Bird feeder

Sanderson Farms, Inc. is a fully integrated poultry processing company engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh and frozen chicken and other prepared food items (Sanderson Farms, 2016). The company was founded in 1947 and was incorporated in 1955. This great organization has grown to become the 3rd largest poultry producer in the United States. The company as a whole processes and produces more than 9 million chickens per week that gets shipped out for sale to…

Introduction Hemicentetes semispinosus is a species of tenrecs found on Madagascar that possess black and yellow quills. The trait of the species that is believed to be an adaptation are the quills because the length of the quills vary by 8-15mm (Cho et al. 2012), are barbed and can be detachable, which could indicate that it is used for defense against predators, such as viverrids, owls and boas (Eisenberg & Gould, 1970). Their behaviour also suggests that it is used as a line of defense…

geese are coming!” I shout as they fly across the blue sky of Regent’s park. The beautiful and majestic creatures swarm the lake where the park visitors feed them. In my periphery vision, I observe other swarms of ducks, pigeons, and other various birds that are also fed on the man-made concrete bank of the lake. Still, the geese remain my focus. Watching them captivates me and brings me out of myself. I am giddy with excitement as I begin to snap pictures either for my geese Instagram or for my…

vocalization of bird song. In the above figure shown, in blue is the vocal motor output pathway, where the signal begins in the HVc (High vocal center) which is a nucleus in the brain of songbirds necessary for both the learning and the production of the bird songs. The HVC send a signal in two directions, one to the area X in the brain which is similar to the Basal Ganglia in human, the other signal goes…

Mammals of the desert include the kowari, and some birds include the grey grasswren and eyrean to name a few. Lake Eyre and the other wetlands are important habitats for fish and birds, as a breeding ground for waterbirds. Some include, the freckled duck, musk duck (Biziura lobata), silver gull, Australian pelican, great egret, glossy ibis, and banded stilt. Decomposers:…

Abstract Anhinga anhinga is a medium sized bird which most do not know about. The purpose of the paper is to give readers an in depth idea of this bird. Most readers living in the southern parts of the United States have seen one in the wild but did not have a clue about this mischievous animal. The bird can go from sun bathing in order to dry off its feathers to diving in order to get some food in seconds. Additionally the bird can stay under the water for minutes without coming up for a…

Bipedalism is one of the Big six events that happened in evolution of humans becoming what we are today. Bipedalism means standing, walking lifting on two feet rather than walking on four feet like the other apes in our Apes category. To understand why humans walk using bipedalism anthropologist must look into the past. One of the most significant fossil for evidence of bipedalism is a fossil named “Lucy”. Lucy was found in Easy Africa. She is an adult female that stood at about three and half…

Least Dragons’ Social Adaptations Thrag Island poses a great challenge for a solitary species survival, the high quality but, low abundance of the food forces social groups such as the least dragons to find a safe nest and secure the survival of its members, through adaptations such as torpor, social strategies, and food provisioning. Also, one of the fascinating behaviors of these dragons is to cuddle with members of the group which in turn seems to help the dragons to save energy during the…

Charles Darwin went on a voyage and the ship name was called HMS Beagle. His most popular studies were in the Galapagos islands. He discovered that in 1831 that finches have different beaks and colored feathers in different islands of the Galapagos islands. This meant, if the finches had an offspring, it could be different from it's parents, creating a new species of finches. Two different organisms Darwin studied were pigeons and Iguanas. Let's start with the domestic pigeon. When Darin…

Poultry Muscular and Skeletal system The muscular and skeletal system of poultry is a very complex and functional system. The importance of the skeletal system for poultry is to provide structure and the importance of the muscular system is to provide movement. These two systems are very vital and interconnected to one another. In order to understand the importance of these systems, one must further understand exactly how the skeletal system functions, how the muscular system functions and…