Tracking and Trapping in the Fall I
According to the Author, _______ is central to the fall field work.
A. Catching
B. Trapping
C. Hunting
The zygomatic breadth refers to
A. the genetic diversity of the individual
B. the recent diet
C. the distance between the cheek bones of a
Since 2004, and average of ____ red wolves have died each year from gun shot wounds.
A. 6.5
B < 1
C 5.6
The Human Society of the United States, the Human Society Wildlife Lan Trust and the Red Wolf Coalition offered a reward of _____ for any information that led to a prosecution in each of the six red wolf deaths in 2010.
A. $2,500
B. $10,000
C. $25,000
In 2008, famed wolf biologist L. David Mech wrote an article... Mech argued that the "_____" term gives a false impression that certain animals fight their way to leading a pack, and that perhaps aggression keeps them at the head of the pack.
alpha
The first priority is to catch red wolves ( and coyotes) that are wearing failing ___ ___?
radio collars
Wolves lack the ____ _____ that lions, tigers, and panthers have, so they rely on their canines, incisors and bite strength to drag prey to the ground.
retractable claws
Since 2004, the biologists calculate that _____ _______ compose 73 percent of the wolves shot illegally.
breeding individuals
According to the Author, "For this Program to work, the ____ _____ must be on board.
local people
Each of these 60 people paid seven dollars for tonight's howling safari. They are a tiny fraction of the ______ tourists who visit the Outer Banks each week during the summer.
200,000
In order to trick the wolves into treading over the traps, Ryan spices them with ____ ______.
scent lures
The radio collar they want to use on him [a captured wolf] is programmed to stay on for _______ hours per day...
twelve
North Carolina had declared an _____ _____on coyotes in the summer of 1993.
open season
Between 1987 and 2010, the program documented the loss of 312 red wolves. If you group the incidental and foul play categories together it mean ____ % of red wolf deaths are directly related to human activities.
A. 20.3
B. 80.4
C. 51.9
Wolves that weigh less than forty five pounds ... received a collar that weighs ______ grams.
400
To capture a specific wolf, biologists bury ______ leg-hold traps in its territory.
soft-catch
... in the mid 1990s the the red wolf program had a second reintroduction site active in ____ _____ _______ _______ _______.
Great Smokey Mountains National Park
The Researchers tested two ecological theories. One proposed that human-caused killings have an ______ effect that reduces a populations overall survival rate.
additive
"If they weren't sure of the difference between the two, don't you think they'd be shooting the young red wolves?", he asked. It was an excellent point, and it exposes a mismatch between the logic of mistaken identity and the reality that the ____ _____ _____ are shot more often.
mature breeding wolves
Wolves that weigh more (than 400 grams) receive a larger collar that weighs _____ grams.
500
Called the ____ _____ _____ ___ ______ ______ ______ , it is also where the team brings wolves they've trapped to give them vaccines, put collars on them, and provide veterinary care if needed.
Red Wolf Education and Health Care Facility
Because both coyotes and red wolves prefer farms, researchers identified agricultural lands as as the type of habitat where _________ was most likely to occur.
hybridization
The researchers tested two ecological theories. ... the second proposed that human-caused killings trigger a ________ effect that makes up for unnatural loses...
compensatory
And by the summer of 2011, the FWS suspended indefinitely publishing updates on ___ ___ ____ in the program's quarterly report because they believed some people used the information to locate and kill red wolves.
red wolf packs
"Even though we use the ____ ____ , trapping can be a pretty cruel thing to do to an animal. But we try to do everything we can to make it as safe and humane as possible."
soft-jawed