Q. 1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow: (8 marks)
Sniffer dog Tucker uses his nose to help researchers find out why a killer whale population off the northwest
coast of the United States is on tke decline. He searches for whale faces floating on the surface of the water,
which are then collected for examination. He is one of the elite team of detection dogs used by scientists
studying a number of species including right whales and killer whales.
Conservation canines are fast becoming indispensable tools for biologists according to Aimee Hurt, associate
director and co-founder of Working Dogs for Conservation, based in Three Forks, Montana.
Over the last few years, though, so many new conservation dog projects have sprung up that Hurt can no
longer keep track of them all. Her organization's dogs and their handlers are fully booked to assist field
researchers into 2012.
"Dogs have such a phenomenal sense of smell”, explained Sam Wasser, director of the Center for
Conservation biology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has worked with scat-detection dogs since
199(8). Scientists have been using Conservation Canines in their research since 199(8). These dogs have
enabled them to non-invasively access vast amount of genetic and physiological information which is used to
tackle conservation problems around the world. Such information has proved vital for determining the causes
and consequences of human disturbances on wildlife as well as the actions needed to mitigate such impacts.
The ideal detection dog is extremely energetic with an excessive play drive. These dogs will happily work all.
day long, motivated by the expectation of a ball game as a reward for sample detection. The obsessive, high
energy personalities of detection dogs also make them difficult to maintain as pets. As a result, they
frequently find themselves abandoned to animal shelters, facing euthanasia. The programmed rescues these
dogs and offers them a satisfying career in conservation research.
(a) According to the text there are a few detection dogs like Tucker.
(b) Tucker sniffs for whale
(c) The dogs are special because they assist in research without
(d) The ideal detection dog.
(e) The dog's expect as a reward of their hard work.
(0) of these dogs make it difficult to keep them as pets.
(g) These dogs find career in
(h) The word 'euthanasia' means _following passage carefully and the answers of following questions.
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