Endangered Species
How does extintion most likely occur?
Lack of food and resources
What makes humans harmful to animal?
We cut into habitats
What century was the first zoos?
17th
Everglade ____ are rare to see but have been rehabilitated in ways.
kites
Should Humans try to clean up their act?
YES!
The introduction of nonnative species does mostly what?
kills other species
An animals habitat is its ____
home
Where are the animals kept?
cages
Believe it or not this is a known turtle... what is it?
Ridley sea turtle
Why should we save endangered species?
Most of the time we have created their problems.
Fragmented environments make it impossible for animals to ____
breed
How many species are endangered by us?
Over 1,000
In 1859 civic leaders created what?
Zoological Society of Philadelphia
What duck species was saved by the Wildlife Management team?
Aleutian Canada goose
Zoos let what roam around the cages?
Humans
Does hunting truly effect the population of animals or does habitat destruction do more?
Habitat destruction
Human involvement has resulted in ___ being extinct
several species
How many people were at the grand opening of the Philadelphia zoo?
3000
The West Indian manatee was endangered by what species?
Humans and their boating activities
Early zoos did not have a what?
natural setting
What drove the passenger pigeon to extinction?
Market hunting
What term is used for a habitat being destroyed?
Landscape Alteration
The Zoological Society now serves as what?
Wildlife conservation society
California condors are _____ eaters
carrion
What animal did not get a cage?
Girrafes