ACBS Final Exam 2024/2025. 109
Questions and Correct Answers. 100%
Correct.
We can say with confidence that Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs applies to humans only.
Yes
The Farm Animal Welfare Council (UK) put forth the "5 Freedoms" as ways to provide animal welfare.
The "5 Freedoms" are now widely adopted in captive animal facilities such as farms and zoos. These 5
Freedoms are:
Freedom from pain, injury, disease, hunger, thirst, discomfort, fear, express normal patterns of behavior
If an animal has the same neuroanatomical structures for emotions, such as the limbic system which
controls emotions in humans, then the animal may also experience emotions or have "sentience".
true
Which of the following is NOT an example of behavioral evidence for animal sentience?
- intentional communcation
- large brain size
- response to pain or pleasure
- recognition to self
large brain size
In the field of moral philosophy, Utilitarianism is..
a type of consequentialism, a part of normative ethics, associated with jeremy bentham
The growing demand for meat in the 1800s led to developing animal breeds that had the following
desirable traits:
Advances in ______ around the 1930s contributed to the science of stockbreeding.
gentics
In the 1800s, new breeds of livestock were imported to the US
such as the
As part of the Industrial Revolution, animals became reconceptualized as meat. This is evidenced by...
animals being treated as a commodity and people becoming separated from the meat production
process
The creation of the Chicago Union Stock Yards
, to be one large facility
True or False
Between 1750 and 1850, the population of London more than doubled, accompanied by a growing
demand for beef only.
False
The consolidation of the meat industry in the US involved
vertical integration; allowing large companies to control all aspects
According to the video "War and civilization: Horse warriors" the Romans described their foes, the Huns,
as...
glued to their horse
The horse was critical in Cortes' defeat of the Aztec empire because
Aztecs never seen the horses and were scared
Though horses were domesticated 5-6,000 BP, warfare on horseback emerged much later ~3,000 BP. This
required a new kind of horsemanship and horse-human relationship. Which horse culture invented
warfare on horseback that required a close relationship?
Scythian
The paleo archaeological record shows that the horse linage evolved over time. Specifically, the teeth
and digits changed as an adaptation from a ______ lifestyle in the moist forests to a ______ lifestyle in
grasslands.
browsing, grazing
Horses are part of a larger group of equids that include
horses, asses and zebras
True or false
Compared to earlier domesticated animals, such as cattle or goats, horses are better adapted to the
harsh steppe environment because they have the ability to find forage and water under snow and ice.
true
Study of ancient horse DNA shows that by 5,000 BP horses were domesticated because of the increase in
genes _____________ as a result of artificial selection.
for a variety of coat coloration
The evolutionary ancestor of all modern placental mammals, including the group from which the horse
evolved,
was small bodied and looked a modern shrew
Questions and Correct Answers. 100%
Correct.
We can say with confidence that Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs applies to humans only.
Yes
The Farm Animal Welfare Council (UK) put forth the "5 Freedoms" as ways to provide animal welfare.
The "5 Freedoms" are now widely adopted in captive animal facilities such as farms and zoos. These 5
Freedoms are:
Freedom from pain, injury, disease, hunger, thirst, discomfort, fear, express normal patterns of behavior
If an animal has the same neuroanatomical structures for emotions, such as the limbic system which
controls emotions in humans, then the animal may also experience emotions or have "sentience".
true
Which of the following is NOT an example of behavioral evidence for animal sentience?
- intentional communcation
- large brain size
- response to pain or pleasure
- recognition to self
large brain size
In the field of moral philosophy, Utilitarianism is..
a type of consequentialism, a part of normative ethics, associated with jeremy bentham
The growing demand for meat in the 1800s led to developing animal breeds that had the following
desirable traits:
Advances in ______ around the 1930s contributed to the science of stockbreeding.
gentics
In the 1800s, new breeds of livestock were imported to the US
such as the
As part of the Industrial Revolution, animals became reconceptualized as meat. This is evidenced by...
animals being treated as a commodity and people becoming separated from the meat production
process
The creation of the Chicago Union Stock Yards
, to be one large facility
True or False
Between 1750 and 1850, the population of London more than doubled, accompanied by a growing
demand for beef only.
False
The consolidation of the meat industry in the US involved
vertical integration; allowing large companies to control all aspects
According to the video "War and civilization: Horse warriors" the Romans described their foes, the Huns,
as...
glued to their horse
The horse was critical in Cortes' defeat of the Aztec empire because
Aztecs never seen the horses and were scared
Though horses were domesticated 5-6,000 BP, warfare on horseback emerged much later ~3,000 BP. This
required a new kind of horsemanship and horse-human relationship. Which horse culture invented
warfare on horseback that required a close relationship?
Scythian
The paleo archaeological record shows that the horse linage evolved over time. Specifically, the teeth
and digits changed as an adaptation from a ______ lifestyle in the moist forests to a ______ lifestyle in
grasslands.
browsing, grazing
Horses are part of a larger group of equids that include
horses, asses and zebras
True or false
Compared to earlier domesticated animals, such as cattle or goats, horses are better adapted to the
harsh steppe environment because they have the ability to find forage and water under snow and ice.
true
Study of ancient horse DNA shows that by 5,000 BP horses were domesticated because of the increase in
genes _____________ as a result of artificial selection.
for a variety of coat coloration
The evolutionary ancestor of all modern placental mammals, including the group from which the horse
evolved,
was small bodied and looked a modern shrew
