History
What is the MBTA?
Migratory Bird Treaty Act
What is the voice box called on a bird
Syrinx
Provide the genus, species, and subspecies of the Western lowland gorilla.
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
What is it called when an animal (or a flesh-eating zombie) has eyes of two different colors?
Heterochromia
A particular suite of newborn animals entering a population that can be followed through time is known as a what?
Age class / Age group / Cohort
Aldo Leopold's Game Management was originally published in what year?
1933
What is the fleshy, featherless area surrounding the nostrils of hawks, falcons, pigeons, and a few other groups of birds?
Cere
What is the collective name for a group of bears?
Sleuth/sloth
What does the acronym PCR stand for in population genetic work?
Polymerase Chain Reaction
What ecological rule states that a population will tend to increase body size over evolutionary time?
Cope's Rule
In what year, did the United States adopt the Bald Eagle as its National symbol?
1782
Birds that nest in groups rather than in isolated pair are said to be?
Colonial
What is the world's most dangerous animal, in terms of number of humans it kills per year?
Mosquitos
What field of science deals with tissue structure and function?
Histology
What is meant by a panmictic population?
A population in which mating occurs at random
Benjamin Franklin proposed what bird to be on the national seal?
The Wild Turkey
How many teeth are typically found in the bill of a Hooded Merganser?
None, birds have no dentition
Of the following, which is the least reliable way to age a male white-tailed deer: Number of antler points, spread (maximum antler width), body structure.
Antler Points
What is it called when an animal is male first and then changes to female?
Protandrous
What is the term for the area traversed by an individual animal in its normal activities of food gathering, mating, and caring for young?
Home Range
Who designed the first federal duck stamp?
Jay N. "Ding" Darling
This bird species has a hybrid zone extending from Texas to Alaska where hybrids have orange shaft
Northern Flicker (or Colaptes auratus)
Buckeye Chuck officially represents the state of Ohio. What is his scientific name? (Groundhog)
Marmota monax
Name the term that refers to an allele at one locus masking the effects of an allele at another locus which acts on the same trait
Epistasis
This principle states that allele frequencies do not change if populations are large, randomly mating populations, with no net mutation, migration or natural selection
Hardy-Weinberg law/ Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium