Grab-bug <st1:place w:st="on">Holiday</st1:place> Meerkat Jeopardy<o:p></o:p>

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Kategory is Fast food:<o:p></o:p>

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For 100

Most favorite delicacy is�?/P>

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                                                Scorpion

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For 200

Fast food escape artist�?2 possibilities)

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                                                Geckos

                                                Millipedes (accepted centipede)

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For 300

Junk food for captive zoo kats�?2 possibilities)

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                                                Mealworms

                                                Crickets

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For 400

Two rare entrees�?/P>

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                                                Frog/toad

                                                Bird (gave half points for this answer)

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For 500

“oooh you never know where one might be
and oooh theres lots of places that are hard to reach�?/P>

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                                                Ticks (fleas are different from ticks)

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Kategory is KMP History<o:p></o:p>

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For 100

When and where did the Kalahari Meerkat Project begin?

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Feb 1993  <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Gemsbok</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">National Park</st1:PlaceType> (Kgalagadi now) dry river bed of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Nossob</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>

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For 200

Where is the current study located and how far away is it from the old site?

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                        <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kuruman</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Reserve  120 km Southeast

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For 300

Double Jeopardy = 600

When was the first research article from the project published?

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1998    Costs of  Cooperative Behaviour in Surciates (surciata suricatta)

Pro. R. Soc. Lond. B 365   185-190

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For 400

What factor about the meerkat population in the park and the farm was found to be different?

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Predation rate �?mortality of animals over 3 months was 1.7 higher in the park (0.62) than on the farm (0.38)

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For 500

When did “supergroups: exceeding 25 individuals start to form?

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                        In the late 90’s

 

Challenge Round:<o:p></o:p>

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Kategory Interesting Observation:<o:p></o:p>

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For 100

What happened more frequently on the farm vs. the park?

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Group encounters.  The park history rarely mentions group encounters

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For 200

Triple Jeopardy = 600

Initially what did researchers base the date of a female’s pregnancy on?

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                                    On her shape this was before they could take daily weights

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For 300

Approximately when were ID chips introduced?

                                    Sometime in 1996

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For 400

In the park researchers dressed as ____ _______.

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                                    Park rangers

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500

Can you name any individuals (meerkats) from the early park study?

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                                    Juma

                                    Little Boy / Digger

                                    Scarface

                                    Ginger and Gracie

                                    Mother/Ma

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Also acceptable:  Cicatrice, Small White, Charlot, Professional

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Final Jeopardy Question:<o:p></o:p>

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What is special about the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jackson</st1:place></st1:City> Five group?<o:p></o:p>

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They were one of two groups observed for the entire duration of the project in the park.<o:p></o:p>

                              It included Juma.<o:p></o:p>

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Bets:<o:p></o:p>

TQ = 1350<o:p></o:p>

Squirrely = 1000<o:p></o:p>

Slew = 400<o:p></o:p>

Holly = 399<o:p></o:p>

Eruth = 400<o:p></o:p>

 

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Scores:<o:p></o:p>

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Winner<o:p></o:p>

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500 = Squirrely  (Prize chosen  a handpainted meerkat pendant)<o:p></o:p>

450 = TQ  (mozart magnet and Friends meerkat keychain

200 = Slew ( the wife's art cards 5 of them)

199.50 = Mamakat/Holly (DVD of MM: The Story Begins)<o:p></o:p>

0 = Eruth/Es   (MM Season 4 DVDs)

 

Thanks again to all for playing a great quirkie jeopardy game!

 

Pronker