How the Nine-banded armadillo Lives

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which documentary location is most likely to feature a wild Nine-banded armadillo?

deciduous forests of North America tropical evergreen and moist deciduous forest cool freshwater canals and lakes around Mexico City warm forests, scrub, grasslands, and stream edges

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which natural buffet would be most useful to a Nine-banded armadillo?

insects, grubs, worms, fruit, and small animals fish, squid, crustaceans, and rays small insects and other arthropods wood-boring larvae, insects, seeds, nuts, and sap

Question 3 · multiple choice

A researcher checks a Nine-banded armadillo's movement log. Which pattern is most believable?

travels and feeds across day and night during vast migrations mostly active at dusk and night most active on exposed mud during suitable tides workers forage by day when weather permits

Question 4 · multiple choice

A footprint-and-motion survey follows a Nine-banded armadillo. Which result is most likely?

swims continuously with long front flippers uses muscular pectoral fins to skip and crawl over mud walks and digs, can swim, and may cross water by holding its breath flies between flowers and walks and dances inside the hive

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation would be most useful to a Nine-banded armadillo in its normal environment?

large eyes spot distant danger while bare legs release heat a specialised mucus coating prevents the host anemone from stinging it book gills exchange gases and can function briefly while kept moist on land bony skin plates protect the body while claws open soil and nests

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which reproductive strategy is used by a Nine-banded armadillo?

one fertilised egg usually divides into four genetically identical young males construct hanging nests that females inspect before choosing eggs are laid on leaves above water and tadpoles drop into the stream releases eggs and sperm into water where larvae develop

Question 7 · multiple choice

What would a behavioural scientist most likely report about a Nine-banded armadillo?

colonies contain millions of specialised workers mostly solitary and follows scent trails while foraging breeds and feeds in large, noisy colonies mostly solitary, gathering around large carcasses

Question 8 · multiple choice

Why might conservationists monitor a Nine-banded armadillo as part of a whole ecosystem?

regulates mid-level predators and prey in marine food webs preys on small invertebrates and feeds larger animals aerates soil and consumes many soil-dwelling insects creates cavities later used by other birds, bats, and insects

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which reaction would be natural for a threatened Nine-banded armadillo?

camouflage protects caterpillars while adult tails misdirect bats retreats to canopy and uses a powerful bill if cornered hides, swims away, and can regrow damaged limbs jumps vertically when startled and digs rapidly for cover

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A nine-banded armadillo is the largest living rodent.

True False