Research reveals that alpacas, the llama look-alike, are easy to care for and require very low maintenance. Females become sexually mature between the ages of 12 to 18 months so purchasing ones that are at least twelve months old is key. Male alpacas become sexually active between 18 months and 3 years so purchasing two around 24 months would be ideal so the breeding could start whenever Betty wanted (Northwest Alpacas, 2014).…
“Animal Alphabet” by Ale Lluch is used to teach the Alphabet both capitalized and lowercased letters, reading, spelling, pronunciation, and associating words with their meaning. It includes animals in the book to associate letters with specific animals and how these animals are pronounced. The book has thick cardboard pages which uses sliding pieces. On the top of the moving peace it displays both upper and lowercase letters of a specific letter in the alphabet. When you move the piece to the left it reveals an animal associated with that letter as well as the spelling of it. The artist used a fun technique that allows the children to be directly involved with the book by allowing them to slide the piece back and forth. They see the letters in the alphabet and then the book shows them how letters associate with the sound of animal types. For example it has the letter B, b and then the child slides the piece and it displays a picture of a bear with how the word bear is spelled. The person reading the book to the child would pronounce the B sound and then say the word bear. My daughter is 3 years old and she can recognize letters and…
interviewed, give the audience a first hand account of how the animals are kept, fed, and treated.…
Animals have the same abilities as a human being does. They can talk, do tricks, and many other many things. So there’s not much…
Eugene Bondurant Sledge was a United States Marine, who fought in World War II. During this time Sledge was attending Georgia Institute of Technology but left to fight at the battle of Okinawa in 1945. Soon after the battle ended Sledge moved to Alabama and begin to write “With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa”. The memoir included the tragic memories and disturbing experiences Sledge in accounted during World War II.…
The llama has a confident, independent, stubborn, and watchful personality. While an alpaca is very timid, shy, curious, gentle, and calm. The two animals also have their own individual features such as their ears, body shape, and face. Alpacas have short spear like ears, whilst llamas have longer more banana shaped ears. The body shape of an alpaca is more short and sloping than the llamas more straight and long body. From the side, a llama has a longer and less furry face than the shorter smushed looking face of an alpaca.…
Animals have been an obvious source of entertainment for humans for centuries. From ancient bull fighters to the lion tamers at circuses to modern day movies, animals have played a vital role in human entertainment. In modern day documentaries where one sees a dramatic close up of a wild cougar wandering ever closer to the camera, they are being deceived. It is a common tactic in documentary filming to use ‘wild’ trained animals that have been trained to perform certain actions on command. However, to get these animals to perform exactly how the director wants to get results, these trick animals are often beaten if they don’t behave exactly how the trainers ask them to. These tactics to provide entertainment to paying customers aren’t a recent development, starting in the early 1900s, the travelling circuses became popular and also…
The standard of animal care and protection is getting better and better, and legislation drafts more bills and makes more laws to protect animals.…
Certainly, these domesticated creatures are taken for granted far too often. The lack of respect and appreciation for this blessing is evident as I observe some of these animals worn out and sickly from being underfed and overworked. We often gaze in amazement as horses, with abundant strength, pull the Amish buggies up the road or the mule’s aid with the plowing of fields. Clearly, these animals were wonderful gifts brought to the New World, from the Old World, serving not only as help but as a source of nutrition. Prior to horses, cattle, sheep, and goats being transported to this land, the domesticated animals that the American Indians had were dogs, alpaca and llama. These smaller creatures are not strong, working animals. Unfortunately, with the transfer of mammals, there was also the transfer of diseases that some animals, such as the black rat, brought with them. Thus, we can also see another area of life that has been taken for granted, medical care, which helps us to fight disease. Sadly, due to the lack of health care in the New World, not only did many natives die, so did many of those who came to explore the new land. It is clear that two worlds joined, through the vast seas. Consequently, both worlds were significantly changed and remain…
Animal activists all over the country go around to rodeos and protest that rodeo is cruel to animals. But not all of animal activists have the research and supporting evidence to prove that people are being cruel to animals. What most people do not realize, is that rodeo animals such as cattle and horses are raised very similar to how a dog or cat may be raised. People give their animals’ special food such as supplements that have the right vitamins and minerals to allow for their animals to…
“This is horrible! I can’t even watch this!” Those were my immediate thoughts the first time my eyes were opened to the inhumane animal cruelty on factory farms. Factory farming enables mass production to supply the demands of today’s society but also enables the cruel treatment of animals. We need to end the cruelty and abuse that these animals have to endure at the factory farms because it causes loss to the business, reduces the quality of the product produced, and endangers the health of those who buy the product. We can promote humane treatment of factory farm animals by prevention through education, by enforcing humane laws by being an example of humane animal treatment, and by donating and/or volunteering at local humane law enforcement agencies.…
I believe you can make a dog with puppies also take care of kittens by giving the kittens to the dog after the puppies are born. It may also be good if the kittens were orphans. For example: In the passage “Unusual Animal Relationships”, when it talks about the relationship between the dog and the orangutan, it explains how the orangutan (Suryia) became “orphaned after losing his parents”, and it wasn’t until he met the dog (Roscoe) that Suryia became happy, and Roscoe became his friend. Going back to the kittens, they may want parents so much, that they will be excited to have the dog as a mother. Plus, the dog, being the good mother she is, may care less about the fact that she now has more babies to take care of. Especially ones that are…
When we watch the television and we see animal cruelty on the news and the way that Farming factories are treating their animals, we only see one side of the story and we don’t see why the farmers are doing this to their animals. This documentary will reveal the reasons for which the farmers carry out these practices, such as not being able to afford staff to herd the animals in and out of their confines during the day. The famers may not be able to afford the fencing and land the animals need to graze, so they turn to the cheaper way of keeping the animals in small confines. The main conflict in the documentary is the animal activists taking charge and putting pressure on the farmers when they cannot change what they are doing for a reason, most of the farmers would change what they are doing if they had the money too. Ultimately the audience is positioned to see both sides of the story.…
Many people have never heard of Temple Grandin. I was one of those people until I was introduced to her story in this class. She was diagnosed with autism as a child. Her mother worked very hard to find the best care for her and put her through much speech therapy. By the time Temple was four, she learned to speak. Despite the on-going struggles of autism, she didn’t let it keep her from doing anything children without autism experience. In 1970, she earned a degree in psychology at Franklin Pierce College and then went on to earn her Master’s in Animal Science at Arizona State University. After that she attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned a Doctoral degree in Animal Science. She worked for animal slaughterhouses as a consultant, helping them improve their facilities. Her contributions to animal science and agriculture could never be overlooked. Her discoveries have helped make agriculture what it is today.…
Llamas which are well-socialized and trained to halter and lead after weaning are very friendly and pleasant to be around. They are extremely curious and most will approach people easily. However, llamas that are bottle-fed or over-socialized and over-handled as youngsters will become extremely difficult to handle when mature, when they will begin to treat humans as they treat each other, which is characterized by bouts of spitting, kicking and neck wrestling. Anyone having to bottle-feed a cria should keep contact to a minimum and stop as soon as possible.…