Mammals of Africa

diversity patterns of mammals would be like without the past and present human impacts, based on estimates of the natural distribution of each species according to its ecology. New studies present what the world would look like if humans never existed. In most places, there is a very large shortage in mammal diversity relative to what it would naturally have been. The current world map of mammal diversity shows that Africa is the only place with a high diversity of large mammals. Africa has the…

Class: Mammalia, Order: Artiodactyla, Family: Giraffidae, Genus: Giraffa, and Species: G. Camelopardalis (Giraffe: The Facts). Giraffes are found in savannas, grasslands and open woodlands in Africa. Each subspecies lives in a different area of Africa. They range from eastern, central and southern Africa (Basic Facts About Giraffes ). During the dry season, giraffes are found near water holes and rivers. Giraffes are herbivores that browse for their food. They eat leaves, buds, twigs, vines,…

Henry Beston’s assertion from The Outermost House provides us with his distinctive perspective of human-animal relationship and his suggestion on how we humans should develop a different point of view, per se, regarding this relationship. Beston’s statement is not what you would call direct and clear, on the contrary, it requires to be broken down and analyzed to get a clear sense of what it means. This essay will endeavor in explicating three main ideas in Beston’s statement by drawing a…

The Nonhuman Rights Project is the first organization to achieve actual legal rights for animals however; the legal rights are limited to certain animals. The animals that this project focuses on are chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins and whales these animals are seen as “smart” animals to society. What’s common with these animals is that some if not most of them are used for human entertainment as well as for medical purposes. Looking closely at the home page those animals are the main ones,…

There are a plethora of symbols that represent the savagery and the darkness of man. The scar is a symbol of destruction. This shows that man will always have his savage nature. The beautiful paradise, the island, is ruined just because of the arrival of man. The painted masks on the Hunters prove that there is a movement from civilization to savagery. As the Hunters paint their faces, the last bits of their civilized nature goes away. Their faces without the mask represents the civil part of…

In the essay “An Argument for Animalism” by Eric T. Olson, he concludes that personal identity is psychological continuity. I will disagree with Olson’s ideas about personal identity in the brain-transplant and the thinking-animal argument. The main point of the paper is about animalism. Olson’s argument is that each one of us is numerically identical to a human animal. Olson says that a person could exist who is not numerically identical to any animal, but it’s not the case for you and I. Olson…

As he backed himself into the corner of the cage, fear penetrated the little guinea pig’s eyes while he watched the man carrying a scary needle closer to him. Now imagine that little guinea pig being your pet. Being a pet owner, you can tell when your pet is sad, happy, or not acting like themselves. Thinking about that, I picture my guinea pig in a scary room with strangers who continuously do tests on him and that is truly terrifying. There are many questions about animal testing. Is it right?…

There is no doubt that in todays society we strive to protect every individual from harm, forming/maintaing laws and keeping rights. When someone is arrested, even if they have committed a crime or serious offense, the authority’s duties is to protect the person under arrest and the society around them. To accomplish this, officers have a ser procedier enforing the indivudal of their rights; miranda rights. The authority tries it’s best so that every individual feels safe within their living…

Throughout the documentary Blackfish, which debuted in 2013, director Gabriela Cowperthwaite argues that SeaWorld keeping killer whales in captivity is not only inhumane and dangerous for the whales themselves, but also dangerous to humans that train them and interact with them on a daily basis. The documentary starts off with a very famous phone call to the Orange County sheriff saying that the Senior trainer for SeaWorld, Dawn Brancheau, had been eaten by a Killer Whale; her arm was completely…

In All Animals Are Equal, the philosopher Peter Singer argues that we should extend the basic principle of equality to non-human animals. In order to justify this claim, the author examines the foundations of the basic principle of equality, establishing a moral system that takes into account the equal consideration of interests of living beings. Peter Singer states that in order for a being to have interests at all, one must take into account the capacity of suffering and enjoyment, or in other…