PA Mammals:
Skulls, Tracking, Fur, Scat Review
Quiz Wed. 12/17/14
You should be able to:
1. Describe the characteristics of mammals:
a. Those unique to mammals
b. Those shared with birds
2. Identify a skull as a carnivore, omnivore, or herbivore animal and explain how you determined the answer.
3. List distinguishing characteristics or identify canine, feline, bear, weasel, rabbit, deer scat.
4. Explain how researchers use data provided by scat and describe a current study involving scat evidence.
5. Identify an animal based on the evidence it leaves behind. (scat, tracks, skulls, fur)
6. List and describe functions of mammalian fur.
7. Label the structures of fur/hair.
8. Tracks, scat, skulls that are fair game: opossum, raccoon, red fox, black bear, skunk, beaver, squirrel (generic), deer, elk, bobcat, coyote