Argumentative Essay On Barn Owls

While domesticated pets like dogs and cats make good pets many people want to own exotic animals that belong in the wild. These animals range from tigers to pythons, but should not be owned as they need special care most people cannot provide. Not only this, but exotic animals release is harmful for everyone, the exotic animal, humans, and native animals. Lastly, many exotic animals carry diseases that are harmless to them, but fatal to humans. Exotic “pets” are harmful for everyone, not just the pet. This is why people should not be able to own exotic pets.

The world is divided on many issues, but one, seemingly trivial, served as an immediate date deal breaker for me and threatened my romantic future. It wasn't a question about political position, religion or about a stance on global warming. It was about a small, flexible mischievous animal that meant the world to me. How can anyone dislike it?

Every child has asked their parents for a pet animal. The thing is though, is what type of animal they asked for. Such as a dog or cat and even the occasional hippopotamus for Christmas, right? Lots of people buy exotic animals not knowing how much work it really takes to take care of them. For example, many people have bought pythons and when they get to a size where they can’t keep care of them they let them go into the wild. Exotic animals are very costly and time consuming, they grow up and get bigger and all in all they are very dangerous.

investigation. The owls also may be coming in contact with pesticides indirectly through other animals

Many Ravens will likely root for the Denver Broncos to knock off the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50.

Should animals in Captivity be allowed? Animals in Captivity should be allowed because they get the medicine they need, animals can live longer, and the animals can get smarter. The first reason animals in captivity should be allowed is that animals can get healthy. There are rehabilitation programs that nurse animals back to health.Veterinarians can prevent and control a disease. Second, animals can live longer in captivity. In the article, by Hannah J. O’regan and Andrew C. Kitchener states, “Gorillas live for more than 50 years in captivity compared to 35 years in the wild” (223). The animals diets also help them live longer. Lastly animals can get smarter. Animals in captivity do more activities making them smarter. For example, “Rats raised in enriched environments had larger brains”(O’regan and Kitchener 224). Animals in captivity should be allowed because they are able to get healthier, their lifespan increases, and they get more intelligent.

For this week’s forum, I choose to talk about the bald eagle. The scientific name for the bald eagle is Haliaeetus leucocephalu and comes from the accipitrine family. With the bald eagle growing three feet tall had having a wing span of seven feet, this magnificent bird has few predator’s. Crow’s enjoy harassing the bald eagle, but pose very little threat. Animals such as the; great horned owl, squirrels, raccoons and ravens will try to snatch the eggs from the nest of the bald eagle. The one major predator of the bald eagle is humans, in the past farmers would kill eagles to protect their crops and livestock, bring the eagles almost into extinction. The bald eagle is no longer on the endangered species list, but it’s still illegal to

Barn owls are predatory animals. Their food sometimes has harmful chemicals in them. These chemicals include DDT, PCB, organophosphate pesticides, and heavy metals. Chemical that affects barn owls are pesticides designed to kill pest rodents such as voles, gophers, squirrels, rats, and mice.They are commonly found in homes to keeps rodents

Throughout my childhood when everyone saw a bald eagle, they would be awe in. People always said something like, “Wow that’s an amazing sight. There aren’t too many of those in the US anymore.” I’ve always wondered why this is. It wasn’t until recently that my interest in bald eagles was re-introduced. About a few weeks ago during lacrosse practice, a bald eagle was soaring above Sodexo Field. My coach goes, “Aren’t there only like 20 of those left?.” At the time I knew that bald eagles were taken of the Endangered Species List, but that’s all I knew. I figured this would be a good project to research and get the full history of bald eagles.

Animal Research is topic that is highly debated by several people, especially those in the medical and the vet world. Why is this such a debatable topic to individuals? Many people consider animal research to cruel and inhumane, and others believe that it is for the greater good to help find cures for humans. Ron Karpati, a former pediatrician and who is now a medical researcher, agrees that animal research is used for the greater good even though it inflicts pain on animals. Karpati wrote an article called, “ I am the Enemy,” and in this article he states several points that prove his belief on animal research.

The first modern zoo to be founded was in Vienna, Madrid and Paris in the eighteenth century and later on in London and Berlin in the nineteenth century. The first zoo to be established in America was in Philadelphia and Cincinnati in the 1870s. In today’s America there are thousands of zoos. Humans like to be entertained regardless of how they are being entertained, whether that is walking through the park, watching a show, listening to music or simply going to the zoo. There are truth behind zoos that many don’t see, for example, many zoos don’t show the death rates that many zoo animals have after being transported from their natural habitants or the experiences that the zoo keepers provide to the animals being kept in captivity. To what extent are we okay with animals being tortured or being aware that animals are being killed just so humans can be entertained? While there are benefits to keeping animals in captivity, scholars agree that there are more negative effects that are damaging to the animals. The purpose of zoos can be more than just keeping animals in captivity and creating significant health or mental problems, zoos also can have a positive outcome, zoos can help keep endangered animals safe from others who are trying to kill them for what they are worth. Jamieson explains and gives one example of when people started putting animals in captivity. The Romans is the example that Jamieson uses, the Romans “kept animals in order to have living fodder for games.” Jamieson continued to explain how over the years the use of animals historically grew in popularity and how the idea continued to “thrive until at least the eight century.” Jamieson also mentioned that keeping a large amount of animals showed who had power.

Barn owls are the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. These owls can be located almost anywhere in the world besides polar and desert regions. The barn owl is a nocturnal hunter that rests in abandoned buildings and trees. While hunting, the owl relies on its acute sense of hearing to guide them in the dark. Barn owls received their name due to their tendency to nest in old barns. This predatory bird's diet can vary depending on the location in which the owl lives. In North America and Europe, voles and shrews dominate the owl's diet, while the Mediterranean region their diet is mainly mice and rats.

It’s the dead of the night and the shrieking calls of a barred owl break the silence. A young child bolts upright in bed with fear written across her innocent face. A teacher’s class is about to be taught a lesson on The Ice Age. The parents of the frightened child hush their daughter and say it was just an inquisitive owl that scared her awake. The teacher pulls on a sweater and says, “Cavemen wore these a lot in The Ice Age.” The children in these scenarios are the victims of deceit. Both poems, “A Barred Owl” and “The History Teacher” by Richard Wilbur and Billy Collins show the effects of not exposing children to the truth early on in life. The parent and teacher mentioned are only concerned about their children’s innocence remaining intact, and they don’t take into consideration how sheltering them from the truth life holds will affect the children’s minds. Wilbur and Collins

Many adults choose to alter the truth to certain questions so that they can shelter children from the horrors of the real world. I remember growing up I would ask my parents things that looking back now I am sure it was hard for them to come up with an answer to. Today as a big sister my little brother will ask me questions and I have learned that slightly covering up the truth is better than him knowing the full truth in order to keep his innocence for a little while longer. In “A Barred Owl” and “The History Teacher”, both poets do this when kids ask questions that they don’t really need to know the actual answer to. However, although each author has the same idea, they convey it differently in their poems by using different literary devices

With nearly millions of animals dying each year from being captive, or endangered species being hunted down and killed, we need to discover a new way of displaying that our world is full of beautiful animals and wildlife. Wild animals are suffering both physically and mentally from the lack of freedom that confinement imposes. These harmful environments are preventing animals from having the opportunity to live in, and be exposed to their natural habitats. Keeping animals imprisoned in cages and small enclosures just for the sake of human observation causes stress and frustration, which is risking animals overall health and well being. These morally unacceptable and cruel actions of retaining wild animals in captivity is certainly wrong.