How the Banded archerfish Lives

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which documentary location is most likely to feature a wild Banded archerfish?

high grasslands and mountain plateaus under human care tropical and subtropical seas, seagrass beds, and nesting beaches tropical sandy seabeds, lagoons, and coral reefs mangroves, estuaries, and lowland streams

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which natural buffet would be most useful to a Banded archerfish?

insects, spiders, crustaceans, and small fish bamboo leaves plus fruit, eggs, insects, and small animals deer, peccaries, capybaras, reptiles, fish, and other prey insects, spiders, worms, and other forest-floor invertebrates

Question 3 · multiple choice

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

active by day hunts mainly by day near the water surface usually active by day hunts by day in warm conditions

Question 4 · multiple choice

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

climbs trunks with two toes forward, two backward, and a stiff tail brace glides over ground, climbs, and swims swims below branches and makes precise surface approaches flies forward, backward, sideways, and can hover

Question 5 · multiple choice

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

forked tongue samples airborne chemicals while serrated teeth and venom weaken prey uses the sun, moon, and polarised sky light to travel in a straight line massive jaws and crushing premolars allow it to process bones fires a focused jet of water to knock insects from leaves

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which reproductive strategy is used by a Banded archerfish?

eggs drift in open water and receive little parental care the queen lays eggs and workers feed larvae different diets a foal can stand and follow its mother soon after birth young are raised in a tree hollow, den, or building cavity

Question 7 · multiple choice

What would a behavioural scientist most likely report about a Banded archerfish?

mostly solitary outside mothers with young often gathers loosely where overhead prey is common mostly solitary and strongly territorial around rich flower patches males defend calling sites while parents provide unusual care

Question 8 · multiple choice

Why might conservationists monitor a Banded archerfish as part of a whole ecosystem?

influences bamboo growth and disperses seeds from eaten fruit regulates many prey species as a top predator moves insect energy from land into aquatic food webs turns and mixes forest litter while hunting invertebrates

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which reaction would be natural for a threatened Banded archerfish?

spits mainly during disputes and gives alarm calls at threats uses a hard shell and powerful swimming to escape threats ejects sticky tubes or internal organs in some species and later regrows them dives quickly and uses sharp dorsal spines if swallowed

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A banded archerfish stores air in its enlarged mouth chamber to supply eggs inside an underground burrow.

True False