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    his endangered species as well as the community around him live. Trophy hunting is not done to hurt a species, and that is why hunters go out of their ways to help save and protect the species that they hunt. Trophy hunting can save species from extinction and other horrible situations, and trophy hunting of threatened and endangered species should be legal.

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    How would you classically condition an adventuresome 2-year-old to be more fearful of running across a busy street near her house? In order to get the child to stop running across the busy street, you would give her a negative consequence every time she does it. For an example on what you can make her do would be having her help unload the dishwasher. You could also make some sort of loud noise each time she even goes near the road, that loud noise could scare her. Then once trying to approach the

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    Often, especially in the winter months you may notice that raccoons, squirrels, wild rabbits, skunks or even foxes roam around your backyard. They may threaten damage to your yard, domestic animals, home, vehicles and even cultivation. That's why it's important to remove all intruders and wild trespassers from your private zones. However, frequently wildlife removal can be complicated and associated with a variety of issues. More and more people tend to resort to the services of professionals, instead

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    Have you ever felt the feeling that you are trapped, mistreated, or a slave to society. In today’s world, millions of animals are feeling this way right now, a feeling no living creature can endure. Animals are living creatures whose sole purpose in life are to survive and thrive. Whose right is it to stop and change that for them. In captivity animals are treated badly, they have the potential to hurt humans, and they weren’t originally supposed to be in captivity in the first place. These beautiful

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    the P.E.T.A organization is completely against zoos and believe they should be witnessed in the wild, not in captivity. But, The World Associations of Zoos and Aquariums believes that animals need zoos and aquariums to help with the problem of extinction but should survive on their own in their compound on their own. ‘’Collections of live wild

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    Sixth Mass Extinction

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    The sixth mass extinction is the only one caused by another species. There are 200+ species a day dying off. Human’s waste of trash and littering is destroying ecosystems all over the globe. The sixth mass extinction is creeping up on humanity, and we can prevent it but we are turning a blind eye to this catastrophe. The sixth mass extinction is was caused by humans in various ways such as poaching. Poaching is huge in Europe and Africa, they hunt for tigers, then they use various parts of the tiger

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    A phobia is an overwhelming and unbearable fear of something, such as an object, place, situation, feeling or animal. Phobias are a lot profounder than fears. In my essay I will be looking at a scenario of a woman called Amy with an extreme phobia of birds and how we can explain her fear looking at different psychological theories that explains learnt behaviour. In the learning approach to Psychology it is assumed that humans are born as ‘Tabula Rasa’ (a blank slate) and our environment around us

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    Captivity

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    Captivity is defined on google as ‘the condition of being imprisoned or confined’ , whereas on the official Cambridge dictionary, captivity was defined as ‘the situation in which a person or animal is kept somewhere and is not allowed to leave’ . I believe that a better definition for the term captivity is the act of any living thing being confined or imprisoned in any sorts against their own will. There are many different types of captivity and many of them different to each other. One type of captivity

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    a sanctuary. This place will protect animals and keep away poachers and safe and sound. Poachers have been putting them in danger and killing them. Poachers have been illegally hunting animals and selling them. Poachers may have sent animals to extinction or endangerment. So we need to protect these animals. We need to up security protecting animals. While we need to set traps to stop poaching and catch them in the act. We need to put cameras around looking for them every where. We will be needed

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    response than a consistent schedule. Meanwhile the roommate will be partially reinforced. This means that he will not be reinforced for every time that he loses weight, but only at random intervals. This partial reinforcement is shown to slow down the extinction rates of the desired behavior. Next, we will set the average time interval to be five days. For example, after the first day of the month when the roommate is initially weighed, we will weigh him seven days after the initial weigh in, and then 3

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