Squirrel
This sense helps squirrels forage and find their stored food, detect if predators are nearby and mark their territory?
What is strong sense of smell?
California Scrub-Jays are famous for gathering and burying what specific type of nut, a behavior that accidentally helps plant new oak trees?
What is acorns?
We often feel restricted by the countless laws and regulations in human society. In response, we constructed the concept of "nature" as a realm of absolute freedom. We expect hawks to cherish this freedom above all else; consequently, when they participate in falconry and fail to live up to these expectations, we get disappointed.
What is anthropomorphism?
A middle-ear receptor called the para-tympanic organ in Acorn Woodpeckers allow these birds to be extremely sensitive to changes in barometric pressure, allowing them to sense weather pattern changes and increasing their work efficiency/foraging days before a storm.
What is Umwelt?
Classifying squirrels by their bushy tails to distinguish them from other rodents is an example of what scientific system?
What is taxonomy?
Observing a bird's capacity to experience feelings, perceive its environment, and have subjective experiences suggests that it possesses this vocabulary word?
What is sentience?
DDT led to red-shouldered hawk’s severe population decline in the 1950s to 70s by causing their eggs to have thin, breakable shells, reducing their ability to reproduce. Raptors are no longer threatened by DDT now after it was outlawed in the 70s. However, the recent outbreak of avian flu caused many raptors that prey on birds to die, including peregrine falcons that used to nest on the Campanile.
What is vulnerability?
Civilians living near woodpeckers complain that their hammering and loud “waka-waka” calls are bothersome and a disturbance to the people in town, that their trees should be cut down, or somehow relocated. This is an example of:
a. Anthropocene
b. Anthropocentrism
c. Anthropodenial
What is anthropodenial?
Squirrels can run up to this many miles per hour when they are darting away from a predator.
What prominent cluster of feathers on top of the head, common on the Blue Jay and Steller's Jay, is noticeably missing from the California Scrub-Jay?
What is a crest?
Whose call is this?
What is red-tailed hawk’s call?
Acorn Woodpeckers and Squirrels often fight for resources, with squirrels often trying to steal acorns from the woodpeckers. What is this relationship called?
a. Competition
b. Mutalistic
c. Parasitic
What is competition?
Squirrels primarily use all four limbs to move around efficiently, but stand on their hind legs to scan their surroundings and hold food and objects in their front paws, what is this called?
What is limited bipedalism?
Identification is a term we used in class to mark the unique characteristics and features of animals. How do you identify a California Scrub-Jay?
What is bright blue head, wings, and tail, contrasted with a brownish-gray back, white throat, and faint white eyebrow?
What is the relationship(s) between red-shouldered hawks and songbirds?
a. Predator/prey
b. Mimicry
c. Collaborative
d. Harassment & mobbing
e. Neutral
f. All of the above
What is predator/prey, mimicry, collaborative, harassment & mobbing, and neutral?
What is an Acorn Woodpecker’s granary?
a. A part of their wings that allows for fast take off
b. Their lineage
c. A specialized/prized tree the woodpeckers use store up to 50,000 acorns
d. The indentation of their beak making it easier to hammer holes.
What is a specialized/prized tree the woodpeckers use store up to 50,000 acorns?