Back to Zookeeper School(*SPECIAL QUIZ*)

Dear zookeeping pupils,
welcome back to school. Although the summer was filled with zoo exploration and passive animal observation, it's time to get back to more serious zoo endeavors.

In the last week, Zookeeper Blanche and I took a trip to the Minnesota Zoo to enjoy the animals and prepare a special post-Labor day quiz.

The highlight of our zoogoing trip was the exhibit on Japanese macaques. Although they have small, difficult to spot tails, the macaques are monkeys and not apes. Macaques are known for being a gregarious bunch. They are quite intelligent and are seen in nature teaching each other human-like behavior, such as washing certain foods before eating them and cleaning one another's coats. They are also one of the few monkey species to tolerate a cold winter.

As a back to school exercise, feel free to take the macaque quiz below.

1. Which of the following behaviors is not included in a Buddhist adage inspired by Japanese macaques?
a) Speak no evil
b) Hear no evil
c) See no evil
d) People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

2. Which of the follow viruses is common among macaques but does not cause symptoms in the monkey?
a) Hepatitis A Virus
b) Hepatitis B Virus
c) Hantavirus
d) Rabies Virus
e) West Nile Virus

3. Macaques attack tourists and frequently steal cameras at which of the following historic sites?
a) The Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza
b) The Emperor's palace in Kyoto
c) The rock of Gibraltar
d) The Creation Museum near Cincinatti, Ohio

4. The macaque pictured at the right is in the midst of assembling which of the following snow structures?
a) Cave
b) Fort
c) Man
d) Reproduction of Jeff Koon's modern art masterpiece "Puppy"
e) Pagoda

5. Which of the following is not a staple of the Japanese macaque's diet?
a) Termites
b) Fruit
c) Nuts
d) Seeds
e) Flowers


See the Next post for the answers