Hunting exam 2

Question 1

Animal Welfare vs Rights

Answer 1

W: Concerned with the ethical treatment of animals

R: Animals are on the same wavelength and humans should not hunt or use them at all

Question 2

PETA & HSUS

Answer 2

Animal Rights Organizations

Question 3

trophy hunting misconceptions

Answer 3

waste of meat, hunting extinct animals, rich elitists, hunting just to mount on a wall

Question 4

what is trophy hunting?

Answer 4

hunting because an animal has a desirable characteristic

Question 5

what is a trophy?

Answer 5

memento of the hunt, preserves animal beauty.

Question 6

IUCN

Answer 6

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Question 7

chamois subspecies/species

Answer 7

11 including the American Mountain Goat

Question 8

ibex species/subspecies

Answer 8

14

Question 9

tur species/subspecies

Answer 9

Dagestan, Kuban, and mid Caucasian

Question 10

3 species of markhor

Answer 10

Bukharan, Astor, Kashmir

Question 11

GSCO

Answer 11

Grand slam club Ovis

Question 12

species in the Capra world slam

Answer 12

chamois, tahr, ibex, tur, markhor. (goats)

Question 13

species in the Ovis world slam

Answer 13

sheep

Question 14

North American sheep

Answer 14

bighorn, snow sheep, argali, blue sheep, mouflon, urial and tur

Question 15

does predator management always work?

Answer 15

not unless it is done intensively

Question 16

4 conditions of effective predator management

Question 17

4 basic needs of animals

Answer 17

food, water, habitat, and space

Question 18

what percentage of north American animals are hunted?

Answer 18

11%

Question 19

What makes a game animal a game animal?

Answer 19

they have desirable characteristics

Question 20

R selected VS K selected. Can both be hunted?

Answer 20

R: Low survival w/ high reproduction
K: High survival w/low reproduction

Question 21

extinct species due to regulated hunting?

Answer 21

laughing owl, passenger pigeon

Question 22

what is carrying capacity?

Answer 22

the maximum size of a population that can be withstanded in an environment

Question 23

what is a harvestable surplus? what mechanism produces it?

Answer 23

when a species produces more young than can survive to the following year.

Question 24

why do animal populations not grow exponentially?

Answer 24

predation ensures that not every animal capable of reproducing will do so

Question 25

what are the parameters of a population that decide whether it will increase or decrease?

Answer 25

predation, food, water sources

Question 26

What is fish and wildlife management?

Answer 26

Application of scientific and technical principles to fish/wildlife populations and habitats to obtain a desired outcome.

Question 27

3 ways we actually MANAGE wildlife

Answer 27

Manage populations, manage habitat and manage humans

Question 28

what is habitat management

Answer 28

providing animals with what they need, so they can use it effectively

Question 29

compensatory VS additive harvest mortality

Answer 29

C: Harvesting ones that would have died anyway A: Harvesting animals in addition to the ones that die from natural cause.

Question 30

what is a non native species

Answer 30

a species living outside of its native distributional range

Question 31

reasons we have non native species

Answer 31

usually for the benefit of humans. lots of food plants are not native to the US.

Question 32

3 bad non native species

Answer 32

wild pigs, carp, fire ants, and cogongrass

Question 33

3 good non native species

Answer 33

basically all food plants and honeybees

Question 34

common problems of introducing non native species

Answer 34

habitat altercations, loss of biodiversity, disease, predation on native species and competition with native wildlife

Question 35

how are translocations of animals used in wildlife management?

Answer 35

They can help manage populations as well as habitats

Question 36

has there ever been a sustained population through the release of pen reared birds

Answer 36

yes there has, in a 1995 study in alabama

Question 37

why would someone high fence?

Answer 37

to keep animals in, but keep others out

Question 38

pros of high fencing?

Answer 38

closed population, which allows for better management of select animals

Question 39

cons of high fencing?

Answer 39

not considered fair chase and cannot be entered into record books

Question 40

what are some current issues with high fencing?

Answer 40

conflicts with trust doctrine, unethical, and gives hunting a bad rep to the public. Similar to hunting in a big petting zoo

Question 41

who is Sean Finley?

Answer 41

hunting expert

Question 42

Where does Sean work?

Answer 42

signature lodge

Question 43

Why did Sean come talk to the class?

Answer 43

to describe how the pheasent hunting operation works