Conservation and Animal Behaviour and Welfare

Question 1

What does ‘in situ’ mean

Answer 1

In the natural habitat

Question 2

What does ‘ex situ’ mean

Answer 2

animal in captivity

Question 3

What is adaptive breeding?

Answer 3

Rescuing animals and hope one day they’ll go back to their natural habitat

Question 4

What is conservation breeding?

Answer 4

Put them in captivity to breed and let them out again

Question 5

Example of an animal that needed a captive breeding programme because it was extinct in the wild

Answer 5

Socorro dove

Question 6

Example of highly selective breeding

Answer 6

Canna mouse sniff each other with tubes and build a barrier towards the partner they want

Question 7

What animal shows homosexual behaviour?

Answer 7

Male guppies because there is an absence of female conspecifics so they do their courtship displays to each other.

Question 8

Some species saved by conservation and put back into the wild

Answer 8

Hawaiian geese,
Mountain chicken frog,
White rhino,
Arabian oryx

Question 9

What is a positive effective state?

Answer 9

Keeping animals suited and adapted to their environment

Question 10

What is animal welfare?

Answer 10

The state of an individual as it attempts to cope with its environment (Broom, 1988)

Question 11

How do animals show they are not coping?

Answer 11

Self-directed behaviours such as weaving and pulling out feathers.
Constant fight or flight response.
Changes in endocrine system

Question 12

Example of a self-directed behaviour

Answer 12

Parrots pull out their feathres because they over groom themselves

Question 13

For good welfare, animals need to be…

Answer 13

autonomous

Question 14

What is an appetitive behaviour?

Answer 14

the doing is more important than the end result

Question 15

What is a consummatory behaviour?

Answer 15

animal is reaching for a particular goal

Question 16

What does Melfi’s 2009 evidence-based animal management show?

Answer 16

How to give animals good welfare.

Question 17

How can animals be given good welfare?

Answer 17

Captive provision.
Husbandry
Enclosure design

Question 18

What is reference testing?

Answer 18

a way of improving management to get better quality welfare

Question 19

What is behavioural husbandry?

Answer 19

provides keepers with a dynamic new set of tools to help promote the well-being of animals in their care. … For example, animals have learned to get on scales to be weighed

Question 20

Research shows that female Chacma baboon’s young live longer if…

Answer 20

She has more friends. She will also have a better immune system

Question 21

What is the grandparenting affect?

Answer 21

Investing in your genes through multi-levels. This increases chances of your genes survivng.

Question 22

Example of a grandparenting animal

Answer 22

Warbler birds

Question 23

What did Foster et al find about whales?

Answer 23

Males whales die soon after their mother does showing they have control of social position.

Question 24

What is cuckoldry

Answer 24

In evolutionary biology, the term is applied to male animals who are unwittingly investing parental effort in offspring that are not genetically their own.

Question 25

Kin selection is shown in which rodent?

Answer 25

Ground squirrels as males do not live near genetic relatives but females do

Question 26

What is captive breeding?

Answer 26

For endangered animals to help them reproduce and not be extinct

involves “the ark paradigm”.

Question 27

What does conservation breeding involve?

Answer 27

involve integration with in situ projects.