Herbivore

Front Page: The Rocky Mountain National park in is Colorado. The elevation differences are vast and vary between 8,000 to 14,259 feet. The park is open year round. One of the most popular activities in the park is to observe the vast number of species. The park was created in 1915 and its area is 415 square miles. Carbon Cycle: The carbon cycle is the processes by which carbon is transferred throughout an ecosystem. In a typical carbon cycle, carbon is released in the form of carbon dioxide…

open woodlands in Africa. Each subspecies lives in a different area of Africa. They range from eastern, central and southern Africa (Basic Facts About Giraffes ). During the dry season, giraffes are found near water holes and rivers. Giraffes are herbivores that browse for their food. They eat leaves, buds, twigs, vines, fruit, flowers, and shrubs. A large portion of their diet comes from acacia, mimosa and wild apricot trees; where they consume the leaves and shoots. Also, they eat shrubs that…

Growing up my parents forced their beliefs on me, but as I have gotten older and taken PHIL 103 Ethics, my morals and where I stand ethically has changed dramatically. When I was younger my parents would tell me that there were things I had to do and those that I couldn’t do, but they usually didn’t have a reason why. I strongly believe that you do not need God in your life to do the right thing, or to be a good person, “Even Kant admits at one point that full-fledged belief in God is not…

Russian culture has always had a big impact on my life as a mixed, Russian/Black individual. And as most Russians will tell you, food is a huge part of their culture. I grew up with so many diverse food on my plate over the year and simply assumed that that was just what everyone ate until I started going to school and noticing other kids lunches, and they started to notice mine. But at the heart of my semi-Russian experience there are four foods that seem to best capture the ideal Russian…

International and domestic law are not perfect instruments to fight against cyberattacks, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents and weapons, terrorism finance, or terrorism in general, the private sector and civilian population has to be involved. This is because the nature of these unconventional attacks, coupled with the impossibilities of “perfect security” only allows for a balancing of risk that can be achieved through a redundancy approach to managing these threats.…

The Sport of Hunting You see an older gentleman going down the road and you see a big shinny chrome looking box in the back of his truck. You hear a dog howling in that box and you see him just grinning from ear to ear. Suddenly, a deer runs across the road and three hounds are chasing him. A hunter is a person who attempts to supply for their family or hunts for a buck of a lifetime. Hunters have specific methods to hunting which could be still hunting. A still hunter basically sits and watches…

This is when when two species in close interaction such as a predator and the prey they eat, herbivores and the plants they eat, or parasites and their hosts they feast off of. These species change to adapt from each other; this relationship can be deadly, mutualistic, or competitive. An example of a mutualistic coevolution is the relationship between…

and abundance across various levels of the ecosystem (Berger et al. 2008; Beschta and Ripple 2010). Over fifty years ago, such scientific finding proved that the interaction between a top trophic level predator (i.e. wolf) and the next lower level herbivore (i.e. elk), significantly influences vegetation. Yes, wolves are top predator in the park and kill many animals, but at the same time their presence gives life to many others. Before their reintroduction the elk population had doubled as…

This reduction of the Kelp forest would increase the atmospheric carbon in the coastal ecosystem. Being the top predator for sea urchins, without the sea otters, the kelp forests would be greatly reduced due to the main herbivore, sea urchins. These grazing animals can destroy kelp forests and consequently the wide diversity of animals that depend upon kelp habitat for survival. This relationship between sea otters and kelp is critical in helping to preserve the Kelp forest…

the ice age when the Mammoth and the Saber Tooth Tiger were hunted by early humans mainly for their fur and meat. It is theorized that it was mostly when the humans felt threatened but it has been considered false as the mammoth was a passive herbivore [5]. Now days hunting has changed into a unfair sport for the animals as the rich buy rare species of elk, lion, boar, buffalo and ram and keep them trapped in small areas where there are shot from a distance. Hunters sometimes shoot animals…