Tuesday 13 May 2014

Bird Q & A

Read this Science article. Here are the answers. What are the questions?

A. Stellar
Q. What reputation has the drongo gained


A. 25%
Q. How much percent of the time do they use them as a ruse to obtain tasty morsel they caught sight of, inside a fellow birds beak.


A. 50
Q. How many warning calls did researches perfectly imitate


A. Shaped like a fork
Q. What shape does the bird look like that starts to emanate alarm calls of one of the numerous other desert species that they have learnt to mimc perfectly


A. Mimicry
Q. What did the fork- tailed drongos master 


A. To obtain another animal’s food
Q. Why does the fork- tailed drongo mimic other birds warning calls


A. The animal with food hears an alarm call from its friends, drops the food and runs.
Q.What happens when a bird hears an alarm call


A. Ruse
Q. What is a fake warning call


A. pied babblers, sociable weavers and even mammals like meerkats!
Q. Name 3 of the 50 desert dwellers that were imitated by researchers

A. Hawks and eagles
Q. What birds normally get's threatened in there nest



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