How the Greater flamingo Lives

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which documentary location is most likely to feature a wild Greater flamingo?

savannas, grasslands, and dry open woodlands shallow saline lagoons, mudflats, and coastal wetlands dry grasslands, shrublands, and desert plains dry forest, savanna, and coastal scrub on Indonesian islands

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which natural buffet would be most useful to a Greater flamingo?

worms, small molluscs, crustaceans, and organic material tiny animals, algae, or plant cells depending on species algae, tiny crustaceans, molluscs, and aquatic larvae rodents, rabbits, insects, fruit, eggs, and scraps

Question 3 · multiple choice

A researcher checks a Greater flamingo's movement log. Which pattern is most believable?

travels and feeds by day and builds a new sleeping nest mostly active at dusk and night often active in dim light and at night feeds by day or night in suitable shallow water

Question 4 · multiple choice

A footprint-and-motion survey follows a Greater flamingo. Which result is most likely?

wades, swims, and flies in long formations moves through trees by deliberate climbing and flexible arm reaching walks and digs, can swim, and may cross water by holding its breath walks along the bottom and swims with tail waves

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation would be most useful to a Greater flamingo in its normal environment?

spines protect the back while a long sticky tongue gathers prey comb-like bill structures filter food while the head is held upside down heat-sensing facial pits locate warm prey in darkness skin cells change colour and texture while flexible bodies squeeze through gaps

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which reproductive strategy is used by a Greater flamingo?

females bury eggs on sandbanks and guard hatchlings near the river gives birth to live young in shallow nursery areas one chalky egg is laid on a mud-mound nest eggs develop through larval and pupal stages before adulthood

Question 7 · multiple choice

What would a behavioural scientist most likely report about a Greater flamingo?

mostly solitary and communicates through web vibrations mostly solitary except for mothers, cubs, and temporary gatherings mostly solitary except mothers with cubs and brief pairings breeds and feeds in large, noisy colonies

Question 8 · multiple choice

Why might conservationists monitor a Greater flamingo as part of a whole ecosystem?

stirs wetland sediment and links microscopic food to larger predators eggs feed migrating shorebirds and adults disturb seafloor sediment feeds within tiny moss and soil food webs controls rodents and disperses seeds from fruit

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which reaction would be natural for a threatened Greater flamingo?

roars, displays teeth, and defends territory cooperatively forms dense groups and flies to safer open water leans back on its tail and delivers strong kicks if trapped uses camouflage, a muscular tail, claws, teeth, and venom

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A greater flamingo its lightweight skeleton and air sacs help such a large bird fly efficiently.

True False