AY Honors/Mammals - Advanced/Answer Key
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1. Have the Mammals Honor
2. What mammals in your locality are protected by law? Why?
3. How do the processes of birth and care for the young differ in monotremes and marsupials from all other orders of mammals?
4. Name five different ways in which mammals protect themselves and their young, and cite an example of each.
5. What mammals are agents for the transmission of tularemia, bubonic plague, trichinosis, and rabies?
- Tularemia
- Rabbits are a major agent for the transmission of Tularemia, which is also known as rabbit fever.
- Bubonic plague
- Rodents, primarily rats are responsible for the spread of bubonic plague.
- Trichinosis
- Trichinosis, also called trichinellosis, or trichiniasis, is a parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products infected with the larvae of a species of roundworm Trichinella spiralis, commonly called the trichina worm.
- Rabies
- About 50% of the rabies cases in the United States are found in raccoons, though dogs, cats, skunks, and bats are also common sources of the disease. All mammals are susceptible to rabies.
