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Video: Hunters and Hunted
1. When is life most intense?
2. a. What was the three brother cheetah’s mistake?
b. What did the cheetahs successfully hunt the second time?
3. a. Do most hunts succeed or fail?
b. What does the Greater Bulldog bat hunt?
4. a. What purpose does “play” as a youngster in many mammals serve?
b. What strategy does the Stoat (a type of weasel) use to capture (It kills it by biting
through the spinal cord.) the rabbit?
5. a. What is a mammals most sophisticated weapon?
b. What can be combined with brain power for a winning formula?
6. a. In what country is the only wolf of Africa found?
b. what is unusual about how these wolves hunt?
7. a. What surrounds the nostrils of a Star-nosed mole?
b. In what two environments can a Star-nosed mole hunt for food?
8. a. What type of symbiosis – mutualism, commensalism or parasitism is exhibited by
the deer and the monkey?
b. Should you run from what you can’t see? Why or why not?
9. a. Why does the Ground Squirrel rub the paste of the rattlesnake on her body?
*b. What is mimicry?
c. Can the squirrel’s behavior be called a type of mimicry?
10. What is the largest predator found in the dolphin family?