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    Gorilla Essay

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    Part 2 The Natural History of The Gorilla Ecological distribution The first person who coined the word "gorilla", was Hanno, the navigator of Carthage. Two and a half thousand years ago, Galleys Hanno, looked for places that were suitable for colonization and moved along the coast of West Africa (Ахматов, 2006). Here in Sierra-Leone, Carthaginians met strange creatures. Marvelous sailors passed the logbook down so there would be a record about these wonderful creatures and about their…

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    In the nonfiction novel, “Going Solo,” the reader is taken on a breathtaking adventure through the struggles and achievements in the life of Roald Dahl. Filled with injuries and hardships, dangers and travels, the story following Dahl’s life is like no other. The writing strategies and wise words used by Dahl help the reader form clear pictures throughout the story about his life. However, there is more than just his superb writing tactics used in the making of this book. Explained by the…

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    Race is a fairly new concept getting it 's roots during the Renaissance.Chapter five of Our Origins covers the idea of race. Moving into the 1700s, an anatomist by the name of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach began to categorize humans he encountered during his travels into different races. The process for forming his taxonomy of the people he encountered was based on skin color and skull shape. His conclusions stated that there were five different races of people and also argued that these races…

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    Diversity In Africa

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    through Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso all the way to Uganda. 3 quarters of moist rainforest and tropical rainforest covers Central Africa. Temperate grassland covers most of Southern Africa. Montains and wet grassland are situated around the Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Malawi which hold a quarter of the world's supply of fresh drinking water. With ski resorts in Algeria, Lesotho and South Africa and Morocco to Deserts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti... Tropical rainforest in Angola, Benin,…

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    Brood parasitism – *There is one fish analogy to the true brood parasitism found in birds. *In Lake Tanganyika, the catfish Synodontis multipunctatus attends the spawning ritual of various mouthbrooding cichlids and lays eggs at the same time, in the same spot. *The female cichlid, as is her normal habit, picks up all the…

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