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Tiana Cortada Ms. Peters Adv. English Period 3 October 12, 2015 Is Trophy Hunting Worth the Hype? Walter Palmer paid around 55,000 dollars this year to hunt a famous lion in Zimbabwe (Mosbergen 1). The money that Palmer spent is equivalent to an average person’s yearly income. There has been much controversy about Cecil the lion’s death recently. Both hunters and animal conservationists both have strong opinions about the case. To hunters, hunting is a hobby, an activity done for fun. They…

Colonel Paterson and is was written by Lauren Tarshis. The second article about is Lion Whisperer and mainly about Kevin Richardson and written by Susan Orlean. Keven Richardson runs a sanctuary for lions for newborn animals they live in captivity, he raised two of his favorite lions. They are his best friends he loves saving animals he takes them to the park and feeds them, he cuddles with them. When the two lions see him, they get really excited! There names are Meg and Amy. When they…

The Eurasian Lynx is one of four species of lynx. The scientific classification is the L. Lynx. Its natural habitats are the forests, tundra, and Mountains. They range in Scandinavia, Northern Europe, and Asia. they weigh up to about 84 pounds, but the average weight of a male is 48 lbs. The average weight of a female is 40 lbs. They rank the largest out of the whole species. Eurasian Lynx are nocturnal meaning, they sleep all day and go hunting during the night. Their diet contains of rabbits,…

One of the many definitions of a predator is an animal that lives by killing and eating other animals, or an animal that preys on other animals. Better yet, one that preys, destroys, and devours. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, predation is the pursuit, capture, and killing of animals for food. Excluding Homo sapiens, the animal kingdom has species considered to be top predators in the aquatic, terrestrial, and aerial territory. For instance, the massive great white shark is probably the…

Victoria Chen Mrs. Barsever Biology Honors/Period 4 3 March 2015 Sumatran Tigers: A Background Research Paper The Panthera tigris sumatrae, known by its common name, the Sumatran tiger, is the smallest of the remaining five tiger subspecies. It has lived for over a million years in the once extensive moist tropical jungles of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. It has not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List but its conservation status is listed as…

The Amur Leopard or “Panthera pardus orientalis” (www.worldwildlife.org, 2014) is a critically endangered species with around only 30 known still alive. I chose this animal because Leopards have always managed to keep me engaged and keep my attention. I may not have been very knowledgeable on this animal before this project but by the time I’m done I expect to be an expert. In this paper I will cover the habitat of this animal and the types of food it gets, a description of my animal (what it…

I think in the world we have today, an African Elephant would live longer because Asian elephants have to carry a lot of weight, with causes stress, depression, and arthritis. Also, the population of the African elephant has about 10 to 20x more living species. The elephants do not deserve to die or to be in captivity. Research has found that 40% of tourists of the top nationalities visiting said they had been or were planning to ride an elephant, so captive elephants in Thailand gave rides…

Ligers are very rare and so are tigons. The difference between the two are ligons are made by a male lion and a female tiger and a tigon is made by a female lion and a male tiger. “Ligers, like tigons – cubs born to a lioness and a male tiger”. (Panina) The reasons ligers are so rare is because they have to be bred in captivity. Ligers are so rare that there are only around 20 in the world. I do not think this is a good idea to cross breed animals because most places where they are bred by…

Along the Central Asia there is a beautiful specie of leopard that is disappearing in the past few years. That animal is the snow leopards, they mainly feed on wild sheep, ibex, marmots and hares. They have long-paled gray fur that covers its body, and its patterned with black rosettes. They weighs about 145 lb, and they normally inhabit on cold snowy mountains or rocky outcrops. A long time ago there’s about 7,500 of these tiger-like mammals roaming in the world, but now there’s only about…

are born, weighing 5 – 10 ounces. As the cubs grow, the mother teaches them how to hunt and other essentials, cubs stay with their mothers for 1 ½ - 2 years. Even under a mother’s, watch 90% of cubs still die before they are three months old because lions and hyenas often eat them. If they do make it to adulthood, the cats only live for around 10 – 12…