Chapter 10
The white powdery substance effecting bats.
What is Psychrophile?
Chapter 11's animal.
What is Rhinos?
What the biologists found when they reached the cave.
What is dead bats?
The amount of horns Sumatrans have.
What is 2?
What bats are known as.
What is True hibernators?
The species that the Sumatran rhino is the closest living relative of.
What is the wooly rhino?
How the fungus geomyces destructans kill the bats.
What is by getting them to use up their critical energy stores?
Event that occurred in 1984 in relating to rhinos.
What is "conservatists gathered to save the Sumatrans population?"
A cold loving fungus.
What is Psychrophile?
How to preserve dying species.
What is "captive breeding," i.e. zoos?
Darwin's idea about the limits of dispersal was known as.
What is geographical distribution?
Dr. Roth determined that this was the cause of Emi the rhino's 5 miscarriages.
What is "too much time in the sun?"
The ecologist that believed that each species arose at a single place of origin.
Who is Darwin?
One of the five species of rhinoceros that still exist & is the smallest and oldest of them all.
What is dicerorhinus sumatrensis?
The ecologists who posed the hypothesis of Pangea.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
How the landscape changed during the megafauna extinction in Australia.
What is "With no more large herbivores there was no one left to consume forests and plants leaving fuel for fires, destroying the landscapes?"
Hibernating bat's body temperature, specifically the drop.
What is drops by 50 to 60 degrees, often right around freezing?
The prevention of the rest of the Sumatran Rhino from becoming extinct.
What is "a group of conservationists gathered in Singapore a established a captive breeding program to insure against the species total loss?"
How geomyces destructans spread.
What is due to a bat's sociability, they cluster together, get infected, and those that make it to spring move to other locations, affecting other bats in other caves?
How the plan to save the Rhino failed in the beginning.
What is the "rhino's caught a disease from parasites which were spread by flies?"