Chimpanzee

Through the creation of werewolves, humans exhibit their attitudes and feelings regarding wolves and the function they serve in society. The werewolf is a composite creature notorious for its ability to transform from a human to wolf and featuring both human and animal characteristics.The portrayal of the werewolf in the European-American culture symbolizes the need for a clear division between humankind and the animal kingdom by using werewolves to represent the vicious and primitive side of…

Imagine the difficult situation of having to choose between the livelihood of a human versus the care of an animal? In the book of The Last Meow, Levering and his wife Karen are willing to spend thousands of dollars on a cat named Lady who has many health issues, even being allergic to her own tooth enamel. The sensible reaction would be to take care of the human interests before the needs of the animal. Levering is recovering from, “a bout of Lyme disease and carpal tunnel syndrome,” (part 1,…

For years, society had been governed by sets of rules, which states what people can and cannot do. Even though apes are our closest evolutionary ancestors, they still do not have any rights that could help protect them. Countries, such as Spain, the U.K., Sweden, Austria, Belgium, and The Netherlands, have given some rights to gorillas. These rights are used to protect these primates from experimentation, torture, and medical testing. Sadly one of the countries that does not have rights for apes…

Most people think of small animals, such as sheep, as meek and submissive due to their frequent portrayal as innocent characters in children’s stories and folklore; in these same stories, antagonistic characters tend to be fiercer animals such as lions or wolves. However, the children’s movie Zootopia shows that this is not always the case. The characters in this film break the stereotypes that the audience have against them by being different from what is conventional. For instance, the "dumb…

Tragelaphus angasii (Nyala) of the Bovidae family, known and familiar to southern Africa, can be observed and studied for the size of its elaborate, slightly twisted horns. This trait can be seen as an adaptative trait due to the variety of horn lengths and sizes in Bovids, as well as a heritable trait, due to the continual frequency in horns throughout generations, in the species of Nyala. The adaptivity and heritability of this trait can be analyzed through the natural history of the species…

With the Apes: Birute Galdikas Reaches Camp Leakey "I felt to the marrow of my bones . . . that the apes surrounding me were refugees from paradise, a paradise that we humans left behind to seek our destinies on the savannas and open lands of the earth. They were survivors of Eden." In my prior years, the time I spent aiding the orangutans in Borneo would never have come to mind as the deciding factor in the path my legacy would take. I mean, countless people like me decide to spend their lives…

The domestication of animals was an essential step in early human civilization. The ability to utilize the strength or speed of larger mammals provided us with the leisure time essential to innovation. These days, the most visible example of domestication is with canis familiaris, the domestic dog. Our canine friends provide humans with the more nebulous benefit of companionship, though they once were essential to any hunting party. In the mid-20th century, Soviet geneticist Dimitry Belyaev…

Amazing facts about the giraffe You probably think you are tall but until you realize that a baby giraffe may probably be taller than you, then you realize how short you are. The giraffe is the tallest terrestrial mammal in the world, a true beauty amongst the animals that roam the savannahs of Africa. The average height of a giraffe is between 4.3 metres to 5.8 metres with the adult female weighing about 800 kilograms and the male weighing 1,250 kilograms. This beautiful animal was first…

You hear hissing across the land and realize it is the hiss of the famous king cobra looking for lunch, but what it doesn’t realize is that it will soon be your lunch. You get close to the cobra and it strikes but you dodge it, you and the cobra have engaged in combat. Who will win? Many people have been studying the mongoose and the king cobra on how good their defenses and attacks are. If a mongoose and a king cobra went into combat, I think that the mongoose would win because of its many…

Francine Patterson in his writings of "Conversations with a Gorilla” describes about the life of Koko. He describes that some animals also react like humans, for example, Koko. The main idea of the article is that Koko is using the same language as humans or not. Well, I strongly agree with the statement that Koko is using language in human ways. As this article shows that scientists taught other animals to converse with signs, but Koko was the first gorilla who has done this. Moreover, she…