Endangered Species Essay

In the column, “The Case For Closing The Honolulu Zoo,” Bob Jones addresses the issue of Honolulu Zoo’s problems regarding its budget and attendance rates, informing the audience of the controversy behind using the taxpayers money to maintain the zoo’s facilities and such. The purpose of this column is to argue that the $7 million dollars that are currently being used for the zoo’s maintenance should be used for something that everyone needs, like roads and sewers. While stating his claims,…

Ivory trafficking is an immense problem that is threatening the lives of the diminishing African elephant population. In an attempt to raise awareness of the crisis, the documentary was filmed undercover for sixteen months in the heart of the problem. Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s documentary “The Ivory Game” expresses the concern of elephants possibly becoming extinct due to poaching for their ivory tusks. The film delves into well-known poachers and their hotspots in an attempt to arrest…

and timing of food delivery by either hiding food items in the exhibit for the lions to find or randomizing feed schedules may be biologically relevant as it would allow the captive animals to engage in species-specific behaviors that resemble those found in the natural habitat. Hidden…

The Fox and Rabbit Game: Predator – Prey Simulation By: Erick Chung Lab Partners: Bryan Oh, Justin Jang, Wilmer Roca 6/6/17 Introduction Objective: The objective of this lab is to discover and understand how predator-prey interactions affect population size. Hypothesis: If were to model the predator-prey relationship for 35 generations, then we would see that the relationship is inverse. Results Predator-Prey Simulation Data Qualitative Observations: The fox…

is Giraffa camelopardalis, and they are found from central, eastern and southern Africa, living in the savannahs, grasslands and woodlands preferring the open lands where they find their food. There were eleven species in existence but seven have since become extinct and now four species left are the Giraffa giraffa, Giraffa tippelskirchi, Giraffa reticulate and Giraffa camelopardalis. Giraffes are social animals, living in herds consisted of either unrelated males or related females and their…

Adult emperor penguins weigh from 50 to 100 pounds and varies by sex, with males weighing more than females. It is the fifth heaviest living bird species, after only the larger varieties of ratite (CRC Handbook of Avian Body masses by John B. F Dunning. CRC press (1992), ISBN 978-0-8493-4258-5). Like all penguin species, emperor penguins have streamlined bodies to minimize drag while swimming, and wings that are more like stiff, flat flippers (Williams, Tony D. (1995). The Penguins. Oxford,…

In the text, ¨Burmese Python¨ by Andrew Ng the snake are changing the Everglades because the pet because people like to have a small snake but they don't like when they grow up and they need to buy more food because they eat too much. And another reason why they are changing the Everglades is because the hunters that want to kill the snake, but is bad for people if they shout and they kill a guy that dad. And lastly they are changing the Everglades because they are reproducing and the people…

Richard Turere observes a family problem from the predators, because the predators hunted down the villagers’ animals. The warrior class of the community started to protect the domestic animals by killing the predators, especially lions. Richard believed killing the lions was not an acceptable idea; therefore he started formulating hypothesis and testing new methods. The fist hypothesis was regarding fire, which failed, so he adopted a new method to use scarecrow. Lions observed that the…

promote the local economy. Pan Am is recommended in the lake angler favorite fish farming can achieve this purpose. Thus, non-native species of black bass was introduced in 1958, the lake. Bass soon received their new home, and began to devour the lake locally creatures. Due to its characteristics of meat, perch wiped out two-thirds of the original native fish species, and caused only live in the lake region of rare bird Great Grebe extinction. Lake Atitlan is surrounded by many villages, the…

Some kids live and breathe for animals, and I was one of those kids. I had my stuffed animals and my plastic stethoscope, and I wanted to be a vet, like James Herriot. Maybe a small animal vet, maybe a field vet, but a vet. When I turned nine, I came across David Quammen's Song of the Dodo, a book about island biogeography. I read it because of the dodo on the cover. Since non-fiction is not a genre known for economy of expression, I was prepared for dry prose and a headache. But Quammen…