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More and more, nowadays, people are looking for contact with nature. Be it for profession or passion, manypeople go to natural places in search of a little peace and, why not, to try to spot some beautiful creature. But wild animals are elusive, and often one is disappointed by the little to none sighting of the local fauna. However, animals leave behind many indications of their presence. To a careful eye this reveals a world full of animals, made up of traces, scats, footprints and other signs . In fact, one of the most used methods for the study of wild animals is indirect observation.
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Biology, Natural sciences, Investigate, Investigator, Detective, Addresses, Nature, Animals, Mammals, Birds, Vertebrates, Footprints, Traces, Signs, Tracks, Footprints, Details, Riverca, Animal behavior, Recalls, Food remains, Deduce, Deductions, Eye attentive, Discover, Retrace, Observe, Understand, Indirect information, Discover, Wild boar, Wild boars, Cat, Cats, Dog, Dogs, Deer, Deer, Mouse, Mice, Badger, Badgers, Fox, Foxes, Otter, Otters, Horse, Horses, Bat, Bats, Bear, Bears, Wolf, Wolves, Have them, Have it, Prey, Made, Feces, Hunts, Rabbit, Rabbits, Hare, Hares, Competition
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40
Questions
5 min
Per question
3:59
Average time
4.2
Contest Score
8
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Educational explanations. 👍 Explanations cover why the correct answers are correct and why the wrong answers are wrong (when appropriate). E.g.: #q1, #q2, #q3 etc.
Note: There are however few typos in some explanations and answers.E.g.#q15, #q34, #q4
"Which animal is this footprint from?"
Answers:
"An acquatic bird"
Problems:
acquatic => aquatic
Question:
"Which animal is this footprint from?"
Explanation:
"Otters are semi-acquatic and their footprints have a interdigital membrane which forms a line betweens the fingers. Sometimes their footprints are palmigrade"
Answers:
"Acquatic bird"
Problems:
semiacquatic => semiaquatic
Acquatic => Aquatic
Question:
"Looking at the picture, can you tell the maker of this action?"
Explanation:
"Shrikes are birds member of Lanius genus, they impale their prey on thors, barbed wire and brambles, to have food stocks, to eat easly and to seduce females"
Problems:
thors => thorns
easly => early
Question:
"Knowing this, imagine to find a plant that seems to be cut by a shear, what would you think?"
Answers:
"The plast was carved by insectivorous loking for larvae, as moles and shrews"
"The plant was eaten by lagnomorphs, as rabbits and hares"
Problems:
plast => plant
loking => looking
lagnomorphs => lagomorphs
Question:
"We all know this image, bears scartching their backs on trunks. Are they really scratching?"
Problems:
scartching => scratching
Question:
"Pellets are a sign of presence of some birds, mostly birds of prey. What is a pellet?"
Explanation:
"Pellets are the result of a peculiar digestive phenomenon particulary associated with the diurnal and nocturnal birds of prey, but also with insectivorous birds and waders"
Problems:
particulary => particularly
Question:
"Do you recognize the animal caught by the camera trap?"
Explanation:
"You can tell the red fox by a sleek shape, a long pointed snout, big ears, a long thick tail (over half of the body leght) and short paw"
Problems:
leght => length
Question:
"All the footprints fall in three categories: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligrades.In order, what are the categories of the dog and cat fooprints?"
Problems:
fooprints => footprints
Question:
"Do you recognize the animal caught by the camera trap?"
Explanation:
"The European badger, Meles meles, is recognized by logitudinal strips on the head, a sturdy foundation,a stocky body and the back that points downward in the posterior part of the body"
Problems:
logitudinal => longitudinal
strips => stripes
More and more, nowadays, people are looking for contact with nature. Be it for profession or passion, many people go to natural places in search of a little peace and, why not, to try to spot some beautiful creature. But wild animals are elusive, and often one is disappointed by the little to none sighting of the local fauna. However, animals leave behind many indications of their presence. To a careful eye, this reveals a world full of animals, made up of traces, scats, footprints, and other signs. In fact, one of the most used methods for the study of wild animals is indirect observation.