Every year approximately 900.000 seals were killed on commercial slaughters‚ carried out primarily in Canada‚ Greenland‚ Russia‚ and Norway. In 2009 the Humane Society International organization began a campaign against such atrocity. That same year‚ the European Union decided to implement a ban on the importation and commercialization of processed or unprocessed‚ deriving or obtained seal products in response to public moral concerns about seals welfare. Canada and Norway (complainants) filed a
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habits of the animals that live there because of the limited rainfall and harsh heat and winds. Every year zebras and wildebeests make the largest overland migration from the southern plains to the northern in search of food and water. Many large mammals find the Serengeti to be their home such as elephants‚ hippos‚ zebras‚ wildebeests‚ lions‚ and rhinoceroses. An important part of the Serengeti Plain is the Ngaruroro conservation area which is home to over 27‚000 animals. The Ngaruroro Crater is
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Top 10 Animal Adaptations Living Together Of all the wonderful adaptations in the animal kingdom‚ perhaps the most important is the habit of living together in communal or family groups. Animals can derive a lot of benefit from spending time with other members of the same species. They can help each other find food‚ defend against predators and care for young. Countless species engage in group living‚ either in herds‚ colonies‚ harems‚ complex societies or loose associations. But perhaps the simplest
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and not as a living being‚ something that feels pain just like any human does makes them do cruel things. Roughly 17 thousand species are known to be threatened with extinction a curve that increases every year as more and more species of birds‚ mammals and sea-life are pulled closer to extinction. In Africa ivory poachers have killed 65% of forest elephant population in the last 11 years. According to a Washington based wildlife conservation agency around a 100-million sharks are killed annually
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Have you ever heard of an animal that can drink forty gallons of water in one go‚ and has been used in wars throughout history‚ especially in deserts regions? This animal is a camel. A camel is best describe as a large‚ long-necked ungulate mammal of arid country‚ with long slender legs‚ broad cushioned feet‚ and either one or two hump on the back. According to FAO statistics there are about ninety million camels in the world. Camels are herbivores‚ eating mainly leaves‚ seeds and desert plants
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in Australia and on nearby islands. There are many wallaby species‚ grouped roughly by habitat: shrub wallabies‚ brush wallabies‚ and rock wallabies. Hare wallabies are named for their size and their hare like behavior. All wallabies are marsupials or pouched mammals. Wallaby young are born tiny‚ helpless‚ and undeveloped. They immediately crawl into their mothers’ pouches where they continue to develop after birth usually for a couple of months. Young wallabies‚ like their larger kangaroo cousins‚ are called joeys
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scarce‚ but unlike storing fat throughout the body‚ the fat in the hump will not insulate them in hot conditions. Camels‚ because of the shape of their blood cells‚ can lose up to 25% of their bodily fluids without dying‚ unlike the 15% limit for most mammals. Polar Bears A polar bear lives in the cold‚ snowy Arctic lands and it is adapted to its environment in that it has a white fur which helps it blend in with the snow and ice. It also has a layer of fat under its skin‚ which helps it stay warm
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of the world is shaped by our social and cultural upbringing. Chances are‚ if you were brought up in Australia or the USA you identified with this form of imagery. Yet both pigs and dolphins are living creatures. Both are intelligent warm-blooded mammals. And both are subject to questionable butchery practices. In the end it comes down to a learned cultural affinity. The dolphin has won our hearts. The pig has
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do no travel well in the water‚ most of marine animals rely on sound‚ which can travel four times faster in water than in the air. Especially‚ whales communicate by using sound very skillfully as if they sang. According to the video‚ unlike land mammals‚ who generate sounds by exhaling air‚ whales produce sounds by using an organ called “Laryngeal sacs”‚ by which vibration generated by another organ called “U-fold” is augmented to be loud enough sound which can arrive to thousands of kilometers away
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ABSTRACT Phylogenetic systematics is away to determine the relatedness between species by creating cladograms. In this study‚ we observed the difference between cladograms created with morphological traits and molecular DNA with respect to Felis cattus‚ Canis familiaris‚ Didelphis virginiana‚ Odocoileus virginianus‚ and the Equus caballus. The results demonstrated that although a species is similar or closely related in regards to morphological traits‚ it does not mean that their DNA composition
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