Mammal

medical savior, ensuring that drugs are safe for humans to consume. Experimentation on mice is one of the greatest discoveries of medical history. According to, ( PROCON.ORG), “...mice are 98% genetically similar to humans.” Since humans and other mammals all originated from the same ancestors, and every creature has the same internal features (heart, lungs nerves, bloodstream, etc.), it’s…

At 18 feet tall, giraffes are the world’s tallest land mammals. Giraffes weigh between 1,750 and 2,800 pounds. They inhabit the forests and open plains of the African savannah. Giraffes are herbivores and they have only three natural predators which are: humans, lions and crocodiles. They can live to be as old as twenty-five years old, the oldest giraffe on record was forty years of age when she was euthanized due to health issues. Today there are around 80,000 giraffes living and they are…

see animals some. Also a lot of animals live in hot places like deserts, Egyptian, and Mexico, or New Mexico and some cold places to like Antarctica, sometimes deserts, at night winter places North pole there also some weird names like the mammoths mammals and some big animals like the even there so much animals all around the world like all over the world not kidding some are dangerous nice or calm and sometimes there shy to some of you might be asking how many animals there to exact there…

and sleeping in trees. Most of the time they are not seen doing ‘noteworthy’ actions but contrary to what many people may think, sloths do have something interesting about them even if all they do is sleep and eat. While cheetahs are the fastest mammals on earth and chameleons can blend into the background, sloths have an interesting ecosystem nestled within their fur. Insects, bacteria and other organisms all live in the outer layer of the sloth’s fur and perform different tasks that can…

The Florida Manatee, aka Sea Cow, or West Indian Manatee, is found in 7 to 10 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean during spring, summer, and fall (National Geographic, 2016). Later, in the winter you can find them near power plants, and in natural spring water that sustains temperatures above 68 degrees Fahrenheit because manatees cannot live in water below this temperature. This fascinating herbivore can live in salt water and fresh water. The endangered Florida…

The Traditional Zoo: Redefined Scratch marks the length of the body, spilling copious amounts of blood. Held captive in a dark metal box over night. Put on display during the day for other’s amusement. This may seem to describe the victim of abduction or a hate crime, yet it describes the life of an orca in captivity. Orcas are captured out of the wild and forced to do tricks in order to get their food. Their lifespans are drastically shortened and their dorsal fins no longer stand straight up.…

stop treating killer whales like circus animals. (BBC) (National Geographic) It’s also highly morally and ethically wrong to keep killer whales in captivity because of their intelligence. Killer whales “have the second-largest brains of all ocean mammals, and are believed to be one of the smartest animals on the planet.” (Independent) They are not able to use their intelligence their natural way in captivity. Whales in the wild “build complex family lives as well as sophisticated hunting…

Pigs Many people have eaten meat before, and so have I, but many people have no idea where it is coming from and how they are treated before they are killed. Many humans are careless and have no feelings towards the pigs. Pigs are animals, and they have feelings just like humans. Sometimes people are stubborn and do not care about how the animals are killed they just care about getting money. My family and I pay extra money for pork that has been handled with care, the humane way. Some pigs…

HABITAT: The Great Grey Owl lives in North America. In the harvest of timber it lives in dense boreal and coniferous forest. Often adjoining open areas like bogs, muskegs ,or meadows. They breed in north america . DESCRIPTION: According to the website all about birds.org, ‘adult owls look like this they have a flat face with large rounded head and grey face. They have wide yellow eyes with dark circles around them’.The Great Gray Owl’s upper part has dark streaks and under part light steaks…

broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses. Every year the cost of animals to use for experimenting goes up. Animal testing has first been used in 1242, a man named Ibn al-Nafis provided accurate descriptions of the circulation of blood in mammals. However, the use of animal testing is inhumane and virtually unethical. Animals have been living on Earth longer than humans. Animals used in experiments…