Baboon

When attempting to settle down in a new country, most immigrants will find themselves caught between two, often conflicting cultures and facing unforeseen challenges. For Dominican immigrants looking to settle in the United States, one such challenge was a re-evaluation of their own race. In the Dominican Republic, one’s physical characteristics, especially skin color, hold heavily influence over a person’s self-image and their worth in society. This conflict is prominently displayed in Perez’s…

Part 2 The Natural History of The Gorilla Ecological distribution The first person who coined the word "gorilla", was Hanno, the navigator of Carthage. Two and a half thousand years ago, Galleys Hanno, looked for places that were suitable for colonization and moved along the coast of West Africa (Ахматов, 2006). Here in Sierra-Leone, Carthaginians met strange creatures. Marvelous sailors passed the logbook down so there would be a record about these wonderful creatures and about their…

An elephant is killed every 15 minutes and now some believe that in 12 years the elephant population will be extinct. This is due to habitat destruction, disease but mostly the illegal poaching of elephants for their ivory (Gandelman, 2013). This poaching has caused the population to rapidly decline and the threat of extinction is near. Elephants are an essential part of the ecosystem and existing and new ways to restore the population should be considered. Between the years of 1970 and 1990,…

Mummies, pyramids, tombs. All three of these icons of death are associated with ancient Egypt. This was a deeply religious society obsessed with death and the continuation of life in the afterlife. As such, many steps were taken to preserve the body and possessions of the dead as they journeyed to the Duat (underworld) in death. These steps included mummification of the body, storage of household objects, jewelry, and whatever possessions were deemed necessary for the next life. However,…

Will humans wage war as long as we exist? Since the beginning of time, humans have engaged in war, spilling blood of millions. As humans become more modern, will we still carry the habit of warfare? Is war in our blood? These questions can be answered if we look into our past. Warfare shows many of our advancements and instincts, such as human evolution, territorial and population issues, and reasons why humans must fight. Is it part of human evolution to create wars? Our ancestors, chimpanzees,…

The moon god khonsu. Third is god of the scales of death, Anubis. Nut goddess of The sky and stars. Osiris ruler of the afterlife. Anuket Goddess of the river Nile. Hathor goddess of love. Bes dwarf god. Apophis god of snakes and war. Babi god of Baboons. Bast goddess of cats. Geb god of the earth. And isis goddess of magic marriage and healing. Stories: There are numerous stories of the egyptian gods most of them having to do with love affairs. In one story the sun god Ra finds his wife with…

To what extent are Humans a Unique Species? We like to believe that humans are a superior species, highly intelligent and beyond the realms of the animal kingdom, however, are we really as unique as we like to think, what makes us so special? It was once believed that humans were the only animals capable of using tools, and this is what made us no longer just ‘animals’. In the 1960s when chimpanzees were first observed using twigs to retrieve termites from wooden trunks, as a form of tool, it…

Summarization: Terrestriality was suggested to have been more common in the past than it is today, according to primate fossil records obtained from many museums around the country. This terrestriality is more prominent amongst cercopithecoid primates. Preference of habitually terrestrial substrates was based on primate forelimb anatomy. Extant large-bodied terrestrial…

Review of The Fly (1986) Seth Brundle, a research scientist, has created a once in a lifetime teleportation machine. He shows how to transport objects and in the beginning is not able to transport anything with skin, for example, the baboon that was horribly turned inside out. Veronica Quaife, a beautiful journalist is very intrigued with his work and inspires him to further his teleportation device. Later, he decides to transport himself through the transmission booth that goes horribly wrong,…

There are so many connections between us and chimpanzees, and in Jane Goodall’s book, through a Window, My Thirty Years with Chimpanzees of Gombe she observed chimpanzees. Jane Goodall is a primatologist and she lived 50 years of her life in the jungle studying chimpanzees. We also observed a video called Monkey in the Mirror Chimpanzees are so like humans with learning, development and growing knowledge. Mothers care and attend to their children, they have motherly instinct just like we do.…