Naked mole rat

METHOD – 320 -6 = 314 WORDS Rats and Diets 36 Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 4 groups of 9 rats with each group fed a different diet. Groups consisted of Corn starch (C), corn starch + naringin (N) (CN), high-carbohydrate high-fat diet (H) and H + N (HN) (Alam, Kauter, & Brown 2013). Rats on H and HN diet were fed a high-carbohydrate high-fat diet consisting of 25% fructose in drinking water and a mixture of beef tallow, condensed milk, powdered rat feed and salt for 16 weeks (Alam,…

Bibliographic information: Numeroff, L.J. (1985). If you give a mouse a cookie. New York: Harper & Row. Annotated summary: This book is about a boy who shares a cookie with a mouse. After the boy gives the mouse a cookie, the mouse asks for milk which makes him want to look at the mirror to make sure he doesn’t have a milk mustache. Once he sees himself in the mirror, he decides to give himself a trim. After that, he decides to clean his mess as well as the whole house. Once he takes a nap, he…

As the mouse dangled freely above the beast's agape jaws, an all too eerie silence washed through the room providing background noise for the mouse's squeaks of terror. That silence dominated, until her struggling had ceased and he felt her pick apart his mind, a sharp and thin knife aiming towards his rawest and most protected of memories. It was as if the kitten had finally formulated its plan of escape and came up tearing flesh with razor-like claws, spitting forth to freedom, melting the…

together, Mole still needed a place to stay. He wants that place on the bank opposite. It was perfect for someone like him. Mole sadly stared down at his feet. He was thinking what he was going to do. When the boat reached a good place to stop rowwing, Rat putted down the paddle and looked at Mole. He just realized how down spirited Mole was. Rat walked gently, trying not to flip the boat, up to Mole. "What is wrong my friend?", said Rat. Mole then explained about how he wanted a home. Rat…

The effects of handling and sex differences in rats on anxiety was tested using an elevated plus maze. This experiment was conducted to determine the impact of handling and sex on the level of anxiety in 60 day old rats. 24 rats were separated into groups based on sex and whether or not they were handled. The effects of handling on anxiety was determined by placing the rats in an elevated plus maze for 5 minutes and observing how they explored. This study showed that handling had an impact on…

I remember a very dark time in my childhood when my mother would shut herself in the bathroom for hours at a time. I did not understand why my mother would do such a thing or what exactly she was doing in the bathroom, but when I got older, I felt it necessary to talk to her about the situation our family endured for three years in my youth. She confessed to me that she was addicted to crack for those three years. She told me she never meant to hurt any of us, and that she was sorry over and…

soldiers, they are surrounded by death. Both poets represent death in an ironic way, because war is considered hellish and gruesome, people die, and Owen shows the irony between the romanticized war while Rosenberg shows irony through the freedom of a rat; the two poets alludes to death in devices such as imagery. “Break of Day in the Trenches” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” stand in for death because they use war as a paradox. They expect their readers, like many writers do, to take things…

The ocelot is a sleek animal with one of the most gorgeous spotted coat of any animal in the world, also is twice the size of the average house cat. Its fur is golden over most of its body, with white or cream on the belly; marked over the background color are all sorts of patterns. Mostly, the ocelot has black or dark brown spots arranged in a doughnut shape with dark tan in the middle. Sometimes these spots connect together and form chains or stripes running along the cat’s sides and back. The…

Before an in depth analysis about the visual perceptions of both the common barn owl (Tyto alba) and the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virgiriianus) can be provided, it is important for the reader to understand the environments of which these organisms can from. Unlike the Odocoileus, the Tyto genus are nocturnal, medium sized creatures with white-brown fur, and are found in almost all parts of the globe except Antarctica (Harris, 2002). In regards to the courtship ritual among these owls, it is…

One, it begins to depict how the rats started to captivate the lives of the people living in Oran. As the days go on, the number of dead rats increase. In The Plague by Adam Camus, suspense is shown through how naive the people of Oran were when they first saw the rats and the rising death counts of them and their impact. In the beginning of Part One, there are many interactions with the people and the rats. On of the first ones was when Dr. Rieux found a dead rat in the hotel. In the book it…