Animal Rights Animal Rights Can animals think and deliberate in their actions, or are they just acting on impulses' Do animals suffer, or are their brains so underdeveloped that they lack that feeling' Do animals even have rights' According to national laws, these questions have to be answered by each individual. Each of us has to select a set of principles of ethical conduct.

The Steps Of Temperment Testing A Dog Temperament Testing a Dog for Adoptability Many things are involved in testing a dog to see if it is an adoptable animal. Temperament testing is a good name for all these steps. The dog is first evaluated in its kennel, then checked to see if it is aggressive around food; finally, the dog is evaluated to see if it shows any aggression towards p

Evolution of Amphibians to Mammals EVOLUTION OF AMPHIBIANS TO MAMMALS In the beginning, all life evolved from the oceans. It started very small, then evolved to produce creatures, which were larger than life. First, there were plants and insects. Next which evolved were reptiles and fish. From those reptiles and fish came the amphibians. The amphibians were the predecessors to

Reservoir Fisheries Reservoir Fisheries - Methods for Fish Stock Assessment and Management Reservoirs are complex artificial environmental and biological systems. Geologically speaking, reservoirs are relatively infant systems, tending to change more rapidly than other aquatic ecosystems. The flora and fauna that populate reservoirs evolved in lakes or rivers and thus are not well a

Gray Wolf Gray Wolf The most commonly used name is the Gray Wolf, while the more scientific name is the Canis Lupus. The wolves are known to extremely smart and adaptive. The Native Americans tried to learn from the way the wolves lived and adapted off the land and its resources. Wolves are right behind humans in the ability to adapt to their environment. They can live in virtually a

Historical Perspectives On Falconry The practice of flying birds of prey at game has been extant for at least 2,500 years, and is still in evidence today, in the retinue of falcons and falconers preceding kings in their grand ceremonial entrances and progresses. Falconry no doubt played an important part in the education and actual sustenance of medieval man, from the serf right up to th

Horses Of America The American Bashkir Curly horse is the first horse I will discuss. This horse dates to 1898 when Peter Damele and his father were riding in the Peter Hanson mountain range in Nevada. They found three horses with tight curly ringlets covering their entire body. The Bashkir Curly gets it name from the ancient Russian breed, the Bashkir, from which the Curly was be

Is The U.S. Doing Enough To Protect Our Food Supply' Is the U.S. doing enough today to protect the American people from food borne pathogens and illness' One can not open any newspaper or magazine or watch a television program with out hearing of E coli or salmonella or Mad cow disease. Many animal rights advocates would like you to believe that beef and milk products are the only c

Humane Trapping Humane Trapping Humane Trapping is the capture of a animal without pain. Humane trapping is really up to the trapper. If you have a good skilled trapper who respects animals, the animals he traps will feel little or no pain. If you have a trapper who doesn’t care about the animals the animal will probably feel excruciating pain. The animal rights activists videotape the

Imprinting Animals Physiological Psychology An Australian zoologist, Konrad Lorenz coined the phrase “imprinting”. Imprinting describes a phenomenon in which an earlier experience determines later social behavior. Other investigators observed similar effects before Lorenz, but he was the first to name it and to point out that it appeared to occur at a critical period early in the lif

Individualism And Animal Rights Animal ethics is concerned with the moral issues concerning animals, whereas environmental ethics concerns itself with the moral issues of the environment. The existence of animal ethics depends on the existence of environmental ethics. Philosophers such as Singer, Regan and Goodpaster have an individualistic approach on the subject of animal rights and mo

Isopods The Behavioral Patterns and Weight Loss of Individual and Aggregate Specimens of Armadillidium vulgare Subjected to Desiccation Introduction All animals, marine, terrestrial, and freshwater, require water for normal biological function, and this is no different for the isopod Armadillidium vulgare. Without adequate water they will begin to exhibit abnormal behavioral

Killer Whales Scientific Classification: Order & Genus. The scientific order of all types of whales is Cetacea. This large order is broken down into three further groups as well: the toothed whales or Odontoceti, which includes killer whales, dolphins, porpoises, beluga whales, and sperm whales, the baleen whales or Mysticeti, which include blue whales, humpback whales, gray whales, and

Labradors Description of Animal & Habitat: Labradors are a breed of sporting dog, trained to fetch and retrieve game. They are registered as number one on the American Kennel Club’s list of top ten breeds, with 172,841 Labs registered this year (factmonster.com, 2001). Their most notable characteristics are their coat, tail and temperament. They have a double coat; a soft undercoat

Marine Parks The issue of whether we should allow marine parks to stay open has been widely debated in our community recently. It is an important issue because it concerns fundamental moral and economic questions about the way we use our native wildlife. A variety of different arguments have been put forward about this issue. This essay will consider arguments for having marine parks and

Another Way Another Way A war is spreading throughout the northeast. Hired officials are reverting to barbaric methods to defeat the enemy, with orders to kill over eighty percent of the deer. The abundant deer population in Princeton, New Jersey, sixty-seven per square mile, is taking the blame for the rise in car collisions, over fourteen hundred in New Jersey alone. The deer are

Buying a New Pet There are many factors that people have to think about when buying a new pet. One of the things people have to consider is training the new animal to do basic things such as sit, lay down or more advanced things like doing tricks. Training pets to do tricks or disciplining them takes some time and patience. In my house we recently got two new additions to the family:

Marine Science Marine Science Sharks are one of the most feared sea animals. They live in oceans across the world but are most common in tropical waters. There are over three hundred fifty species of sharks. They can be broadly categorized into the following four groups: Squalomorphii, Squatinomorphii, Batoidea, and Galeomorphii. The shark family Sphyrnidae that includes the Hammerhe

Sea Turtles Sea Turtles are large, air-breathing reptiles that inhabit tropical and subtropical seas throughout the world. Their shells consist of an upper part and a lower section. Hard scales cover all but the leatherback, and the number and arrangement of these scutes can be used to determine the species. Sea Turtles don't have teeth, but their jaws have modified breaks suited to

Piping Plover Management Management of the Piping Plover Issue History and Background The piping plover (charadrius melodus) is a small bird that nests and feeds mainly along seacoasts, on isolated, sandy beaches, with little vegetation and access to mudflats for feeding. Piping plovers nest from Nova Scotia south to North Carolina, with a population in the Great Lakes region north

Rabies Rabies can infect any mammal including humans, but wild raccoons, foxes, skunks, and bats are the most common carriers of rabies and the most likely animals to expose your pets to this deadly disease. Rabies is a virus that effects the brain and spinal cord. It is transmitted when body fluids especially saliva of an infected animal touch the broken skin or mucus membranes, mouth

Sharks SHARKS Sharks are known for being fierce, hungry, man eating creatures that attack any human in their sight. This view of the shark is entirely not true. They are concentrated on killers when they an actual attack on a human is rare.1 Sharks are located in all parts of the globe. Sharks are like humans in a way, they come in all different colors, all species look different and a

Sloths Sloths come from one of the earliest mammalian orders, which originated about 35 million years ago in the Late Eocene in South America. They are most closely related to armadillos and anteaters. Today, only two genera of sloths with five species exist in South America, whereas there used to be over thirty-five of the extinct ground sloths ranging from parts of Antarctica, South Am

Snakes SNAKES Jake martin I. Snakes are reptiles A. Snakes are related to lizards, turtles, alligators, and crocodiles. 1. Snakes are cold-blooded animals. 2. They shed or slough their skin several times a year. 3. Scientist believe that snakes developed from lizards millions of years ago. B. Snakes vary in size. 1. Snakes can be as small as a few inches long.

The Red-Tailed Hawk The red-tailed hawk or buteo jamaicensis lives in North and Central America and the West Indies. Their haibitats are desert, forest, and mountians. They can live in a lot of different areas. They have a variety of prey. They eat rodents, rabbits, and other small mammals. They also eat snakes, lizards, birds, and large insects. When they hunt they either fly or st

The South China Tiger The South China tiger is located in central parts of China, that is if it is ever located. Unfortunately, this tiger is the rarest of the five living tiger subspecies. It is the most threatened and the closest to extinction. The estimated population of the South China tiger is a mere 2-3 dozen, and that's an optimistic estimation. Chinese officials haven't eve

The Weekly Maintenance Of Snakes Although snakes are not commonplace animals to keep for pets, they do have several redeeming qualities for companionship. One of the best qualities is probably being their low maintenance requirement in order to flourish. The overall process is remarkably simple; consisting of the removal and feeding of the animal, disposing of fecal matter and/or substr

Zinzcantecos And Yanomamos The Zinacantecos food collecting and food producing system consists of cultivating corn, squash, beans and fruit trees. They also raise animals for food, do some foraging for wild foods, and rarely hunt for meat. They specialize mostly in corn production because it is used to feed the family and to trade for other goods in town. Plots of land are farmed by t

Anthropology Anthropology is the study of human kind through out time and space. There are many subdisciplines of anthropology and are linked by common themes and interests. A common theme that links subdisciplines of anthropology is a holism. Holism emphasis the totality of a culture or takes a panoramic view or looking at all the aspects of a culture. A comparative and comprehensi

Anthropology The organization I have worked for this semester is Lutheran Family Services, in particular, refugee services. This organization relocates refugees, the ones I worked with are from Sudan, Africa. A 20 year civil war has been raging in Sudan leaving families displaced and relocated. The war is between the Northern Sudanese (mostly Arab Muslims-also in control of the