Mammals of Africa

In the story The Three Little Pigs, I believe the wolf is innocent of the murder of the Pigs because of his natural instincts, his sickness, and the pigs worked less to play more. While we may have personified the wolf and pigs, no living thing can ignore it's natural instincts. Every living thing has to eat to live and also has a “limit” to what they eat. These days we are also lazy and choose the pleasure principle, to work less and play more. When it comes to natural instincts you can’t…

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. A quote by George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm. Anywhere you look or go in life you will find a system in place. It may not be obvious at first, or it may be dominant in that environment, but we have hierarchy wherever we go. This book was written in 1945 and oppression still reigns. Even in first world countries. I won’t even start talking about third world countries. That's 71 years down the way and nothing has changed…

Instinct or gut feeling is a distinct characteristic that can be found in animals and humans. It is how humans and animals react or behave to a change in the environment. These actions are done intuitively and is not a result of learning or past experience. For animals, Instinct is primarily a tool for survival. an example of an instinctive would be hibernation. Before the winter comes, animals will collect and store food for when the cold weather ends as finding resources during the winter…

T-Rex which is short for Tyrannosaurus Rex, was known as a prehistoric carnivore which was also known to be king of the dinosaurs. The Tyrannosaurus Rex was king of the dinosaurs mostly through their physical appearance which led them to have multiple abilities. The T-Rex had strong thighs, powerful tails, and it’s large head which balanced the body out. This appearance helped the dinosaur become more agile and able to move more swiftly/ smoothly. Not only was the dinosaur agile but was a…

Blanchard’s Cricket Frog (Acris blanchardi) Introduction As humans, we get the opportunity to share and coexist on this planet with some extraordinarily unique and diverse organisms. Of such organisms, reptiles and amphibians are some of the most adaptable organisms on Earth, residing on every continent except bitter cold Antarctica. Here in Minnesota, There are 22 species of amphibians and 31 species of reptiles, ranging from the fast moving salamanders to the slow and nimble turtles. I got…

Between their mesmerizing, heart-filled eyes, fluffy fur, and playful behaviors, animals are wonderful creatures. There are roughly twenty-four billion animals who inhabit the Earth, which is approximately three times the amount of humans on the planet. Out of those animals, one hundred million are used for animal testing every year. Whether it be a bird, rabbit, etc., animals are tested on everyday for cosmetics and house necessities. Animal testing should be put to a stop; it is cruel and…

We are all the same Did you know that animals and humans are alike in many different ways? It has been proven by many universities and scientist. In a recent article I just read in the LA Times Newspaper is called “A Change at Heart about Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin. In this article he has shown us that animals have a sense of self, emotion, and the ability to learn languages. Those are just some of the things showing how we’re alike. There are probably so many more ways people haven’t…

In The Veldt, Ray Bradbury teaches readers the importance of how the way children are raised can affect them. The children in the story could have used their computerized happylife home to turn the nursery into a candy shop, or playground like average little kids. Instead the children chose to make their nursery a hasty desert wasteland filled with hungry carnivorous tigers. While someone might argue the theme of this story is kids rely too greatly on technology, they forgot that it’s really the…

Today, humans rule the planet. Humans are the “higher animals” of the earth (Twain). Naturally, this would make all other animals the “lower animals” of the earth (Twain). Taking a good, hard and honest look at this hierarchy, could one truly come to this assessment? Sure, humans arrived here based off of their actions, development of technology, and intelligence. However, looking at their current state, can one truly call them the higher of the animals? Maybe it is more appropriate to refer…

The idea of evolution was once taboo for its new ideas at the time, it was seen as wrong because it challenged ideas already established about the world, especially how life came to be. Evolution is a relatively new idea discovered by Charles Darwin. This discovery came to be when Darwin was traveling along the Galapagos islands where he studied finches and discovered that these finches had all originated from one species of finch and eventually became differentiated leading the species to split…