The Right Scientist
An ichthyologist studies this.
What are fish?
An animal that is active at night.
What is nocturnal?
Animals and plants that don’t belong, but adapt to thrive in a particular area.
What are invasive species?
How we prevent the public from overfishing our river systems.
What are size limits, catch limits, or regulations?
The Act that was passed in 1973 to prevent extinction and recover species.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
An ornithologist studies this.
What are birds?
True or False: A bat can be identified (and populations monitored) by its echolocation call?
True
True or false: unwanted aquarium fish and turtles should just be released into a local waterway.
False
How invasive fish are introduced to a new area.
What are aquaria releases, ballast water from cargo ships, live bait, imported for aquaculture purposes, or flooding?
Reason fish and wildlife should be managed.
What is to sustain healthy populations?
A chiropterologist studies this.
What are bats?
70% of bats eat this type of food.
What are insects?
This invasive species kills at least 1.3 billion songbirds per year in north America. (1 out of 5 birds each year!)
Why invasive carp are BAD.
What are outcompete native fish, jump out of water, no natural predators, or high growth rate?
Habitat destruction is the most common reason for this.
What is declining population?
A malacologist studies this.
What are mussels?
More than half of U.S. bat species populations are doing this.
What is declining?
Starlings, zebra mussels, and feral swine all cause this.
What is economic harm? (or habitat destruction?)
We monitor fish populations and look for invasive species by doing this.
What are electrofishing, netting, eDNA, or telemetry/tagging?
Land management agencies, such as the US Fish and Wildlife Service, are designed to do this for wildlife and habitat.
What is protect and manage?
A herpetologist studies this.
What are reptiles?
A serious fungal disease, White Nose Syndrome, afflicts bats during winter when they do this.
What is hibernate?
True or false: Human beings are an invasive species.
True
There are this many species of invasive carp.
What are 4? (Silver, Bighead, Grass and Black Carp)
The only federal agency with a directive to restore or improve habitat for wildlife.
What is the US Fish and Wildlife Service?