Why Migrate?
This term refers to the act of animals moving from one region to another.
What is Migration
These birds form a V-shaped formation that is thought to be an efficient aerodynamic strategy for traveling long distances.
What is the Canada goose (or just goose)
This term refers to animals that are transplanted or moved to a new environment and don't make a return journey because of human activity
What are invasive species?
This term refers to animals that travel to very temperate regions that have favorable temperatures year-round, making migration desirable unless these regions are overcrowded. (Other type of migrator besides obligate)
What are facultative migrators?
Refers to animals leaving and finding a new territory further away from where they were born
What is dispersal
This now extinct bird migrated in such large numbers that they would reportedly block out the sun
What is the passenger pigeon
This animal travels towards artificial city lights rather than the Moon, and thus are more likely to die of exhaustion or predation.
What are sea turtles?
This is the largest over-land migration
What is the great Nile migration (in which multiple species of antelope, totaling approximately six million individuals, travel over a thousand miles across South Sudan)
Refers to animals that choose not to migrate even if other members of their species migrate
Refers to the process by which excess carbon is removed from the atmosphere and trapped deep underwater.
What is a biological carbon pump
This term refers to being able to learn migration routes rather than relying solely on instincts and sensory abilities
What is behavioral flexibility?
These are the three different ways/mediums through which animals migrate
What is migration over land, migration by sea, and migration through the air
Animals that have experienced inhospitable environments all along their migratory route
What are obligate migrators
This term refers to the nightly migration of animals to the surface of the ocean
What is Diel vertical migration (DVM)
This term refers to accelerated changes in our environment and climate as a result of human activity.
Human-Induced Rapid Environmental Change (HIREC)
This sea-creature migrates from the equator to either the North or South pole during the summer months to feed.
What are Humpback Whales
Refers to the probability that an animal will behave in a certain way based on the number of other individuals who have already decided to do the behavior.
What is The quorum response
This organism has the shortest land migration of any animal
What is the dusky grouse
This animal is native to Southeast Asia but has been imported as a pet in Florida and subsequently released, now eating native birds and their eggs.
What is the Burmese python (Python bivittatus)
In one twenty-hour-long journey across the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and Central America, this bird flies nonstop over five hundred miles.
What is the ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)