The Mule deer is a deer very populated in the western North America. It is named for its ears, which are large like those of the Mule. There are believed to be several subspecies, including the black-tailed deer. The adult Mule deer weigh 130 lbs and 5 feet long. It’s gestation period is 203 days. They are herbivores. A startled, Mule deer will stiff-legged jumps with all four feet hitting the ground together. Each spring a buck's antlers start to regrow almost immediately after the old antler are shed. A Mule deer antlers are bifurcated; they fork as they grow, rather than forking from a single main beam. Mule deer have eight predators they are humans coyotes,…
The mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park are in serious danger. There around 800 gorillas living in the world and the majority of the gorillas live in the park of Virunga. There are four mountain gorillas located in a gorilla orphanage in Virunga. These mountain gorilla species located here are the only remaining gorillas in the world. The mountain gorillas are in danger because poachers are trying to steal the remaining gorillas and sell them. They would try to kill the parents and take the babies. In July of 2006, there was a big massacre of the mountain gorillas. The poachers waited until dark to sneak into the forest and find the well-known Rugendo family of twelve. The villagers outside of the forest heard gunshots only to find the female leader of the family murdered along with her infants. A total of nine gorillas were killed. Two months earlier, two females and an infant were attacked. One of the female gorilla and the infant were injured, and the other…
The Alaska Marmot are classified as rodents who live in cold climates in mountain regions. They have very distinctive features that make them different from other marmots. As rodents they have pointed, sharp teeth used for eating. In regards to there appearance, they have black or brown fur that tends to extend from the very top portion of their head to the top of their nose. Eyes are round, in shape and small. It also has five curved limbs that are used to improve their digging(Wilson and Ruff, 1999).The coloration of the marmots fur varies and can range from white, to brown to black. It uses it’s dark fur in order to camouflage from predators. The body of a Alaska Marmot has bilateral symmetry which means they have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends (Bee and Hall, 1956). They are typically large in size ranging from (539 to 652 mm).Males…
Horses, particularly wild ones, seem to embody freedom and strength. Mustang and stallion are words that make you think of nobility. The wild horse is a species of the genus equus.…
But two hair samples from the Himalayas were a surprise. These hairs, both brownish in color, perfectly matched a short stretch of DNA once extracted from the jawbone of a 40,000-year-old polar bear. The hairs did not match modern polar bears. One hair came from an animal shot 40 years ago in Ladakh, India, by a hunter who reported that it behaved differently from typical brown bears. The other was collected about 10 years ago in Bhutan, 600 to 800 miles from Ladakh.”…
Use of elephants as war animals has been dated back to as early as 331 BC by the Persians. King Darius the 111 of Persia was the first to use elephants in the battle of Guagamela, against Alexander the Great of Mecedon. Kind Darius' army consisted of 15 well trained Indian elephants which was used to frighten the opposition. War elephants were used in elephantry which involves a parade of elephants with military troops mounted on top. These elephants were used to charge at the enemy, separate their forces and inculcate a sense of fear in them. The many different attributes possessed by elephants made them useful in battles. Firstly Male elephants were used in the battlefield due to their aggressive nature. Female elephants were used for other purposes such as transportation and carrying of heavy loads. The massive…
Translating a novel into a film is not as easy as one may have thought. Due to time constraints, characters and/or scenes may be eliminated and therefore may not have the same impact as a novel, but this is not always the case. The Help written by Kathryn Stockett and published in 2009. The film version was released on August 10, 2011 by DreamWorks and directed by Tate Taylor. The cast includes Emma Scott (Skeeter Phelan), Viola Davis (Aibileen Clark), Bryce Dallas Howard (Hilly Holbrook), and Octavia Spencer (Minny Jackson). The Help in both forms is riveting and heartbreaking, as well as a racial awakening for some.…
In the core of a five-county metropolitan area lies a community in ruins particularly the central downtown and midtown areas. The once pedestrian friendly neighbourhoods are now populated with dangerous kingdoms.…
- There are definite archeological signs that early hominids were hunting or scavenging animals at least as far back as Lower Pleistocene times (12,000 B.C.)…
The Columbian mammoth weighed 11 tons, during the last ice age, it was known for traveling through North America. New studies show that the Columbian mammoth might be from the same species as the Eurasian steppe mammoth. This new study shows that these two mammoths were both once the Eurasian steppe mammoth instead of being ancestors. The steppe mammoth had more adaptations to living in the cold weather. Mammoths first started roaming this earth about 3 million years ago. When mammoths reached Eurasia at first, they were known as the warm-climate kind of elephant species that still lived in the forest.…
A decade after scientists first cracked the human genome, researchers announced that they have done the same for Neanderthals, the species of hominid that existed from roughly 400,000 to 30,000 years ago, when their closest relatives, early modern humans, may have driven them to extinction (1,3,5,9,10). Led by ancient-DNA expert Svante Pääbo of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, scientists reconstructed about 60% of the Neanderthal genome by analyzing tiny chains of ancient DNA extracted from bone fragments of three female Neanderthals excavated in the late 1970s and early '80s from a cave in Croatia (6,8). The bones are 38,000 to 44,000 years old. The genetic information turned up some intriguing findings, indicating, for instance, that at some point after early modern humans migrated out of Africa, they mingled and mated with Neanderthals, possibly in the Middle East or North Africa as much as 80,000 years ago (5,7,10). If that is the case, it occurred significantly earlier than scientists who support the interbreeding hypothesis would have…
as early as 1.1 million years ago and was on earth at the sametime as homo…
Llamas maybe not that pretty in your opinion, but they have quite an captivating life. Llamas are mammals and are equivalent to a camels, but they do not have a hump. Llamas travel in herds and when they are in a herds they are in numerous places around the globe. Their herds are normally constructed of about 20 individuals. Their gaggles have lived here on earth for quite a long time, so they have many facts as well.…
≈11000 BC – The final glacier of the last ice age retreated from Wisconsin, leaving behind lakes and rivers as well as tundra suitable for large animals such as the wooly mammoth, mastodons, bison, and muskox.…
Both male and female elephants possess tusks, which are modified incisor teeth. Although tusks are present at birth, the “baby tusks” fall out after a year, and permanent ones replace them. These tusks will continue to grow throughout the elephant’s life. Similar to the trunk, elephant tusks are utilized in a wide range of activities. They are used for digging, foraging, and fighting. At times, they also act as a resting place for the elephant’s very heavy trunk.…