IMPORTANCE OF ZOOS WHITNEY 6TH HOUR MRS.RAY 18‚ DECEMBER 2012 Imagine a world‚ where the movies are all you have to go off of to learn about animals‚ to see certain animals‚ and to experience animals in their natural habitat. Zoo keeping started in 1752 at the Schon Brunn Palace in Vienna‚ Austria. It was brought to the public in 1765. A zoo is a place where exotic and also non-exotic animals live‚ and are shown to visitors. Zoo keeping is valuable and important because they educate children
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Frank Norris is noted as one of the first novelists to influence Naturalism in American literature. After discovering the idea from a French novelist‚ Norris began to incorporate it into his writing. He used Naturalism to express how the environment influences a person’s attitudes and behaviors. Norris effectively executed this and conveyed the ideas of scientific determinism to his audience during the Progressive Era. Many of his works have become widely recognized due to their impact on America
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The word zoo is a fairly broad term. Zoos are most commonly thought of as an attraction rather than a means for education. More importantly‚ they are rarely associated with the survival of the human race. While zoos are a form of entertainment for the public and a taxable industry for the government; most of them do in fact research the animals they have in their captivity. This research can be beneficial and life saving for humans and if it were not for this testing‚ we would not have many key vaccines
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Endangered Tigers Today wild tigers exist in Eastern Russia‚ China‚ Vietnam‚ Cambodia‚ North Korea‚ Thailand‚ Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ Bhutan‚ India and Nepal. In order to live in the wild‚ tigers need water to drink‚ animals to hunt‚ and vegetation in which to hide. As the mountains‚ jungles‚ forests‚ and long grasses that have long been home to tigers disappear‚ so too‚ do tigers. Agricultural expansion‚ timber cutting‚ new roads‚ human settlement‚ industrial expansion and hydroelectric dams push
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Throughout my zoo experience I did observe some unique and different behaviors that would most likely not occur in the wild. Since I watched the gibbons the longest I have much information on them. On behavioral difference it is based on the environment since now they are swinging on symmetrical poles and no longer tree branches. I’m sure they are less cautious of breaking branches and do not even different sized branches or limbs. As I have researched I have discovered that many gibbons‚ because
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Save the tigers Someday‚ we may never see tigers again because tigers are on the critically endangered list‚ which is why the National Zoo was celebrating Global Tiger Day. This is happening because of poaching and habitat changes. Large plantations have replaced a lot of tiger habitat in several tropical range countries. Tigers occupy only around 7 percent of their historic range. The current wild tiger population is at as few as 3‚200 tigers‚ including only about 400 Sumatran tigers‚ which are
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Name: _____________________________ Date: ________ sec. ___ Survey of Animals: Zoo Questions Please type the answers of the following questions: 1. What function‚ other than hearing‚ do the African Elephant’s ears serve? Answer: _______________________________________________________________________ 2. What color is the rump of a Hamadryas Boboon? Answer: ________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is the life span of the
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The Bengal Tiger The Bengal tiger is a carnivorous‚ mammal primarily from India. It lives in habitats such as the coniferous Himalayan Forest‚ the mangroves of the Sunderbans‚ the hills of the Indian Peninsula‚ or the forests of Rajasthan and Northern India. At one time Bengal tigers were scattered throughout Asia. Now they are generally found in India and some regions of Bangledesh‚ Bhutan‚ Nepal‚ and Myanmar. There is approximately 4‚000 alive in the wild now‚ and about 300 are in captivity
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Karen Norris‚ a member of my church‚ was born on July 5‚ 1942 in Huntington‚ West Virginia and is now seventy-three years old. She grew up in Chesa Peak‚ Ohio on a farm. The long cabin she lived in was built by a free black man in 1860 with rooms add on to it. The neighborhood was very rural with a few small house spread out. The town had many house that were used for the underground railroad. Everyone knew everyone in the community of very few people. Her father ran their dairy farm that was given
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The Tiger Will Always Be Trapped Titles of a book can portray an important message about the book or characters. One of the many meanings of Sharon M. Draper`s Tears of a Tiger is Andy`s depressing emotions. In the title the word “Tears” represents Andy`s feelings‚ and the word “Tiger” represents Andy. The title can also be portrayed as Andy feeling trapped in a cage like a tiger. The many emotions of Andy are how the title can be metaphorically interoperated. When one thinks of a tiger‚ they
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