Snowshoe Hare

were killing the trees in a random epidemic in Yukon. In the aspect of predator vs prey a good example would be the Lynx and the Snowshoe Hare. The snowshoe hare has a bright white coat during the winter for camouflage in the snow and brown during the summer for hiding in the woods. The Lynx is a superb climber and swimmer with great agility and speed. Though the snowshoe hare is agile and small they are good in numbers that help with easy findings for the Lynx. Another great example of predator…

Height: 19 - 22 inches Weight: 11 - 40 pounds Tail: 2 - 5.9 inches Habitat: The Canada lynx lives in mixed forests, rocky areas, and swamps. Diet Canada lynxes eat mainly snowshoe hares. They can eat an entire hare every one to two days. Sometimes they will prey on smaller animals like birds and squirrels if hares cannot be found. Their predators include cougars, wolves, coyotes, and humans. People will kill the Canada lynx for their fur coat. Reproduction Breeding season for the…

Lynx Adaptation The description of the Lynx is very complex. That will be learned along with other facts. Most people think this animal is a big ferocious cat that can kill. Not all of that is true, it is not very big. This cat is between 22-44 pounds when full grown. The Lynx can be anywhere from 19-22 inches tall and 31-41 inches long. Their coats can be cheeta colored, wolf colored,and brown. This animal's scientific names’ are; Lynx Pardinus, Lynx Canadensis, Lynx Rufus, and Lynx Lynx.…

Discussion of the effects of Perceived Predation affecting Songbird Offsprings. An assessment was done to observe the effects of perceived predation risk in a free-living population of song sparrows. The sparrows were found on several of the small Gulf Islands (British Columbia, Canada). The focus was only on perceived predation consequently direct predation was eliminated. The method to eliminate the direct killing by a predator was by electrifying nests and barricading with seine nets.…

Individually, snowflakes are diminutive, harmless ice crystals. However, when these seemingly innocent snowflakes cluster together in immense formations known as snow, they sustain a powerful ability to impact our world. Snowy weather has significantly affected the survival and lifestyle of nature and living things. In brief, snow poses large threats to the health, comfort, and well-being of humans, alters the process, features, and survival of plants, as well as interfere with the normal…

Front Page: The Rocky Mountain National park in is Colorado. The elevation differences are vast and vary between 8,000 to 14,259 feet. The park is open year round. One of the most popular activities in the park is to observe the vast number of species. The park was created in 1915 and its area is 415 square miles. Carbon Cycle: The carbon cycle is the processes by which carbon is transferred throughout an ecosystem. In a typical carbon cycle, carbon is released in the form of carbon dioxide…

Overabundance and how can it affect the surrounding ecosystem When discussing hunting and the types of impacts that removal of a population can do to ecosystems it 's important to know why the hunting is necessary to control negative and potentially devastating impacts that are a result of the animals in question. The Science of Overabundance points to a specific issues that surround the reseeding of Eastern Hemlock in the Upper Great Lakes region of the United States. “Hemlock was a dominant or…

if a species becomes extinct, the whole ecosystem may collapse. If the whole ecosystem collapses, a lot of species will become extinct because the tundra has a lot of species that only can live and survive there. These species include the arctic hares, arctic ground squirrels, lemmings, musk oxen, and ptarmigan. There are two varieties of tundra, the arctic and the alpine tundra. The arctic tundra is located in the part of the world that is above the equator, surrounding the North Pole and…

Accepting Criticism: An Act of Enclosing Poetry In her poem "Exclosure" Amanda Jernigan articulates how poetry is a passionate, yet terrifying form of expression. Through the writing process, a poem will take on a life of its own as every time that it is read, new ideas and interpretations are developed. This to a writer can be an alarming concept to grasp. Out of fear an author keeps their work to themselves since they lack the certainty of how it will be received by the world. Jernigans 's…

People may say the “selfie” was invented in the last decade; in reality wildlife have been taking their own pictures for over a century (okay--maybe not intentionally). Believe it or not, remotely triggered camera techniques date back to as early as1889! Both during and after his time as a U.S congressmen and lawyer, wildlife enthusiast George Shiras, was one of the original folks to design a camera trap. Born in 1859 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, he went on to dedicate his life to photographing…