Wildlife
What does CROW stand for?
Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife
A change an animal or plant goes through to survive in its habitat
What is adaptation
What is rehabilitation
Name three threats to wildlife (more descriptive than humans)
Illegal pet trade, poaching, climate change, invasive species, etc
Name three native species to Florida
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Name an adaptation of a bird
beaks, wings, feet, feathers, etc
What threatens the Florida Panther? Not including invasive species.
Roadways
What is an amphibian?
a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. They are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.
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.
What is natural selection?
Better genes are passed down while lesser genes are not through selective breeding
What is conservation?
The practice of protecting wild animals, plants, and their habitats to ensure their survival and the health of ecosystems.
What is Genetic Banking?
The process of storing biological DNA such as sperm for future research or breeding purposes.
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.
A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food
What is a food chain
What is biodiversity?
Multiple species of plant and animal in a habitat or ecosystem.
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
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 process of having an animal become used to the presence of humans
What is habituation
Why are the Yellowstone wolves brought up in conservation?
Removal of wolves led to the collapse of the entire Yellowstone ecosystem
What is anthropomorphism?
Giving human traits/feelings to an organism or non-living thing