Wildlife Senses

Question 1

What is Visual Acuity?

Answer 1

The ability to form sharp images

Question 2

Example of a group with well developed visual acuity

Answer 2

birds

Question 3

What is visual sensitivity?

Answer 3

The ability to form images in dim light. Involves the tapetum lucidum

Question 4

What is the structure that helps animals have good visual sensitivity?

Answer 4

Tapetum lucidum

Question 5

What group has well-developed visual sensitivity?

Answer 5

Mammals

Question 6

Characteristics of animals with round pupils

Answer 6

actively chase down their prey in the daylight. Usually predators that don’t need to avoid attack

Question 7

Characteristics of vision with round pupils

Answer 7

Not a wide field of view

Question 8

Examples of animals with round pupils

Answer 8

Dogs, wolves and big cats

Question 9

Characteristics of animals with vertical slit pupils

Answer 9

small ambush predators that hunt close to the ground

Question 10

Characteristics of vision with vertical slit pupils

Answer 10

greater expansion so more light can get in

Question 11

Examples of animals with vertical slip pupils

Answer 11

cats, foxes, crocidiles

Question 12

Characteristics of animals with horizontal slit pupils

Answer 12

prey animals

Question 13

Characteristics of vision with horizontal pupils

Answer 13

wide field of view to scan for predators. Keeps the ground in sharp focus

Question 14

Examples of animals with horizontal slit pupils

Answer 14

sheep, goats and horses

Question 15

characteristics of animals with crescent pupils

Answer 15

live in water

Question 16

characteristics of vision with crescent pupils

Answer 16

enhances vision by decreasing distortion in water. wide field of view to watch for predators and prey. Boosted contrast

Question 17

Examples of animals with crescent pupils

Answer 17

stingrays, flatfish, catfish

Question 18

Characteristics of vision with W shaped pupils

Answer 18

light can enter from many directions to boost contrast and distance vision

Question 19

Example of animals with W shaped pupils

Answer 19

cuttlefish

Question 20

Characteristics of vision with Vertical Beaded Pupils

Answer 20

perceive distance well and can hunt in variety of environments

Question 21

Examples of animals with vertical beaded pupils

Answer 21

geckos and some fish

Question 22

Examples of signals that can come from visual cues (4)

Answer 22

Group cohesion, warnings and dominance

Question 23

Why do mammals have well-developed olfactory sensing?

Answer 23

Because of our nocturnal activity

Question 24

Which mammal group doesn’t have an olfactory lobe?

Answer 24

Cetacea

Question 25

Example of non-mammal group with highly developed olfactory lobe

Answer 25

Birds

Question 26

Examples of signals that can come from olfactory cues (5)

Answer 26

food sites, reproductive status, alarm signals, dominance, territory boundaries