faculty for animal conservation and research, often used for field trips
What are zoos/aquariums?
In a Zoo, animals don't have to worry about these; they are the "hunter" that would normally eat them in the wild.
What are predators?
When an animal grows up around humans, it might lose their fear of them, and be scared around other animals.
What is habituation (or losing natural instincts)?
Captive breeding is one of the last lines of defense against this term, which means a species is gone forever
What is extinction?
The "graduation day" for a captive animal, where they are released back into their natural home.
What is reintroduction?
When scientist use cooling technology to freeze eggs and sperm to save the species DNA for decades
What is a Frozen Zoo(Cryopreservation)?
Captive breeding gives animals 100% of this everyday to ensure the animals never go hungry
What is a steady food supply?
Breeding a very small group of animals over and over can lead to this genetic problem where health issues start popping up.
What is inbreeding?
High biodiversity makes an ecosystem more "tough", meaning it ca survive more changes like climate change (Hint: it starts with an "R")
What is resilient?
The physical place where where a species lives; if this is destroyed captive breeding is used as a temporary fix.
What is Habitat?
What is translocation?
If a natural disaster wipes out an animal population, these captive animals are used to prevent total extinction.
What is a backup/insurance population?
Captive breeding is very expensive, some critics say we should send money on a certain "h-word" instead.
What is habitat protection?
Saving one predominant species often saves hundreds of smaller bugs and plants in the same area, called an..
What is an umbrella species?
A species that only exist in the zoo and has zero individuals left in the wild.
What is Extinct in the Wild?
This is a "back-up drive" for nature, where millions of plant embryos are kept in cold storage.
What is a seed bank?
Seeing a cute panda or cool tiger in a zoo helps the public care enough to do this (usually involving money or voting)
What is donating or supporting conservation?
Animals raised by humans might forget how to do this for themselves, making it hard for them to survive after release
What is hunt/forage for food?
This term refers to the total variety of all living things on Earth
What is biodiversity?
To make sure animals don't have babies with their relatives, scientists use these records to track who is family
What is studbooks?
A coordinated plan between different zoos to make sure they are breeding the right animals to keep the population healthy
What is a Species Survival Plan (SSP)?
Scientist can study an animal's health up close in the zoo, which helps prevent these animals from getting sick and strengthen them.
What are medicines/vaccines?
Some animals in captivity get "bored" or stressed, leading to weird repetative actions called these.
What are stereotypies/zoochosis?
Ecosystems provide these "services" for humans, like clean water and air, which is why keeping species alive matters to us too
What are ecosystem services?