John Buck English 100 Asian Elephant 13 March 2013 Asian Elephant Asian elephants live in South and South East Asia in rainforest and woodland areas and migrate to avoid the monsoon season. Asian elephants are herbivores and can consume 330 pounds of food per day and drink up to 30 gallons of water. Asian elephants are social creatures and are born into female herds where the eldest female also known as the matriarch is the leader. Female elephants in the herd share the responsibility
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Culling elephants is very brutal and unnecessary. However‚ it still remains a preferred method of handling the elephant population. If this continues‚ the next generation of humans may not even know what elephants look like except on the internet or in picture books. The Wildlife management often commands that sizable amounts of these animals are to be killed in one huge fight to decrease an area of more than enough elephants because of diminishing space. I will be discussing what elephants are‚ what
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In the reading‚ Shooting an Elephant‚ George Orwell is narrating about his feeling and pressure shooting an elephant. A little about the writer‚ Orwell‚ is a British police officer who was born in India. He was hated by large numbers of people in Moulmein‚ in Lower Burma as the British had colonized Burma. One day he was notified that there was an elephant roaming around the street. The elephant was however not wild but everyone were frightened since it was enormous and disrupting. It made people
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If you are bothered by nasty pests in your own house‚ then you should do anything possible to get rid of them. You can check out lots of home remedies out there‚ but this is not the best solution to your problem. Rather than resolve the problem yourself‚ you should contact a pest exterminator. Below is a list of services offered by pest exterminators. Protection Pro pest exterminators make use of premium pesticides. They know which pesticides should be used in order to ensure the total safety of
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In the story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell‚ the main character had gone threw a big change throughout the story. The changes that he had encountered may have not been intentional‚ but peer pressure has its way of influencing people to do things they don’t want to do. In this story a tamed elephant turns for the worse and the main character is called into take care of the problem. The main character in this story starts off with a very different mindset then when he ends the story. At
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Habitat for Elephants After observing the giraffe exhibit‚ my partner Nan Chen and I decided to make our way to observe the Janice Suber McNair Asian Elephant Habitat which was built in 2008; an exhibit‚ home to seven different elephants‚ both young and old. The exhibit is home to adult bull Thai‚ adult cows Methai‚ Shanti‚ and Tess‚ juvenile bull Tucker (Tess’ son)‚ and calves Baylor (Shanti’s son) and Tupelo (Tess’ daughter). Janice Suber McNair Asian Elephant Habitat exhibit covers an enormous
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Faithful Elephants In Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals‚ People‚ and War by Yukio Tsuchiya‚ Japan was at war and the military ordered that the zoo keepers at the Ueno zoo kill all animals. This had an emotional toll on the zoo keepers and trainers. The zoo keepers loved all of the animals dearly‚ especially the three elephants‚ Tonky‚ Wanly‚ and John. The war affected everyone at the zoo in different ways. Throughout the story‚ many characters had conflicts but the central conflict
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the population of rhinos and elephants? Ivory is a rather beautiful item seeing that it holds many qualities. Amongst those many qualities are its durability‚ its smoothness‚ and its value to the market. How would you feel to know that it is also the tusks and horns that you see on rhinos and elephants? Both elephants and rhinos are poached for their horns and tusks every day to the point of becoming an endangered species‚ like the black rhino and the Asian elephant. Many practices are done in order
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Australia pest 1. Political and legal system Analysis Australia is democracy like many countries around the world. There is no violent political problem in Australia that can affect to the global or local business. Politic in Australia in the past few years still not quite stable because of the falling popularity of Labor leader‚ Mr. Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister and turn into the hands of Ms. Julia Gillard but the confidence in the eyes of global and also in Australia still be strong to having
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NOTES ON SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT 1) colonialism in "Shooting an Elephant." * George Orwell wrote this essay when England ruled Burma as a colony---much like it had ruled America during the colonial period. Colonialism occurred when many European nations simply took over countries because they believed their culture was superior to the native culture. The ideas of social darwinism‚ or survival of the strongest nations and/or people‚ played a large role in the domination and subjection of countries
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