The taiga is the largest terrestrial biome and it extends across europe. A food chain in the taiga startes with fruit which is the producer, then red-breasted nuthatch which is the primary consumer. The next part of the food chain is the western whiptail which is secondary consumer. The coyote is the tertiary consumer. Interesting thing about the taiga.…
Bottlenose Dolphin attacks on Harbour Porpoises Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) attacks have been responsible for 318 Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) deaths between 1991 and 2010. However, almost everything we know about Bottlenose Dolphin attacks comes from the necropsies of their victims; Harbour Porpoise, as very few attacks have been observed or even documented scientifically. In the UK there are two established populations of Bottlenose Dolphins; Cardigan Bay, Wales and the Moray Firth, Scotland. It is in these locations that Harbour Porpoises are found dead on the local shoreline with visible signs of Bottlenose Dolphin attack.…
They can weigh an excess of 500 grams, they reach lengths of up to 40 cm and tails measure 21 cm. The ears and tail are covered in hard ruff scales, the tail is usually shorter that the body. They live in communities with dominant and subordinate members. They like to nest under ground burrows and they remain in hiding for most of the day and there not social like ants. And like most animals need food,water and shelter to survive, you can find them throughout the U.S.A.…
Some poison dart frogs are so small they are about the size of your…
Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles are the largest hard-shelled turtles in the ocean (Murphy). They are regularly found resting under underwater ledges, basking on beaches, and nibbling on algae in shallow waters. Sea turtles normally live in water that is fairly warm. The average shell length of an adult green sea turtle is 4-5 feet long and weight of 250 pounds, although they can grow as large as 500 pounds.…
Comprehensiveness- To support information about the Chupacabra through critical thinking, the evidence about the creature must be comprehensive. order to reasonably analyze evidence of the Chupacabra or an attack from one, you must recognise the possibilities of it not being a Chupacabra. To consider any slightly odd killing of a farm animal to be a Chupacabra attack would be unreasonable and senseless. Many different animals are capable of killing goats, sheep, or chickens.…
There are over 120 plant species on Dry Tortugas and thirty-eight percent of it is underwater. The common plant seen on Dry Tortugas is Seagrass and it makes up most of the vegetation (National Park…
The Loris lydekkerianus commonly known as the grey slender loris is part of the class Mammalia and the order primate. When observing the slender loris one may notice their large eyes. They are precisely in a forward facing position and set very close together, this feature takes up most of their faces. Their eyes are surrounded by dark grey circles of fur, which make them look even bigger than they are. Slender lorises have petite and sagittal rostrums, exceptionally slender appendages, and lack a post-anal tail.…
Chupacabra What is a Chupacabra? “ [A Chupacabra] is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico” (Wikipedia). There are people who believe it is real and others who believe it's just a myth. The Chupacabra is real because there are eyewitnesses that saw it, there are many dead animals that have been drained of their blood, and it was even identified by an expert.…
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every monstrous creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” (Dickens) This quote by Charles Dickens means that behind every creature, there will be a furtive and cryptic background behind every fiend. With this, the finding of the chupacabra was a remarkable discovery in the Caribbean and an unbelievable recovery for past agriculturists. With these results, the chupacabra was sighted in various locations with immense evidence from DNA samples to puncture wounds, and complete loss of blood of livestock. In fact, this discovery could be mistaken for the alligator, or the Elmendorf, which have the characteristics of a chupacabra description.…
We have all heard the stories of the Chpacabra over the last few decades and many of you will dismiss this creature as an urban legend or a hoax. These stories, like all stories of legend, start somewhere. The legend of the Chupacabra comes from Latin cultures, mainly Puerto Rico, where it was first sited back in 1955 by locals. The locals were experiencing strange live stock mutilations mostly goats found with all their blood drained. In the 1970’s people all over South America started experiencing this same vampiric style killings of their live stalk and people began to see the creature in these areas.…
I chose the Chaco Side-Neck Turtle as my subject because I saw a television segment on rare and endangered turtles. I recently just learned that these turtles are not pronounced endangered, yet. The status of these turtles is “vulnerable”. I, of course wanted to learn more about this turtle so I started doing some research. The Chaco side-Neck Tuttle species name is an “Acanthochelys Pallidipectoris”.…
America (or should I say... Turtle Island), pre 1492, was a very different time in history. It was a time of gratefulness for mother earth and all that she provided. The air was clean, the water was pristine, and the land and animals were respected by the country’s inhabitants. There was a mutual understanding of this respect for mother earth and the Natives were well known for this philosophy of life.…
The typical habitat of a Gopher Tortoise includes sandhills, scrub oak woodlands, dry prairies, longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests xeric hammocks, pine flatwoods, coastal…
Social behavior in desert tortoises is not well understood, though evidence suggests the presence of dominance hierarchies \citep{Niblick1994, Bulova1997} which may influence social structure and burrow choice in desert tortoises. In addition to social hierarchies, previous research suggests factors such as sex \citep{Harless2009}, age \citep{Wilson1999}, season \citep{Bulova1994}; and environmental conditions \citep{Duda1999, Franks2011} may influence burrow use in desert tortoises. If conspecific cues and environmental factors exhibit strong influence on burrow use, population stressors impacting these characteristics could alter typical burrow behavior. The two major population threats that have been identified in desert tortoise populations…