Endangered Animals Essay

Round Goby the Invasive Species I know that many people have never thought that fishing, being their main source of income. However when it is, a small toad-like pest called a round goby can devastate you greatly. The many different capabilities and adaptations this fish possess makes it a major threat to the bodies of water it has entered. The round goby or Neogobius melanostomus was introduced to the Great lakes from ballast waters of ships (Protect your waters para. 1). These fish are…

How would you feel if you were the cause for a beautiful species to go extinct? An endangered species is a group of livings things threatened with the dying off of all their kind. This is what is happening to the whooping crane. There are about 603 left total. Only 28 in Louisiana! We need to help the whooping cranes reach an even higher number if we don’t want to worry about their extinction. Whooping cranes die because of our growing society but we get things we need. We need more land to…

Escalante, Estefany September 29, 2015 Biology 101-18598 Krista Hahn Keystone Species Keystone species is a species that is very impactful within its ecosystem. A keystone species can be a plant or an animal that has a very specific job ecologically. If there were no keystone species, our world would be a completely different place, or maybe would not exist. All species depend on each other, but the benefits of keystone species are much greater than any other species. If a keystone species…

Carter has explained this wilderness by his own vivid experience . He has portrayed the vast forms of species which over the time have accumulated there . For instance the Muskov , the Caribou,wolves and polar bears.This wilderness is not limited to animals, but along with them various distinct plants can also be found.In his argument he further emphasises how this natural environment holds it's utmost importance…

Natural selection Name: Giant Panda as it is mostly recognized. A panda has a greater appetite in summer than winter; in the wild, they can eat many animals that are occasionally dead. Scientific name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Life span: 20 years in the wild. Location of natural habitat: Giant panda’s are from west china; 99% of them live in the mountains that is in Sichuan, some are also located in Shaanxi and Gansu country. Enemies: tiger, panther and wolf. Color: Normally black and…

Predator-prey size relationships focus on how both the predator and prey survive or die out due to the population size difference. There are two kinds of relationships. The first one being the stable predator-prey relationships. These are the ones where both the prey and predator numbers fluctuate in order to live in harmony. This fluctuation, the cycle of ups and downs between the two species, will continue without one going extinct. An unstable prey-predator relationship is one in which one…

hunting. The lion is a fierce animal also is fast . The pups get what is left on the bones of the animal that is not fair because the female did the hunting. The offence and defence when the lion see some food it goes and sneaks through the tall clumps of dry grass and slowly then bam the lion pounces on the food strangling. It and wiping it around breaking its neck the lion guards itself with its emanating size and long sharp teeth The lion enemy is a bunch of animal that lion can beat…

Alyssa Smith Mrs. Bolt ELA 5 Mariana Mallard, Anas oustaleti The Mariana Mallard body's are dark and have paler heads and dark facial stripes. Their weight is around 1 kilogram and mostly grow to about 55 cm. They lived on the Mariana Island before they became extinct. The Mariana Mallard female and males are very similar in many ways. The males and the females have dark brown feathers and have orange feet. The ducks mostly eat plants and seeds so called…

Great apes survival project Do you know that over the past 20 years, surveys indicated there is a continual decline in apes population? The population of apes has further declined from the number 100,000 in 1980, and this decline will continue if we don’t help them to survive. Most apes live in Cameroon and Congo basins and other central African equatorial regions. These apes share 99% of the human DNA. They can live up to 60 years and they are capable of intelligent communication. Apes have a…

approximately 174, 927 ha of rural land area and approximately 21,807 ha of water area (Salano County CA, n.d.). In 1999, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued a Biological Opinion, in accordance with Section Seven of the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), concerning the Solano Project Water Service Contract Renewal between the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), United States Department of the Interior (USDOI), and the Solano County…