Foraging

sea turtle by-catch from trawlers, estimated at 500-1000 annually (Wamukoya et al. 1995). The major threats that affect the viability of turtles worldwide include: egg and turtle harvesting; turtle poaching or illegal hunting; loss of nesting and foraging habitats; exposure to coastal gill net, trawl, set net and trap fisheries; exposure to pelagic longline fisheries; injuries caused by boat propellers; tourism impacts related to excess lighting on nesting beaches and noise; and ingestion of…

by the transplantation of the surface fish lens into a cavefish retina that produced a developed eye, but it is not known if the eye was actually functional. It is also noted that the increase of Hedgehog signaling benefits cavefish by increasing foraging behavior. Conclusions: selection and constraints Retaux and Casane concluded that eye degeneration is contributed by pleiotropic factors. They believe adaptive mechanisms replace regressive traits and indirect selection guides this…

current state of eating that we have, the Western diet with its effects on health, and how to enjoy better health while getting the most enjoyment out of foods. Numerous changes have occurred over the years in terms of food and eating. We've gone from foraging to fast food, and from traditional cooking to convenience. The culture of food is one that in our current society has the tendency to change quickly. It can change multiple times, even within a single generation, as nutrition science…

found in hepatocytes and muscle cells, but the CK levels were not elevated so there is a chance that these turtles are in the early stages of liver disease, a biopsy would be needed to assess this. The high caloric intake coupled with the lack of foraging puts these turtles at risk of obesity and hepatic lipidosis. The increased uric acid concentrations in the blood of the SUPP turtles is likely due to the increase of proteins which increases the chance of the turtles getting gout. Increased…

Skin tingling, knots forming in my stomach as I walk through the doors of my new middle school. “Ugghh, I just want to be back in Brooklyn NY, going to school with my friends not here,' I think to myself brushing away at fast pace from an 8th grader class, full of giants who made me feel like a midget. “First day and you already missed the bus, and are 20 minutes late!!” I congratulate myself in my head, shaking it in disbelief. Realizing that I might be more late if I keep walking at my current…

You probably heard that beeswax candles are expensive. You might ask how to make a beeswax candle. The wax is made by young bees less than 17 days old. The wax is secreted from glands that gradually atrophy as the bee ages and begins foraging. Therefore, the bees must be young. The bees gorge themselves on nectar that has been stored in the colony. They rest for 24 hours while their bodies metabolize the wax. The bee has eight tiny slits on her abdomen where tiny moist scales of wax…

'Ajiaco' is a metaphor used by cuban ethnologist Oritz, describing Cuba as a melting pot. Ajiaco is a popular dish of Caribbean, where the ingredients are put in an earthen pot and simmered in heat for a long time. New ingredients are put in the stew next day and it eventually amalgamates with the older constituents, the process is repeated over time and it ultimately form Ajiaco, a popular dish originated and developed in Cuba by their native inhabitants. This dish is metaphorically used to…

How did the Confederate States of America lose the Civil War? Though a stimulating question that deserves contemporary debate, many historians claim the reason the Confederacy lost the war is based on southern resources, military strategy, civilian leadership or the institution of slavery. However, while all explanations can be classified as valid reasons as to why the Union won and the Confederacy lost, the case can be made that all four reasons were significant causes to the final result of…

“Constraints resulting from complex interactions between prey size, energy demands and foraging efficiency, which lead to no adaptive mortality of small nestling.” (Slagsvold, p. 692). According to the feeding constraint hypothesis, younger offspring are only able to digest little and mushy food sources where the older and larger siblings require…

Causation of this will inevitably create new challenges faced by women and their young such as, foraging for water and food, plotting them in the middle of another vulnerable situation of being exposed to more violence. Without money, transportation, and connections to resources, women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are left with no way to escape the terrors. When the United States led the invasion to attack and ultimately provide the fatality of Saddam Hussein, this imprisoned many women…