Apex predator

their fins and meat. The methods used for capturing this rare species are wasteful and cruel, and their decline is presenting tragic consequences for the ecosystem of the ocean (Shiffman, July 2014). Finning, Overfishing, and Bycatch Sharks are “apex” predators at the top of the ocean’s food chain. They keep the oceanic ecosystem balanced, which covers more than two-thirds…

chicks most often resulting in death, as it is indigestible and toxic. Ingestion is not the only problem, but also entanglement. Entanglement can kill marine creatures by constraining their movement, which can prevent them from being able to escape predators or cause the animal to…

The chondrichthyes are a group of vertebrates, which contain the sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras, whose internal skeleton is fabricated entirely of cartilage and contains little to no ossification. The organisms in chondrichthyes are colloquially termed “the cartilaginous fishes”. Cartilaginous fish are divided into two subclasses based on a number of characteristics. The first is the Elasmobranchs, which are well known organisms because of their formidable reputations. Organisms in this…

if the culling of the sharks population was to go forward, it would only make way for a new creature to become a nuisance our beaches and feed within the oceans. Alongside that, human culling does not work like the natural culling of apex predators. Where predators go after the weak and elderly, our culling targets those that are fittest or targets those that have others depending on them. So with this kind of culling it could challenge the entire existence of the sharks that have been here for…

(compared to it’s close relatives) theropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Like other abelisaurids (members of the family Abelisauridae) , the Majungasaurus was a two-footed predator with a short snout. Although the forelimbs are not completely known as of yet, they were very short, while the hind limbs were longer and quite stocky. It can be distinguished from other dinosaurs in it’s family by its wider skull, the very…

Earth was once full of oceans and water. Now earth is being destroyed by the many negative activities of the human species. Once there were oceans that were filled with life. However with time and modernization also came deterioration of earth’s natural recourses. People have destroyed them to the extent that some creatures are actually at risk of extinction. Plastic wastes are one of the main reasons for the death of sea turtles. whale hunters hunt whales and sharks are finned and caught in…

Ocean Acidification-Effect on Squid Ocean acidification is a direct result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide CO2 concentration due different type of human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation (Halpern). The world’s ocean surfaces have gradually become more acidic due to absorption of excess anthropological carbon emissions throughout history. Since the Industrial Revolution during 19th century, the carbon dioxide level has been dramatically increasing. In addition, the…

There are many examples of symbiotic relationships in Disney’s The Lion King. A symbiotic relationship is the interaction between two species living closely together. Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are the three main categories of symbiotic relationships. These relationships are important in maintaining a stable ecosystem because they are similar to cause and effect. Both parties in the symbiotic relationship play a key role, and one of them missing from the equation would mean…

Why We Should Hunt Do you ever ask yourself why humans hunt? There are many different reasons on why we hunt. Hunting goes all the way back in time to the creation of man. People used hunting to survive, provide, and flourish on the earth. Over the years many people have started to question why we still hunt because we have all our needs met by supermarkets. There are two different sides to this argument, we should hunt and we shouldn’t hunt. I am going to talk about a few ways that hunting…

shattering powerful jaws. Without being able to see the powerful Tyrannosarus Rex out in its natural habitat to truly debunk the claims of it being only a predator or a scavenger comes the conclusion that it was possibly both. With its large nostrils it was possibly easier for it to sniff out fresh blood of a recent kill of another smaller predator for example that of a velociraptor; and it might have used its size to intimidate the other away from the fresh kill and take that…