The Lion Challenge

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which landscape is most suitable for a wild Lion?

coral reefs, lagoons, seagrass beds, and rocky shallows tropical forest floors and disturbed habitats in the Americas shallow saline lagoons, mudflats, and coastal wetlands savannas, grasslands, and dry open woodlands

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which description best matches the natural diet of a Lion?

medium to large hoofed animals, plus smaller prey when available plants, seeds, fruit, insects, and small animals zooplankton, small crustaceans, algae, and food scraps worms, small molluscs, crustaceans, and organic material

Question 3 · multiple choice

A tracking tag records the daily rhythm of a Lion. Which pattern is the best match?

often hunts at dawn, dusk, or night usually rests by day and becomes more active from dusk onward adults fly at night active by day and travels between fruiting trees

Question 4 · multiple choice

A motion camera records a Lion. Which description should appear in the observation notes?

uses fin ripples for slow travel and jet propulsion for escape flies with broad wings and long twisting hindwing tails stalks low before a short, powerful chase flies with deep wingbeats interrupted by glides

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation would a biologist correctly connect to a Lion?

spined raptorial legs snap forward to seize prey uneven ear openings and a facial disc pinpoint sounds in darkness heat-sensing facial pits locate warm prey in darkness rough tongue papillae help scrape meat from bones and groom fur

Question 6 · multiple choice

What would a researcher most reasonably record during the breeding cycle of a Lion?

cubs are born hidden and later introduced gradually to the pride chicks hatch in a ground colony and are fed regurgitated fish females bury eggs on sandbanks and guard hatchlings near the river gives birth to live young in shallow nursery areas

Question 7 · multiple choice

How is a Lion most likely to organise its everyday social life?

males call from leaves and may guard egg clutches lives in prides with related females, cubs, and a coalition of males mostly solitary but gathers at dense food patches mostly solitary and communicates through web vibrations

Question 8 · multiple choice

A habitat manager explains why the Lion matters. Which explanation is accurate?

disperses seeds and consumes varied dryland foods feeds and ventilates its host while receiving protection limits some herbivore populations and provides leftovers for scavengers eggs feed migrating shorebirds and adults disturb seafloor sediment

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which field observation would show a Lion defending itself?

inflates into a difficult-to-swallow shape and may contain tetrodotoxin soldier workers bite while smaller workers may ride leaves to deter parasites forms dense groups and flies to safer open water roars, displays teeth, and defends territory cooperatively

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A lion cannot roar like a lion but uses chirps, purrs, growls, and calls.

True False