Pygmies

Kaylee Smith Summarizing From Your Sources The two Great Apes that I choose to research are the bonobos and the chimpanzees. Bonobo: Scientists believe that Bonobos are the the closest relative Great Apes to humans, but the formerly called pygmy chimpanzees are now endangered, and still are quite mysterious. Humans don’t know a lot about the bonobos like they do with the chimpanzees or gorillas. What we do know is that the bonobo species are mostly on the smaller side, and have small faces,…

Samuel Phillip Verner is commissioned by organizers of the St. Louis World Fair to procure African Pygmies. In order to do this Verner must travel deep within the relatively unexplored jungles of the Congo, a dangerous expedition that he is later admired for within the scientific community (20). In result of his mission, he captures Benga along with eight other young males, also recorded as pygmies, and they travel back to America where the tribal men parade the fairgrounds together for months,…

5 Exotic Pets With regard to exotic pets list, there are literally thousands, even millions of different weird pets and crazy pets to choose from if you are in mammals, reptiles, fish, birds and amphibians. For people who lean towards maintaining exotic plants, knowing unusual pets would best suit not only your lifestyle but which would be your ideal pet too, can be a bit of a challenge. You may not want something too difficult to keep or an animal that needs a very special environment to live…

protected areas for this great ape." - Bonobos are probably the least understood great ape in Africa, so this paper is pivotal in increasing our knowledge and understanding of this beautiful and charismatic animal." - The bonobo, once referred to as the pygmy chimpanzee, is smaller in size and more slender in build than the common chimpanzee. -…

Education When it comes to education, what does it mean to be educated and who decides how students in America receive it? In today’s educational society, there have been many issues that concern student’s views of public education and how it affects them academically and personally. The majority of American students do not always get the opportunity to sit for a while and reflect on the fundamentals that shape the educational system there in today. The essentials that will affect any student…

Standing majestically on a huge rock, an enormous 8 feet pygmy elephant bull with his long tail, straight ivory tusk and wide ear but shorter trunk than the typical Asian elephant, he stood on his hind leg and gave a loud trumpeting call. He was the leader of the herd and also my father. We had had been walking for few days now. My previous home, acres of lush green pastures with valleys of huge beautiful shady trees and a wide clear and cool river had been intruded. Few days ago, humans…

In the story, it’s very obvious that the main protagonist Aylmer was considered the symbol of science. Aylmer was a remarkable scientist who was described as “an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy”. And his folio which was described “had recorded every experiment of his scientific career” reflected that he pretty much spent his whole life on scientific research. He put a lot of efforts on his research and was very serious about it. When Georgiana went into his lab, he was…

The Catalan Atlas is a massive, ambitious and stunningly beautiful artifact with illustrations and writing on the regions, peoples and cultures of the medieval world. While some of the images, such as pygmies attacking cranes, are based off legends, some, like a figure showing surgical practices, demonstrates the knowledge the Cresques had access to when creating this atlas. The Catalan Atlas originally had a unique orientation as north was at the bottom and was read from the Far East to the…

Oil is usually found deep under ground, but the greater Los Angeles area up through the Santa Barbara area is one of a few places in the world where oil is not just close to the surface, it is on the surface, bubbling in cold pits of bitumen, also known as asphalt and tar. This asphaltum has been important to humans for as long as they have lived in the region. In the past it was primarily used to waterproof boats, water carriers, and cooking vessels or as an adhesive. Now, of course we use…

An Empty World Imagine a world where humans were extinct. It’s seems far fetched right? Well, that’s a reality for too many species. Extinction rates have been rising because of many factors, including overfishing, overhunting and habitat loss. There have been five mass extinctions in our history, and some scientists say we are on the brink of the sixth one. “In the last five hundred years, 869 species have gone extinct” (Species Extinctions the Facts). There is a critical need to keep…