Exotics Revision Questions

Question 1

What is an exotic animals

Answer 1

An animal that is generally non native and a species that has evolved through natural selection evolutionary process such as natural selection

Question 2

What is a domestic animal

Answer 2

An animal that has been selectivity bred for a specific gene trait

Question 3

What are the methods of sourcing exotic animals

Answer 3

Poaching / wild caught
Captive farmed
Captive born
Long term captive

Question 4

What is captive farmed

Answer 4

Animals are bred farmed In there country of origin

Question 5

What are the pros of captive farmed

Answer 5

Bred in natural country and behave live naturally
Allow for tease h of habitat and behaviour
Protected and wild
Reintroduction more successful

Question 6

What are cons of captive farmed

Answer 6

Bred for non ethical reasons
Stressful being moved to another countries
Stressful seeing other animals and habitat
Welfare issues

Question 7

What is wild caught

Answer 7

Animals taken from wild and out into captivity

Question 8

What are the pros of wild caught

Answer 8

Healthy gene pool populations In captive 
More natural behaviour actions 
Research
Awareness 
Ex situ conservation

Question 9

What are cons of wild caught

Answer 9

Taken from parents to early 
Stressful 
Harder to adapt 
Decrease wild population 
Welfare issues

Question 10

What is captive born

Answer 10

Born from wild caught parents

Question 11

What are pros of captive born animals

Answer 11

Natural instincts

Less likely to show abnormal behaviours

Question 12

What are cons of captive born animals

Answer 12

Stews
Reduce wild populations
Welfare issues

Question 13

What is long term captive

Answer 13

Animals taken from wild and out into captivity for extended periods of time

Question 14

what are the pros of long term captive

Answer 14

No abnormal behaviour
No stress
Healthy stock in captivity

Question 15

What are cons of long term captive

Answer 15

Animals lose natural instincts

Reduce wild populations

Question 16

What is ethnically sourcing

Answer 16

The illegal animal trade is the 3rd largest trade in the wild and takes place all over the wold
Ethnically sourcing animals means that animals are purchased exchanged in a way that is not harmful ensuing that animals are genetically sound bred in favourable conditions and are not exploited in the pursuit of financial gain
Every effort is taken by the breeder and buyer to encourage ab ethical trade and dose not encourage damaging or illegal behaviour

Question 17

What is endothermic

Answer 17

Gain heat from metabolic action product there own heat can produce is own heat but has evolved and sparred to live in cold environment can regulate temperature by hiding the shade hight energy needs require more foods

Question 18

What is exothermic

Answer 18

It cannot regulate its own body temperature so requires an external source of heat to survive rely on external environment for heat use behaviour to regulate temperature low energy needs requires less food

Question 19

What is ultra violet light

Answer 19

The electromagnetic light so spectrum

Question 20

What are the types of violet light

Answer 20

UV-A USED FOR BEHAVIOUR

UV -B VITAMIN D CALCIUM

Question 21

What is the circadian cycle

Answer 21

Day and night

Question 22

What are the follow terms

Answer 22

Ventilation air
Water current 
Humidity water 
Salinity salt 
PH ACID

Question 23

How is temperature managed

Answer 23

Heat mat 
Ceramic bulbs 
Lamps 
Water 
Spot bulbs 
Infra red bulbs
Mercury vapour bulbs 
Aquarium heater

Question 24

What is k strategies

Answer 24

Reproduce later in life
Nature slowly
Small number of young 
Energy spent raising
Stable environment

Elephant
Deer

Question 25

What is k strategies

Answer 25

``` Reproduce early in life Mature quickly Large number of hound Energy spent producing Unstable environment ``` Frogs Rats Fish

Question 26

What are the reproductive types

Answer 26

Sexual - two parent | Asexual - one parent

Question 27

What are the methods or reproduction

Answer 27

Viviparous - live baring young Oviparous - egg baring Ovoviviparous - egg hatch inside mother

Question 28

What are the types of young

Answer 28

Altricial young - cannot hear see or thermoregulate at birth Precocial young - well developed at bird they can thermoregulate deer themselves and are mobile Semi precocial - intermittent development can see and hear but cannot move

Question 29

What is a disease

Answer 29

A disease is a disorder or abnormal condition that produces specific symptoms and has a negative impact on the structure or functions of a biological organism the disorder is not caused by an injury

Question 30

What is a pathogenic disease

Answer 30

Pathogenic disease are cause by a pathogen is a biological agent that has the potential to cause harm to disease in an organism

Question 31

What are the causes

Answer 31

``` Bacteria Protozoa Parasite Fungi Virus Prion ```

Question 32

What is a non pathogenic disease

Answer 32

A non pathogenic disease is a disease that is caused in the absence of a pathogen in other words a disease that is not caused by a pathogen

Question 33

What are the methods of a disease transmission

Answer 33

``` Direct contact Indirect contact Droplets Air born Inhalation of spores Entry onto skin Animal ```

Question 34

What is a biological vector

Answer 34

An organism which is not only transports a pathogens but also plays a role in the life cycle of the pathogens - tick

Question 35

What is a mechanical vector

Answer 35

An organism which only transmits a pathogen - fly

Question 36

What is a zoonotic diseases

Answer 36

Animal to human

Question 37

What is a notifiable disease

Answer 37

A disease legally obliged to report

Question 38

What is bacteria

Answer 38

Bacteria are prokaryotic (single celled organisms )

Question 39

How dose bacteria survive

Answer 39

Arrive at the host body surface Enter the host body Evade the host defences Infest a new host

Question 40

What is a virus

Answer 40

A non living organism that is not a cell and dose not metabolise energy they are strands of either dna or rna

Question 41

What is fungi

Answer 41

They are heterotrophs meaning they do not make their own food like plants and absorb food from their environment

Question 42

What is end parasite

Answer 42

Parasites located within the body captivity

Question 43

What is ecto parasites

Answer 43

Parasites located outside the body cavity

Question 44

What is the different between a pathogen and non pathogen disease

Answer 44

Pathogen disease are caused by a pathogen a pathogen is a biological agent that has the potential to cause harm or disease in an organism a non pathogenic disease that is caused in the absence of a pathogen in other words a disease that is not caused by a pathogen

Question 45

What are examples of a pathogen

Answer 45

``` Bacteria Virus Fungi Protists Flatworms Parasitic worms Thorny head worms Round worms ```

Question 46

What types of disease are there

Answer 46

``` Chytrid fungus Aspergillosis Necrotic stomatitis Pneumonia Psittacosis Fish tb Avian influenza Parasites Found tape gape worms Reptile mites Feather mites Metabolic bone disease Dysecydrs Dystocia Molicclusion ```