Jellyfish

Anteaters are edentates. Edentate animals do not have teeth. Anteaters eat around 30,000 ants and terminates a day, ripping open anthills and termite mounds with its long, sharp claws. Its tongue is 2 feet long with tiny, sticky hooks. To avoid the pain of bites and stings, anteaters eat quickly by flicking their tongues around 150 times a minute. They also lick fruit that has fallen on the ground. Anteaters living in zoos have a different diet. A zoo in Germany offers their anteaters a mix of…

for their blubber for making candles, lamps, and soap. Meanwhile, the sharks are being finned, slaughtered in order to make food. Whilst sea turtles are being caught in nets, and in fishing gear. They also eat plastic bags thinking that they are jellyfish. Life in the oceans is decreasing, the reasons are numerous and the effects are disastrous to the environment, thus measures are to be taken to insure no further deterioration happens especially to the creature inhabiting…

This research paper focuses on intergenerational bullying. Intergenerational bullying is how bullying is affected among different generations. Many readers might think that bullying has nothing to do with family, but in reality bullying has a lot to do with family. This paper specifically focuses more on how bullying occurs within a family, and how that bullying behavior is passed down to the children. Questions that will be addressed in the research paper will be how does a family’s history…

Dermochelys coriacea, better known as Leatherback Turtle is the world’s largest turtle with a length of 1.6 m and a weight of 300 to 600 kg, fourth-heaviest modern reptile and is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys and family Dermochelyidae. This turtle earns his common name because it lacks the typical bony plates on its carapace, instead, is flexible and covered in a thin layer of leathery skin, is dark in colour with white and pink spots. Females have a characteristic 'pink spot'…

animal species that is directly affected by this change is sea turtles. Scientists discovered that sea turtles are eating floating plastic in the ocean. (Turtles Mistake Floating Plastic For Food.) Jellyfish is a staple for the diet of a turtle. It is easy to mistake a floating plastic bag for a jellyfish.…

Haley Price Mid-Term 10-7-15 Prompt 8 Equality of Animals or Peter Singer is a well-known Ethicist who rights about his thoughts that animals and humans should have equal interests. Before deciding to debate this topic, I took the time to read Singer’s “All Animals are Equal”. After reading this I believe that Singer ignored the reality of nature to build his argument; however, one cannot just simply “forget” the irreversible acts of nature. There is a great debate over whether animals should…

Renowned American author H. P. Lovecraft once wrote, “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent”. Presently, the earth is estimated to be around 70% water, yet humanity has only explored less than 5% of the oceans. Imagine what we could learn from the unknowns of the most treacherous depths, and to what possibilities could we utilize all the information gathered? One anomaly quite intriguing is the diverse sea-life, which proceeds to prosper by…

race is the sea turtles. According to the (Washington Post) more than half of the sea turtles on earth have swallowed some type of plastic. The article goes on to say that sea turtles get the plastic confused with jellyfish. They get it confused because from down below it looks like jellyfish floating up above. In fact, (Washington Post) explains that the problem will get worse if we humans don’t do anything about the plastic problem now instead of later. One lesson that can be learned from all…

Polyps belong to a group of animals known as Cnidaria which also includes sea anemones and jellyfish Unlike sea anemones corals secrete hard carbonate exoskeletons which support and protect the coral polyps. Most reefs grow best in warm shallow clear sunny and agitated waters aria which also includes sea anemones and jellyfish Unlike sea anemones corals secrete hard carbonate exoskeletons which support and protect the coral polyps Most reefs grow best in warm…

However, the one feature of cnidarians that gives them their name, according to the dictionary, is that cnidarians are all stinging creatures, such as jellyfish. SOURCE The polyp stage and medusa stage are different body forms found in the cnidarians jellyfish. The polyp stage is a fixed stage, meaning it does not move from its position. By contrast, the medusa stage is a free roaming stage, meaning it is not fixed and travels around the water. SOURCE…