Hibernation

M.septentrionalis usually reside within the forests and caves, therefor their geographic range include forested places and mountainous locations. According to U.S Fish & Wildlife Services (USFWS), M.septentrionalis’s range include much of the eastern and north central parts of United States. Thus including 37 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,…

Spring has sprung in Arizona, which means that everyone is coming out of hibernation from our “cold” winter. It also means that it’s time for a spring break trip to Cabo, spring training games, Coachella, and more importantly, crop tops and tank tops, but Arizona weather is known for being very unpredictable during this time of the year, it could be 90 degrees and sunny one minute, and the next minute it could be 64 degrees and raining, so wearing pants is still socially acceptable. There is…

experience. For animals, Instinct is primarily a tool for survival. an example of an instinctive would be hibernation. Before the winter comes, animals will collect and store food for when the cold weather ends as finding resources during the winter would be difficult. Other than collecting food, they also seem to know when the weather changes as animals tend to wake up from their hibernation just as the winter ends. These behaviours are called Instinctive Judgment.While for humans, Instinct is…

The prairie dog has a very advanced home. The prairie dog is a small rabbit-sized rodent. Prairie dogs are small rabbit-sized rodents that live in grasslands in North America. They live in underground burrows, large tunnels, and chambers marked by mounds of dirt by their entrances. Burrows also have nurseries, toilets, sleeping quarters, and they even have listening posts. Prairie dogs are pretty advanced, for an animal. Prairie dogs live in large colonies, in underground burrows in grasslands…

Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found on the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Common characteristics of modern bears include large bodies with…

In the YouTube video titled Will Gene Therapy Cure Cancer, the man proposes 3-4 questions to the audience stating, “should parents be able to determine what their child's eye color should be? Or height? Or sexual orientation? And if we're able to use gene therapy to cure or combat diseases and … crazy genetic mutation would you give yourself?” (2013, Strickland, 3:30). To answer these, I don’t believe that parents should be allowed to pick and choose how their children turn out. Meaning that…

(-- removed HTML --) The Ya-te-veo tree, meaning "I-See-You" tree, is a carnivorous plant native to the jungles of the Old World, and regions of Outer kingdoms such as Africa and Central America. It possesses a thick, short tree trunk consisting of greenish brown bark, and several long tendrils which resemble huge serpents, darting side-to-side as if they were engauged in an angry conversation. There are five glowing green eyes at the top of the trunk, placed in such a way to allow full…

Approximately seven hundred years in the future, the Earth is over-run with garbage and devoid of plant and animal life, the consequence of years of environmental degradation and thoughtless consumerism. The surviving humans are living on the spaceship Axiom after vacating Earth centuries earlier. Axiom is operated by a large corporation called Buy N Large, whose BnL logo appears even on the artificial sun visible from the ship's main concourse. The original plan was for humans to live in outer…

unsanitary, are fascinating; particularly regarding how many of them make it through the winter to rise again in spring. Bugs are able to do this in one of three ways, which are: Migration - Moving to a warmer climate, such as Monarch Butterflies Hibernation - Digging into the ground…

forty minutes, I still took about ten minutes just to get out of bed. Moaning and stretching my sore legs I somehow managed to pack my bags for school. Nevertheless, it was even harder to get dressed. I was like a bear woken from the middle of hibernation all morning. As soon as I was ready to go I made my bed and opened the window. Then, out of shock, I dropped my book bag, then squealed with delight. Outside, the world was blanketed…