Endangered species

for fun? Why travel so far or pay so much to trophy hunt? Scoring a big kill for show is what they call trophy hunting. Trophy hunting should not be allowed because there are people that alternate ways to produce revenue, they can be harmful to endangered people, and the revenue isn’t properly. To begin with trophy hunting should not be allowed. The revenue from trophy hunting isn’t used properly. According to New York Times, The money was meant for school and homes to be built. But, the…

and Vietnam because of the business of the ivory trade. Elephants need to be saved because they are keystone species, which means they are crucial to the biodiversity of Africa as many other…

Galapagos tortoise is an endanger species. Another name for the Galapagos tortoise is Chelonoidis Nigra. They are giant, with 5-foot claws and four back claws. With round, dome-shaped shell or as most would call it a saddleback shell. It has thick scales all over the limbs, neck, and pointed hand. Galapagos Island surrounded by grass and water started in Espanola and San Cristobal. When the Galapagos tortoise breed primarily during the hotter season of the years like summer and some of spring.…

The most effective law that involves the Northern Spotted Owl is the Northwest Forest Plan for the reason that a recovery plan was not applied yet. It took seventeen years for the government to come up with a recovery plan and it ended up integrally defective. Most people who viewed the recovery plan would hurry to blame the logging businesses and the so-called “Timber Wars” both of which having materialistic politicians backing them up. The delay of the plan also echoes from environmental…

Background and Significance Due to previous work, it is estimated that there exist 19 separate populations of polar bears. Of these 19, two exist in Alaska, one named the Southern Beaufort Sea population, and the other known as the Chukchi Sea population. Along the northern coast of Alaska, from approximately 137°W to 167°W members of the Southern Beaufort Sea population can be found (Fischbach et al., 2007). During recent years, the Southern Beaufort Sea population of polar bears has been…

Seal-world (2016) said, “Researchers believe that the Mediterranean Monk Seal is very shy and doesn’t like to be around humans. This could explain why they have moved from giving birth on land to doing so in the caves under the water. As people continue to move closer and closer into the natural habitat area of these seals it is going to require them to continue further adaptations of their current behaviors.” There are many threats to the survival of the Mediterranean monk seal such as habitat…

The Saber-toothed Tiger, or the “Smilodon”, was a prehistoric predator, that lived in the southern part of the Americas. (California, Texas, Florida, etc) The Saber-toothed Tiger is named after their long, canine like teeth, that extend from their upper jaw. Existing during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 56 million - 12,000 years ago), Saber-toothed tigers were elongated, stocky animals, that were ferocious, meat eating hunters. The Smilodon populator, or the Saber-tooth Tiger hunted in packs,…

‘Heritage’ invites us to think of multiculturalism, the 99 animals featured in this artwork are ideal but it is an impossible reality. The range of animals goes from tigers to deer, to pandas and kangaroos. The animals featured in heritage are ideal but are impossible, they are prey and predator. The artwork symbolizes tranquility and peace, the animals have been arranged in a way that there is no hierarchy, there is no leader. The only movement in this world of ideal is a drop of water, it’s…

The author states the theories about the main cause of extinction, and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that these theories were not the cause of Steller’s sea cow population decline, and refutes each of the author’s reasons. The reading posits that the sea cows were overhunted by the native Siberian people. On the other hand, the professor explains this point by saying that the sea cow was a mass creature with nine meters long heavy body. He states that the…

Prey need peripheral vision to survive, they need it to be able to see predators so they won’t get eaten. Peripheral vision is a wide horizontal range of vision found on prey that ranges from 290-310 degrees, leaving them with a 50 degree blind spot, with horses as one of the only exceptions because they have a 350 degree horizontal range. but they do not have the depth perception and focus that predators might have, because of predators tunnel vision. You can tell if they are predators or prey…