most common domestic animals. Chickens were first domesticated in India for their use of cockfighting in Africa‚ Asia‚ and Europe. Chickens are mostly used as a source of food by the consumption of their eggs and their meat. Chicken themselves are omnivores‚ surviving on seeds‚ insects‚ and sometimes large animals like lizards and mice. Chickens can live for five to ten years but this depends on the breed. A male chicken is called a rooster while the female is commonly called the hen. The rooster or
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The Cretaceous Period and the Aftermath Imagine a great‚ thickly muscled dinosaur. Got it? See those serrated teeth? And the great yellow eye that is pondering whether you are food or foe? Now‚ imagine something that can kill this beast and all of its kind. This “something” is called the Cretaceous Tertiary Extinction event‚ and it occurred 65.5 million years ago‚ and killed all the dinosaurs‚ and affected the process of evolution forever afterward. The Cretaceous
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Capuchin Monkeys: Wild vs Captive INTRODUCTION Capuchins have traditionally been in the genus‚ Cebus Erxleben from the family Cabidae. There had been four species recognized among the capuchins‚ such as: Cebus albifrons‚ Cebus olivaceus‚ Cebus capucinus‚ and Cebus apella‚ all of which are a taxonomy that dominated capuchin history for an approximation of 50 years (Lynch Alfaro et al.‚ 2014). Over the years more capuchins had been recognized as well such as‚ Cebus kaapori‚ Cebus libidinosus‚ Cebus
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Name: _______________________ IB DP Biology: Ecology Test – Paper 1 40 Points 45 Minutes 1.Which phylum does the plant below belong to? A.AngiospermophytaB.BryophytaC.ConiferophytaD.Filicinophyta2.What is a community composed of? A.Habitats B.Populations C.Abiotic factors D.Biotic and abiotic factors 3.Which of the following is the best definition of a population? A.A group of individuals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring B.The number of individuals of the same species
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were more accepting of vegetarians than men (Walker‚ 1995)…” (447). Furthermore‚ “[women’s] attitudes toward vegetarians were predominantly positive‚ especially among those [that scored] low in authoritarianism (Chin‚ Fisak‚ & Sims‚ 2002)‚ and that omnivores tend to rate vegetarians as good‚ but weak people (Monin & Minson‚ 2007).” (447). In other words‚ women and vegetarians are seen as inferior compared to those who eat meat – though this is seen a generalization/perception in society. On the other
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Asian shore crab is well established and is becoming a dominant crab species in Massachusetts‚ as well as much of New England. The species has become such a threat because it can tolerate vast ranges of salinity and temperature‚ is an opportunistic omnivore with a broad diet‚ females have a high fecundity with a breeding season twice as long as native crab species‚ and there are no natural predators in the non-native range. A broad diet creates the potential to significantly disrupt the food web‚ ultimately
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will cause more violence. We as humans are prone to violence and predation (without the eating part) on one another simply because of our brain size and how we evolved. Humanity‚ not just Americans‚ has a fixation with violence. We are natural omnivores who achieved our brain size due to a combination of scavenging from other predators ’ kills and a healthy dose of predation ourselves. Higher brain size requires a higher level of aggressiveness in a species in general. This is amplified by being
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Nature is the world around us‚ except for human-made phenomena. As humans are the only animal species that consciously‚ powerfully manipulates the environment‚ we think of ourselves as exalted‚ as special. We acknowledge that in an objective view we are merely one of many organisms‚ and that we are not able to survive outside of our natural world of air‚ earth‚ water and life. But we tend to be poor leaders in the "hierarchy" of animal life. Despite our greatness‚ too often we waste‚ we fight‚ we
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The Aye-aye It Pays to be Ugly In this paper‚ the writer will take on the persona of one of the strangest primates in the world – the Aye-aye. Found only in the forest of Madagascar‚ this unusual creature said to be closely related to chimpanzees as well as humans is a nocturnal primate under the family of lemurs (Daubentonia madagascariensis). Considered to be giants compared to other lemurs in the island of Madagascar‚ what makes this primate interesting to talk about is its unique yet strange
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Homo Neanderthalensis Were Neanderthals a distinct species of the Homo Genus‚ or were they a sub-species of the Homo Sapien? Are modern day humans a product of selective breeding or are they distinctive in DNA to just Homo Sapiens or Neanderthals? To figure this out we will go back to an approximate timeline of over 200‚000 years ago in the Pleistocene Epoch‚ where this fossil‚ and possibly kin‚ resided and thrived. As we know and have all come to understand through media interpretation and display
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