What Collars Cannot Tell Us: teacher key
African Wild Dogs, grade 12 edition, written for 12th grade and up. Collar studies have shown wild dogs hunting without fixed roles, and a sneeze study and genome studies add new questions. Scientists still cannot say what the coat pattern is for, whether sneezes mean yes, or whether travelling dogs connect their populations.
Read the book. Print this page for the key.
Questions and answers
- What did the whole-pack collar study find about roles in a chase?
- Each dog took a set role
- Individual dogs took on no particular roles and never ran relays (answer)
- The pack ran relays all day
- What do scientists not yet know about a wild dog's coat pattern?
- What it is for (answer)
- How many colors it has
- Where it is found
- What does a wild dog expert want before saying sneezes mean yes to a hunt?
- More research (answer)
- Fewer collars
- A bigger pack
- How many pups does the Gorongosa report say were born in 2019?
- 2
- 29 (answer)
- 290
- By 1 April 2026 the three brothers had traveled 4,126 kilometers. Why is that not enough on its own?
- Travel between populations does not guarantee connectivity between them (answer)
- Wild dogs never travel
- They traveled only 4 kilometers
- What does connectivity mean in: genetic connectivity between populations?
- Links between groups (answer)
- A kind of collar
- A hunting call
Words
- relays: taking turns
- connectivity: links between groups
- canids: dog family
- cursorial: built for running
- quorum: enough votes