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Lives in fresh water but goes to salt water to spawn
Pacific Sea Perch |
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The study of Herps
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| Where and how did animals and plants get to where we find them today? |
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| South America and Africa were connected until continental drift occured |
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Caecilians
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Frogs and Toads
Invasive fungus Chytriodiomycosis
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| Only frog that has a tail, extension of the cloaca |
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American Bullfrog
Invasive species |
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Cane toad
Toxic animals
Invasive species |
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Bony Skeleton
Four limbs
Smooth skin, produce venom
Endotherms
Urea from their kidneys |
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Internal fertilization
Endothermic animals
Amniotic eggs
Parahyletic-contains last ancestor |
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| Crocodiles, Alligators, and Caiman |
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Embryo
Amniotic fluid
Yolk
Albumin
Amnion |
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| Order Squamata Characteristics |
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Nucleated red blood cells
Ability to see in infrared |
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| Western Diamondback Rattle Snake |
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| Class Aves Synapomorphies |
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Nucleated red blood cells
Air sacs for high efficiency respiration
Hollow neumatic bones-attach to air sacs and lungs
External incubation
Endothermic |
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Evolution Flight in Birds Hypothesis
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| Ground dwellers that were on the ground learned how to fly from gliding |
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Evolution Flight in Birds Hypothesis
2) Tree Down |
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Gliding from high up to lower and subsequent development of flight
Some frogs and lizards can glide |
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| Raptors-Hawks and Falcons |
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Albatross and Petrels
(excrete salt from their noses and salt glands) |
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Vane
Shaft
Quill
Follicle |
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| Give aerodynamic shape to the birds |
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Provide major insulation
Located under the contour feathers
Do not have barbules |
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| High speed, long distant flights |
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| High maneuverability (chickadees) |
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| German who studied imprinting in birds |
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First person to work on migration
Invented the Emlen cone, geomagnetic system |
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| Number of offspring left to next generation that is able to reproduce |
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Sandhill-migrate to Gulf coast and then back north
Whooping-All captured so they could nest, began to think that they were humans (imprinted) |
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Albatrosses
Mate for life
Live up to 50 years and have one baby every other year |
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| Gardner and Campbell 1986 |
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Cestodes
Linstowia-South American marsupial |
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| Mammalogist that wrote Desert Calling |
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| Class Mammalia Characteristics |
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Hair
Mammary glands
Endothermic
7 cervical vertebrae
Decidious teeth (baby teeth)
Pinnae (outer ear) |
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19 orders
Non-placental:
-Order Marsupial
-Order Monotremata |
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| South American Water Opposum |
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Short-tailed shrew
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Smallest mammals
Holarctic region-Asia, N. America, and Europe |
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| Order Carnivora Synapomorphies |
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Intestine with no cecum
Large canine teeth
Carnassial teeth-used for cutting meat/bone
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Dogs, wolves, foxes
Canis lupus-wolf |
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| When one animal ends up on another continent |
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North-South
Great American Interchange |
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| Camelids, Alpacus, Vicunas, Llamas |
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South-North
Great American Interchange |
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| Armadillos, marsupials, and ground sloths (extinct) |
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Splendid Isolation
Wrote about Great American Interchange with Larry Marshall |
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| Beavers, rats, pocket gophers, squirrels |
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Porcupine, Ctenomys, Viscacha, Capybara
Enlarged interorbital fenestua
(Hole in the head for nerves) |
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| Space between the incisors and molars |
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Rabbits
Skull with 4 teeth top and bottom |
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