has led to the reduced habitat of many wild animals.Even though India is known for its tigers‚elephants and rhinoceros‚it is home to over 500 mammal species.Antelopes and deer(like the chinkaras‚ barasinghas‚ chitals‚ sambhars)‚leopards‚panthers‚mongoose and monkeys‚etc.‚can easily be spotted in forests and wild reserves. The country also has about 2000 species and sub-species of birds.There are also some 30000 insect species‚including some very stunning butterflies. The wild creatures
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watched that draws upon stereotypes is Casino Royale. In this film‚ the people from Africa are portrayed as backwards and excessively violent. As the film opens up‚ a group of Africans are shown betting on a match between two animals – a snake and a mongoose – demonstrating that Africans enjoy watching innocent animals kill each other for sport. No doubt this makes Africans look backwards as‚ in the so-called civilized world‚ people do not watch animals fight for enjoyment. However‚ in one respect‚ Africans
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In the adventure packed story Rikki-tikki-tavi the author “Rudyard Kipling” writes about a mongoose named Rikki-tikki-tavi. Rikki tikki is It’s washed down in a high summer flood to a garden path. The garden path was in the bungalow where a family lived. A boy named Teddy takes Rikki in and the family accepts him. A while after that Rikki meets Ddarzee and his wife (tailor birds). Darzee said they lost a baby bird to a cobra named Nag. Nag came over and tried to trick Rikki with his wife Nagaina
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Modern Cuba has been shaped by the U.S.’s abhorrence for the communist government. Today there are many problems in Cuba such as its waning economy‚ its health care issues‚ even its pollution‚ but almost all of them stem from the U.S. unwillingness to cooperate with the Cuban government‚ and ultimately‚ the U.S.’s goal to spread "freedom and liberty" to Cuba’s "oppressive communist regime" The U.S. embargo is a cease-trade between the U.S. and Cuba which the U.S. put in place after the new communist
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Analogy An analogy is comparable to metaphor and simile in that it shows how two different things are similar‚ but it’s a bit more complex. Rather than a figure of speech‚ an analogy is more of a logical argument. The presenter of an analogy will often demonstrate how two things are alike by pointing out shared characteristics‚ with the goal of showing that if two things are similar in some ways‚ they are similar in other ways as well. Sometimes words and phrases can prove inept in conveying
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King Cobras Description King cobras are a unique type of snakes. They can be a whole bunch of different colors that are dark and light. Now King Cobras can be very big up to 13 to 18 feet long. They can weight up to 20lbs. A King Cobra’s body can be long or straight‚ the tongue looks like fork that you eat with. The teeth are very sharp and long with a lot of venom inside. Habitat These snakes live in Asia but‚ they only live in special
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the long grass bent forward stretching across the bank like so many bowed heads. And a voice in the wind whispered : Is there one among us to record this moment? but there was none – no one (except for a few warm rocks hidden among mongoose ferns) even heard a sound. Already the children of Cocoa Bottom had lit their lamps for the dark journey home‚ and it was too late – the moment had passed . Marcia Douglas Kling-klings*: birds (Greater Antillean
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The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned "man cub" Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"‚ the story of a heroic mongoose‚ and "Toomai of the Elephants"‚ the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling’s work‚ each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse‚ and succeeded by another. The Jungle Book‚ because of its moral tone‚ came to be used as a
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• Thesis • The Hawksbill Sea Turtle will become extinct with the rising temperature cause by the changes in our climate. • Taxonomy o Kingdom: Animalia o Phylum: Chordata o Class: Reptilla o Order: Testudines o Family: Cheloniidae o Genus: Eretmochelys o Species: imbricate o (NOAA 2005) http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/turtles/hawksbill.html#taxonomy • Distribution o Found in the tropical regions of the globe o Inhabit the Atlantic‚ Pacific‚ and Indian Oceans “Hawksbills are believed to inhabit
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diversity of the life forms in this rainforest. One example would be the Tenrecs. These are insect eaters. Some are spiny‚ while others are furry. They either look like moles or hedgehogs. There is also the mongoose‚ looks like a fox. They are carnivores‚ and they hunt their pray days and nights. When mongoose mates they produce a high pitched noise. This noise sounds almost like a giggle. Another example is the 5 different families of the lemur. The 5 different families are the: mouse and dwarf‚ weasel or
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