Reptile

With all of the construction taking place, it would require thousands of gallons of water to keep down the dust and make concrete for the road. This construction would also cause the obliteration of many natural habitats. Mountain lions, reptiles, rabbits, the endangered gnat catcher, and coyotes would perish if a this toll road comes. Vegetation such as the coastal sage, milkweeds, chaparral, and the California sunflower would drastically suffer and possibly become extinct. This tollway…

coyote, which hunts various insects, lizards, and tortoises. Other predators include: Cape Cobra: Hunts other snakes like the Mojave Rattlesnake, rodents like the Desert Rat (Dipodomys), birds and bird eggs, and some insects. Bobcat: Hunts small reptiles like lizards, birds like the Pygmy Owl, The Big Horn Sheep, and some small insects. Even eats some grasses and fruit from cacti. Raven (Corvidae aves): Hunts small rodents, bird eggs, young birds, nuts, and some cacti berries and…

organism on earth. All creatures, large and small, have their own way of producing offspring. Many bacteria and plants produce asexually, which means they do not require a sexual partner in order to reproduce. For many other creatures such as reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and many other creatures, A sexual partner is required. Each type of organism has there own way to attract mates. Birds like turkeys fane out their tails to impress potential mates. Fireflies glow up. All of these…

Painting A Kerangas Forest Floor On my way to Wharton County Junior College Sugar Land, I decided to stop by the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Sugar Land. The painting I found very eye-opening was titled A Kerangas Forest Floor, the painting was created by Carel P. BrestvanKempen. The painting was made in 2010, and is currently going around many venues. At the moment, the painting is in the second floor of the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Sugar Land. The painting will be in the…

Albert Cuyp was a Dutch painter who painted the Charming the Animals. As I walked on the second floor in the Dutch room at Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, I saw a beautiful painting hanging against the wall that quickly caught my attention. This is an landscape painting. As you see the painting, you see varieties of different animals and a guy sitting in the middle of the painting. This painting was lent by the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo collection. The material used for this painting is the…

Personal response: The Thin Executioner had many things I didn’t expect. I figured that this was just going to be a guy's journey northbound fighting threats around every turn. What I got was a journey of learning other religions and humility. I will note that there was a slight learning curve in the beginning. From what I understand after reading the book the Um ________ means “person of” or “people of” depending on the context. Plot: Jebel was the runt of the three sons of the greatest…

Australia’s natural environment is NOT unique. This is a statement to which I determinedly accept may be not correct. Australia has numerous extraordinary elements which different nations do not possess. Australia deserves to be known as one of the most biologically diverse countries on the planet. It is home to more than one million classifications of plants and creatures, a considerable lot of which are discovered no place else on the planet, remarkable and impressively unique landforms and…

Florida's Everglades is very important to us. Without the Everglades peoples water supply will go to risk, we wouldn’t have a natural buffer to help prevent the damage of hurricanes, and people would dump their unwanted pets causing problems to our food chains. Without the Everglades or wetlands people will be risking their water supply. People don’t realize that when they are polluting the Everglades they are not just harming the Everglades but they are also harming themselves. People nearby…

Biotic factors are the living organisms of an ecosystem, the Bay has approximately 757 native species including, 398 birds, 97 reptiles and over 2344 plants (…). Moreton bay has a rich diversity of biotic and abiotic factors which interact with each other. Extensive mangroves and tidal flats support and shelter fish, birds and other wildlife (State of Queensland, 2015). Sandflats…

The Blackfoot language is an endangered Native American language with only about 3,000 fluent speakers remaining. Cultural communities who use this language are the Blackfoot tribe bands which are the North Piegan, the South Piegan, the Blood, and the Siksika who reside in the northern plains of Montana, Idaho, and Alberta, Canada (Redish and Lewis "Blackfoot Indian Fact Sheet"). Each tribe band has the same culture and uses the same language, however they differentiate politically. The overall…