Quolls

Primates are one of the most interesting mammals on earth, not only because of their complex social structures, but because they hold so many similar characteristics to humans. Primates are often cited as our closest living relatives and on two separate occasions I observed four separate species of primates at the San Diego Zoo that can justify their use of their physical characteristics and behaviors that may be similar as well as different to the other primates and ours.

Within the world of primates, the family Hominidae includes the primates known as the great apes. These primates, are then broken down into two subfamilies. One subfamily contains the primates chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and humans, while the other subfamily, Ponginae, only contains the species Pongo, commonly known as the orangutan. Orangutans, although closely related to the other great apes, represent a lot of extremes in biological parameters (Campbell, C. J., 2011). One of the most drastic extremes is that orangutans are the largest primary arboreal mammal in the world. This is a result of special evolutionary adaptations that allow these primates to mechanically function in an arboreal lifestyle. Unlike the other great apes,

Wombats are herbivores that feed at night and mainly eat grasses. Some of these grasses include snow tussocks for Bare-nosed wombats and spear and perennial grasses for Southern Hairy-nosed wombats. They also eat herbs, roots, fungi, leaves, mosses, marsh plants and seem to prefer young tender grass shoots when available. Bare-nosed wombats also forage for food along the seashore. During droughts they also tend to dig up dead grass to get to the roots. Wombats must also conserve energy because their diet is low in protein and high in fiber. Since Hairy-nosed wombats live in dry climates often the only water they get is from their food and they do not drink much water. Bare-nosed wombats however, like to drink water frequently. These marsupials

They are known to be voracious predators with a varied diet, essentially eating any type of animal that they encounter.

The spotted-tailed quoll is an Australia-native carnivore that inhabits wet forests and eats mostly species like snakes and lizards. As a carnivore, they use their teeth to slice meat off their prey, and communicate using series of hissing and screeching noises.

Once upon a time there was a rhinoceros and an oxpecker. One day a mean tick came flying by looking for food. As he flew around the hot savanna he saw a rhinoceros. After heavy consideration he decided to suck blood from the juicy looking rhino. (The tick sucking blood from the rhino is a form of parasitism) After a few hours the rhino started to feel weakness. Not knowing what was going on he called his friend the zebra over whom just so happened to have a hungry oxpecker on his back. Getting Excited the oxpecker flew over to rhinos back and ate all the ticks the rhinoceros felt much much better. (The bird eating ticks off the rhinos back is a form of mutualism) Later on that day another bird flew in from another hot day in the savanna tired

These rare mammals may not seem like primates at foremost glance, but they are allied to monkeys, apes, and humans.

Orcas are also known as “killer whale” have hunted their own cousins which is the dolphins. They both have the same intelligence and they have the same speed applied to each other. The Orcas hunt and feed off their family. Their intelligence is the same, but the killer whales are smarter in some ways such as hunting for food. Studies show that the orcas hunts their cousins for food. The orcas “killer whale” has teeth, so they eat larger animals such as squad, dolphins and sharks. Dolphins that eat fish, mackerel, herring and cod do not have teeth. There are some that will eat squad which means these dolphins have

In Elayne Zorn’s book of community based tourism in Peru, Weaving the future, Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Zorn talks about the successful efforts of the Taquileans in managing their lands and culture. Zorn discusses the gendered divisions of labor as well as the issues of cultural identity of the indigenous people of the Andes and Taquile. The book offers an anthropological view of one of the best-managed community based tourism destination in South America, Taquile Island. Zorn offers her observation of Taquile’s progress as a community tourist destination, offering her personal observations of the development of tourism in Taquile as well as in the Andes.

These websites are educational sites that provide information about the symbiosis relationships between sea anemones and clownfish, Crocodiles and plover birds, Oxpecker birds and Zebras and cattle egrets and cattle. These are great sites that students can use to investigate how animals interact with other animals and learn the terms commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism.

The biggest wild predator is the lion, killing entire packs at a time. Hyenas are enemies as well, tending to follow packs around in stalk-ish behavior, resting near them and also stealing some kill or the remains. They attack when the time is right for them. Hyenas also attack in groups, and, though packs of hyenas are denser than packs of African wild dogs, hyenas’ relative size and high populations make them higher on the food chain than African wild dogs. Humans are also an common predator, as well as the largest and by far the most destructive. As endangered animals, their rarity is cause for being hunted for game. They are respected animals by African hunters, but foreigners have no sense of that. They are killed for their spotted fur, and sometimes their teeth or meat. They are sometimes taken as pets, and are killed in the process of being shipped or living with

The evolution of the pygmy hippopotamus is most often studied in the context of its larger cousin. Both species were long believed to be most closely related to the family Suidae (pigs and hogs) or Tayassuidae (peccaries), but research within the last 10 years has determined that pygmy hippos and hippos are most closely related to cetaceans (whales and dolphins). Hippos and whales shared a common semi-aquatic ancestor that branched off from other artidactyls around 60

However delicious Japanese wagyu is, the animals are kept indoors for most of their lives, and fed an intensive high-grain diet to produce that extraordinary marbling. The tradition of giving them beer to drink is meant to increase their appetite in the hot summer months, while they may be massaged to alleviate muscle problems arising from limited space and exercise, rather than to improve their meat. Few suggest that the animals are maltreated – they are far too valuable for that – but many question the ethics of keeping grazing animals indoors, and point to the unsustainable nature of grain-feeding

While marsupial species can be found in both North and South America, neither can compare to the marsupial diversity of the isolated continent of Australia. With 180 Australian marsupial species, as opposed to 78 South American and 1 North American species, the ecological niches filled by marsupials in Australia are many and varied due to the lack of native eutherian mammals on the continent. Australian marsupials evolved special adaptations to survive in the harsh and distinctive environment found on the continent. The major area of marsupial biology that distinguishes them from all other eutherian mammals is their mode of reproduction. However, it can be said that there are many other areas in which unique differences can be seen between marsupials and eutherian mammals; one such area of adaptation is in the anatomy and physiology of digestion, which distinguishes them from many other similar animals worldwide. This paper will give a brief overview of the evolution and history of marsupials in Australia, and then compare the digestive systems adaptations of placental ruminants and herbivorous marsupials, with an emphasis on the foregut fermenters, kangaroos and wallabies.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church emphasized the issue of seven capital sins knowing fully well that it is a cankerworm to spirituality. Thus, Bishop Fulton Sheen calls them "the seven pall-bearers of the soul" and gives them the following names: self-love, inordinate love of money, illicit sex, hate, jealousy, over-indulgence and laziness.(FULTON SHEEN, The Seven Capital Sins)