connection between the two different stories. The hyena which represented the crazy cook killed the injured zebra who was actually the Chinese sailor and the motherly orangutan who was Pi’s own mother. The Bengal tiger, Richard Parker, was in fact Pi himself. In fact, was Pi’s struggle with the tiger actually an internal struggle he had to face alone? There was a break, a deep silence that filled the interrogation room. Pi ended his second story with “‘Is that better? Are there any parts…
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…
Paragraph 1 The Lady Or The Tiger Essay In the short story called the Lady Or The Tiger by Frank Stockton we read about Semi Barbaric King and his arena/court where he sends people who have convicted of Criminal offences. When they are sent to the arena they have a choice to pick two door behind one door there is a man eating tiger and behind the other there is a beautiful woman that the person who was convicted of a crime would be immediately married to that woman. The stories main…
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…
awareness of the topic. These groups solely rely on donations, which allow them to lobby governments, raise awareness, maintain facilities and fund units like the anti-poaching team. A similar animal, the Amur Tiger also had a staggeringly low population. In the early 1900’s there was roughly 40 tigers left in the wild, but through conservation efforts the species was able to overcome this and has a current population of roughly 500. What the future holds for the Amur…
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…
fight back. Then there are regular animals like tigers and wolves. Every day you have to fight for you life against these animals. Then on one day after Arode was scrounging for food, he took it to his house in the trees there were a mysterious knock on his door. Arode wondered “who could that be?” because he was the only one in “The Jacobian…