Primate

In the short story “The Monkey's Paw” by W.W.Jacobs, a possible theme is, not everything is the way it seems. This is a possible theme because a lot of evidence points toward it being so. When the White’s decided to keep the Monkey’s Paw that the Sergeant-major told them to burn, everything went downhill from there. In the end, this is found to be a big mistake. When Mr. White makes the first wish he wishes for two-hundred pounds, but what he doesn't know is that making that wish was going to…

In the Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling there are many ways that the Bandar-log act like bullies, talk like bullies, and treat other people like bullies. The Bandar-log laugh at everything and have no respect for anyone or anything. The monkey people fight with each other, they also talk bad about others and make others look bad. The way the Bandar-log speak make them sound like bullies. On page 42 The monkey people sound arrogant when Kipling says “ there is no one in the jungle so…

Mongoose (Herpestidae) Similarities Among Species Shared Traits • Short legs • Long, skinny body. • Color variability among subspecies is usually connected with soil color for camouflage. Common Ancestor is Feliformia Environment Sub-saharan Africa Thick scrub or low forest Job • Feed primarily on insects, small reptiles, and birds. • Are eaten primarily by snakes,…

Under many circumstances, human testing is indeed ethical because of the reasons that I am about to unload. Just so we're on the same page, human testing is doing an experiment with humans and is still debated to this day. Human experimentation is debatable because of two reasons. The first being what happened in WW2, the second being the fact that humans are living and breathing. Everyone (or most people) know how monkeys are very commonly used as the "human" variable in human-based experiments…

Mammals, as in the various rodents depicted in the video Chisellers have adapted to fit the many different environments they reside in. There are about 1,300 different species of rats and mice making them the largest that exists to this day. They are equipped with ever growing cheek teeth that replace what has been ground away. One in such mammal depicted within the video was the Kangaroo Rat. They have a quite interesting form of locomotion where they hop much like a kangaroo. Kangaroo Rats…

The Sea Bear Transformation mask at the Montclair Museum was carved by Don Svanvik of the Kwakwaka'wakw. It is made mostly out of painted wood. When it is in the closed position it looks like the head of an animal, and the sides are painted green, the lips and nostrils are red, and the eyes and nose are black. On the top of the head there is straw or bark fiber sticking up, and this continues around the back of the head to create a sort of mane. In the mane, two green webbed ears stick out. The…

Altruism in Elephants: Empathy and Higher Cognitive Ability It is generally thought that altruism is a behavior only displayed by simplistic creatures, such as ants or honeybees, which do not possess the cognitive ability to evaluate short or long-term reciprocal benefits. Very few mammal species have been observed to display truly altruistic behaviors. Dolphins and elephants, as well as the great apes, are examples of the few mammalian species which commonly display altruistic behavior,…

There are different types of animals that live in trees and we usually think about birds and squirrels, we don’t often think about sloths. Bradypus variegatus is known as the three toes sloth. Bradypus variegatus can be found between the eastern Honduras to the northern region of Argentina. (Redford and Eisenberg 50). The three toed sloth are slow moving animals. They weigh between 2.35kg to 4kg for an adult, and an immature sloth weigh less than one pound. Bradypus variegatus body length can…

Paranthropus larger braincases than Australopithecus. Paranthropus is associated with stone tools both in southern and eastern Africa, and there is a considerable information they made and utilized by these robust australopithecines. Most the early Homo was the tool maker, and some of the hand fossils from Swartkrans, South Africa, indicate that the hand of Paranthropus robustus adapted for precision grasping and tool use. Most Paranthropus species seem almost not have language for their…

Evolution, a controversial topic about the teachings of life and the origins of modern creatures. Some think that evolution is true and some don’t. Some think that we came from an ancestral ape creature, some don’t. Some do not believe evolution should be taught in schools however because it is similar to believing in god. Although it is similar in teaching, evolution teaches a backwards form of life, almost to the point of being evil. Evolution in school teaches kids that life is meaningless…