Endangered language

Sentry behaviour in captive meerkats (Suricata suricatta) Amy Spies 746773 Abstract Sentry duty is an important social behaviour in which guards scan the surrounding area for potential threats. In species such as meerkats, this behaviour is so instinctive that they continue to perform it even in captivity. The aim of this study was to establish an understanding of the sentry behaviour in captive meerkats. This was done by observing meerkats in the Johannesburg Zoo and…

“At the end of 2013, there were an estimated 500,000 African elephants living in the world. 95 percent of the elephant population has been killed during the last 100 years”. Human activity is leading to extinction of many species. While some laws are banning poaching, it continues to become a severe issue. Kenya, for instance, is struggling to protect elephan.It has negative effects on both the environment and the economy in Kenya. Since the population of elephants declines, the number of…

Among the main reasons that lead to poaching, there are the elevated request for wildlife products, poverty, scarcity and unemployment, the improper advantage given to local communities limited by conservation activities, population pressure (OIPA, 2014), and insufficient funds for conservation, corruption and lake of political will. Different strategies can be implemented have been suggested in the NEAP to fight against elephant poaching in Malawi. Firstly, the NEAP stipulates monitoring the…

Ontiveros 1 Giana Ontiveros Honors English 10 Period 4 13 March 2016 Hunting destroys animals Fingers wrapped around the trigger ready to fire at any moment. One eye looking through the scope observing a brown haired dear with long legs. Passionately waiting for the right moment to fire. “Bang! Bang!” the dear has been shot down and is left with a whole through its chest. For many generations hunting has been a part of people’s lives. Our ancestors hunted so they can feed themselves…

activist groups in the United States, defines the “rarest” animals as mostly endangered or exotic species of animals. In fact, in their whole article on the case, not once do they mention any thing but the murder of exotic and endangered animals in the Middle East and Africa. This, indeed, is not the only case. A very large amount of the commonly hunted species of trophy game, not told about, is made up of non-endangered animals, such as deer, elk, bear, caribou, and other species of game, most…

According to Oxford Dictionary, a zoo is any establishment that collects animals in parks or gardens in order to study, conserve or display them to people. To conserve the population of certain endangered species, some conservation agencies establish zoos where they breed the animals before returning them to the wild. Some zoos are also started up for the sole purpose of entertaining people in exchange for money. In such zoos mostly large and attractive ones are kept in cages where visitors can…

If you see an organism that is wrecking havoc yet is endangered, what would you do? Will you either let the organism live or kill it? In my opinion, I believe that we should kill species that have invaded a certain environment where they weren’t there in the first place. One reason is that invasive species cause untold amounts of damage to the environment that they conquer. Another reason is that we caused the problem, so naturally we should fix the problem. Finally, a unnatural solution should…

Imagine you are at the zoo with your friends or family enjoying the displays of the different species inhabiting the zoo. Now some might think animals being kept in this kind of situation are being treated unfairly and I am inclined to agree to some degree but there are other situations that we need to dive deeper into. Animal captivity can sometimes be a problem but I am going to shed light on multiple situations where animal captivity actually helps the animals flourish. In my opinion, it is…

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…

According to Elizabeth Kolbert, writer of The Sixth Extinction, we as humans are so careless that we are literally driving ourselves into a nonexistence. The book starts off with stories of how different species has become extinct or are currently endangered. The book has a lot of facts and they all seem to support the theory that humans are making a mess of things. Due to over killing of animals, miss use of natural resources and lack of efficient means of spreading the word on what’s going on,…