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    For numerous years, scientist have been striving to successfully clone and artificially grow animals by extracting DNA or fertilising an egg with the animal’s sperm, growing it in a laboratory. As well as there were many unsuccessful attempts, there has also been successful results but not quite successful. Rather than cloning common animals, it is thought to be more necessary to clone extinct species using the DNA extracted from ancient fossils and specimens. This is mainly an imperfect process

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    Endangered Sea Turtles

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    still around. Humans are partly the cause of this because we hunt them for food and profit. It is unbelievable that people can kill such beautiful creatures just for their personal benefit. Humans are not the only reason sea turtles are facing extinction, but we are the main reason. Humans really should not be part of the problem in the first place. Sea turtles face a lot of life or death obstacles from the second they are born. Even

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    What is a characteristic of a lion? Many would answer with physical characteristics such as a carnivore or a wildcat, but our language has a way of connecting these qualities with emotions such as if someone is larger, then they are depicted as dominant, or a person who smiles is considered friendly. The same process can happen in relation to the animal kingdom. A lion is considered noble or brave. When a person thinks about animals, they consider different human characteristics. In Animal Farm,

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    BEHAVIORISM Behaviorism is a type of psychology and a theory of learning. Everything we know about behaviorism is through observation and experimentation. It is not concerned with internal thoughts like thinking, feeling, knowing or emotions. What behaviors believe is people have no free will. A person’s environment determines their behavior Behaviorism is the idea that all behavior is the result of our environmental surroundings. On other words, the things that happened

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    will remind her of me, she is comforted, and pacified until I arrive home. This way she is using her aural and olfaction senses to stimulate contentment and peace. The sense of smell is an amazing way to flood the mind with memories of a specific event or individual. Odor molecules travel through the nasal cavity to the neurons that recognize different smells. These neurons trigger the olfactory nerve, in the center of the brain. The brain senses a particular odor and correlates with memories. Memory

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    Zoos and National parks (Wild Sanctuaries) are hugely popular attractions for adults and children alike, but are they actually good? How do you tell the difference when everyone uses the same words? National parks or wild sanctuaries are large areas of crowd land set aside for native plants, animals and the places in which they live. National parks protect places of natural beauty. National park is home to many endemic kinds. National parks are actually protected areas. IUCN definition of a protected

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    Hunting for sport should be banned because of the cruelty to animals, the killing of animals and could lead to animal extinction. The debate for hunting has been going on for years but the type of hunting that must people can agree on that hunting as a sport shouldn’t be permitted. A lot of wild animals such as black bears, zebra’s warthog’s, buffalo, lions, giraffes, and baboons are killed and are not protected by ESA an animal protection service or any other domestic law.

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    Add commas as needed in the sentences below. 1. He left the scene of the accident and tried to forget that it had happened. 2. Oil, which is lighter than water, rises to the surface. 3. Madame de Stael was an attractive, gracious lady. 4. Nice is a word with many meanings, and some of them are contradictory. 5. The contractor testified that the house was completed and that the work had been done properly. 6. Some people refuse to go to the zoo because of pity for creatures that must live in

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    Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake. The eastern Massasauga is a small thick-bodied venomous rattlesnake, averaging a length of about 2 feet. It is grey or light brown with large chocolate brown botches on its back and sides. The eastern Massasauga rattlesnake has been a candidate species for listing under the Endangered Species Act since 1999 (64 FR 57535 57547, December 25, 1999) (USFWS 2015t). The preferred habitat for this species are wet areas such as river bottomlands, floodplains, wet prairies

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    Weedon Island Tribe

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    Weedon Island was home to the very first Native Americans that came to Florida Alabama and Georgia; these people used to do everything in the island and lived there for a long period of time. Even though, the island is very small for an entire population to live in it because there was probably not enough food for everyone, they still managed to stay there for many years. Nowadays the place is a reserve own by the state where tourists and locals can go and explore. During the hike people get to see

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