Wildlife Quiz 2013

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Wild Tech

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1. Identify XY ?

Built by Y, XY mounds are amazing architectural

feats complete with

arches, tunnels, chimneys,

insulation and nursery chambers.

The mounds are aligned

north to south to minimise the exposure to the sun.

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Magnetic Termite Mounds in Litchfield National Park, Australia

The orientation of the nest is north-south which points like a compass

needle. Hence the common name – magnetic termite.

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2. FITB

The world's largest _______

Dam (about 850 metres) was

discovered in Wood Buffalo

National Park in Northern

Alberta, Canada using satellite

imagery in 2007 .

This woodland construction was

more than twice the length of

the Hoover dam and can be

seen from space

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Cont…

Construction

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Clue…

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Beaver Dam

They build dams, as protection

against predators such as coyotes,

wolves, and bears, and to provide

easy access to food during winter.

It’s the only animal which builds dam.

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3. Identify this ground squirrel ?

This North American rodents lives in larger

communities called towns.

Their burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping

quarters, and even toilets. They also feature

listening posts near exits, so animals can safely

keep tabs on the movements of predators outside. Chambers located at different depths in the soil

serve different purposes.

The nursery, for example, is located deep in the

soil where the temperature is more stable and

young ones are better protected from predators.

The largest recorded town in Texas, covered

65,000 KM² and was home to an estimated 400

million of them.

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Prairie Dog

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4. What is the purpose of Pit’s in Pit

Vipers ?

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Infrared sensing organ (Heat

Sensors)

Pit Viper, a poisonous snake with a deep pit on each side of the

head, between the eye and the nostril. The pits are sensitive to heat

and help the snake find warm-blooded prey, such as birds and

rodents.

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Conservationists

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5. Identify the narrator and the

animal being described ?

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David Attenborough & Platypus

Duck - bill and webbed feet

Beaver - tail

Otter - body and fur

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6. Identify the X ?

Dr. Birutė Mary Galdikas (born in 1946), is

a primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author of

several books relating to the endangered X.

For almost four decades she has studied and worked

closely with the X of Indonesian Borneo in their natural

habitat, and is today the world’s foremost authority on the X.

She stars in the IMAX feature documentary Born to Be Wild 3D, released in April 2011 and narrated by Morgan Freeman.

The name “X” literally translates into English as “man of the

forest”.

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Orangutan 17

7. Identify the British Primatologist ?

Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, she is

best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of

wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

What is the name of the primatologist and ethologist best known for

her 45-year study of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park,

Tanzania ?

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Clue…

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Clue

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Jane Goodall

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8. True life story of ?

She is an American zoologist who

undertook an extensive study of gorilla

groups over a period of 18 years.

She studied the endangered gorillas of the

Rwandan mountain forest for two decades

before her unsolved murder occurred in

1985, at Volcanoes National Park in

Rwanda.

She told her story in the book ‘Gorillas in the

Mist’ (1983), which was later adapted for a

film.

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Dian Fossey 22

9. Connect

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Leakey’s Angels

Leakey's Angels is a relatively recent name given to three women sent by

archaeologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments.

1) Birutė Galdikas - Orangutans

2) Jane Goodall - Chimpanzees

3) Dian Fossey - Gorillas

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10. Identify the Person ?

One of the world's most distinguished scientists, X is

a professor and honorary curator in entomology at

Harvard. He is the father of socio-biology and his

biological specialty is myrmecology, the study

of ants, on which he is considered to be the

world's leading authority.

X’s 2007 TED Prize speech was the catalyst for

the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Its an online

species database which went live in February

2008.

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Dr. E. O. Wilson

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11. Identify X and Y ?

X is a village located in the Shimoga district in the state

of Karnataka. It is among the places in India that receive

very heavy rainfall earning it the sobriquet, "Cherrapunji

of the South".

X Rainforest Research Station was founded in 2005, by

leading Indian herpetologist Y. Y saw his very first king

cobra here in 1971.

Its the only permanent rainforest research station in India

and Y calls this place capital of King Cobra.

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Clue…

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Agumbe Rainforest Research

Station & Romulus Whitaker

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12. Identify the bird ? (Video)

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Clue…

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Lyrebird

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Written Round

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Know the Difference

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13. Identify 35

1 2

14. Id the cats ? 36

1 2 3

15. What is being characterised?

European Version Asian/Chinese Version

Evil Benevolent, Sacred, Luck

Wings Wingless

Lizard like or Feline like Serpentine

No whiskers Whiskers

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Fire No Fire

16. Identify the two group of monkeys ?

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Movies

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17. Identify the character from the

below movie quote ?

“ I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here, it

came to me when I tried to classify your species and l realized that

you're not actually mammals.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops an equilibrium with

the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an

area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is

consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area.

There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern.

Do you know what it is?

A virus.

Human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet.

You are a plague. And we are the cure.”

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18. Identify Film Label and Day ?

2009 2010 2011

Cont…

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2012 2014

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19. Identify the movie ? 43

20. Which dog breed ?

Scooby-Doo, the famous Hanna-Barbera character, was based on

which dog breed ?

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Was made by Filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand

who worked for free for 3 years to make the film

Was first released on June 5th, 2009

simultaneously via cinemas, DVD, Internet & TV

Was shot entirely from the air, filmed in 120

locations in over 50 countries

Was shown on gigantic screens in front of the

Eiffel Tower to a crowd of 50,000+

Was shown during the Bonjour India Festival in Mumbai, intro by Shahrukh Khan

21. Which movie ?

22. Connect

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Answers

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13. Identify 48

1 2

13. 49

2 1

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14. Id the cats ? 51

1 2 3

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14 53

15. What is being characterised?

European Version Asian/Chinese Version

Evil Benevolent, Sacred, Luck

Wings Wingless

Lizard like or Feline like Serpentine

No whiskers Whiskers

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Fire No Fire

15. Dragons

European Chinese / Oriental

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16. Identify the two group of monkeys ?

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16. New & Old World Monkeys

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17. Identify the character from the

below movie quote ?

“ I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here, it

came to me when I tried to classify your species and l realized that

you're not actually mammals.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops an equilibrium with

the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an

area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is

consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area.

There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern.

Do you know what it is?

A virus.

Human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet.

You are a plague. And we are the cure.”

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17. Agent Smith

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18. Identify Film Label and Day ?

2009 2010 2011

Cont…

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2012 2014

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• Disneynature is an independent film label of The Walt Disney Company, founded on April 21,

2008 as a division of the Walt Disney Studios.

• Headquartered in Paris, France, it is the only Disney subsidiary headquartered outside the

United States

18. Disneynature & Earth Day (22nd April) 62

19. Identify the movie ? 63

19. Madagascar

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1. King Julien XIII - Ring Tailed Lemur

2. Maurice - Aye-Aye

3. Mort - Mouse lemur

20. Which dog breed ?

Scooby-Doo, the famous Hanna-Barbera character, was based on

which dog breed ?

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20. Great Dane 66

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Was made by Filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand

who worked for free for 3 years to make the film

Was first released on June 5th, 2009

simultaneously via cinemas, DVD, Internet & TV

Was shot entirely from the air, filmed in 120

locations in over 50 countries

Was shown on gigantic screens in front of the

Eiffel Tower to a crowd of 50,000+

Was shown during the Bonjour India Festival in Mumbai, intro by Shahrukh Khan

21. Which movie ?

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22. Connect

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22. Furious Five – Kung Fu Panda

1. Monkey - Gee's Golden Langur

2. Crane - Black-necked Crane

3. Viper - Green Tree Viper

4. Tigress - South China Tiger

5. Mantis - Chinese Mantis

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23. Identify the place ? 71

Valley of Flowers

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24. Identify the Tribe

This countries flag consists of colour black symbolising black majority, red for the bloodshed during the fight for

freedom and green for Land; the white fimbriation was

added later and symbolizes peace and honesty. The

black, red, and white traditional _______ shield and

two spears symbolize the defence of all the things mentioned above.

The _______ could be the most known tribe outside that

country especially for tourists, since we have a famous

National Reserve in the same name in that country.

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Kenya & Maasai 74

25. Which Country’s National

Flowers ?

1. National flower - Jasminum sambac

2. Flower of charm - Moon Orchid

3. Rare flower - Rafflesia arnoldii

All three were chosen on World Environment

Day (5th June) in 1990.

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Indonesia 76

26. Identify this Hummingbird?

(video)

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Those feathers grow up to six inches long, which is three or four times the

bird’s body length, and each of them ends in a large violet-blue disc; the

racket-shaped ‘spatules’ that give the bird its name and which can each be moved independently of the other.

Marvellous Spatuletail

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27. Shadow of Death

Even though their scales are grey/brown in

colour why its called Black Mamba ?

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Named after their mouth colour

They get their name from the black of the inside of their mouths, which they display when threatened.

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28. Funda ?

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Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations

Surpass 400 PPM Milestone For the first time in human history, the concentration of carbon

dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million (ppm).

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29. Identify the Country ? 83

Video

Mexico

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30. Identify the ‘Living Fossil’ ?

Fossils show that the X dates back to around 450 million years ago

and has changed very little over the last 250 million years.

Its blood is a distinctive blue colour thanks to the fact that it contains

Y-rich haemocyanin as opposed to iron-rich haemoglobin.

A protein in the blood called Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) is

used by pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to test

their products for the presence of endotoxins, bacterial substances

that can cause fevers and even be fatal to humans.

The LAL test is one of the most important medical products derived from a marine organism to benefit humans.

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Pic…

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Horseshoe crab, Copper

Despite their common name, horseshoe crabs are not crabs but

are related to arachnids and are the closest living relatives of the

now extinct trilobites

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31. Which term ?

_________ is the ecological state of being unique to a defined

geographic location, such as an island, nation or other defined

zone, or habitat type.

These species are especially likely to develop on biologically

isolated areas such as islands because of their geographical

isolation.

They can easily become endangered or extinct if their restricted habitat changes, particularly but not only due to human actions,

including the introduction of new organisms.

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Endemism / Endemic

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32. X and Funda ?

Dodo : Mauritius

Elephant bird : Madagascar

Moa : X

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New Zealand Flightless extinct birds

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33. Name this Pinta Island giant

tortoise?

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Lonesome George

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34. Chytrid fungus is a threat to

which class of animals ?

Chytridiomycosis is an infectious

disease of X, caused by the chytrid

(Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), a

fungus which is found only in water or

moist environments.

Although habitat loss clearly poses

the greatest threat to X, this newly

recognized fungal disease is seriously

affecting an increasing number of

species around the world.

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Amphibian Today, a major threat to frogs is the chytrid fungus.

One in three of the world's amphibians are on the International Union

for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) red list of endangered species.

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35. Identify this worlds rarest cat ?

It’s the world's most endangered

feline species. There are real fears

that it may soon become the first cat

species to become extinct for at least 2,000 years.

No feline species has gone extinct

since the saber toothed cat

(Smilodon) perished 11,000 years ago.

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1980 2003

Iberian lynx

Only some 225 of them in the wild.

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36. Which Indian Bird ?

With less than 200 left, this magnificent bird can be the first mega

species to go extinct in India since the cheetah.

One of the largest flying bird species found in the world today.

This Critically Endangered terrestrial bird was once widespread across the grasslands of India and Pakistan, but today is confined to

small fragmented patches within India.

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Pic…

clue

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Great Indian Bustard

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37. Complete the List

1. Mudumalai

2. Kalakkad Mundanthurai

3. Anamalai

4. _______________

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Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve

These are 4 Tiger Reserves in Tamilnadu.

The Indian government declared the forests

of Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary a

Tiger Reserve on March 15, 2013.

An estimated 25 tigers live here.

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38. What’s unique about this format

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WWF is a modification of the open

standard PDF format for document

exchange endorsed by the World Wide Fund

for Nature.

The WWF format is promoted as being more

environmentally friendly than other

comparable document exchange formats.

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A PDF that cannot be printed out SAVE AS WWF, SAVE A TREE

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39. Identify the program ?

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Apps for Apes

The non-profit Orangutan Outreach

is collecting donated iPads for its

new Apps for Apes program.

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40. What is being shown here ? 107

Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

The last wild population of the Asiatic Lion is found in the Gir

Forest region of the state of Gujarat. The single population faces the

threats of epidemics, natural disasters and other anthropogenic

factors.

The project aims to establish a second independent population

of Asiatic Lions at the Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary in the Indian state

of Madhya Pradesh.

Judgement was delivered on 16 April 2013, permitting the

reintroduction of lions to Kuno over-ruling the objections of the

Gujarat Government.

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41. Agreement to protect which

animal ?

The International Agreement on the Conservation of _____ was

signed in Oslo, November 15, 1973 by the five nations consisting of

Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, the United States, and the

former U.S.S.R

Its scientific name is ‘Ursus maritimus’.

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Polar Bear

Mainly found within the Arctic Circle in the below countries,

1. Denmark (Greenland)

2. Norway (Svalbard)

3. Russia

4. United States

5. Canada

The main threat to polar bear populations is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss, which is caused by global warming and the resulting reduction of the sea ice cover.

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42. A tale of two tiger reserves

X and Y are India’s big cat experiment labs as both lost them due to

poaching and the government re-introduced tigers from similar

landscape to create a new pool.

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Tiger Reserves X Y

State Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan

Extinct Feb 2009 2004-05

Reintroduction March 2009 2008

Panna (MP) & Sariska(RJ)

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43. Identify this world's most

abundant wild bird ? (video)

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Red-billed Quelea

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Ad Zone

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Bluefin Tuna

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45. Ad by ?

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Cont…

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Greenpeace

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46.

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Natural Resources Defense Council

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THANKS

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