Tag: animal senses
Questions Related to animal senses
Which of the following animal sleeps most of the time during the winter season?
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Sloth
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Dog
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Lizard
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Cat
There are two kinds of organisms; regulators and conformers. Regulators are those who can maintain their internal body temperature according to the external environment. Example: dog, cat, sloth etc.
Hibernation is also called as
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Winter sleep
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Summer sleep
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Autumn sleep
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None of the above
Aestivation is the summer sleep and hibernation is the winter sleep. They are taken so as to avoid the harsh temperature. It is a dormant phase where the metabolic rate is lowered. For example, Polar bears hibernate and crocodiles aestivate.
Sloth remains awake for
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7 hours a day
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17 hours a day
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20 hours a day
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2 hours a day
Sloth has a very low metabolic rate, it sleeps a lot. It sleeps around 15-18 hours a day. A sloth can lower its heart beat rate. After garden snail, sloth is the slowest animal.
How many hours do a day cow sleep?
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5-8 hours
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3-4 hours
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10-15 hours
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20 hours
- Cows usually sleep around 3-4 hours a day. But it doesn't happen in a single go, but instead for shorter periods of time.
- A cow takes frequent naps throughout the day and especially the night, which typically last between one and five minutes at a time.
The longest sleeping animal is
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Lizard
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Horse
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Python
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None of the above
- A lizard generally sleeps around 60-80 seconds but its longest sleep can be 4 hours.
- A horse can sleep up to 3 hours a day.
- A python being the longest sleeping animal can sleep around 2 weeks continuously.
Sloth is considered as folivores because
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They sleep for 17 hours.
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The bulk of their diets consists of buds, tender shoots, and leaves.
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They are carnivores
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None of the above
A folivore is an organism that is a specialized herbivore and eat leaves. Sloth is an animal that feeds on leave buds and tender shoot. Due to the low metabolic rate, they don't have to eat much. So, they only eat leaves to survive.
Sleeping time of sloth is
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6 hours
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5 hours
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17 hours
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None of the above
Which of the following animal sleeps only 30 minutes per day?
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Cow
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Cat
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Sparrow
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Giraffe
- Giraffes have the shortest sleep requirements of any mammal, with an average of just 30 minutes per day.
- They sleep in a reclined position with their long necks curled right round and their heads resting on their rears.
Which of the following is called as aestivation?
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Sleeping in winters
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Sleeping in summer
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Sleeping in Autumn
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None of the above
Aestivation is a state of prolonged sleep during summer, exhibited by certain animals in response to high temperature and arid conditions. Example - frogs and toads, bees, salamander etc.
Unihemispheric sleep is the sleeping patterns in which
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Animal sleeps for five hours
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Sleep with just one-half of their brain, while the other half remains alert for predators.
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Animals hibernate
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None of the above
In Unihemispheric sleep, also known as asymmetric slow-wave sleep, one half of the brain is in deep sleep, a form of non-rapid eye movement sleep and the eye corresponding to this half is closed while the other eye remains open. It keeps the organism alert for predators.