FOX proteins

“What’s on the agenda today? Same as always?” I begin to dig a protein bar out of my backpack as I contemplate our plans for the day. We traveled here to observe the relationship between arctic foxes and polar bears. So

Gestalt Goldberg The sum of the parts does not always equal the whole, especially in poetry. In the anthology On the Blossoming, Lea Goldberg explores the concept of desire. On the surface, this idea seems well analyzed and discussed. However, by carefully tracking words, symbols, and images across the poems “Dialogue”, “Songs of the Foxes”, and “Clear Autumn,” Goldberg slyly elucidates the ephemeral nature of desire, the dichotomy between actions and emotions, and all the while exposes an over-arching

A Lion is a King and a Fox is the Thief “Since, then, a prince must know how to use well the nature of the beast, he should choose from among the beasts the fox and the lion; for the lion cannot defend itself from traps, while the fox cannot protect itself from the wolves. It is therefore necessary to be a fox, in order to recognize the traps, and a lion, in order to frighten the wolves’ (Machiavelli 60).” When must the Prince be the lion and when must he be the fox? In The Prince written by Machiavelli

The dog, also know as “man’s best friend” or more scientifically, Cannis lupus familiaris, has been just that for 130,000 years. The dog is a descendant of the gray wolf, who lives in a much different habitat and leads a much different lifestyle than our domestic dogs. The anatomy and physiology of the dog can vary greatly among its different breeds but generally speaking the dog anatomy and physiology follow similar blueprints no matter what. To begin, the dog transitioned from wolf to domestic

We all learn from one another and wolves, like dogs, can learn from us as well. Dogs are more skillful than great apes at a number of tasks in which they must read human communicative signals like indicating the location of hidden food. However, the main objective of these studies was to determine whether the skills that dog have today have arisen from the hundreds of years of domestication and co-evolution with humans, or if these were already in their genes from their wolf ancestors (Bates 2013)

ground. We immediately decided to purchase a dog right there; the journey had started. On Kijiji, we noticed that a breeder in a farm town two hours away from Kitchener was selling a Pomeranian. This puppy had an orange fur that made him resemble a fox, small pointy ears, and a face that would make your heart melt. We didn’t need much convincing after we saw the picture, so we loaded our car and made our Keady, Ontario. The whole road trip consisted of dialogue on how excited we were for our new puppy

Dolphins hunt together by surrounding their prey quickly after one dolphin stirs up the mud, "mullet are trapped by the dolphins unable to breath due to stirred up mud" ("Rohan, Anuschka"). Snow is a form of water and snow is also the terrain an arctic fox is pictured

Carmella Gregor Red foxes in Urban Areas Many more foxes are around than you might think. You may never see the reclusive red fox, but there are probably foxes in a city near you. However, these creatures are not a threat. Some people may think they are a menace, but they're just doing what they need to to survive. According to Wikipedia, red foxes have reddish-brown fur that varies in colors from rust red to black. They have tails that are as long as their body, and in some cases

Dmitry K. Belyaev that we began to unravel the early stages of domestication. Assuming that these initial stages involved selection on behavior, Belyaev conducted an experimental study that placed strong selective pressures on tamability. Using the fox, Vulpes vulpes, as a model, this artificial selection developed an experimental population that expressed behavioral, morphological, and physiological characteristics of domesticated species (Belyaev 1969). Under stressful conditions, animals have

The sky is alive, rain crashes furiously to the ground. Trees topple, lightning shatters the sky, thunder shakes the ground. Two travelers from two worlds watch the storm only long enough to know it is a monsoon worthy of legends. Ashely had gone camping only this morning under clear skies and tamed weather. She is a lover of the wild, mostly for the quiet. She plans every three or so months to spend a week living off the land. She is young and her skills as a hunter are not yet refined. But you