Zoology Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (181) essays
Zoology essays:
Life, description and other facts about Snapping Turtles.
... Nova Scotia, Canada, to Florida to all areas east of the Rocky Mountains. Common snapping turtles prefer to live in river and lake bottoms. Snapping turtles have a tan to black shell, strong jaws, sharp claws and a long heavily serrated tail. Turtle Detection Turtle shells are wonderful ...
Women Warriors: Myth or Reality.
... realistic the idea of a female warrior fighting alongside men in the shieldwall actually is. When Kat and I were first on the e-group back in 2000 the topic of female warriors came up. At the time the e-group managed to grab several laws from the continent saying that if women ...
Endangered Species
... natural predators in the wild. Almost everyday, a species faces extinction somewhere in the world. Animals of all kinds are struggling to survive as our world changes. Day by day, people require even more space, food, etc., and all these demands put a squeeze on the ...
Acting Fishy: Evolutionary Perspectives On Fish Behavior
... in the evasion of predators are; disruptive coloration patterns that disrupt the outlines of fish to make them less visible, and countershading, being dark on the bottom and light on the top, that makes them less likely to be attacked from the top and also allows them to blend in from the ...
Mountain Lion: Once Endangered, Now a Danger
... and 1978 in Canada and the United States (Hansen 58). As late as 1969, the country's leading authority on the big cat, Maurice Hornocker, estimated the United States population as fewer than 6,500 and probably dropping (Williams 30). Resurgence of the mountain lion In western states today, the ...
International Dolphin Trade. Dolphin trade from the Solomon Islands and Information on bottlenose dolphins
... natural habitat, and to put them in a tank vaguely resembling the real ocean. Bottlenose dolphin extraction has recently angered many animal rights activists and organization worldwide. The world has been keenly watching the transfer of dolphins from the Solomon Islands in the Pacific all the ...
Fer de lance
... the forest floor writhes with the world's most venomous vipers. A fisherman found dead on his boat, its deck awash with his blood. A lighthouse keeper and his family massacred in a nocturnal snake invasion of their isolated cottage home. What sounds like the ...
Shark Attack
... And also that "The shark was in recreational waters and will most likely attack again." Both statements and arguments are equally wrong and ridicules. Firstly, destroying the one shark will not do anything to stop more potential attacks. This is because sharks are pack animals, they live, mate and ...
Leaflet On Dodo
... in 1581 in the Indian Ocean on the island of Mauritius. They were discovered by Dutch sailors, who named them Dodos after their call, which sounds like 'doo-doo', the Portuguese word 'doudo' meaning fool, and 'dodaars', a Dutch word referring to the ...
Hyalella azteca
... Nature 2002). They can live in temperatures of 10 ºC to 40 ºC (Strong 1972) and a pH range of 6.0 to 8.0 (Canada Environmental Protection Service 1997). Abiotic factors in the environment such as light, temperature and time of year greatly influence the reproduction, growth and ...