Norway Rats: Facts, Identification & Control Latin Name Rattus norvegicus Appearance Norway rats are large rodents that may weigh in excess of 500 grams. They can reach lengths of 40 cm,and their tails alone may measure 21 cm. The body of the Norway rat is covered in shaggy fur that is brown or gray in color. The ears and tail are covered in scales, and the tail is shorter than the head and body. Droppings are capsule-shaped.…
Diet: Mainly feeds on krill. Crabeater seals have teeth that are designed to make eating krill easier, the teeth have multiple little points on them to help filter the krill from the water.…
According to the NOAA website, the Hawaiian Monk Seal is one of the most endangered marine animals in the world. They are found only in Hawaii and have a population that has been on a steady decline since the 1950’s (about 4% per year.) Work has been done recently to being their numbers up. The NOAA has created programs to foster the seals’ numbers. The Hawaiian Monk Recovery Seal program was designed to respond to a wide range of threats throughout all the islands of Hawaii. Their strategies are to enhance survival of female seals as well as juvenile ones, ensure natural population growth and reduce human-seal interactions, prevent and lessen disease and build on seal health care capacity, and also to administer a recovery program for…
They are called "eared seals" because of the little external ear flaps they have that distinguish them from the phocids.…
Instead of meat it eats plants, mushrooms and insects. Their claws are not sharp as they do not have any need to dig their claws into any prey. Instead they have webbed toes in their paws that allow them to catch insects easily.…
There are many species in the world that are in danger for extinction. The Hawaiian Monk Seal is one of the top marine specie endangered in the United States. The Hawaiian monk seals are native species that live around the islands of Hawaii. It is important to conserve as many animals in the world and not wait until they are close to being endangered. They play a huge role in the world. Species can be endangered due to the lack of importance that people have for animals. Many times humans can interfere in a negative way without realizing how it affects them. It is due to how society does not take the time to learn about what goes around the environment. The most important resources that humans need daily are: water, food, and shelter and it…
Easter Seals has been helping children and adults with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live better lives for more than 80 years. Easter Seals is a non-governmental agency that assists more than one million children and adults with disabilities and their families annually through a nationwide network of more than 450 service sites (ES, n.d.). New Hampshire assists more than 18,000 individuals and their families annually with fourteen centers located throughout New Hampshire (NHES, n.d.). Each center provides top-quality, family-focused and innovative services tailored to meet the specific needs of the particular community it serves.…
By December 1914 stalemate developed on the Western front because of 3 main reasons, new weapons, lack of plans and the circumstances of the battle of Marne, race to the seas and the 1st battle of Ypres!…
A manatee is a big marine mammal with a roundish egg kind of head, flippers and a flat tail. Manatees are also called sea cows. They call them sea cows because they're slow, lolling nature; and they get eaten by other sea creatures sharks and crocodiles. Did you know that cows can swim well they can so sea cows and cows are mostly the same except manatees live underwater cows well they live on land manatees can’t breathe underwater but they can still hold their breath underwater. The natural diet of a manatee; manatees love sea grasses that makes manatees herbivores. Manatees live in slow moving rivers they consume freshwater vegetation. Manatees also likes algae according to National Geographic, a manatee will most likely eat tenth of his/her…
There are two perspectives on this topic, with it or against it. Harp seals are overcrowding and lowering the population of fish in the Canadian waters, this leads to unemployment in many fish industries. There is an animal chain that has to be balanced, by having too many seals they overpopulate and jump the chain, their meat is a great source of omega 3 and 6, their pelts are water resistant and in many cases do not cause allergies, so the hunting sounds pretty beneficial. It’s the most regulated hunt of its kind & the population is large enough to sustain the hunting. There are 9.5 million harp seals and the hunting of seal pups has reduced the global seal population by two-thirds, but there are many other different ways to fix the problem…
When trees are in fruit, usually during the monsoon season, sloth bears dine on mango, fig, ebony and other fruits, and also on flowers. Termites, dug out of their cement-hard nest mounds, and some ants, are year-round staples. During non-fruiting season, insects constitute 95 percent of their diet. Sloth bears climb trees and knock down honeycombs, later collecting the honey from the forest floor. Beetles, grubs, and other insects round out their diet. During food shortages, sloth bears will eat carrion. They also sometimes raid farm crops.…
The teacher appreciates multiple perspectives and conveys to learners how knowledge is developed from the vantage point of the knower.…
Pretty much all the cultures that live outdoors and only live off what other people have told them or what their culture has told them, get their food in the same ways. They hunt for their meat and they gather berries and other things like that. Although the eskimos can’t really gather berries since they live in such a cold place, they hunt for all of the other food…
The average Grey wolfs diet consist of mainly meat such as elk, deer, moose and caribou. Mainly large hoofed mammals but wolves also eat smaller animals when they are not in a pack or food is scarce such as beaver, rabbits and other small prey. Wolves are also scavengers and often eat animals…
Competition between African penguins and commercial fisheries is often suggested as the main cause of the population decrease. African Penguins feed on small fish but their diet consist mainly of anchovy and sardine. The purse-seine fisheries target to catch schooling epipelagic fish that are the main prey of African penguins. During the breeding season, competition is limited. The penguins, being flightless, are restricted to the nearshore waters where commercial fisheries cannot fish. In contrast, away from the breeding island the competition may be much stronger. Most juvenile penguins spend their first year at sea in areas of intense fishery activity (Nation…