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Have you ever seen a dodo bird? Well if poaching continues the African elephant and African rhino’s may never be seen by our grandchildren. Elephants are continuing to be poached for their horns which are being sold for high prices to people looking to buy ivory. The black and white rhinos that inhabit Africa are already close to extinction with only a couple thousand of each left. If both of these animals end up being removed from their respective environments by poaching, then their…

considered a fifth hand. Their tail is sometimes longer than their body and is used for climbing and grasping things. When a spider monkey is on the lookout they use their tail as a support while standing on their two feet. With the research that I have found, spider monkeys seem to still be lingering around in various places on earth. Unfortunately, like in America, Mexico to South America are becoming bare due to all the bulldozers and transfer trucks taking away all of our trees. Spider…

Need to survive. “ Sumatran Elephants eat a wide variety of vegetation including grasses, leaves, shoots, barks, fruits, nuts, and seeAs its name suggests, the Sumatran Elephant is found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. However, the Sumatran Elephant population has severely dropped. “They have lost 80% of their natural habitat to deforestation for palm oil plantations.” (a-z-animals.com). Poachers are also hunting them for their ivory tusks which is killing them off as well. “In 2012, the…

Tigers are wild beasts, created to hunt and kill. Coexisting with such a large, dangerous animal seems frankly crazy. However this was the case for Pi in Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi. Pi was stranded in what seemed to be a hopeless situation with not much more than his faith, a tiger, and his will to live. In this novel as well as in normal human life faith is a very important aspect of people's lives. For Pi this was evidenced in his time stranded on the boat with a 450 pound bengal tiger.…

INTRODUCTION The West Indian manatee’s scientific name is Trichechus manatus, which approximately translates to “sea cow”. They are a member of the order Sirenia which contain the dugong and the abruptly extinct Steller’s sea cow. Manatees are large and come in varying colors of gray and brown. They are marine mammals but unlike a dolphin or whale the manatee has a flat, paddle like tail. They have two front flippers which each has at least three nails on it, another quality distinguishing it…

Hiss! As the Burmese Python slithers through the Marsh.The presence of the Burmese Python is changing the Everglades drastically.These snakes are changing the Everglades drastically as people get them as a pet and then don’t want them anymore so they release them into the wild, Most species are going extinct or near extinct because the pythons don’t have a natural predator so they eat and shrink the population of their food, and shrinking the population one Python at a time. Do you think that…

Science The Red Wolf is relatively small in size. It is smaller than the Gray Wolf one of its close cousin, but larger the Coyote (Imbriaco 18). On average the female Red Wolf weighs 52 pounds and the male weighs 61 pounds. Its average body length is 55 to 65 inches or roughly 4 feet, its average shoulder height is 26 inches. The Red Wolf is found on only 1.7 million acres in eastern North Carolina and in zoos around the US. Their main habitat is in marshes, forests, and basically anywhere there…

Turtles are being used for soup, Pangolin’s bodies are being used for skin treatment and elephants are killed for ivory tusks. Welcome to the world of endangered animals in China. Poaching of endangered animals started happening in the 1900's when the Chinese made a law for animals welfare and animal rights. Chinese people wanted these endangered animals for food, medicine, showing off when guests come over, valuable items, uniqueness and to sell animal products. Some might say there is a lot to…

experience extinction from sickness. However, some animals are unfortunate enough to be hunted to extinction by humans. These 10 animals no longer exist thanks to us, the humans. Here, we remember them below. Number Ten: Tasmanian Tiger. Extinct since 1936, the Tasmanian tiger was a threat to farmers because it would hunt their sheep, so to fight it, farmers began hunting it. It was trapped and poisoned for government bounties and eventually went extinct because of this. Number Nine: Woolly…

One of the stories The Stick Of The Man Eaters . Is about how these two lions, and how they killed 75 men. In the other story it talked about how a man named Richardson, was able to be with grown lions and live. There is a man that can take lions for walk’s. In the pitcher he is playing with a lot of lions . “One morning Richardson hugged a lion , and answered his phone.”The two righters who wrote thees is Lauren Tarshis and Susan Orlean . The similarities between the stories Attack Of The…