Endangered Animals Essay

My animal is a spinosaurus, it went extinct millions of years ago because it is a dinosaur.This animal grow grow in length to be about 40 feet long.In heighth it grew to be about 20 feet tall. This animal has spikes on its back that grow to be about 5 feet tall they kinda look like fins like on a fish. This dino can swim under water and holds its breath for a long time if needed. It has a darker green type of skin color. And it has a long head. The spinosaurus was able to swim real good…

1. Mooallem, Jon. Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story about Looking at People Looking at Animals in America. New York: Penguin, 2013. Print. 2. In the section, “Birds,” Mooallem claims that the whooping crane population is dwindling, and we should try to recover the population from the damage human population has created to their environment. 3. The efforts put forth may end up removing the wildness out of the cranes, and make them just as common, and unafraid or…

of Sea World, San Francisco. The intention of this film is to let the observers know that Sea World has been treating orcas in a in humane way, and unliveable conditions in amusement parks. The Killer Whale has a very delicate mental status. The animal when kept in captivity is very narrow-minded and can get distressed at times. The film used this exact statement to help argue the intension across to the viewers that killer whales in confinement at Sea World do not deserve and don't belong as…

ask? The answer is conservation officers. Officers enforce fish and game laws and work to help and protect nature. The great outdoors is a wonderful place, but the truth is there are some bad people out there. Often hunters will poach illegal animals or fisherman will catch and keep over the legal limit. When this happens someone needs to take action. Those people are conservation officers, officers work for the U.S. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) or state bureaus. They enforce laws…

In 1954, the entire campus of Michigan State University and nearby cities were sprayed with DDT and other pesticides to protect the elms from Dutch Elm Diseases. Dr Wallace, by chance, was supervising a research on robin population by John Mehner, a zoology graduate student who had started his Ph.D. They observed that the robins and other species of birds had become infertile, were dying or dead. Lincolnshire, an agrarian county at the East of England, reported an overwhelming 10000 birds dead…

The Eupleridae are small, furry, cat-like creatures that live in Madagascar. Molecular studies show that the euplerids evolved from one ancestor that most like rafted from main land Africa 18-24 million years ago. The reason for the speciation is not confirmed, but it could be because of different geographical regions. Some common traits between them is their slender bodies, they all feed on insects, and they all have fluffy tails. Narrow Striped Mongoose: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata…

A recent study proposed and led by researcher Dr. Peter Cook has established a connection between Domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by Pseudonitsczhia algal blooms and spatial memory loss in Californian Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus). In one of the experiments conducted, similarities between within session errors and spatial tasking of sea lions and rodents’ were measured. Test subjects were given four locations to forage for food after initial feeding at the central location, and are later…

One consequence in switching from zoophagy to anthropophagy is humans are introduced to infectious diseases that were once limited to animals. Today, many human pathogens still infect animals (Powell et al. 2013). A second consequence is the potential spread of vectors outside native ranges via human movement and trade (Lounibos 2002). Once a species evolves to a human specialist, it will likely be spread over…

In Edward O. Wilson’s newest book Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, he argues that if we conserve half of the earth’s land and water for nature, we are likely to save 90% of the remaining life on the planet. At Wildlands Network, we have long advocated for essentially the same vision for the biodiversity of North America, long before Dr. Wilson so eloquently put it into words at the global scale. We’re putting these ideas into practice with the formation of our Eastern Wildway Network,…

Releasing the ghosts of Drovers Cave: A reintroduction feasibility study of captive-born ghost bats (Macroderma gigas saturata) into the wild. Alba Arteaga Claramunt 1. Introductory statement Almost a quarter of all bat species in the world are in danger of extinction and the ghost bat, Macroderma gigas, is on this list (Dobson, 1880; Ruffell, Guilbert & Parsons, 2009a). There are less than 10,000 ghost bats living in Australia and only 1,000 of them remain in Western Australia (Hutson,…