The Mystery Of The Rare Male Sea Monkey By Nadia Drake

The Ocean is a miraculous place filled to the brim with foreign creatures and wondrous wildlife. From the Great Orcas of the Antarctic waters to the minuscule plankton, these marine life conquer the ocean's depths, but it's not just the creatures that reside here. Coral occupy their fair share of space upon the ocean's floor filling the waters with their glamour and residential charm for those in search of shelter.

If it weren't for _____, chromosome number would double with every generation of sexual reproduction.

The problem, or debate, that I have chosen for my final project is the return of White Sharks to the Atlantic coast, specifically off of Eastern Massachusetts. Because it is more of a debate, there are both positives and negatives to this. These pertain to environment and ocean wildlife, public safety, ecotourism, conservation, and research.

A form of reproduction that requires two parents, rather than one, which introduces the possibility of genetic diversity.

Judson contributes to onefs understanding of sex among different organisms in that she makes difficult concepts simple to comprehend. Although she uses scientific terminology, she limits it so that anyone can understand the technical information she shares. Judson also describes the types of environments in which each species and

1. In your own words explain the demerit point system and give 10 infractions and how many demerit points it will cost the driver for each.

At the Lowery Park Zoo located in Tampa Florida, I was able to conduct a field project on primates. These primates that I focused on are divided into the suborders Anthropoidea and Prosimii (. The first primate on my list is classified as a prosimian, the Ring-Tailed Lemur or the Lemur catta are located on the African island of Madagascar. Next I turned to the Mandrill or Mandrillus sphinx that fall in the suborder of Anthropoids, these monkeys are located in Nigeria, Africa. Lastly my attention was drawn to the Siamang Gibbon or Symphalangus syndactylus who also fell in the category of Anthropoids and are located in Malaysia and Sumatra. These monkeys all being related do have many differences among them as well as comparisons as I have

While some Neotropical primate species use the forest floor extensively, others tend to exploit the ground only when necessary. A recent overview of ground use by Pitheciidae covered Pitheciinae (uacaris - Cacajao, cuxius - Chiropotes and sakis - Pithecia), but did not include titi monkeys (Callicebiinae: Callicebus, Cheracebus and Plecturocebus). However, unlike the generally high-canopy Pitheciinae, members of the Callibiinae often use low forest strata and disturbed fragments, putting them in closer contact with the ground, but the terrestrial repertoire of this group is so far unknown. We provide a comprehensive review that combines existing literature with unpublished data and field observations of terrestrial behavior to encompass a total of 72 titi monkey studies from 55 locations in South America.

The non-reproductive lifespan following menopause in human females may equal up to 50% of a woman’s lifespan. This elongated post-reproductive period challenges evolutionary theory, placing a significant limitation on a woman’s lifetime reproductive capacity. As studying reproductive biology in humans can be difficult, non-human primate models are a useful tool to investigate patterns of human behaviour and reproduction. Previous studies on post-reproductive lifespans in primates have largely been on captive or provisioned populations and have relied on reproductive and behavioural observations to determine the presence and length of post-reproductive lifespans. No study has yet combined all aspects of behaviour, social networks and hormones in relation to ageing in non-human primates. This sort of holistic study, however, is necessary to completely understand how ageing is impacting female monkeys. Using long term data from the Yakushima study site in conjunction with hormonal data collected over a 12-month period this study will give insight into reproductive ageing in Japanese Macaques as a physiological and social phenomenon. The primary focus of this research project will be to analyse the intersection between social networks, behaviour and hormones of ageing primates.

In the article entitled “SeaWorld tanks or sea pens? Dispute over which is best for orcas continues,” the Los Angeles Times is mainly focused on a dispute over releasing killer whales, SeaWorld thinks orcas would be safer in a large tank while animal activists and SeaWorld critics want orcas given a sense of freedom in a sea pen. First, the Los Angeles Times explores how marine biologists agree that these whales will most likely never be freed and if a compromise is made, the closest they would get to freedom would be a limited environment: “But marine biologists — including SeaWorld critics — agree that the orcas probably will never be released to the open seas. Even if the killer whales don’t spend the rest of their lives in the theme park, the closest they would get to freedom would be retirement in ocean coves.

In the film we watched how scientists are trying to explain the mystery involves in the declining number of ocean lion. The scientists in Alaska are making some investigations; they already have set down some hypothesis for the disappearances of ocean lion. Their hypothesis state that the cause of the declining in number of the ocean lion can be caused by their food, the oil spill, or diseases. In this experiment, they are searching to identify the factors that are causing the premature dead of these young animals. They said because there is not body to study is hard to know what is happening to the ocean lions. For this reason, the scientists are taking some ocean lions from their natural habitat and are testing their DNA to identify any

The story "The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From the Trees" is about a man, Ken Glander, and his wife, Molly Glander, uncovering the mystery of why the Howler monkeys were randomly dropping out of trees, to their death. It states that usually the monkeys are quite nimble and good at climbing but they had been dropping dead. The two had been researching the eating habits and discovered that the monkeys only ate 331 of the trees out of 1699 readily available. They looked into it more and found that most of them were poisonous. The monkeys had an advanced system to figure out what trees were and weren't poisonous, but the trees changed due to weather or other conditions.

For a trisomic cell (when there is 2n+1), this new species would have 27 chromosomes. There could be an extra autosome or an extra sex chromosome.

As Chia LR Tan, a senior scientist at the San Diego Zoo stated “Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) are limited to temperate montane forests at 1400–3400 m above sea level (4,600-11,150 feet) in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Hubei provinces”. Golden Stub Nosed monkeys only live in the areas of China located in the yellow on the map on the right. These monkeys are only found in the temperate montane forest in the middle of china and nowhere else on earth. These mountains are full of trees and The temperate coniferous rain forests sustain the highest levels of biomass in any terrestrial ecosystem and are notable for trees of massive proportions, including coast redwood, Douglas fir and Sitka spruce

Anisogamy is an interesting process to study simply because of how it affects organisms’ lives. The size of a gamete can be so easily affected by the ability to move and by how easily they survive. This seems to be taken for granted when you think about how the size of these gametes essentially determinates how many sexes we have and who invests more in the offspring. For example, if gametes form in different sizes, then the number of sizes created will be the number of sexes we have. Although, it would not realistically create more than two sexes. This can be simply explained by the fact that gametes are competitive to pair up with another gamete. If they cannot be the biggest and best option to pair up with, then they must compete to be the