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1. What is typical for intensive farming systems a) High concentration of animals Correct b) Lower price of the products for consumers Correct c) High level of animal welfare d) Indoor housing usually without bedding and with limited place Correct e) Semi-nature condition with outdoor...

1. What is typical for intensive farming systems a) High concentration of animals Correct b) Lower price of the products for consumers Correct c) High level of animal welfare d) Indoor housing usually without bedding and with limited place Correct e) Semi-nature condition with outdoor housing system 2. Choose what belongs to physical enrichment in ZOO a) Climbers, scraps, pool, bedding, shelters, boxes Correct b) Equipping the exposition only with fixed features c) Pictures, soungs recording d) Puzzle boxes and toys Correct e) Equipping the exposition with both fixed and flexible features Correct 3. Breeds of the domestic animals could be a) Is divided by the age of the animal (young versus adult) b) Is divided mainly by degree of breeding (primitive or cultural) and production c) One species with different production categories (dairy, beef) d) One species with different heritable characteristics Correct e) More species with the same heritable characteristics 4. Conditions which specify the need for keeping the animals in zoos (Czech and Slovak) are defined in: a) Code of Ethic of Union of Czech and Slovak Zoological Gardens b) EAZA (European association of Zoos and Aquaria) Minimum Standards + Best practice guidelines (AZA, EAZA) c) Recommendations of the central commission for animal welfare in Czech Republic d) WAZA minimum standards e) Code of Ethic of World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) 5. Select 3 (most valued) carcasses based on SEUROP carcass evaluation system a) S1 Correct b) E3 Correct c) U3 Correct d) P1 e) O2 6. What indicates impaired welfare during transport? a) Vomiting Correct b) Animals are mainly lying Correct c) Low pitched vocalizations d) Number of agonizing behaviors Correct e) Animals are mainly standing 7. The painfulness of a procedure can be assessed by measuring a) The number of high pitched vocalizations (squeals) b) Attach rate towards the person who provides the procedure c) Avoidance behavior d) Stress hormone concentrations e) Duration of inactivity level after the procedure 8. Aquaculture a) Product is the biomass of the aquatic organisms Correct b) Is declining industry due to generally low fish consumption c) Can breed around 20 aquatic species d) Is the industry with an increasing growth rate of 2% per year Correct e) Can breed around 580 aquatic species Correct 9. Purchase price of milk from farmers to dairy factories mainly depends on: a) % of lactose b) % of fat Correct c) Mineral and vitamin content Correct d) % of protein Correct e) Somatic cell count 10. Choose groups of organisms successfully farmed in Aquaculture: a) Neon tetra, goldfish, betta fighter b) Tilapia, Carp, Sturgeon Correct c) Giant tiger prawn, Porphyra, Pacific oyster Correct d) Peruvian anchoveta, Atlantic mackerel, stonefish e) Sword shark, Latimeria, adava kedavra Correct 11. Aquaculture farming includes: a) Cephalopods Correct b) Crustacean Correct c) Acorn worms d) Mammals e) Seaweeds Correct 12. Carcass weight is weight of 2 halves or 4 quarters of slaughtered animal without a) Head Correct b) Internal organs Correct c) Skin Correct d) Beef e) Bones 13. Fertility (ability to reproduce) in farm animals is a) Regular estrus, gravidity, health youngs and good maternal behavior in females Correct b) The ability to have a good body weight gain c) To have high quality of sperm and ability to mate in males Correct d) The ability to produce health progeny Correct e) To have optimal body size 14. Level of separation stress (weaning) can be measures by: a) Increased lying behavior b) High activity level c) Hormonal concentrations d) Vocalizations Correct e) Increased water intake 15. Reproduction a) Unipara is a female with young young per live b) Insemination is provided only in cattle c) Poly-oestrus animals have heats more than 2 times per year Correct d) Unipara is a female with young young during one pregnancy Correct e) Female fertility is categorized by regular oestrus, delivery of health young and good maternal behavior Correct 16. Which of the following are dairy cattle breeds a) Charolais b) Czech fleckvieh c) Jersey Correct d) Holstein Correct e) Brown Swiss Correct 17. What are general breeding goals in dairy cattle? a) Functional traits Correct b) Maternal traits c) High milk production Correct d) High daily weight gain e) Longevity Correct 18. How to decrease fear of humans? a) Daily visits during sensitive period Correct b) By decreasing interactions with stockpersons c) By gentle interactions with animals Correct d) With training programs to improve handling Correct e) By providing ad livitum food 19. Aquaculture produces: a) Twice less than fisheries b) 900 MT per year c) The similar yield as capture fisheries Correct d) Mainly (80%) herbivorous and omnivorious species Correct e) 90 MT per year Correct 20. Animal behavior in zoos largely influenced by visitor’s behavior. How can visitors influence the animal welfare? a) Noisy behavior like knocking or banging on the facility Correct b) Inappropriate clothing c) Teasing, laughing Correct d) Feeding the animals e) Flash photography Correct 21. What does enrichment mean? a) Concept describing how to improve social animal life b) Process of improving the environment quality of animals Correct c) Regular animal training d) Process enabling better zoo animal handling Correct e) Form of an animal and visitor entertainment 22. What is typical for domestication? a) Physiologic, exterior and productive changes b) Calm and social living animals Correct c) Complete changes in behavior of animals d) Low number of domesticated species Correct e) Resistance towards the unkind climate Correct 23. Good animal welfare: a) Means living only under outdoor (natural) conditions b) May be achieved using environmental enrichment Correct c) Provides freedom to perform natural behaviors Correct d) Is only measured by high reproduction and productive results e) Means healthy animals Correct 24. The biggest aquaculture exporters are: a) Cambodia b) Vietnam Correct c) Norway Correct d) Canada e) China Correct 25. Specify which world’s aquaculture production per year is correct: a) Crustaceans – 7MT Correct b) Finfish – 50MT c) Plants – 27MT Correct d) Crustaceans – 27MT e) Finfish – 7 MT 26. Cites convention a) Reducing illegal trade with exotic animals and plants b) Reducing illegal trade with exotic timber c) Is organization which aiming on education d) Is organization which mainly aiming on reintroduction of the animals e) Is also known as Washington convention 27. Constitution a) Means breeds for meat production b) Consists of habitus, metabolism and temperament of animals Correct c) Is the ability to have high number of youngs d) Is the ability to cope with environment Correct e) Is the result of anatomy and physiology of organism towards internal (genetic) and external environment Correct 28. Ontogeny a) Is a period between birth and puberty b) Is a period between birth and death c) Is a period between fertilization and death Correct d) Includes sensitive periods for rapid learning Correct e) Means a development of an organism Correct 29. Social behavior of animals a) Use territorial area only for reproduction b) Is typical for most of the domesticated animals Correct c) Has a benefit due to the competition between individuals d) Is typical for clear dominant and submissive relationships Correct e) Use communication systems (audial, visual) Correct 30. Typical for pigs a) Sensitive towards overheating b) Individually living animals because of the high aggression c) One nursing per 1 hour d) High ability to learn to manipulate with an equipment in the stable e) Have harem reproduction system 31. The main ethology questions are: a) Ontogeny and behavior means the development of the behavior during phylogeny (evolution) Correct b) Ontogeny and Mechanism of behavior dominate the behavior during live or during this moment c) What is the function of behavior and how the behavior helps the reproductive success of the animals Correct d) Function of Behavior is developed during ontogeny, mainly during the post-natal period e) Mechanism of Behavior is related with behavior in this moment (physiology) 32. Which of the following statement best define wildlife conservation? a) A discipline which deals with keeping and the study of the complex interaction between different life forms while factoring of the dynamism of the life itself b) A dynamic crisis discipline with a holistic approach towards maintaining the fragile balance and interactions between life forms c) A holistic crisis discipline which focuses only on the conservation of one species d) A holistic interdisciplinary crisis discipline focuses on sustaining the philosophy of balance and its high dynamic Correct 33. Horses a) Mare can be pregnant while she is nursing present foal b) Are living in the group of relative females with youngs c) Are living in the group with dominant male and group of females with youngs d) Foals are altricial types of young e) Foals are precocial and follower type of young 34. Following animals are produced in Aquaculture a) Nile tilapia b) Carpet shark c) Muraena d) Oyster e) Giant tiger pawn 35. Habituation a) Is the simplest form of learning b) Is the classical conditioning c) Is the part of maternal behavior d) Decreases of a response towards repeated stimuli e) Is one of the fundamental forms of learning 36. Typical for the behavior of the domestic cattle a) Social animals with a stale hierarchy b) Harem reproduction system c) Individually living animals because of a higher aggression between cows d) Is the synchronization of the behavior on the pasture e) Is nursing 4-6 times per day 37. The animal behavior a) Is affected by genes and environment b) Is affected only by a maternal behavior c) Is affected by combination of a internal and external factors d) Is developed only by experiences and process of learning e) Has always developed before parturition or hatching 38. Movement in the animal behavior description a) Is same for all mammals due to same phylogenic development b) Is divided to reflexes and modal active patterns typical for the individual species c) Reflexes are complicated fixed active patterns d) Can have typical sequences of the behavior , e.g walking/running e) Reflexes are not possible to affect, are unconditioned 39. Animal husbandry terminology a) Breed means one species with different heritable characteristics b) Breed means more species with the same heritable characteristics c) Population is a group of animals of the same breed d) Breed of animal is divided mainly by degree of breeding (primitive or cultural) and production e) Breed is divided by age of the animal (young versus adult) 40. Aims of modern zoos are: a) Animal training b) Conservation c) Scientific research d) Education e) Business 41. Advantages of aquaculture production in comparison to terrestrial production is: a) Polikilothermy b) Polyploidization in animals  c) Absence of irrigation d) Advanced domestication e) Homothermy 42. What is the difference between extinct and extant species? a) Extinct species are those species that are not alive anymore in the wild b) Extinct species are those species that are alive in the wild. c) Extant species are species those that are alive in the wild d) Extant species are species those that are alive in captivity e) Extant species are no longer part of ecological cycle 43. Which of the following actions can be best construed as sustainable action? a) I shop with my own reusable plastic bag b) I shop with my own reusable cloth bag c) I segregate waste and recycle d) I am mindful that the products I use are through a sustainable process e) I turn on the shower and let it run for a while before I actually shower 44. What is typical for the extensive farming a) High costs for feeding and veterinary care b) Often outdoor housing condition c) System for high productive farm animals d) Low density of the animals e) Suitable for lower productive (primitive) breeds 45. Characteristics of productive performance of broiler chickens in 21 st century: a. mortality = 20 % b. live weight = 2.50 kg c fattening period = 50 days d. feed conversion = 1.65 kg e. fattening period = 25 days 46 Why is biodiversity important? a. biodiversity is only marginally important b. biodiversity has tremendous economic value c. thanks to biodiversity ecological services are delivered d. biodiversity has great aesthetic and scientific value e. importance of biodiversity is questionable 47. Negative reinforcement a) causing decrease in behavior b) removing unpleasant consequences c) causing increase in behavior d) adding pleasant consequence e) true imitation 48. What is typical for intensive farming system? a) lower price of the products b) high level of animal welfare c) semi-natural condition with outdoor housing system d) high concentration of animals e) indoor housing without bedding and limited place 49. Polygyny is a mating system Is present in most of farm animals Where one male breeds with multiple females Where communal breeding of multiple males and females is present Was never described in bird species Which is present only in 1% of mammal species 50. Internal factors, which influence boar fertility, are following: Select one Or more: a Housing system b. Puberty c. Farmer d. Breed e. Sex potency 51. Function of play behavior Select one Or more: a. Exist only in humans and primates b. Improve social and motoric skills c. Limited animals in the grow d. Is often debatable e. Improve ability to cope with unusual situations 52. What do we consider as wildlife? Select one or more: a. animal species which were born solely in the wild b. all organisms that grow or live wild without being introduced by human c. a philosophical-environmental movement promoting the return to life in the wild d. undomesticated animal species e animal species having a wild temperament 53. Infanticide Select one or more: a. Is usually connected with decrease of own reproduction success b. Is usually connected with increase of own reproduction success C. Was described in both mammals and birds d Was described only as males' strategy e. Was described only as females' strategy 54. Which factors can negatively impact social behaviour? Select one or more: a. group structure b. mating season c. hand rearing d. hierarchical fights e. lack of offspring 55. Which of following parameters are evaluated during sensorial tests of pork meat? a. Holding capacity b. Texture c. Smell d. pH e. Colour 56. Characteristics of enriched (furnished) cages: a. Comparatively high mortality b. Low risk of diseases and infection with parasites c. Higher space availability enables submissive hens to avoid contacts with aggressive fellow hens d. Comparatively low mortality e. Better bone strength 57. Which gases belong to harmful in poultry a. NH4 b. CO2 c. H2O2 d. H2S e. NH3 58. The concept of inclusive fitness (means): a. Applies to mammals only b. Applies to all species c. The ability to reproduce my genes through my relatives d. The ability to reproduce myself e. Animals are in good condition and ready for reproduction 59. Acquired behaviour a. Develops under insufficient feeding b. Is affected by post-partum environment c. Is synonym for innate behaviour d. Is affected by social condition, housing, and nutrition e. Develops during prenatal period 60. Poultry production types include a. Combined meat/feather b. Feather c. Egg d. Combined egg/ feather e. Meat 61. What is conditioning species distribution on the planet? a. Species are distributed relatively equally b. Biotic factors c. Species distribution is predominantly random d. Abiotic factors e. Human activity 62. Enriched (furnished) cage of laying hens has to be equipped with a. Two drinking nipples b. Mirror c. Perch (15 cm/hen) d. Nest e. Floor space 550 cm2/hen 63. Which of the following herds belong to the pyramidal herd structure: a. Multiple herds b. Nucleus c. Production herds d. Herds of hybrid sows e. Herds of hybrid boars 64. The Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 were a. Ivan Pavlov b. Konrad Lorenz c. Burrhus F. Skinner d. Karl von Frisch e. Niko Tinbergen 65. Territory a. Its function could be to provide food or shelter b. Is synonym for home range c. Present in every vertebrate species d. Is always the same size as home range e. Area where the holder is dominant against others and prevents others to enter 66. Precocial young a. Exists only in birds b. Can be found mainly among predators c. Are able to move shortly after delivery d. Are absolutely dependent on the maternal care e. Can be found mainly among herbivores 67. Among the aims of reproductive performance of sows belong a. stillbirth (%) = 8 b. live born piglets/sow/year = 28 c. litter weight (kg) = more than 22 d. litter weight (kg) = more than 10 e. infertility (%) = less 7.5 68. The behaviour is affected by a. A combination of genes and environment b. Level of selection c. Experiences d. Interactions with other animals e. Only genes 69. The increased level of work in Zoos together with the increase of the zoo animal population, brings the need for controlled breeding due to the unbalanced sex ratio of offspring and the limited capacity of zoo. How can we ensure a sustainable population and the animal future in the zoos? a. By castration of male surplus animals b. By temporary breeding regulation, e.g using contraceptives or keeping bachelor groups c. By sale surplus animals outside zoos d. By no breeding over represented descendant of the most represented founders and to support the breeding of the less represented founders and the descendants e. By euthanasia of surplus/over – represented individuals as one of the population management tools 70. What are the general release recommendations provided by IUCN in their ‘’Guidelines for Reintroduction and Other Conservation Translocations’’? a. The release is performed only at the beginning of the day b. The animal release takes a place within its indigenous range (apply to population restoration) c. Exclusion of local communities from reintroduction conservation program is recommended d. Appropriate habitat with adequate food resources has to be secured e. Sex ratio between released individuals must be equal 71. Select correct statement/s a. EAZA Zoos members are an important part of EX-situ conservation b. In-situ conservation activities in the natural habitat of targeted species c. ‘’CITES’’ provides a global platform for the conservation and sustainable use of migratory animals and their habitats d. Hard release method enhances survival skills development in translocated animals e. Population restoration includes Assisted colonisation 72.Sensitive period is: a) Is the period during the ontogeny, where organism is very sensitive towards specific stimuli