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    The cheetah population began diminishing an estimated amount of 10,000 years ago. About 1,500 cheetahs are living in captivity along with lions and hyenas. It might seem as if cheetahs are very fierce wild cats; however, in the Serengeti located in Tanzania Cheetahs face many threats such as cubs being killed by lions and hyenas or either die of hunger because lions eat the food that the cheetah hunted for. Biologists believe that this animal is sensitive to changes in its habitat, so the slightest

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    Pathos In Zimbabwe

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    Goodwell Nzou, in his article, “In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions,” he effectively claims that lions should be seen as a dangerous figure rather than a sympathetic controversy. Nzou supports this claim asserting that lions actually kill people and aren’t lovable creatures like the media presents them. He uses an example to appeal to pathos when stating, “In my village in Zimbabwe, surrounded by wildlife conservation areas, no lion has ever been beloved, or granted an affectionate nickname. They

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    Midterm Research Paper Thesis Statement: The characters and events of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe have symbolic similarities to events described in the Bible. In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe we discover a world of fantasy filled with the never-ending battle between good and evil. The children in the story, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy lived in London during the war and were sent to live with a professor because of the air-raids

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    Essay on The Cheetah: Built for Speed

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    everyone head to the lion’s cage expecting to see the lions because they are the king of Africa as the movie, “The Lion King” describes. However, because cheetahs are the fastest land animals, lions can not compete with it, and cheetahs have many features that any

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    Adaptations of Black Panthers Black Panthers are beautiful, intelligent and agile creatures. I chose this species because I love the way domestic cats interact in a general day to day senses. Plus I wanted to learn about a different species of cat that I have never had to research before. Black panthers aren’t native to Florida so they are heard of but there is not much that is known about them. Besides that they are generally compared to the Florida panther even thought they are two completely different

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    Environment African lions as suggested by the name are found in the African Savannah. There is a very thin layer of humus soil which allows the growth of vegetation such as grasses and trees. The savannah is very hot with temperatures never normally dropping below 18 degrees Celsius. As well as being very hot due to the soil it is also very dry. The soil in the savannah is very porous with rapid water drainage. There will normally only be one short season of rain with only 20 – 50 inches of rainfall

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    Man Eaters of Tsavo

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    brought the European imperial powers against difficulties which had never been encountered before. One such difficulty is that of the local wildlife in Africa, such as lions or other big game animals. In The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, by Colonel John Patterson, a railway bridge project in East Africa is terrorized by a pair of man-eating lions. This completely true story shows the great difficulty in colonizing Africa by demonstrating the somewhat harsh environment of Africa. The story begins with Col

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    Zoos Are Bad For Animals

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    Also, around 2010, Zimbabwe was going to capture two of every animals they asked for including rhinos, lions, cheetah, etc. In the european zoos, over 60% of the elephants are captured from the wild. With the elephants and lions, the reason they are pacing and stuff is because they have developed stress. The animals can also produce stress when they have humans outside of their enclosure teasing them or annoying

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    A century ago, the lion population of Africa thrived as these animals were able to roam freely across the continent. However, owing to a multitude of factors such as poaching, trophy killings, loss of habitat area and conflicts with humans- the population of the African lion today is just 10% of what it once was. The need to address this rapid decline in lion populations is vital in ensuring that these animals are present for future generations to enjoy, whilst not impeding the access for the current

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    One other thing about the colosseum is over 1 million animals died there. The first reason that i don’t think animals shouldn’t have been used in the colosseum is because many animals went extinct in the colosseum. The first example is elephants, lions, and tigers from Africa and Asia were hunted until extinct by the townspeople. I'm wondering why the townspeople liked to kill and make some extinct? The second example is that sometimes whole species like European Wild horses, the Great Auk, the Aurochs

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