Feeding and foraging

Question 1

What is a generalist in terms of foraging?

Answer 1

Selects a wide range of food and a wide range of foraging behaviours

Question 2

What is an example of a generalist forager?

Answer 2

a fox

Question 3

What is a specialist in terms of foraging?

Answer 3

Selects one particular type of food found in only one particular habitat

Question 4

What is an example of a specialist forager?

Answer 4

a panda

Question 5

What is a highly selective or concentrated feeder?

Answer 5

Choses only highly nutritious content

Question 6

Example of a highly selective feeder

Answer 6

Giraffe

Question 7

What is a bulk feeder?

Answer 7

Processing the entire plant

Question 8

Example of a bulk feeder?

Answer 8

Elephants

Question 9

Does a high basal metabolic rate (BMR) make you eat more or less often?

Answer 9

More often

Question 10

Animal example of high BMR

Answer 10

Hummingbird eating every 20 minutes

Question 11

Does a low basal metabolic rate (BMR) make your at more or less often?

Answer 11

Less often

Question 12

Animal example of low BMR

Answer 12

Crocodiles eating once a year

Question 13

What is a torpor?

Answer 13

Mini-hibernation of hummingbird each evening where it reduces respiratory rate to reduce energy usage

Question 14

What is an ectotherm?

Answer 14

Dependent on external sources of body heat

Question 15

Example of an ectotherm

Answer 15

Frogs

Question 16

What is an endotherm?

Answer 16

Dependent on or capable of internal generation of heat (developed using ATP)

Question 17

Example of endotherm

Answer 17

bears sleeping in caves

Question 18

Does colour indicate nutritional content of berries?

Answer 18

no

Question 19

How does the black rhino digest anti-nutrients

Answer 19

By using tannin-binding proteins

Question 20

When capuchin monkeys see other members eating a familiar food, what is their response to novel food?

Answer 20

more accepting

Question 21

What does neophobic mean?

Answer 21

Dislike of new things

Question 22

What is a facultative carnivore?

Answer 22

Animal which selects meat when available but has other opportunities

Question 23

Example of a facultative carnivore

Answer 23

dog

Question 24

What is an obligate carnivore?

Answer 24

Needing the amino acid taurine found only in meat. needs meat.

Question 25

Example of an obligate carnivore?

Answer 25

cat

Question 26

What is the optimal foraging theory

Answer 26

To forage optimally. Eat as much as possible using the least amount of energy consumption

Question 27

What is marginal value theorem?

Answer 27

The animal must ask the question “at what point do I leave my current feeding patch to go and find a new one?”
Therefore the animal is debating;
Potential energy available at current patch.
Energy available in new foraging areas.

Question 28

How red knots use a lot of energy when foraging?

Answer 28

they eat from beach shore so fly up every time a wave comes which uses energy

Question 29

What is the giraffes trade-off for being optimal?

Answer 29

eating in large groups to spot predators earlier

Question 30

What is an extremophile?

Answer 30

been building over evolutionary history a set of behaviours it can use in an environment that no one else wants to live in.

Question 31

Example of an extremophile

Answer 31

Flamingos being in water that gives 3rd degree burns