Dolphins are mammals not a fish. They are mammals because they breathe air directly to their lungs. They have hair at some point during their life cycle. They are warm blooded and give birth to live young. And they also nurse their young. Dolphins put a lot of their energy into raising their youngs. The ocean is a hard place to live for a mammals but a dolphin are adapted for the marine environment. Inside their pectoral fins they have a skeletal structure similar to the human's arm and feet.…
they are very similar to the human species than we have ever imagined.. For an example, animals can experience pain, suffering, joy and excitement. His statement is entirely true. Biologically, since humans are considered as mammals, other creatures specified as a “mammal” have the same organs and wiring systems within their brain. Meaning, there is a high chance that animals do indeed have feelings. It is scientifically proven that humans do share 99% of DNA with rats. Hence, one of the…
Elephant Food In Charles Siebert “An Elephant Crackup?” the author analyzes the hazardous lack of empathy between the people and elephants that coexist in Africa. Like Michael Moss’s work “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” this lack of empathy between food companies and the consumer leads to a conflict of interest for the poor and lower classes of society. Giant Food Corporation’s bank on the “conscious effort -taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store…
Connor Juneau Mr. Miller/Mrs. Dene’ Science/English 7A 24 April 2018 Sloths Could you imagine that the next day you wake up that sloths have become extinct? Sloths have different characteristics that help them survive in the wild. Sloths are slow for different varieties of reasons. This is what helps them survive and live out their daily lives. Sloths are very cool because they have many different physical characteristics. Sloths have very long claws. Their claws help them hook on branches so…
Pengalins are animals, similar to anteaters, and possess scale armor all over their body, a lengthy tail and four legs. Plated armor allow these animals to effectively defend themselves against predators. The bodily characteristics of pangolins include large, hardened, overlapping scales similar to armor plating, a newborn pangolin has a softer shell, but it hardens as the animal matures. This armor is made out of keratin. Pangolins curl up into a ball when threatened, and will tuck its face…
I am swimming to catch my brother, diving as much as we can, a thousand feet to be exact. We’re swimming at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour. Looking left, looking right, our mother is right behind us. Our pod has stopped to catch some food. With the two stomachs we have it 's hard to not be hungry. I sometimes wonder why we have so many teeth if we don’t use them? We swallow our food whole. I can recognize almost every dolphin because our fins are very unique. It helps us identify each…
From the last seven years, there has been cases on seals dying all over the world, and scientists from Scotland are up to finding out what causes these deaths. Most of the of the seals that the scientists of Scotland have examined have a spiral-like or corkscrew type of injury on their body-mostly the females. This prevents the population of the seals to elaborate, which can cause the seals to go in grave danger of extinction. A colony of harbor seals that live by the in the inlet of Edinburgh…
said, mammals, such as dolphins, are being taken from all over and put into captivity for the entertainment of people. However, for animal activist, this situation is something…
which contain the dugong and the abruptly extinct Steller’s sea cow. Manatees are large and come in varying colors of gray and brown. They are marine mammals but unlike a dolphin or whale the manatee has a flat, paddle like tail. They have two front flippers which each has at least three nails on it, another quality distinguishing it from it’s marine mammal brethren. They are distantly related to the elephant and it is easy to tell when looking at them. They have a big soft snouth with squishy…
out in the open grasslands of East Africa. The zebra can be found in East Africa, and has black and white stripes know on them as camouflage, and is an herbivore which means it eats plants, grasses and figs. The zebra is a black and white striped mammal that lives in the grasslands or woodlands in East Africa. They also live in open plains, semi-deserts, and some live in zoos. The zebras survival rate is better in captivity because they have people to take care of them and they have healthy…