recent” lasted around 65 million years ago. Marked by demise of dinosaurs‚ as well as existence of pre-primates like femur. 2. Eocene-lasted 30-45 million years ago. It is marked by warm tropical climates‚ along with the appearance of the order of mammals and prosimian-like primates. Anthropoids appreared during this period. 3. Oligocene-lasted around 30 million
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Phylum. There are several phyla within each kingdom. The phyla start to break the animals (or plants‚ fungi‚ etc) into smaller and more recognizable groups. The best known phylum is Chordata‚ which contains all animals with backbones (fish‚ birds‚ mammals‚ reptiles‚ amphibians). There is also Arthropoda (insects‚ spiders‚ crustaceans); Mollusca (snails‚ squid‚ clam); Annelida (segmented worms); Echinodermata (starfish‚ sea urchins) and many‚ many more. The next category that makes up the phyla is
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Vivien Fekete English 12A Humanities Life Of Pi Essay #5 25 February 2013 Acting and speaking before THINKING‚ this goes back to a humans’ primitive stage. We are all animals‚ in the sense that we are mammals. Manifested through our psyche or personality‚ each animal has a different representation. From personality traits‚ behavior or even symbolism‚ animals have the ability to portray these features in humans. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi‚ four distinct
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John Rapadas Environmental Science Biome: Tropical Dry Forest. - Mammals: In Africa‚ some of the larger animals such as the white rhino and the giraffe roam in both the tropical dry forest and across the savanna. Birds: Orange-necked Partridge of Indochina & the Black-and-Tawny seedeater of the Chiquitano forest of South America Reptiles: Madagascar’s western forests contain a large
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biol Unit 5 Individual Project Name: Bradlee Melton Date: 4/27/2013 Part 1. There are 9 animals in nine different Phyla. Be sure to look at every page. | |Animal |Phylum |Dichotomous Key (steps) |Classification | |1 |[pic][pic] |Cnidarian |1b‚ 2a. 3b |Class
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We assume that humans are the better‚ more intelligent species on Earth‚ despite the fact dolphins have a higher functioning brain than humans. Look what we’ve done to this highly intelligent species; our military straps bombs onto the precious mammals to use them as potential weapons! As Chief Seattle cautioned us so many years ago‚ “we belong to the earth; it does not belong to us.” We don’t deserve to be at the top; the bottom of all the species seems more fitting. I
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Apart from the obvious difference in color‚ the bears’ dietary preferences present the greatest contrast between them. The Alaskan brown bears are omnivores; they eat virtually anything. They delight in ground squirrels‚ mice‚ and other small mammals but are adept at killing and consuming any land animal in their range. Browns also possess excellent fishing skills. When live prey is in short supply‚ they can subsist on nearly any vegetation or even carrion. Polar bears are nearly one hundred
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(Quaternary extinction events) explains why the megafaunal extinctions occurred within a relatively short period of time. This can be traced with human migration. The most convincing evidence of this theory is that 80% of the North American large mammal species disappeared within 1000 years of the arrival of humans on the western hemisphere continents.[7] The fastest ever recorded extinction of megafauna occurred in New Zealand‚ where by 1500 AD‚ just 200 years after settling the islands‚ ten species
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staple food on everyone’s table in the morning is maple syrup. Maple syrup is technically trees blood‚ and Canadians survive on trees blood‚ instead of drinking animal or human blood like many classic tales tell. Vampires do not have to survive on mammal blood‚ but many movies portray vampires this way to make them more gruesome and appealing to audiences in some weird fashion. Canadians do not eat maple syrup everyday‚ but so long as Canadians get a good dose of it once per year‚ or a few times throughout
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on a wide variety of animals. They hunt salmon and other fish‚ seals‚ dolphins‚ and whales. Orcas are large ocean animals; they live in all the oceans‚ especially in cold waters Orcas live in the ocean‚ and they are large‚ fast hunters. They are mammals‚ animals that feed their young on mother’s milk. “Years ago‚ sailors saw orcas kill whales. They called them ‘whale killers.’ Over time‚ people started calling them ‘killer whales.’” (Info Bits‚ Gale) Orcas are mostly black. They have white patches
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