Mammals of Africa

You Decide It is rare to find an article or story explaining a certain topic without the author trying to convince the reader to agree with his or her opinion. Michael Pollan’s essay An Animal’s Place is effective because of the way he presents facts and his personal experience while allowing the reader to formulate their own unpersuaded opinion. An Animal’s Place is the story of Michael Pollan’s trip into the life of animals and how they are treated by the human race. While reading Animal…

Humans and pets have life-long bonds that cannot be broken. Pets trust humans with their lives and are given strong amounts of trust in return. Pets give their owners unconditional love and humans give them the same, as long as they behave. Cats are pets that have strong mischievous and independent sides, but are loveable and quite adorable. "Teensy, Tiny Cat" written by Gabi Prachar displays a loving relationship between an owner and their cat. The author describes their cat doing multiple…

The North Atlantic whale’s population is declining at an alarming rate. Scientists fear the population might go extinct in mere years. Experts believe that the government must act fast to save the population. The major threat to the whale population is entanglement in fishing gear. Over 85 % of whales have been caught up with fishing gear at least once. Entanglement can lead to infections, cuts and starvation. All of which can lead to death. Entanglement is more deadly to female whales. This is…

As we all know by now, every animal is symbolic by either reflecting a person’s personality or physical aspects or even both. Certain religions believe that each animal represents a person, they call this having a spirit animal. In my case, according to my personality traits and physical aspects i was able to carefully choose an animal that resembles me the most. After doing lengthy research on myself and on the animal i have chosen, i came to the conclusion that the animal that is most similar…

it is very rare that all rats survive their first year of life due to the limitations of food availability and the high number of predators that oppose them. Rat reproduction is extremely similar to the reproduction of other mammals because, like the majority of mammals, rats are placental. This means that male rats mate with female rats that hold their offspring in their uterus for a brief time. While in the womb, the offspring is nourished by a placenta, allowing the offspring to grow and…

Also, Humans torture animals in a horrible way that some humans can't even stand watching it. The way animals are tortured should stop because animal suffer more than expected, like stated in the last paragraph animals feel the same pain as humans. In the article “In the belly of the beast” it says the following, “a tattooed man who seemed to take pleasure in abusing newborn pigs- flinging them around by their legs, boasting of stabbing a sow with a pen and ripping the ear off another”(...).…

Dinosaur National Monument ensures an expansive store of fossil bones of animals that lived almost 150 million years prior. The fossils enable us to take in more about these intriguing creatures. Dinosaur National Monument is extraordinary in light of the fact that guests can see fossils uncovered on the bluff face of the Douglass Quarry at the recreation center guest focus. This site gives a standout amongst other previews of Jurassic dinosaurs discovered anyplace on the planet. The quarry was…

Lions have become completely deranged. These savages have been eating any human being in sight, but one man is an exception to this. An article called, ¨Meet the Lion Whisperer¨ by Susan Orlean in Scope Scholastics magazine mainly focuses on the fact that Kevin Richardson is very affectionate towards and the lions are the same way to him. The overall mood, or how the reader feels that is created by this article is shocked because Richardson and the lions relationship is extraordinary. To begin…

The film, Blackfish directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, targets mainly the audience of the general public and any previous or upcoming customer of SeaWorld. It is meant to inform the public and customers of SeaWorld how in humane treatments and conditions the Orcas have to work in at the amusement park by persuading the audience in using many pathos, the appeal to the audience’s emotion, but using the deaths of multiple trainers. Not just for the fact that over 70 “accidents” between the Orcas…

For years, scientists have relied on animals to test cosmetic, hygienic, and medical products before administering them to humans. Although scientific breakthroughs and discoveries have been made by using animals to test these products, most animals experience unnecessary abuse and cruelty. Even if some products are effective when used by animals, this does not guarantee that they will be effective in humans. There are currently no established laws that protect small animals that are currently…