Collars, Calls and a Comeback: teacher key

African Wild Dogs, grade 8 edition, written for 8th grade. GPS collars show how far a wild dog pack runs and travels in a day. Wild dogs greet each other with rallies, call with a bell-like sound and, in Mozambique, have returned to a park they left long ago.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did the collars on the Botswana pack record about a chase?
   • The average chase covered about 447 meters (answer)
   • Every chase lasted an hour
   • The dogs never chased
2. What is a hoo call?
   • A greeting after rest
   • A bell-like sound from a lost or separated dog (answer)
   • A howl like a wolf's
3. How many wild dogs were returned to Gorongosa National Park in 2018?
   • 14 (answer)
   • 140
   • 4
4. Why is the 80 percent impala figure given with a warning?
   • The collars did not record prey; the paper took it from earlier work (answer)
   • The dogs ate no impala
   • It was measured by satellites
5. Wild dogs were gone from Gorongosa for more than 25 years. What does the 2018 return tell you?
   • People helped wild dogs come back to a place they had left (answer)
   • Wild dogs never lived there
   • Wild dogs left again at once
6. What does rallies mean in: social rallies?
   • Greeting ceremonies (answer)
   • Long races
   • Dens

Words

• collars: tracking neckbands
• rallies: greeting ceremonies
• prey: hunted animals
• weaned: off mother's milk
• littermates: pups born together