Animal Identification
Cage & Room Monitoring
True or False?
Randomonium
Skunks
1000
An example of a temporary method of identification is this.
What is marking animals or collars and tags?
1000
How often animal health should be checked.
What is daily?
1000
Shredded paper can be used as bedding for laboratory animals.
What is true?
1000
This type of identification method is inserted beneath the skin by injection.
What is a microchip transponder?
1000
This many species of skunks can be found in Texas.
What is five?
2000
A card placed on a cage to identify each group of animals housed together.
What is a cage card?
2000
Notify this person if any room parameters (ventilation, humidity, light cycles, etc.) are outside the acceptable range.
Who is the supervisor?
2000
If a facility houses USDA-covered species, the FDA inspector may look at husbandry records during an inspection.
What is false?
2000
Forms of this include environmental, behavioral, social, olfactory, and food.
What is enrichment?
2000
The name of Eric's pet skunk that he used to own.
What is PorkChop?
3000
Instead of ear tags, these are typically used to identify individual birds.
What are leg bands?
3000
An autopsy performed on an animal.
What is a necropsy?
3000
You should attempt to solve a dangerous situation alone. Forget everyone else, you got this!
What is false?
3000
Dead animals should be stored in this. If they are stored here, the tissues will be damaged.
What is the refrigerator and freezer?
3000
This species of skunk performs a headstand when it sprays.
What is a spotted skunk?
4000
What is an example of an animal numbering system created by ear punches or notches?
4000
Refers to the number of individual animals or cages per investigator in each room.
What is an animal census?
4000
IACUC stands for this.
What is Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee?
4000
These two compounds account for the unpleasant odor that a skunk produces.
What are sulfides and thiols?
5000
This mandates that cats, dogs, and nonhuman primates must always be permanently identified.
What is the AWA/AWR?
5000
Overcrowding, animal health, adequate feed and water, and this should be checked in each cage each day.
What is cage integrity?
5000
A form of permanent identification that is generally discouraged unless a strong justification is provided to the IACUC.
What is toe clipping?
5000
Conepatus leuconotus is the scientific name for this skunk species.
What is the hog-nosed skunk?