WIS 2552 Exam 2 Practice Questions and Answers 100% Pass

WIS 2552 Exam 2 Practice Questions and Answers 100% Pass An adult snow leopard is roughly the size of a - ANSWER-Golden retriever In the winter of , the value of a snow leopard skin was_____ times higher than the minimum yearly wage in Kyrgyzstan - ANSWER-60 The extirpation of the mountain lion, jaguarundi, and ocelot on barro colorado island, Panama is believed to be linked to the extinction of - ANSWER-ground-nesting birds Along with physical defenses like spines, hairs, and lignin, leaves also produce_____ to discourage leaf eaters - ANSWER-chemicals According to William Conway, "zoo propagation can probably aid in the survival of _____% or more of all the terrestrial vertebrates likely to become extinct in the next century - ANSWER-15 Hoatzins and kakapos are both folivorous____ - ANSWER-birds Animal displays emphasizing____ will continue to be the centerpiece of zoo programs - ANSWER- education Humans find flattened faces much more appealing then pointed snouts, probably because or own faces are flattened - ANSWER-true According to Ben Beck, a reintroduction program is considered successful when it - ANSWER-creates a self-sustaining population of 500 Copyright © KAYLIN 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH NOVEMBER, 2024 Copyright ©Stuvia International BV Page 2/7 Flying requires and enormous amount of energy so most birds that feed on leaves _____ - ANSWER- glide or are flightless orangutans are native to - ANSWER-Borneo and Sumatra Animals that have already produced enough young or those that are hybrids between subspecies cannot be used for species survival plan (SSP) breeding are considered - ANSWER-surplus Dr. Ben Beck reported that of 146 attempted reintroductions, only ____ percent have been judges to be successful - ANSWER-16 Penguins, koalas, giant pandas, apes, monkeys, and meercats all score high on the attractiveness scale because they often sit upright or walk on two limbs - ANSWER-True With proper controls, harvesting of capybara can be a valuable conservation tool because it encourages ranchers to preserve the wetland habitats - ANSWER-true capybara females produce five times more offspring in terms of weight, than do other larger grazers - ANSWER-true a major focus of the international snow leopard trust has been to - ANSWER-identify ways to reduce leopard predation on livestock the sound hunting technique of the serval is so well developed that these cats can't hunt in windy weather - ANSWER-true Some folivores use ____ as another way to save energy - ANSWER-loud calls Which two species are HIGHLY dependent on the gopher tortoise burrow to survive? - ANSWER- gopher frog and florida mouse Copyright © KAYLIN 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH NOVEMBER, 2024 Copyright ©Stuvia International BV Page 3/7 Koalas and sloths save energy by spending up to _______ hours a day motionless. - ANSWER-22 In Mongolia, low-cost incentives used to persuade villagers to protect wildlife and improve their animal husbandry involved providing people with ______. - ANSWER-children's clothes and flour Long legs, a long neck and large ears are adaptation of both the serval and the maned wolf for ________. - ANSWER-pinpointing the location of rodents in tall grass. The duplication of body shapes and behaviors in unrelated animals is called _____. - ANSWER- Convergent evolution For any animal reintroduction program, the FIRST factor to con