Conservation of energy

Many people think being a wildlife biologist is a breeze-they get to spend time with animals all day, right? Not quite. Wildlife biologists have to perform an essential job, which isn't just playing with animals. One of their main priorities is to study animals and wildlife. “They study the physical characteristics of animals, animal behaviors, and the impacts humans have on wildlife and natural habitats” (“Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists”). For example, a Wildlife Biologist studies how a…

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is by Elizabeth Kolbert. Kolbert is an American journalist, observer, author, and staff writer at The New Yorker. The Sixth Extinction won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015; I chose this nonfiction book because I hadn’t heard of the concept of a sixth extinction. I had previously learned of multiple extinctions that occurred in the Cretaceous, Ordovician, Permian, and Triassic-Jurassic periods, but I became curious just by the thought of what Kolbert meant by…

The industrial revolution and the urbanization of America began separating and alienating people from nature for a plethora of reasons. Industrialization was making people’s life more convenient, they no longer needed to rely so heavily on being self reliant because there was now other people and machines doing their work for them. America had an abundance of wild scenery, but few works of architecture and art (Sear 49). The Europeans sought to change this in their own vision which led to…

A zoologist a person who studies the behavior, genetics, life progression, and origin of different types of animals. A zoologist may choose to devote their entire studies to just one breed of animal or they can choose to study multiple, it just depends on what the individual is interested in. Some zoologist work at zoos, taking direct care of the animals, which is the basic idea of this career, that everyone has. However they may also be found working at wildlife reserves studying populations,…

They came out with the original plan in 2002 and editions to those plans have come out in 2005, 2010, 2013, and 2015 in the attempt to best carry out these conservation efforts. In the latest edition the plans go into detail about the biodiversity of Texas, “800 species of fish, 425 species of butterflies, 634 species of birds, and over 4,600 species of native plants. With 12 distinct eco-regions covering approximately…

Extinction is the model used for the inhibition of fear within a laboratory environment. It involves training organisms to fear a conditioned stimulus in a manner described above (Myers, Ressler, & Davis, 2006). While it was previously debated upon it is widely accepted that extinction is a new form of learning and thus the creation of new memories (Burgos-Robles, Vidal-Gonzalez, Santini, & Quirk, 2007). While the two memories of fear and extinction would compete with each other (Royer, & Paré,…

The World Bank project has conservation efforts to address the conflict and share knowledge and provide incentives to reduce illicit animal trade. The World Bank has a project in Bangladesh that has proven to be successful, as Bangladesh has established a Wildlife Control Unit and Area…

The purpose of this study is to assess the habitat quality of Schmeeckle Reserve in regards to the needs of the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes). This research will focus on the presence and relative abundance of small mammals, which serve as the main food source of the Red Fox’s diet. The vegetative habitat will also be studied; this includes the cover types present and any forage plant species used by the fox for food. The results of this study will allow for the continued management of the Red Fox in…

the hunting season it disrupts most hibernation schedule and separates families. Also the rapid gunshot fire causes the animal to stress out, which leads to improper eating routines. If they have that going for them it makes it hard to store fat and energy for the cold winters. Secondly, hunting is a profit-driven business. Federal and state agencies has schemed up different ways to attract hunters and bring in there cash. One way was wildlife management created to up the number of species.…

are in an effort for total or partial conservation, which came forth in the late eighteen hundreds. The Conservation Movement, which occurred from eighteen-fifty to nineteen-twenty, was to act as an effort to protect America's wildlife, wildlands, and natural resources. However, conservation then and now has been, mostly, for humans. In fact, the conservation movement was created when cities in America became overcrowded after mass industrialization. Conservation was not originally for the…