| Answer Key Find and Track Animals | |
| 1. Which of the animals in the quiz might you find in your neighborhood? Have you ever seen any of these tracks? Where? | |
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Answer: Answers will vary; for example, “I live in the northeastern United States where one might expect to find raccoons, squirrels, opossum, deer, badgers, and cottontails. I have only seen tracks of raccoons, squirrels, deer, and rabbits in my backyard and around the lake near our house.”
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| 2. Which mammal track have you seen before outside? Did you know what animals made the track when you found it? | |
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Answer: Students should list at least one mammal track that they have come across.
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| 3. Have you ever seen a bird track outside? What bird do you think made the track? | |
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Answer: Answers will vary. Students should list a bird whose tracks they have observed. Ducks make very obvious tracks. Other birds are harder to tell the difference.
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| 4. What clues did you use to help you identify the different tracks? | |
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Answer: Answers will vary. Students may mention size, toes, heel, depth of track, shape, etc.
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| 5. Did you make any wrong guesses? What other clues would help you in the future to make correct animal track identifications? | |
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Answer: Answers will vary. Students should mention that they can consider the placement, shape and size, position of the toes, etc.
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| 6. Explain why using camera traps are better than human observation when tracking animals. | |
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Answer: Camera traps are valuable because they can be left in a given location for long periods. A person would have a difficult time remaining quietly in one place. Cameras are also not afraid of dangerous predators such as tigers. Finally, camera traps can take pictures of animals at night.
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| 7. What was hard about using a Crittercam? | |
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Answer: It is difficult to attach and then retrieve the Crittercam.
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