Rodent

white (sometimes blue-grey) coats that act as very effective winter camouflage. When the seasons change, the fox’s coat does as well, to a brown or sometimes grey color that provides camouflage. These colors help the fox to effectively hunt rodents, birds, and even fish. The arctic fox is also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox. The arctic fox does not begin to shiver until the temperature drops to -94 degrees F. Its paws have soles on the insides for additional insulation…

Have you ever felt anxious or uneasy where your palms become sweaty and your heart starts to pound? That my friend is what society calls an onset of a fear that could possibly lead to a phobia. Some say phobia is a tense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger or threat to a human. However, when your anxiety gets so serious that it interferes with your work and you start to avoid family and friends and it causes you to not enjoy life, you may be suffering from a…

The Zookeeper’s Wife was a very emotional film taking place in Warsaw, Poland. The couple featured were in charge of a very prestigious zoo containing many different animals ranging from rabbits, to monkeys, to elephants. After being bombed by Nazis, many of the animals died, escaped, or were seized by Hitler’s lead zoologist, Lutz Heck. With the realization of the enormity of their zoo, and the danger that many faced, they decided to take in one of their Jewish friends, hiding her in a spare…

companies were charged with more heinous crimes like processing meat that had been killed days earlier which by most standards is utterly disgusting. They also hid spoiled and infected meat from inspectors Some factories were even permeated with rodents. Inspectors and health assessors have time after time have called many meat companies’ products unfit of human consumption proving that the meat industry is not in it for customers, but just to make a quick buck. One of the worst parts of the…

Have you ever carelessly discarded a piece of trash such as a candy wrapper, beverage can, or something along those lines? If you have then you are subjected to littering and this is an impending problem we as a community need to stop before it gets too out of hand. Littering is a horrendous problem because it negatively affects the environment. It threatens human health and safety. Lastly littering ends up being very costly to the taxpayers of Floyd County. First off, littering consequently…

help it rest and see prey down below. On the topic of prey, the forest provides many small creatures. Most of those creatures include...rabbits and hares, rats and mice, and voles, although it freely hunts any animal it can overtake, primarily other rodents and small mammals, but also larger mid-sized mammals, various birds,reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. In ornithological study, the great horned owl is often compared to the Eurasian eagle owl, a closely related species which, despite…

behaves differently under peer pressure compared to other age groups, it is also proven that the teenage brain is structured to take risks and separate from their parents ideals. Dr Casey states “ ‘There is evidence’ she says, ‘that even adolescent rodents tend to hang out with same-aged peers and tend to have more fights with their parents.’ Sounds familiar? These behaviors- sensitivity to influence from peers, taking risks, and pulling away from parents- are hallmarks of human adolescence.”…

The Black Death – as it is commonly called – especially ravaged Europe, which was halfway through a century already marked by war, famine and scandal in the church, which had moved its headquarters from Rome to Avignon, France, to escape infighting among the cardinals. In the end, some 75 million people succumbed, it is estimated. It took several centuries for the world's population to recover from the devastation of the plague, but some social changes, borne by watching corpses pile up in the…

John B. Calhoun was a ethologist (John B. Calhoun, Wikipedia) and a behavioral researcher. “He claimed that the bleak effects of overpopulation on rodents were a grim model for the future of the human race.” Calhoun is also the creator of the term, “behavioral sink”, which in other words, could be seen as a point of irreversible damage to individuals in a society that have had problems. Calhoun was born in Elkton Tennessee (John B. Calhoun, Wikipedia). In high school, Calhoun joined a club…

Margaret Floy Washburn was a pioneering female psychologists who conducted extensive research into animal cognition and consciousness on motor development. She was born in New York City on July 25th, 1871. Following primary and secondary schooling, Washburn enrolled at Vassar College in 1886. At the beginning of her senior year, Washburn was required to take a psychology course; this was pivotal in her future endeavors as it introduced her to the applications of philosophy to scientific…