Title: Welcome Wolves! Please . . . .
1Welcome Wolves! Please . . . .
- 1. Get out your index card and make sure your
name is on it!! - 2. Read the board.
- 3. Get out a piece of paper for notes
2Why are species disappearing?
- Hey if we dont know why its broke, we cant
fix it!
3Subsistence Hunting
- Hunting to meet personal need
- Bushmeat in Africa and South/Central America
4Commercial hunting
- Poaching Hunting the wrong
- Species
- At the wrong time
- In the wrong amounts
- In the wrong places
5Superstitious beliefs
6Pest control
7Competition with introduced species
8Scientists estimate that every year in the United
States alone, cats kill 1.4-3.7 billion birds and
approximately 12 billion small mammals, including
rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks.
- Feral animals (escaped from domestication)
9Pollution
- DDT Bald Eagle/Brown pelican
- Beluga whale PCBs
- Biomagnification accumulation of toxins as they
move up the food chain
10Pet Trade
11Slow loris not a good pet. Just no.
12Habitat Loss
- Similar terms
- Habitat alteration
- Habitat fragmentation
13Check for understanding
- What is the 1 reason that species become
endangered? - How is a superstitious belief about an animal
different from the medicinal argument for
protecting a species? - What is biomagnification?
- What is the difference between subsistence
hunting and commercial hunting? - How is hunting different from poaching?
14Characteristics of species which make them likely
to be endangered
- Some species are at greater risk to begin with.
- Some species will never be endangered.
15They are specialists
- Specialist Panda ONLY eats bamboo
- Specialist needs helmet to survive
16Have attractive fur/feathers/attributes
17Take a long time to reach maturity, reproduce,
and produce only a few offspring at once
18Limited habitat
19Genetically similar
20High on the food chain
21Check for understanding
- Why would an animal high on the food chain be
likely to become endangered? - Name three characteristics of a species (besides
high on the food chain) that make it likely to
become endangered.
22Homework tonight
- Wildlife management tool
- Explain it, provide example
- Be ready to teach yours to the class tomorrow!