WIS2552 Topics 9-18

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sloths are adapted for a diet of
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leaves
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the ____ are the only egg-laying mammals
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monotremes
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otters belong to the same family as the
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Fisher
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_____ of the following is an odd-toed ungulate
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zebra
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Mammals all have _____ cervical vertebra
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7
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About ____% of all mammal species are in the Order Rodentia
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40%
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____ are the most arboreal Old World Monkeys
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Colobus Monkeys
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The Virginia Opposum arrived in North America in the
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Pliocene
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The __ is the sole member of its family
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Pronghorn
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The classification scheme used by Wilson and Reeder for marsupials, partly emphasizes structure of the
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detention
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About ___ of the marsupials have a permanent pouch for carrying young
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1/2
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the Ocelot is found in
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Central America
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____ of the following is an odd-toed ungulate
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Rhinoceros
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Meerkats belong to the mongoose family
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True
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Mammals are characterized by having ___ occipital condyles
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2
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odd toed ungulates typically have less efficient digestive systems than the even toed ungulates
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True
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____ families of marsupials occur in australia
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15
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a capuchin is a species of
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New World Monkey
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there are ___ surviving species of Order Monotremata
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3
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Richard Kilitie found a relationship between frequency of forest fires and the ___ of fox squirrels
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amount of black fur
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modern ___ are thought to be most like the first mammals
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insectivores
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wilson and reeder classify the marsupials into ___ orders
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7
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mammals have ___ jaw articulation
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dentary-squamosal
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___is a rocky semi-desert dweller
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Dorcas Gazelle
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Schmidt's Spot nosed Guenon is a species of
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Old World Monkey
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the Waterbuck is actually not found in africa, but rather in southeast Asia
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False
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orangutans are native to
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southeast asia
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the ___ is a desert dwelling antelope in africa
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Addax
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wolverines belong tot he same family as the
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Fisher
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the classification scheme used by wilson and reeder for marsupials partly emphasizes structure of the
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foot
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mammals all have ___ dentition
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heterodont
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there are no bears in africa
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false
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__ of the following is an odd toed ungulate
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Tapir
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of the following, pigs are most closely related to
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deer
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the Dingo of australia is actually a marsupial
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false
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___ families of marsupials occur in South America
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3
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neanderthals and modern humans did not coexist
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false
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the Lorises belong to the
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Strepsirrhini
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of the following groups only the __ have non-opposable thumbs
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new world monkeys
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the pollex is a technical term for
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the thumb
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neanderthals were genetically distinct from modern humans
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true
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an opposable thumb is seen in the
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catarrhini
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the Strepsirrhini broke off the main primate lineage during the
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Cretaceous
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members of the genus paranthropus apparently became specialized for a diet of
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roots and tubers
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the Tarsiers today are limited in distribution to the new world topics
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false
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Sivapithecus fossils have been found mostly in
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India
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the ___ uses its specialized third digit to tap on wood to detect insects
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aye aye
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the haplorrhini are charactized by all species having
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dry noses
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homo __ gave rise to three lineages
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ergaster
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neaderthals apparently were adapted for feeding on
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large mammals
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is now considered to be the oldest member of the human tribe
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ardipithecus kadabba
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recent discoverises indicate that the limb structure of dryopithescus was similar to that of modern
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orangutans
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there are roughly ___ species of Marmosets
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26
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the aye aye is a secretive species of the Strepsirrhini native to the philippines
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false
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the gibbons are in the same family as humans
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false
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the gibbons belong to the
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catarrhini
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the new world monkey group apparently colonized the new world in the
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tertiary
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the oldest species of ardapithecus dates back more than
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5 million years
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homo floresiensis fossils were discovered in
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indonesia
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dryopithecus died out about ___ years ago
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8 million
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the lemurs belong to the
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strepsirrhini
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is the oldest species in the genus Homo
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habilis
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the most recent fossils for neanderthals show that they died out roughly ___ years ago
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27,000
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the fossil known as "Lucy" was discovered in
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Ethiopia
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the Platyrrhini includes the new world monkeys and the
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Marmosets
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Dryopithecus was a fossil ape that inhabited
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Spain
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the hallux is a technical term for
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the big toe
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lemurs reach their greatest diversity in madagascar
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true
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one author hypothesized that neanderthals may have had a gestation period of ___ months
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11-12
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the fossa forages on
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Lemurs
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the elephant bird was native to
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madagascar
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McNabb argued that fligthlessness was common in islands because of
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reduced energy expenditures
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the Fossa is an ecological replacement for
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cats
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Sloths and anteaters are toothless
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False
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Numbats feed almost exclusively on
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ants and termites
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Pigeons and doves on islands have commonly shifted their diets toward feeding on more
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fruit
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_____ in the australian zoogeographic region fills the niche of the sloths in the Neotropics
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Koala
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species that occur in one place and are not known to occur anywhere else are said to be ___ to that area
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endemic
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Golden moles are found in the ___ Zoogeographic Region
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Ethiopian
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___ is the main effect of introduced pigs on islands
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habitat destruction
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about half of all oceanic islands were formed as a result of continental drift
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false
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the flying foxes are indigenous to the ___ zoogeographic region
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Oriental
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Islands, in general, are characterized by having
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high extinction rates
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___ is the first step in adaptive radiation
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increase in pop. size
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Extinction rates are higher where
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area is smaller
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there are some scattered grasslands habitats in the oriental zoogeographic region
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True
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the ___ was essentially a flightless pigeon in the Mascarene Islands
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Dodo
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flightless cormorants are native to the ___ islands
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Galapagos
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the Wombats of australia are convergent with ___ of north america
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groundhogs
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in the 1970s, 12,000 ___ were introduced to washington state from south america for sport hunting
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tinamous
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the ___ on guam has been implicated as the major agent for extinctions in forest birds
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brown tree snake
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elephant shrews are found only in the ___ zoogeohraphic region
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ethiopian
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Atkinson argued that ___ were a major threat to hawaiian forest birds
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rats
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Darlington observed a relationship between species number and
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island area
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widow birds are native to the ___ zoogeographic area
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ethiopian
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___ is an example of a group that has undergone adaptive radiation in islands
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darwins finches
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the nearctive zoogeographic region shares several groups of birds and mammals with the ___ zoogeographic region
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Palearctic
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___ came up with the notion of zoogeographic regions
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Wallace
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on madagascar the ___ is a tree climbing predatory species of the old world weasel family Eupleridae
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Fossa
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the fairy wrens are native to the ___ zoogeographic region
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Australasian
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the leafbirds are found in the ___ zoogeographic region
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Oriental
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tortoises filled the niche of large grazing herbivores
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on islands near the equator
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zoogeographic regions are based chiefly on
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evolutionary history
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tortoises survive today in the indian ocean only on the island of
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Aldabra
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the opposite extreme of a completely random distributional pattern is a completely ___ pattern
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nested
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if the bird fauna in a series of fragments is nested then the mammals and flowering plants would also have to be nested
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False
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of the following, ___ is an example of a species that is endangered by road in Florida
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black bear
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smaller fragments of habitat might not support a species because there is
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not enough food
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the idea that corridors could serve as landscape linkages came from
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Harris
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Bolger and his team did not explicitly test the degree of isolation ofa fragment age was important
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True
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Bolger and his team found that the effect of reducing area of habitat was
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greater in fragments
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Bolger and colleagues tested the notion that a pattern of nestedness might be due simply to
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sampling
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smaller fragments tend to have relatively more ___, which can increase predation pressure
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edge
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land managers cleared pinyon-juniper woodland in the Piceance Basin using
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chaining and burning
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the most vehicle cause black bear deaths in florida have occurred in the
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ocala national forest
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because of the impact of roads on certain species, the FWC ad DOT
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built tunnels under some roads
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the chief predators of small woodlands birds in the Piceance Basin are
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hawks
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in a completely nested pattern all the three species fragments would have
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the same 3 species
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once the pinyon juniper woodland was cleared the areas were seeded with
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crested wheatgrass
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between 1976 and 2004 about ___ bears were killed on florida roads
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1356
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the Piceance Basin is in
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western colorado
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Neotropical migrants are all passerine birds
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False
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in a completely nested fauna, the best strategy would be to protect
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as single large area
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Bolger and his colleagues studied the distribution of ___ in chaparral fragments and plots
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birds
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in the Piceance Basin, some birds species of the pinyon juniper woodland would not cross even the smallest cleared areas
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True
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according to long's book on introduced birds the highest number of bird species has been introduced to
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Hawaii
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the __ was introduced from eurasia to the great lakes where it has been...
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Quagga Mussel
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the eurasian collared dove came to the US when it was intentionally introduced to central park in new york city
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False
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___ were introduced to cane fields in australia to control cane grubs
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Cane Toads
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Green Crabs were introduced to the US from
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europe
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the only surviving wild population of one humped camels occurs in
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australia
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Zebra mussels may concentrate toxins in their tissues that ultimately poison certain species of
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diving ducks
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according to Leveer's book on naturalized mammals the highest number of mammal species has been introduced to
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New Zealand
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english colonists introduced ___ into Lake Victoria
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Nile Perch
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Green Crabs were first reported on the west coast of the US in
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1989
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colonists from ___ brought House Sparrows to hawaii
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england
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ladybird beetles were introduced to ___ to control a leaf scale insect that was destroying native cedar trees
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Bermuda
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the Red-billed Leiothrix was introduced to hawaii from
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china
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the majority of introduced bird species are invasive and spread great distances from their point of introduction
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False
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the Hui Manu was an Acclimatization society in
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Hawaii
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according to an ohio state university report __ once were commonly introduced to the US in bunches of banas
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tarantulas
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___ is an example of a mammal introduced to control rats in cane fields
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small indian mongoose
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as many as 38 species of passerine birds were released in tahiti
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for aesthetic reasons
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the eurasian collared dove spread over Europe after it was introduced to
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Turkey
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___ were introduced to Laysan Island to produce a food supply for future visitors to the islands
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Guinea pigs
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Burmese pythons in everglades national park were likely introduced by
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private citizens
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Zebra mussels were first seen in the US in __ in 1988
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Lake St. Clair
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Sea Lampreys invaded the Great Lakes following
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construction of canals
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according to a book by Meshake, there are __ species of introduced geckos in florida
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13
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according to Moulton there are fewer examples of introductions to Ldc's than Mdc's
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true
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according to michael huston species from ___ seem to dominate the invasion process
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eurasia
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as many as 11 species of deer have ben introdced to ___ for recreational hunting
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new zealand
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___ were introduced to Bermuda to control introduced Anolis lizards
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Great Kiskadees
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a Dinoflagllate species that causes red tides were introduced to ___ ships ballast
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Tasmania
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the ___ is a small (3inches in length) introduced species that eats the same foods as several native north american crabs
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Asian Shore Crab