Prairie dog

1) Common Name: Northern Corroboree Frog. Scientific Name: Pseudophryne pengilleyi. 2) Source: Australian National Herbarium.   3) Source: Special Profile and Threats Database. 4) Male Northern Correboree Frogs move into the breeding sites in summer and call their mates in late January to early March from covered mossy chambers at the edges of Sphagnum Bog pools and other overgrown places. When the females briefly visit the calling males they

When Jim returns for a visit, the two reminisce and he feels that it may be the last time he returns and he attempts to memorize the prairie, fields and tall grass and recall what it felt like to run free through it with Ántonia beside him. As fate may have it, Jim does indeed return to Black Hawk twenty years later to find that while he feels like he’s living an unfulfilled life, drifting

friends you know have tried to convince you they have trained their animal to respond to commands. And perhaps, often it appears the pet does have a clue as to what you are saying. However, are you sure? Did “fetch” really mean fetch to the dog, or did the dog just learn that when you say that word, it means “go get something to play with”? What if a device could be built that allows us to actually communicate with our pets, and maybe even our pets telling us canine things? Can we really determine

think that it will ever be as successful as the cattle industry, unfortunately. Re-wilding and having less domestic animals also brings about the talk of prairie grasses. It does sadden me a little that most of our prairie grasses have been overgrazed and a lot of the grasses are invasive species. I would love to go back to the time when the prairie grasses were tall and

Sinclair Ross wrote the short story “The Painted Door” in 1939 for Queens Quarterly, a magazine, in Canada. Within the short story Ross emphasized the struggles of experienced by those on the 1930’s Post-Depression Canadian prairie. He does this by describing one day where a farmer named John makes the nineteen-mile march across the snow-covered hills to his father’s home, to make sure he is okay before the blizzard. Meanwhile John’s wife Ann is at home with their young neighbor Steven having dinner

Imagine a world with technology that can do everything for you. All you have to do is ask, or even just think, for something. It is an amazing high-tech world, but human relationships are destroyed. Everyone is so invested in technology they don’t engage with each other. Soon, the world becomes a cold, lonely society where technology is in power. This could become our world in the future. In the short story, “The Veldt”. Two parents, George and Lydia, believe something is wrong with their nursery(a

Define the characteristics of each region? The gulf coastal plains are located on the east side of the state of Texas. They have some hills that cover it but mostly it is flat land. It has some forest most particularly it has the Piney Woods. The interior lowlands are plains that run through the northern central part of the state. It does not have many trees except among waterways. There is a lot of limestone based structures in this area of the state. The great plains of Texas are to the west of

1 Name of major natural system: Dry Prairie. 2 Location of major natural system: Dry Prairies are known to be located predominantly in three major areas north and west of Lake Okeechobee, in south-central Florida (Florida Natural Areas Inventory, n.d.c). 3 Common plants in major natural system: The characteristic set of plant species for the dry prairie natural system include a combination of shrubs and herbs; specifically, wiregrass, lopsided Indiangrass, dwarf live oak, shiny blueberry, and

The corroboree frog is a native Australian frog found in the mountain ranges of the Kosciusko national park. There are two variations of the frogs inside the species these include the northern corroboree frog (NCF) and the southern corroboree frog (SCF). Historically scientist named these frogs based on where they were found in the Kosciusko national park. The NCF lives in the northern parks of Kosciusko national park, Namiadgi National park and Rinabella national park, as seen in the image below

The North Central Plains region is mostly rural grasslands and small towns with a few large cities. Most of this prairie land is thick grasses. There is also a cross timbers area full of hardwood trees. Farming is common here because of the fertile soil. So there are many kinds of crops grown in this region. There also commonly short prairie grass. Climate in the region/area can be extreme. In the winters its cold, but in the summer it can be the hottest area in Texas. The