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animals behavior
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Travels between the poles yearly and sleeps while flying | Arctic tern |
| Moves north in spring for pasture and water, back in winter | Wildebeest |
| Walks about thirty miles downhill, the shortest land migration | Dusky grouse |
| Heads south to escape deep snow, since running is its only defense | Pronghorn |
| Spawns in the Sargasso Sea and dies there after fifty years or more | American eel |
| Hatches in fresh water, matures at sea, returns to breed and die | Chinook salmon |
| Follows memorized river odors back to the exact spawning ground | Coho salmon |
| Returns across thousands of miles to the beach where it hatched | Green sea turtle |
| Monotreme, an egg-laying mammals | Platypus and Echidna |
| Classic case of rapid selection during the industrial era | Peppered moth |
| Species in which Lorenz first observed imprinting | Graylag goose |
| Followed Lorenz after he mimicked a mother duck’s call | Mallard duckling |
| Has neurons large enough to see without a microscope | Sea slug |
| Pecks at the red spot on a parent’s beak, and harder at a red pencil | Herring gull chick |
| Model organism whose sleep patterns revealed the circadian genes | Fruit fly |
| Caches food, hides decoys, and re -caches once unobserved | Scrub jay |