Field trip!
What are a pigs two favorite things?
Sleeping and Rooting. Rooting is when pigs use their snout to ush or nudge something repeatedly. It is a natural behavior!
What do larvae eat?
A honey and pollen mixture for about three weeks until they reach adult age
Name 2 secondary products produced by pigs
- leather
-ham/bacon
Name 3 human caused reasons why an animal might be sent to WILD ARC.
- hit by car
- ran into a window
- abandoned by its mother/mother killed
What is a swarm?
It is a group of bees, about 1/2 the size of a hive and the queen looking for a new home. Can be made up of 1000's of bees.
What are the 3 categories animals can be used in?
- labour
- food
- clothing/materials
What information can you find on a sheep's permanent tag? Name four.
1.) If it was a good mother (Was she gentle with her babies?)
2.) How many ewes/lambs she had
3.) Age
4.) The sheeps parents/lineage
Name three things that do not require pollination
Wheat, Barley, Corn, Potatoes
Name three things produced by cows
- leather goods
- shoes
- meat for consumption
How do pigs cool down and why do they do this?
Pigs do not sweat and cool down the way humans are able to. Therefore, pigs need to find moist patches of land to roll around in to keep cool, such as mud patches. This is called wallowing
Name 3 threats to bees
- Climate change(It affects the life cycle of pollinating plants that disrupt the bees access to food)
- Neonicatinoids and other insecticides
- Habitat desctruction. Urbanization and the noise from busy cities not only take away its access to plants, but make it harder for bees to form hives and find their way back to their homes.
How do whales change the climate?
- Whales kick up the nutrients from the deep sea into the photic zone(aka where the light can penetrate the ocean, usually at 100 meters) where diotomes(algae), and phyto-plankton absorb carbon dioxide
How many animals did the BC SPCA help last year?
47,776