How the Secretarybird Lives

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which documentary location is most likely to feature a wild Secretarybird?

Arctic sea ice, coasts, and nearby islands steep rocky mountains and alpine valleys cold, dark groundwater caves of the Dinaric karst open African savanna and grassland

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which natural buffet would be most useful to a Secretarybird?

snakes, lizards, rodents, insects, and young birds milkweed as caterpillars and flower nectar as adults fruit, leaves, seeds, insects, and occasional vertebrate prey ants and termites taken from many colonies

Question 3 · multiple choice

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

rests in shade during heat and feeds in cooler hours hunts mainly by day often hunts by day and rests during hottest hours activity follows food patches and can continue day or night

Question 4 · multiple choice

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

hops using elastic hind-leg tendons and balances with a heavy tail walks, sprints briefly, swims, and follows scent trails walks long distances and stamps prey with rapid powerful kicks swims steadily by sweeping the rear body and broad tail

Question 5 · multiple choice

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

large splayed hooves spread on snow and sharpen for digging in winter a flexible leathery shell and heat-saving circulation allow deep cold dives keeps skin and mouth surfaces moist to exchange gases out of water long legs keep the body away from biting prey

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which reproductive strategy is used by a Secretarybird?

a pair raises chicks in a large flat nest in a tree eggs are laid on rock and guarded and fanned by the male females bury clusters of eggs in beach sand lays eggs that develop through miniature juvenile stages

Question 7 · multiple choice

What would a behavioural scientist most likely report about a Secretarybird?

groups share babysitting, teaching, sentry, and feeding duties pairs defend broad territories and may hunt separately mostly solitary outside courtship and mothers with young mostly solitary outside breeding

Question 8 · multiple choice

Why might conservationists monitor a Secretarybird as part of a whole ecosystem?

pollinates flowers and feeds many predators despite chemical defence disperses seeds and alters insect colonies while using tools controls rodents, insects, and some venomous snakes limits social-insect colonies without usually destroying an entire nest

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which reaction would be natural for a threatened Secretarybird?

relies on camouflage, size, and strong forepaws when threatened relies on camouflage and inaccessible cliffs rather than confronting threats hides in crevices and survives long periods with little food uses precise stomps rather than putting its face close to dangerous prey

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A secretarybird swallows stones that help grind food inside the gizzard.

True False