The Llama Challenge

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which landscape is most suitable for a wild Llama?

films of water around moss, lichen, soil, and freshwater plants high grasslands and mountain plateaus under human care tropical and subtropical seas, seagrass beds, and nesting beaches mangroves, estuaries, and lowland streams

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which description best matches the natural diet of a Llama?

zooplankton, eggs, larvae, and tiny drifting animals insects and other spiders grasses, shrubs, hay, and other fibrous plants insects, spiders, worms, and other forest-floor invertebrates

Question 3 · multiple choice

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

active by day usually active by day feeding and migration activity varies with season and river flow feeds by day and rests while ruminating

Question 4 · multiple choice

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

walks sure-footedly on padded two-toed feet climbs trunks with two toes forward, two backward, and a stiff tail brace glides over ground, climbs, and swims swims upstream using bursts, leaps, and precise current reading

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation would a biologist correctly connect to a Llama?

comb-like bill structures filter food while the head is held upside down dense fibre insulates the body while efficient digestion handles sparse forage forked tongue samples airborne chemicals while serrated teeth and venom weaken prey wide mouth and filter pads separate tiny prey from huge volumes of water

Question 6 · multiple choice

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

females lay several clutches on tropical beaches during a season eggs develop inside a water-filled burrow chamber a cria is usually born during daylight and stands quickly the queen lays eggs and workers feed larvae different diets

Question 7 · multiple choice

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

mostly solitary but gathers in huge overwintering clusters mostly solitary and strongly territorial around rich flower patches males defend calling sites while parents provide unusual care lives socially and uses communal dung piles

Question 8 · multiple choice

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

grazes with less soil damage than hard-hoofed livestock consumes plankton and feeds turtles, fish, and other predators controls many small insects turns and mixes forest litter while hunting invertebrates

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which field observation would show a Llama defending itself?

enters cryptobiosis rather than fighting or fleeing spits mainly during disputes and gives alarm calls at threats uses a hard shell and powerful swimming to escape threats dives quickly and uses sharp dorsal spines if swallowed

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A llama both females and males normally grow antlers, unlike most other deer species.

True False