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and alert. However, they can be lazy and really loud at times due to their energy level. They have a life expectancy of 12-15 years and they are prone to suffer Collie eye anomaly, persistent papillary membranes, and primary lens luxation. 11. New Guinea Singing Dog. This dog breed was named such because they have unique vocalization. Just like…

Guns, Germs and Steel Essay Do you ever wonder why certain places of the world starve every day, but places like the United States have advanced technology and so much food to spare? The answer lies in geography. Geography is the key factor in how a civilization can advance or why is cannot, this being demonstrated flawlessly by its dictation of agriculture ( what crops people can grow ), domesticated animals ( what animals are domesticable ), disease and genetic immunization ( who is…

Why is it that Europeans are developing new technology every day while the people of Papua New Guinea are still using stone tools? Many people believe that the majority of inequality is determined by race, religion, or intelligence, but it’s actually determined by geography. For civilizations to be equal, they would need to have the same advantages as everyone else does and have the same skills and technology at the same time. When a civilization has a fitting climate for growing crops and…

When most people find out that my mom grew up in Papua New Guinea, an Oceanian country above Australia, they look confused. I imagine a thought similar to a famous Mean Girls quote pops into their head: “If your mom’s from Papua New Guinea, why is she white?” But of course, you can’t just ask people why they’re white. So, to lessen their confusion, I immediately explain how my grandpa, Robert “Robin” Thurman, and his wife, Ruth, moved to PNG with their two daughters to work as missionaries.…

Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies has gone repeatedly explaining many reasons as to why places like Eurasia and New Guinea developed so differently. The argument of chapter ten is that the shape and major axes of continents affect the distribution of crops and domesticated animals. The continents that Diamond uses is Africa, the Americas, and Eurasia. With Africa and the Americas both have their major axis that are longitude (north to south) while…

Have you ever had a hamster before? Although there are many great animals, I think hamsters are the one of the greatest pets to have. In my opinion, hamsters are fast runners, they are really fuzzy, and they like to eat a lot. One reason is that hamsters are great pets because they are really fast runners. When they run in their hamster wheel or hamster ball, they are really really fast. They get really energetic when they are running. According to the website Hamster Wheels, They could run up…

Many people like having pets in their homes. Pets are normally wonderful creatures. Most pet owners normally treasure their pets. You will realize that most pets normally provide companionship to their owners. Some of these pets include cats, dogs and so on. However, some people have opted to keep iguanas as pets. Iguanas are well known and are generally well-liked among the human population. However, unless you are a lizard lover or basically an iguana lover, there are some things you may not…

their own advantages, but with animals also came the exposure to diseases which built immunity for those who lived in geographical locations where there were domesticated animals. Those without these geographical advantages, places like Papua New Guinea and what used to be the Incas were effectively powerless, allowing the Spanish to appropriate their resources and become the most powerful country in the world. While diseases such as smallpox were the largest advantage Eurasian countries had…

help this problem I recomend a Guinea Pig. There are many reasons that a Guinea pig is the perfect match but here are a few examples. First of all young kids like to be very hands on with their pets and to help with that they need a very gentle animals. Guinea pigs are perfect with that because they generally like to be picked up and handeled but the kids have to have some precautions too. For one thing they need to wash their hands before and after petting the Guinea pig so that neither of…

ideas that our society has established for what is seen as appropriate and inappropriate. So what happens if we begin experimenting ourselves on the most bizarre and unordinary things? A.J. Jacobs, a victim of his own curiosity and the author of The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, exploits himself as a subject to a variety of unordinary experiments. In one of these experiments, Jacobs decides to practice Radical Honesty, a movement that encourages one to remove the filter between…