Animals 101
What is the protection, preservation, management, or restoration of natural environments and the ecological communities that inhabit them.
What is Conservation?
The termination of an organism by the death of it's last member
What is Extinction?
Non-native species that cause harm to the ecosystem, economy, or human health. They often spread rapidly and disrupt local ecosystems.
Invasive Species
warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton
What are birds?
Traits, either physical or behavioral, that help an animal survive and thrive in its environment
Adaptations
3 Reasons animals become endangered
habitat loss/deforestation, climate change, overexploitation, pollution, invasive species, disease, human wildlife conflict, natural disasters, genetic factors
In biology, refers to the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It's driven by processes like natural selection and genetic drift acting on genetic variation within a population.
Evolution
a diverse group of vertebrates characterized by their scaly skin, hard bony skeletons, and ectothermic metabolism (meaning they regulate their body temperature through external sources
What are reptiles?
a close, long-term interaction between two different species. These relationships can be beneficial to one or both species, or they can be detrimental to one or both
Symbiotic Relationships
Name 3 endangered species we have at the Zoo
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illustrates the flow of energy and nutrients in an ecosystem as organisms consume each other. It's a linear sequence of producers (plants), consumers (animals), and decomposers (fungi, bacteria)
What is a Food Chain?
Animals with a vertebral column, and a cranium, or skull.
What are Vertebrates?
a dynamic system where living organisms interact with each other and their physical environment, forming a complex web of relationships
What is an Ecosystem?
Name 3 out of 5 IUCN Threat Levels
What are Least Concern, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically Endangered, Extinct
Organisms that naturally occur in a specific geographic region and have evolved there over time. They are not introduced or brought to the area by human intervention.
Native Species
characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three middle ear bones
What are mammals?
Name 3 ways you can help animals
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SSP Stands for ______, which is a cooperative program managed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) that aims to ensure the long-term survival of specific animal species, often those threatened or endangered in the wild.
What is Species Survival Plan?
the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms
What is Taxonomy?
ectothermic (can't regulate body temperature), anamniotic (lay eggs in aquatic environments), four-limbed vertebrate animals
What are amphibians?