Tuesday 13 May 2014

Birds Q&A

Read this Science article. Here are the answers. What are the questions?

A. stellar
Q: What is the reputation level of the drongo.

A. 25% 

Q:  How much percent of the time do they use a ruse to obtain a tasty morsel they have caught sight of, inside a fellow bird's beak. 

A. 50

Q: During the time the birds were observed, the researchers recorded perfect warning call imitations of 50 desert dwellers. 

A. shaped like a fork

Q: What shape does the bird look like that starts to emanate alarm calls of one of the numerous other desert species that they have learnt to mimic perfectly.

A. mimicry

Q:  they are the first ones known to be smart enough to use it to their advantage and even change the tune if the first one fails to work.

A. to obtain another animal’s
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Q: Why do the fork tailed Drongo mimic clear bird warnings.

A. the animal with food hears an alarm call from its friends, drops the food and runs.

Q: What happens when an animal hears an alarm call?

A. ruse
Q: The definition of the answer is to trick, stratagem or to artifice.

A. pied babblers, sociable weavers and even mammals like meerkats
Q: What are just some of the bird call's the Drongo can mimic?

A. hawks and eagles
Q: What predators are Drongo's no afraid of? 










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