Animal Crackers

running through your brain. You feel betrayed, offended, helpless, terrified. You have never been an aggressive animal. You are friendly, you don’t eat animals, and it’s not like you have the abilities to overpower anything if you do eat them. This may aid your imagination of what the dodo bird went through while being hunted down by the Portuguese. The dodo bird may seem like an unvarying animal; however, the bird, it’s misconception, and how it became extinct are intriguing in a way that you may find

Across the world, animal extinction is a problem causing thousands of animals to die each year. Throughout time hundreds of animals are being slaughtered across the world. Some of the animals that we may know and love are slowly becoming extinct. Although it may not be animals such as our precious dogs or adorable kittens, there are animals in the world slowly declining in their population size. Animals such as rhinos, eagles, and different species of fish are becoming endangered and some are on

Society directly takes advantage of animals through the means of entertainment. Zoos and aquariums have become one of the most popular attractions to see animals in their “habitats.” According to Stephen Coan, the president and chief executive of Sea Research Foundation, zoos and aquariums were created “mostly with the intention of helping to revitalize downtowns, coastal areas or waterfront districts” (The Future of Zoos). These attractions resemble a prison to animals because they are isolated from

When I think about what my land ethic a few different things come to mind. First I think about how I love technology and how much my life benefits from having it. Second I think about my love for nature, specifically hiking and camping. I try to image what my life would be like without the Vermont mountains and everything else wonderful about nature. My ideal land ethic would be similar to that of the time period when the US was first being settled. A time before the industrial revolution hit the

In “Lost in the Wild”, Goodall tells us about her love for the animals, as well as her concern for their future. Through introduction, she discusses that many of the species had and would still be endangered or extinct due to the negligence of human beings. Goodall concerns, “Will a nature-loving child born seventy-five years from now long to see a live elephant as I longed to see a woolly mammoth?”. However, she also mentioned that “sometimes heroic efforts are being made to save and conserve threatened

They are herbivores so there food source are buds, berries, twigs, mosses, woody plants, etcetera. Because it has revolutionized so much that, the Arctic Leveret is able to survive in many ways and is one of the fewest animals to die from getting killed than any other Arctic Tundra animal. The Arctic Leveret has many enhanced features that allow them to survive in their new habitat. Its size has decreased to being between fifteen inches to twenty inches long, ten inches tall and will weigh five to

are not made for educational purposes but for entertainment, they do not benefit animals but push them toward extinction. "Zoos range in size and quality from cage-less parks to small roadside menageries with concrete slabs and iron bars." (Zoos: Pitiful Prisons.) The larger the zoo and the greater the number and variety of the animals it contains, the more it costs to provide quality care for the animals. Although more than 112 million people visit zoos in the U.S. and Canada every year

“Snake”, the animal stands for the innate glory of wild beings and the vulgarity as a whole and the pettiness of the human beings is narrated. Secondly the snake in the poem stands for traditional values and it also symbolizes

food for animals and animals help to pollinate and grow flowers (Bailey, 1999). One example of the interactions of organisms in the desert is between birds and other small animals and the cactus. Desert birds and animals that are small enough to navigate between cacti sharp needles use the cactus for shelter and for water. Another example would be how bats spread pollen from one part of a cactus to another part which helps the cactus grow flowers. The Joshua tree makes fruit in which animals eat, too

destroys the earth, and each teaches its followers a different story about this disaster. While the Babylonians have the story of Utnapishtim from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Judeo Christians have Noah from the Bible. Both men save a few people and many animals. In these stories, Noah and Utnapishtim seem to have similar situations, but a further analysis shows how truly different the two stories are. The boats in each story are exceptionally different. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim’s boat was six