Extinction

Exotic Animals, NO NO! RAWR! The idea of a exotic animal like a lion may sound cool, but you might end up in the lion’s stomach! Currently many people keep exotic animals. Is this right; NO! People should not be able to keep exotic animals because exotic animals are wild. We should not keep them, in captivity. Secondly, they are very dangerous. Lastly, we cannot provide everything they need to live like in the wild. Ok, fine I will admit it. Keeping exotic animals are cool, but think about…

Captive breeding and reintroduction programs are important tools for the establishment of threatened animal populations, but experimental approaches require to compare the outcomes of these programs that will increase post-release survival. The Kaiser’s Mountain Newt, Neurergus kaiseri is listed as a vulnerable by IUCN criteria, to aid about the ecology and the conservation of this species, we carried out a trial release of 20 newts reared in captivity on 4 occasions during the spring and summer…

The part of the dummy half pass I am doing is the preparation. The aim of this document is to show you how to evaluate the authors touch acting half long pass skill and seeing how to improve the pass and discuss about applying the most relevant biomechanical principals The main phase of the pass that was focused on the most was the preparation phase. Which this phase consists of the following actions made by the acting half  Outside foot is placed near the ball  Base of support is wide and…

Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis Status: Least concern Conservation Efforts: In the 1970’s, the brown pelican population was threatened by DDT. When brown pelicans ate fish that were contaminated with the pesticide, the eggs they laid had a thin shell and would break during incubation, because of the devastation it had on breeding success. Soon after, the IUCN banned the pesticide. Ever since, the population has made a strong comeback and numbers have increased. Physical…

Under the 16 career clusters, the first one is Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources. One of the careers that are under this cluster is Zoologists Wildlife Biologists, who do the studying of life of wildlife, and how these animals interact with the ecosystems. They also study the physical attributes of animals and their behaviors from how humans have impacted on their wildlife and natural habitats. The needed skills are communication skills, with writing scientific papers and speeches, and…

Imagine you have been on a safari adventure, driving for hours and have seen nothing. Then off to your left you see something black and white. Wondering what is is? It’s a herd of zebras, grazing out in the open grasslands of East Africa. The zebra can be found in East Africa, and has black and white stripes know on them as camouflage, and is an herbivore which means it eats plants, grasses and figs. The zebra is a black and white striped mammal that lives in the grasslands or woodlands in…

Why is zoo cruelty an important thing to take into consideration? Zoo animals are being taken out of their natural habitats more and more every day. Zoos are going out of their way to do such things. They are having to shoot these animals with a gun or anything they can to get them down and knock them out to get them into their own zoos. These poor animals could be leaving their moms as soon they are born and will never get to see them again.This paper is talking about zoo cruelty because…

The Pittsburgh Zoo is only one of six combinations of a zoo and an aquarium in the United States. It displays an impressive “400 different species of animals, some of which are threatened or endangered” (USNews.com). Nonetheless, the Pittsburgh Zoo strives to fashion optimistic, lifelong relations between animals and people, and this goal is evident throughout the Zoo’s walkways and exhibits. As I walked throughout the Zoo, I noticed that the animal’s exhibits closely resembled their natural…

Life of Pi Meaning of the Zoo Pi grew up in a city of animals, after all his family did own a zoo. Pi knows everything there is to know about his animals in the zoo, but what if the zoo in Life of Pi is more than just to show that Pi knows a lot about animals. The reason the author of Life of Pi included the part about the zoo was to introduce the animalistic savagery that would become a theme throughout the book. The meaning behind Pi growing up in a zoo was so that the author could introduce…

In behavioural psychology there are two key concepts to learning behaviour; classical and operant conditioning. In order to understand how these techniques can be used, the differences need to be distinguished between them, therefore giving a better understanding of how learning can be developed and modified. Classical conditioning is a two stimuli learning process that involves one stimuli being influenced by the second. Throughout time the second stimuli is able to work alone without the…