Fantastic Ecology and where to find it
These animals earn their keep delivering the mail and the newspaper.
What are owls?
This dragon pretended to be the Great Stone Dragon and helped China win a war against the Huns.
Who is Mushu?
Felis catus
What is a house cat?
This film features the use of frog DNA to help resurrect an extinct group of organisms
What is Jurassic Park?
This "crocodile hunter" owned and operated the Australia zoo
Who is Steve Irwin?
This plant has fatal screams when full-grown but is invaluable in curing petrification.
What is a mandrake?
This dragon was imported for the Triwizard Tournament in Harry Potter and was passed by some fancy broomwork.
What is a Hungarian Horntail?
Canis lupus
What is a wolf?
This Disney movie takes place in a future where only a robot and a single plant are left on a destroyed Earth and humans live in space.
What is Wall-E?
This California explorer co-founded the Sierra Club
Who is John Muir?
This horse-like organism pulls the Hogwarts carriages and can only be seen by those who have witnessed death.
What is a thestral?
This dragon inhabited the Lonely Mountain before being slain by Bard.
Who is Smaug?
Panthera leo
What is a lion?
This Studio Ghibli movie features a human raised by wolves leading a battle against a destructive mining town.
What is Princess Mononoke?
This ecologist wrote Silent Spring in 1962, which led to the banning of the pesticide DDT. A scholarship offered by the CSUF bio department is named for them.
Who is Rachel Carson?
A miniature version of this animal can be found for sale in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.
What is a puffskein?
This blue dragon was one of the last of her kind when she hatched for a poor farm boy named Eragon.
Who is Saphira?
Ursus maritimus
What is a polar bear?
This film, set in 2022, takes place in a future where natural foods have gone extinct, leaving only a mysterious product to keep humanity alive.
What is Soylent Green?
This pioneer of botanical geology has a northern Cal State University and a penguin named in his honor.
Who is Alexander von Humboldt?
This small plant looks like a gray cactus covered in boils and produces stinksap when threatened.
What is a Mimbulus mimbletonia?
This planet was colonized by humans who bred the native fire-lizards into flame-breathing dragons capable of destroying the deadly Thread released from space.
What is Pern?
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
What is a giant panda?
This film features a teen who teaches a flock of orphaned geese to fly using a custom airplane and leads them on their first migration south.
What is Fly Away Home?
This community and population ecologist has an award named after him that shares its name with a prize known as a "genius" grant.
Who is Robert H. MacArthur?