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Quiz Parasites

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  1. What is the most common sampling method of parasites species from seabirds?
  1. Parasites are sampled from seabirds that are euthanized
  2. Parasites are sampled from hunted seabirds
  3. Parasites are sampled from faeces
  4. Parasites are sampled from seabirds that died naturally
  5. Parasites are sampled from illegally killed seabirds
  6. Parasites are sampled from seabirds killed for a culling program
  7. It’s not mentioned

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  1. Solution

ANSWER A: 5 of the 19 papers euthanized seabirds to collect parasites while 4 of the papers didn’t even mention how they exactly sampled their parasites. Only 1 paper sampled faeces and only 2 papers sampled their parasites from already dead seabirds. I think it will be no surprise that the natural death and the faecal samples were from penguins.

Euthanized (5) - Not mentioned (4) - Hunting (4) - Culling program (2) - Natural death (2) - Illegaly killed (1) - Faeces (1)

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2. How many papers mentioned the overall prevalence?

  1. 15
  2. 13
  3. 11
  4. 9

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2. Solution

ANSWER C: Only 11 papers mention how many birds in total were infected by parasites. The other 8 papers only mention the prevalence for certain species of parasites.

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3. Which sex is most affected by parasites

  1. Male
  2. Female
  3. It’s almost the same

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3. Solution

ANSWER C: The results are almost the same. However, only 2 studies have included sex for the bird families Laridae and Phalacrocoracidae. In any case, for these 2 papers you can definitely speak about gender equality!