Predation

Melancorporcheltox temperagora These nocturnal mammals are the size of a fox, it has four short thick legs and a short curly tail. They have thick wet-proofed black-brownish short, fluffy fur that helps them blend into the shadows of the canopies on the ground and in the little undergrowth at night while they’re hunting. Their fur is able to puff up and out if they’re threatened to make themselves look bigger to scare any possible predators, or to warm their young during hatching and the…

Have you ever seen a dog or wolf before? They are very similar. Dogs have been around for thousands of years. Some people ask how did they change from a wolf to a dog. Scientists are still trying to figure out how the evolution to a wolf to a dog. The dog has evolved from the wolf. The wolf is the ancestor of the dog that is why the dog and the wolf have common abilities and different and abilities. One common ability is the running speed of the wolf and the dog. An ability of the wolf and the…

McOsker 1 I love dogs. Their soft ears, big eyes, and loving personalities win me over. My family feels the same way, and in-kind, we have cared for 4 dogs since my parents got married: Odin, Odysseus, Perseus, and Loki. However, I wasn’t born yet when Odin died, and so I don’t have any recollection of him. That leaves three doggies I hold near and dear to my heart. They define my omne trium perfectum. They define me. As someone who spends every free second of her day playing with her dogs…

“No matter what kind of person you are, I implore you: try. Try to make the world a better place. Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you” - Judy Hopps Zootopia is a movie where there is a place where all the a prey and predator animals get along nicely. Judy Hopps, a rabbit, has always wanted to be a cop her whole life, but her parent want her to stay on the carrot farm and be a carrot farmers just like all of the other bunnies. But Judy grows up she moves off the carrot…

Bobcats Facts and Introduction: Bobcats are an amazing and great animal. They live up to 12-15-20 years. If they are lucky maybe 30 or even 40! Some old ones live up to 50! But no higher than 50. They have fuzzy upside down triangle shaped fur on the tip of their ears. They are fuzzy and cute but I don’t recommend them as a pet! They may nip or bite you very hard! Some people have baby bobcats as animals but when they grow big and strong and when they get older, the owners have to release them…

I read two different stories, “Cat and Rat: The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac” and “How Cat and Mice Became Enemies”. Both of these stories are legends. They have many differences and things that are alike, and I am going to compare and contrast them in this essay. First, there are many things that are similar in these two stories. The cat and the rat started as best friends, and ended as enemies. You had to cross a “wide” river. Rat was selfish, and cheated/had a negative personality character…

Technical Definition of Batesian Mimicry Sentence Definition Batesian mimicry is an ecological phenomenon in which a harmless organism copies the physical appearance of a harmful or irritating organism in order to deter predators. Origin and Use Batesian mimicry is named after the English naturalist, H.W. Bates, who discovered the phenomenon in the 1800s (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2012). The term is used by ecologists when classifying and comparing similar looking organisms.…

Dogs or cats? That is one of the most famous questions asked today in modern society. Almost everywhere you go you will always hear people arguing about this topic. Some people say cats are better than dogs, some say dogs are better than cats, well I am here to stop that arguing. My goal is to get almost everyone in this room to say dogs are better than cats. I think dogs are better than cats because dogs may prevent people from developing allergies and asthma, dogs keep us fit, and dogs are…

There is a positive correlation between the rate of ice cream an individual consumes and the rate of drowning deaths. The are many factors to this correlation. Each individual may vary so for my experiment I decided to get a sample of the population. My sample will only consist of males and females between the age of 13-19 in a local neighborhood. The independent variable will be the consumption of ice cream. The amount of time spent after consuming X amount of ice cream can also be a…

Ground squirrels are among the most intensively studied groups of mammals (Harrison et al, 2003) and generally classic subjects for research on variations in life-history traits and population dynamics (Hoffmann, 2002; Miche ner, 1998; Oli et al, 2001). They are small- to medium-sized animals that spend much of their lives in extensive burrow systems (Nowak, 1991; O¨ zkurt et al., 2005) and are obligate hibernators during seasons with low ambient temperatures and poor foraging conditions…