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The effects of handling and sex differences in rats on anxiety was tested using an elevated plus maze. This experiment was conducted to determine the impact of handling and sex on the level of anxiety in 60 day old rats. 24 rats were separated into groups based on sex and whether or not they were handled. The effects of handling on anxiety was determined by placing the rats in an elevated plus maze for 5 minutes and observing how they explored. This study showed that handling had an impact on…

I remember a very dark time in my childhood when my mother would shut herself in the bathroom for hours at a time. I did not understand why my mother would do such a thing or what exactly she was doing in the bathroom, but when I got older, I felt it necessary to talk to her about the situation our family endured for three years in my youth. She confessed to me that she was addicted to crack for those three years. She told me she never meant to hurt any of us, and that she was sorry over and…

soldiers, they are surrounded by death. Both poets represent death in an ironic way, because war is considered hellish and gruesome, people die, and Owen shows the irony between the romanticized war while Rosenberg shows irony through the freedom of a rat; the two poets alludes to death in devices such as imagery. “Break of Day in the Trenches” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” stand in for death because they use war as a paradox. They expect their readers, like many writers do, to take things…

The ocelot is a sleek animal with one of the most gorgeous spotted coat of any animal in the world, also is twice the size of the average house cat. Its fur is golden over most of its body, with white or cream on the belly; marked over the background color are all sorts of patterns. Mostly, the ocelot has black or dark brown spots arranged in a doughnut shape with dark tan in the middle. Sometimes these spots connect together and form chains or stripes running along the cat’s sides and back. The…

Before an in depth analysis about the visual perceptions of both the common barn owl (Tyto alba) and the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virgiriianus) can be provided, it is important for the reader to understand the environments of which these organisms can from. Unlike the Odocoileus, the Tyto genus are nocturnal, medium sized creatures with white-brown fur, and are found in almost all parts of the globe except Antarctica (Harris, 2002). In regards to the courtship ritual among these owls, it is…

One, it begins to depict how the rats started to captivate the lives of the people living in Oran. As the days go on, the number of dead rats increase. In The Plague by Adam Camus, suspense is shown through how naive the people of Oran were when they first saw the rats and the rising death counts of them and their impact. In the beginning of Part One, there are many interactions with the people and the rats. On of the first ones was when Dr. Rieux found a dead rat in the hotel. In the book it…

thirteen weeks of recording the pink-eyed Sprague Dawley rats walking across an elevated horizontal ladder, a circular ladder and a treadmill, I now spend most days carefully examining the videos to evaluate the quality of their walking ability. The video begins, as it always does, at an angle below the ladder. The rat appears in the frame, roaming around, to acclimatize with the environment and probably search for its missing cage mate. Rats are social animals and enjoy being in groups. As it…

When the weather starts to get colder, pests such as mice want to get inside your warm home. It's important to learn effective ways of keeping these pests out of your home and how an exterminator can help if they still manage to sneak in. The pest control experts at Tabor Pest Control, located in Dothan, AL, explain the common ways that mice can enter your home. When the weather gets cold, mice look for a safe and warm place to build a nest. Due to their small size, mice are able to enter a home…

2 Natural Methods For Stopping Ants From Getting Into Your Home Ants are a pest that are quite the annoyance, since they are so small and find their way into your home through the smallest cracks. You may think you got rid of them all, but then you find them crawling out of the strangest places. Here are two natural methods using items around your home that can stop them from coming inside. Vinegar The point of using vinegar is to deter the ants from going into your home because they prefer…

Use Dewormer for cats Dewormer for cats is the important thing to be given for your cats. It has the function to solve the deworming process problem. For that, you should get rid as soon as possible so that your cat will be in a good condition. This is one of the ways to be done in taking caring a cat from any diseases. Doing the worming for your cat It is rather difficult to know that your cat has the worms because there is the specific identical if the worming has not in the severe…