Mammals of Africa

You are walking or sitting in your home, a rodent runs across your floor, and you jump up on the chair and scream and try to get something to beat it with or throw at it. You may not even be sure what that was but one thing is for sure it has to go. After you gather your wits about you again, you grab the phone book and start looking for someone to call. Whom should you call? Well, call someone who has rodent pest control experience. Different Methods There are the traditional methods of…

July 2009, Jaren Hare and boyfriend, Charles Darnell, are sentenced to 12 years in jail after their pet python broke free from his cage only to strangle their two year old daughter, Shaianna, to her death. This story is only one of the dozens and dozens exotic pet attacks. Exotic animals should not be pets because they can be dangerous, and wild animals will always be wild animals, even in captivity. With over 70 exotic pet attacks within the last 20 years, exotic pets are known to grow up and…

encompassed the evolution of arthropods which are ancestors of today's insects and crustaceans, as well as chordates which are animals with rudimentary spinal cords. Vertebrates are a well-known group of animals that includes birds, amphibians mammals, fish, and reptiles. The vertebrates can be well described by their backbone, an anatomical feature that first occurred in the fossil record about 500 million years ago. When scientists describe vertebrate evolution, they most often originate it…

The Devil is Calling Man, evil man. Pigs, dirty pigs. Oinking for help, for safety, for the precious God to save them. Help them wash away the mud that has matted their dry skin. The nasty, sinful pigs that have nothing better to do than share their flies surrounding them with others who come near. Everything was so mud less without cell phones. They could actually go throughout their day without being covered in horrid smelling filth. Not only were cell phones spread by the pigs, but were…

Animal testing should not be legal. According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, each year, more than 100 million animals are killed in US laboratories for a plethora of different types of animal testing. (“Using Animals”) Time and time again companies test on animals whether it be for cosmetics, medicines and even deadly diseases. Using animals as “guinea pigs” is not ethical by any means, and should be illegal everywhere. Not only is it wasting animals’ lives but it is also…

Nevertheless, a study was conducted on the stomach contents of 390 feral felines in central Australia, between 1990 and 1994, in the Northern Territory. Felines victualed on a variety of invertebrates, reptiles, birds and mammals, including animals up to their own body mass in size. Mammals were the most consequential prey but reptiles were customarily eaten in summer and birds were consequential in winter. Invertebrates were present in the diet of all seasons. Carrion appeared in stomach…

Which cat is the third largest one in the Americas? It’s the jaguar; this animal is the third largest cat behind the lion and tiger. One of the reasons for this is probably because jaguars’ can eat up to 85 different animals. They mainly just eat whatever they can catch. Although they eat a lot, jaguars’ are endangered. They are extinct in two countries,El Salvador and Uruguay, and they could be extinct in general if humans keep hunting them. They are illegal to hunt but people do it anyways for…

“No More Curtain Calls for Elephants,” an article published in the Los Angeles Times’ newspaper and composed by its own editorial board, brings the issue of domestic elephant mistreatment to light and declares its support of the Los Angeles City Council’s consideration of a measure that would promote domestic elephant welfare. In writing a story that was most immediately available and applicable to Los Angeles residents, the LA Times’ editorial board hopes to bring more awareness of the problem…

In the article, “A change of Hearts about Animals,” by Jeremy Rifkin, he argues that the new findings by scientists show that animals are more similar to humans than we thought. In these findings we see that animals have emotion like they feel pain, get stressed, get happy and feel love like humans do. To support his claim he explains that there are studies that suggest that animals can acquire language skills, use tools, show self-awareness and pass on knowledge to the next generation. Through…

People who serve Siamese are more attractive than the average humans.The siamese cat has many common names such Siamese, The Palace Cat, The Royal Siamese,and the Royal cat of Siam. A siamese cat has such a wonderful appearance it can only be recognized by its coloring and almond shape head with those sharp brilliant blue color eyes. When there is a blue moon with Venus rising, Siamese can become invisible. They are a very sleek cat with colored points on their ears, face, tail and feet. Its…