Wild Animal Study: Mammals & Fish

Specific Questions: Mammals

• Which of the featured species make use of dens?
• In which of the featured species do both parents help raise the young?
• In which of the featured species is the male of the species a threat to the young?
• In which of the featured species does the male for the most part ignore the young?
• Which species is the most numerous in the Riverwood Ecosystem? Which is least? Which is absent?
• How are the various species well suited for their environment?

 
Specific questions: Animals

• How can the animals in these videos be classified?
• What does each group of animals have in common? (I.e. covering, body parts, food selection, needs)
• Which animals are shown using plants for food?
• How do the animals move about?
• Which animals do you think might be found where you live?
• Which animals migrate north and south? Why do they do this?

 
Specific questions: White-tailed Deer
White-tail Deer Videos

• How are white-tail deer adapted to their environment?
• Why are fawns spotted?
• When are fawns born? Why then?
• What habitats do whitetails prefer?
• What is the rut?
• What are antlers? How do they grow?
• Do whitetails migrate?

Specific questions: Salmon Series​
Salmon Videos
Specific questions: Salmon Series
The videos focusing on the Credit River salmon represent the first major themed-set of videos in this series. Many of the questions posed here are answered in the support material available on line or in the video.  To aid students I’ve included a series of videos on British Columbia’s salmon run so that they could compare and contrast the two environments.
 
Questions on the Credit River Salmon Run

• How many types of salmon are there in North America?
• How can these species be grouped?
• What is the major difference between Atlantic and Pacific salmon?
• What is the salmon migration?
• When does it occur?
• What is spawning? Milt? Redd?
• When were Chinook salmon introduced into the Great Lakes
• Why were Chinook salmon introduced into the Great Lakes?
• What other salmon were introduced into the Great Lakes?
• How did people think they could manage them? Did this prove to be the case? Why? Why not?
• What happened to the Ontario salmon?
• What are the problems with reintroducing them?
• Can these salmon be consumed?
• What effect do they have on the river’s ecosystem?
• What are the fishing regulations around salmon?

Questions on Brown Bear/Red Salmon and Credit River Salmon

• When the salmon return to their native streams and rivers on the west coast to spawn what predators to they meet on their journey? In the ocean? Along the river?
• What physical barriers do the west coast salmon face as they journey up stream?
• When the salmon return to their native streams and rivers that feed Lake Ontario to spawn what predators to they meet on their journey?
• What physical barriers do the Lake Ontario salmon face as they journey up stream?
• What would a food chain look like for west coast salmon’s ecosystem?
• What would a food chain look like for Lake Ontario salmon’s ecosystem?
• Why are salmon important to their ecosystems?
• Why are healthy salmon runs important to people?
• How would the Lake Ontario’s salmon ecosystem have looked 200 years ago? 

 

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