Primate Lab Quiz Prep

Question 1

What species of primates do they have at the Wildlife learning center

Answer 1

Common marmosets, squirrel monkeys, and ring-tailed lemurs

Question 2

What is the mission of the Wildlife Learning center and what did they start out as?

Answer 2

Started out as an outreach program.
Mission: Provide a haven for animals that need rescuing as well as provide education to other people through things like tours, outreach, presentations, and other educational outreach methods

Question 3

Enrichment at Wildlife Learning Center

Answer 3

Newspaper, cardboard boxes, iced B.E., various browse (hibiscus)

Question 4

Other types of animals at Wildlife learning center

Answer 4

North American porcupines, American alligator, Sulcata tortoises, Desert tortoises, Scarlet and Harlequin macaws, Blue and Yellow Macaw, Two-toed sloth, Reticulated pythons, bearded dragon, five prehensile-tailed skinks, bearded dragons, Canadian lynx, bobcat, two bald eagles, two red-tailed hawks, two melanistic red foxes, gray fox, servals, eurasian eagle owl, black-tailed prairie dog, Fennec fox, madagascan hissing cockroaches, and a common raven

Question 5

What is the purpose of animal tracks

Answer 5

Animal Tracks provides a home for animals that were rescued from the illegal pet trade or otherwise in need of a home. They are a non profit organization that works to educate people about animals while providing them with an up-close and personal experience

Question 6

What species of primates at Animal Tracks

Answer 6

White-faced Capuchin, Tufted Capuchin, Hamadryas/mix Baboon, Macaque, and Marmosets

Question 7

What species of primates at Gibbon Center

Answer 7

There were Northern White- cheeked gibbons, Javan gibbons, Siamang gibbons, Pileated gibbons, and Hoolock gibbons

Question 8

Types of enrichment at the gibbon center

Answer 8

Multiple food drops a day, red ball, firehose, hammocks, branches, platforms, paper enrichment

Question 9

What primate is housed in the rainforest exhibit at the Santa Ana Zoo

Answer 9

Howlers

Question 10

What two species of lemur do they have at Santa Ana

Answer 10

Ring tail and White-Ruffed

Question 11

What are the different species of new world primates at Santa Ana

Answer 11

Brown headed spider monkey, White-faced Saki, Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin, Crested Capuchin, Emperor Tamarins, Dusky Titi monkeys

Question 12

What species of ape is at Santa Ana (lesser ape)

Answer 12

White headed Gibbon

Question 13

How many species of primates at Santa Ana

Answer 13

11

Question 14

What were the mixed species enclosures at Santa Ana

Answer 14

Porcupine with black and white colobus

Question 15

Enrichment at santa ana

Answer 15

I saw puzzle feeders, boxes with paper, hanging balls, firehose, woven nets, a hanging bucket with straw, balls, and there was food in some enclosures

Question 16

Signage about primate conservation at Santa Ana

Answer 16

There was one large sign that listed the primate species in the area and next to their species name it gave their conservation status of each primate. There was also another sign in a different spot that talked about the conservation status of the Golden lion Tamarin and the Black and White Ruffed Lemur specifically as vanishing exotic species. Captive breeding brought back the Golden lion tamarin from extinction and 1993 was when the first captive born Black and White Ruffed Lemur raised babies in the wild after being reintroduced

Question 17

Primate species at LA zoo

Answer 17

Crested capuchins
Orangutans
Western lowland Gorillas
Mandrills
Chimpanzees
Golden cheeked gibbon/ Siamang
Black howler monkeys
Geoffroy’s spider monkey
Blue eyed lemur
Coquerel’s sifaka

Question 18

What training is the LA zoo doing with the orangutans

Answer 18

trading and pre-maternal training

Question 19

Enrichment at LA zoo

Answer 19

Food enrichment, firehose, swings, ladders, bubbles, boomer balls, rocks and sticks that the capuchins made tools out of, jars and boxes with shavings, mealworms, iced B.E., jello and oatmeal stuffed pinecones, nuts, paper mache, spices, paper bags, and browse