Apex predator

under US drone strikes from 2002-2012 in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, of these, a significant portion were civilian deaths. This number ascended quickly after Obama became the President. However, the CIA ensures that civilian victims casualties in a Predator strikes, compared to conventional military tactics, such as bombing and include rolling artillery, are much less severe. Also, the executive orders to the CIA to take fatal actions, such as calling drone strikes, are not public; therefore,…

The pros and cons of drone warfare. Introduction Drones are all the more formally known as aerial vehicles. Unmanned aerial vehicles well-known as drones. Basically, a drone is a flying robot. The flying apparatus can be remotely controlled or can fly independently through programming controlled flight arranges in their installed embedded systems working through a GPS. Years before drones were used in combat; drones have proven to increase surveillance, reconnaissance, and general military…

Alien vs. Predator: Mankind in the Middle We all want to know how mankind developed into the complex system of cultures that we have today. One theory is that our development was directly influenced by beings from out of this world. In this paper, I will be looking at the way assimilation, rites of passage and diffusion directly affect human culture. Specifically, how the Predator culture used each of these to influence sects of human culture. In the movie Alien vs. Predator we get a glimpse of…

Despite its location, Dot’s Donut Shop was about to get famous. Little to very few people know of Hughesville, Nebraska or let alone heard of Dot’s Donut Shop. The little town of 879 people in central Nebraska was soon to be a town known worldwide but not necessarily for a good reason. It was the first day of Tom Johnson’s senior year. He hated being stuck in a small town with nothing but a gas station, and a rundown donut shop so as you imagine he was ready to get out of here and go to…

Ecosystem energies flow through many trophic levels. A trophic level is the level organism's occupy within the food chain. There are generally five trophic levels: primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and apex consumers. These five levels all interact with each other to ensure bio-viability. The first trophic level contains the primary producers. They are called the primary producers because they produce their own food and energy. Primary producers…

this predator, has an overwhelming desire to proclaim, establish and illustrate its dominance over those it perceives to be weaker or lesser than itself. This creature is known as a bully. Bullies thrive on exerting the power they possess over others and revel in the fear they cause. Most individuals that are being preyed upon by bullies see no way to stop it from occurring, but they’re wrong. In nature, there are predators that are atop of their food chain, they are known as apex predators…

the autotrophs that lie in the base of the food chain. What’s more, the cascading effects of changes in the ecosystem can be better illustrated in the case of the cownose ray. According to a scientific journal called Cascading Effects of the Loss of Apex Predatory Sharks from a Coastal Ocean, “from 1970-2005...shark population in the Great Barrier Reef may have declined by more than 97 percent” (Myers, Baum, Shepherd, Powers, and Peterson 1848). That…

species to be negatively affected which may diminish diversity. To start with, the most likely immediate effect would be the top down impact discussed above. Free from predators, the sea urchin population would explode (assuming that a new predator of sea urchins does not appear to fill the otter’s niche). Without a predator to restrain sea urchin numbers, the kelp forests would collapse. In turn, once the kelp forests had been consumed, the sea urchin population would collapse from…

There are two main reasons for this, hunting and habitat destruction. The Komodo dragon is an apex predator in its environment, meaning that in its environment the Komodo dragon is the top of the food chain. There are no other animals that predate it. Removing an apex predator from an environment causes effects all the way down the food chain. The Komodo dragon hunts deer and water buffalo as well as other animals. If the Komodo dragon…

The Saber-toothed Tiger, or the “Smilodon”, was a prehistoric predator, that lived in the southern part of the Americas. (California, Texas, Florida, etc) The Saber-toothed Tiger is named after their long, canine like teeth, that extend from their upper jaw. Existing during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 56 million - 12,000 years ago), Saber-toothed tigers were elongated, stocky animals, that were ferocious, meat eating hunters. The Smilodon populator, or the Saber-tooth Tiger hunted in packs,…