Golden Lion Tamarin

animals that live there.Leaving them with nothing and no home. This will cause the animals to start to become extinct and endangered. Deforestation is huge factor that leads to the endangerment of wildlife species. An example of this is the Golden Lion Tamarin Monkey. . There are approximately 800 of these monkeys left in the wild(_____). The home of this animal is slowly being stripped away as a result of deforestation. If nothing is done about this sooner or later this animal will be extinct and

My family and I went on a road trip to Phoenix, Arizona in late October. This is going to be a little description of what went on during this trip and all the different things I saw. Most of this will be about my trip to the Wildlife world zoo since that was the biggest thing that happened during the trip. The first thing I should mention, Since of course it was the first thing we saw, Is the amazing scenery on the way up here. We passed through parts of Oklahoma, Texas, And New Mexico that

Caimans vary in size from one meter for the dwarf caiman to almost five meters for the black caiman. They are most closely related to alligators and crocodiles. Their diet consists of fish, insects, birds, and small mammals and reptiles. Jaguars and humans are the only predators of caimans. Females build large nests and lay anywhere from 10 to 50 eggs which hatch in about six weeks. The temperature determines the gender of the babies. The mother then takes her young to a shallow pool to learn

Since approximately 1250 B.C., ancient Egyptians had created and practiced the capture and display of animals in what are now known as zoos (Fravel). Records describe such exotic animals as birds, lions, giraffes, and tigers in captivity (Fravel). Since then, zoos have continued to entertain millions with the exciting chance to view exotic animals up close and personal. Even in ancient Greece, exotic animals were on display in fighting arenas, and in enclosed viewing areas. Originally in America

What Is Amazon Rainforest, What Are the Human Activities In it and what effects do these activities have on the biome? One of the biome which I found interesting was the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is region which is owned by more than 1 country because of its land mass. It is actually owned by 9 nations. This biome is situated in the amazon basin of South Africa. The Amazon Rainforest covers 5,500,000 km2 (2,123,562 sq mi) of total 7000000 km2 of the Amazon basin. This particular rainforest

The Amazon Rainforest is a vital and spectacular part of our planet. The forest spreads over nine countries on the South American continent which are Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. It is the world’s largest remaining rainforest covering over 2.5 million square miles, with 63 percent of it resting in Brazil. (Finer 2008). It is considered the lungs of Earth. Giving the entire world population daily oxygen and absorbing our carbon dioxide. Industrialization

The Rain Forest      The destruction of the rainforest is a problem that the people of the world can not continue to ignore. 14 percent of the Earth's land used to be covered by rainforests yet this number has dropped significantly to only about 6 percent (http://www.ran.org/ran/info_center/index.html). Rainforests provide the people of the world with many necessities, some of which would no longer be available if rainforests did not exist. In the last 50 years, rainforests have declined

Paper has been around for centuries, dating back as far as 105 A.D., when it was invented by members of the Chinese royal court. Ever since its innovation, paper has steadily grown to be extremely important in the daily lives of different societies and cultures across the globe today. Here in America for example, it can easily be said that the average person consumes some form of paper every single day. Our society revolves around the consumption of paper. It is involved in many aspects of daily

is learned or even just fine-tuned as we age, then what rights can claim for ourselves or others? To determine the rights we should allocate to various creatures, we often turn to empathy. There are many simple guiding rules based on empathy; the golden rule is heavily cited as a strong foundation upon which to build morality. If we can envision ourselves in another's situation, we