Wildlife Institute of India — M.Sc. Wildlife Science admission · India · Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersThe animals of forests and grasslands: mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, their habitats, behaviour and population ecology, and how populations are counted.
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 10 (wildlife biology, ornithology, herpetology, census methods); IFoS Forestry Paper II Section B (forest protection and wildlife biology); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (wildlife); GATE EY; Wildlife Institute of India MSc entrance
Wildlife Institute of India MSc entrance
Natural history of Indian fauna, ecology and quantitative aptitude including population and survey calculations.
How our questions for Wildlife Institute of India spread across the units of Wildlife Biology & Ecology. Difficulty: 2 easy, 26 medium, 3 hard.
| Ornithology: forest birds and their ecology | 5 | |
| Herpetology: reptiles and amphibians | 5 | |
| Wildlife: definitions, values and distribution | 4 | |
| Biodiversity monitoring and occupancy surveys | 4 | |
| Animal behaviour relevant to management | 3 | |
| Population dynamics: natality, mortality, carrying capacity | 3 | |
| Mammals of forests and grasslands | 2 | |
| Mark-recapture estimation | 2 | |
| Habitat: food, water, cover and space | 1 | |
| Census methods: total counts, line transects, pellet counts, camera traps | 1 | |
| Radio telemetry and home-range estimation | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
Legless, burrowing amphibians belong to the order:
A. Gymnophiona
Caecilians form the order Gymnophiona.
Chytridiomycosis, which has caused amphibian declines worldwide, is caused by:
D. A fungus
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
The purple frog, which spends most of its life underground, is endemic to the:
C. Western Ghats
Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis.
Resource selection functions estimate habitat preference by comparing:
A. Used with available habitat
Use relative to availability.
The marginal value theorem predicts:
A. When a forager should leave a patch
Charnov's optimal patch-leaving rule.
Imprinting, important in captive rearing for reintroduction, was described in geese by:
B. Konrad Lorenz
Lorenz's work on imprinting.
Large, long-lived species with low reproductive rates are described as:
C. K-selected
MacArthur and Wilson's K-selection.
Which is an assumption of the Lincoln-Petersen estimator?
C. The population is closed between samples
Closure, equal catchability, harmless marks, no mark loss.
Heterogeneity in capture probability among individuals usually causes the population to be:
C. Underestimated
Hard-to-catch animals are missed.
Detecting species from traces of DNA in water or soil is called:
B. Environmental DNA
Environmental DNA (eDNA) detects species from traces.
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