Career Info
_________ ARE SCIENTISTS WHO STUDY ANIMALS AND HOW THEY INTERACT WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
ZOOLOGISTS
BIRDS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE EVOLVED FROM _____.
PREHISTORIC REPTILES
THE FAMILY STURNIDAE ARE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS __________.
STARLINGS
___________ TUNNEL UNDER THE SCALES ON THE LEGS. THESE MITES LIVE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE CYCLES ON THE BIRD.
SCALY LEG MITES
ONE REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN OF A MALE BIRD IS THE _______.
TESTES, DUCTUS DEFERENS, OR THE CLOACA
TECHNICIANS WHO ARE INVOLVED WITH THE FEEDING AND BREEDING OF ANIMALS ARE REFERRED TO AS _____________.
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY TECHNICIANS
DOWN FEATHERS PRIMARY FUNCTION IS TO _______.
CONSERVE BODY HEAT
THE FAMILY PLOCEIDAE CONSISTS OF ___ SUBFAMILIES.
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________ IS A DISEASE CAUSED BY THE FLAGELLATED PROTOZOAN TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE AND IS SPREAD THROUGH CONTAMINATED FECES. THE FIRST SIGNS OF THE DISEASE ARE SMALL, YELLOWISH LESIONS ON THE LININGS OF THE MOUTH AND THROAT.
TRICHOMONIASIS
SPERM MAY BE VIABLE FOR UP TO ___ DAYS.
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THE DEFINITION OF ICHTHYOLOGY IS _________.
THE STUDY OF FISH
THE _______ PROVIDES A LARGE FOUNDATION FOR THE ATTACHMENT OF POWERFUL FLIGHT MUSCLES.
KEEL
MEMBERS OF THIS SUBFAMILY HAVE A BRUSH-LIKE TONGUE THAT IS USED TO LAP UP NECTAR AND POLLEN.
THE SUBFAMILY LORIINAE
_________ IS CAUSED BY A DEFICIENCY IN CALCIUM OR PHOSPHOROUS, AN IMBALANCE OF CALCIUM AND PHOSPHOROUS, OR A DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN D3.
RICKETS
MALE BIRDS DO NOT HAVE A ________ ORGAN.
COPULATORY
THERE ARE OVER ___ DIFFERENT KINDS OF BIOLOGISTS.
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MODERN BIRDS APPEARED AROUND ABOUT ___ MILLION YEARS AGO IN THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD.
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ALL MEMBERS OF THIS FAMILY HAVE 4 TOES; 2 CENTER TOES THAT FACE FORWARD AND 2 OUTSIDE TOES THAT POINT BACKWARD.
THE SUBFAMILY PSITTACINAE
NASAL DISCHARGE, AND CONTAMINATED DUST ARE THE PRIMARY SOURCES OF INFECTION FOR ____________. WHEN THE INFECTION OCCURS, THE BACTERIA TRAVEL TO THE LIVER AND SPLEEN, WHERE THEY MULTIPLY. IT IS ALSO ZOONOTIC.
AVIAN PSITTACOSIS
THE EGG ENTERS THE ________ WHERE THE EGGSHELL IS FORMED.
UTERUS
THE AVERAGE SALARY OF A VETERINARIAN IN 2012 WAS _______.
$84,460
___________ IS THE LARGEST ORDER OF BIRDS, CONTAINING ALMOST 60% OF THE BIRD SPECIES.
PASSERIFORMES
THE FAMILY_________ IS SEPARATED FROM THE FAMILY FRINGILLINAE BECAUSE THEY HAVE 10 PRIMARY FEATHERS INSTEAD OF 9.
THE FAMILY ESTRILIDAE
__________ IS A FATAL VIRAL HEPATITIS CAUSED BY A HERPES VIRUS. INFECTED BIRDS MAY DIE SUDDENLY WITHOUT ANY SIGNS OF INFECTION OR DIE AFTER A BRIEF PERIOD OF ANOREXIA, TREMORS, AND CONVULSIONS.
PACHECO’S PARROT DISEASE
PARROT BABIES ARE BORN _______.
ALTRICIAL