Extinction events

“Learning is any comparatively durable change in behavior produced by an experience.” Operant and Classical conditioning are two of several theories on learning which take the behaviorist approach. “Classical conditioning is a relationship of one event with another that marks in a pattern of behavior.” Operant conditioning is “learning that happens as a consequence of behavior.” I would like to examine the differences and similarities between classical and operant conditioning and examine…

How can animals facing extinction be helped using modern science? Identification and description of the problem Extinction is referred to as the death of the last organism of a certain species; thus ending those organisms altogether. However, since most species are globally spread out this is something that takes careful consideration of every fact such as ‘is there a possibility the organism may have has a chance of survival somewhere unexpected?’(Hawking, 2012) Biologists have been trying…

Gray wolves were rescued from the brink of extinction when the government abolished the law that organised the extermination of wolves on federally owned lands, which led to the slaughtering of more than 25,000 wolves. After the Senate withdrew the gray wolf from the endangered species list, in 2011, the slaughtering of wolves began to escalate again. This caused wolf hunters to fall deeper into their paranoid fantasy that wolves represents a liberal conspiracy against farmland and livestock.…

the Pleistocene, there was a period of rapid change in the earth system (Björck, S. (2007)). This included; the onset of the younger Dryas cold reversal, which saw the return of glacial like conditions across the northern hemisphere and megafaunal extinction, where 35 genera of large mammals became extinct across North America (Firestone et al., 2007). One possible explanation for this change is the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), which proposes that an extra terrestrial (ET) object hit…

Imagine, at a young age being torn from your family and everything you have ever known. You are placed in a strange cage that is far too cramped for you while creatures you've never seen stare, laugh and throw objects at you. They control your every life and if you don't do exactly as they say you won't get to eat that day. Everyday you fear for you life and hope that someday the misery will end. No living creature should ever have to endure this, unfortunately, for captive animals this is the…

to the dogs, they would salivate. After some time, they noticed that the dogs would salivate whenever the assistant entered the room, irrespective of whether he had food or not. b. Then describe the exact analogy between those observed events and the events he arranged in his classic demonstrations of conditioning, and identify the technical terms that correspond to each. Pavlov began his experimental trail leading to respondent conditioning. He gave a dog meat powder, which immediately…

As an addition to animal extinction, If honey bees go exctinct we will greatly louse our food suplies and our population will begin to decend downward. We would end up being stictly put on a diet of grains weats and oats. Since thouse food products are not pollinated by honey bees…

humans and animals. There are three types of learning, including associative learning, which occurs when an organism makes a connection between two events. Within associative learning, there is classical conditioning, which occurs when an organism learns the association between two stimuli. Classically conditioned organisms are able to anticipate events they have been trained to expect as a result of other occurrences. Specifically, classical conditioning is the learning process in which a…

To be or to be not...that is the question. Do we as a species live for the future or does humanity thus risk extinction? That was the question that entered my consciousness upon completion of Edward O. Wilson’s Future of Life. Almost two decades ago, this book was published. It probed at an issue that wasn’t novel at that time nor has it been reprimanded at this point in time. Within this book, Wilson raises concerns about the environment and even provides possible remedial plans. Written in…

Deforestation is Linked to Tiger’s Heading Towards Extinction We have all heard about the beauty of a rain forest and the majestic animals that hide in the shadows, perched in monstrous trees are chirping colorful birds, while basking in the sunlight. The rain forest holds many homes to beautiful and almost forgotten animals such as Tiger’s who are on a brink of extinction. Also, the beautiful trees are producing clean air for everything to live healthier because they are part of carbon…