Day 1
Great Horned Owl Ambassador at CROW
Who is Mina
Name of the refuge we visited
What is Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge
The process of returning a habitat to its original, native state
What is restoration
What was the skit that Emma and Aria's group did yesterday before lunch?
Coral, fish, shark to the tune of Baby Shark
What is Genetic Banking?
The process of storing biological DNA such as sperm for future research or breeding purposes.
Smallest owl species in Florida
What is an eastern screech owl
The animal on the refuge sign we visited
What is a spoonbill
What threatens the Florida Panther? Not including invasive species.
Roadways
What species of owl is Sage in the story?
Great Grey
Why is inbreeding not as much of a concern in snakes than in most animal species?
Their genetics are not similar to most other species and do not feel the pressures as quickly. It is still recommended to avoid inbreeding. (Fun fact: snakes have ZZ (male) or ZW (female) chromosomes)
Define Ambassador Animal
An animal that cannot be released due to injury, disease, or habituation/imprinting. Help to educate the public about wildlife, CROW, and conservation.
A small land crab. The males have one huge claw.
What is a fiddler crab
The resource to learn the conservation status of a species on a global level. Extra 100 points if..
IUCN Red List- International Union for the Conservation of Nature
The organ that rats do not have but humans do
Gallbladder
The name for the narrowing of genetic diversity due to inbreeding.
What is Bottleneck
Define Invasive Species
Provide an example of an invasive and why it is invasive.
Introduced, non-native species that have populated an area and is causing financial, agricultural, or ecological harm.
Cane Toad- lacks native predators and is highly toxic.
What is a habitat and its requirements?
Place where a living organism lives; food, water, shelter, and space are necessary
The two broad types of conservation.
What is Ex-situ and In-situ
What is the lynx-hare cycle?
An example of top-down control in a food chain; hares flourish due to few predators, lynx have a population increase due to food availability, hare population falls, and on and on
The process of recovering a species on the brink of extinction that is likely inbred.
What is Genetic Rescue
A baby squirrel was raised at a wildlife clinic as an ambassador. The squirrel ended up becoming pregnant and one baby survived. This baby was deemed non-releasable due to a mutation of the limbs. Wild or Domestic?
Wild
The two burrowing owls that the owl in the story we are reading meet
Who are Hazel and Basil
What are the conservation status levels- there are 7. Bonus 100 points if you give an example of 2.
EXTINCT; Extinct in the wild; Critically Endangered; Endangered; Threatened; At Risk; Least Concern/Data Deficient
What is an edge and a fragmented habitat? What can these cause?
Edge Habitat: border where one ecosystem transitions to another
Fragmented Habitat: separated habitat pieces caused by disruption; decreases interior habitat while increasing edge habitat
Blunt edge habitat can create dangerous road conditions; fragmented habitat separates populations and decreases genetic diversity
Why are men more likely to go bald than women?
The balding gene is on the X Chromosome. Males only receive a single X chromosome, so if it has the balding gene, then it cannot be deleted and will express itself