EVS REPORT – BATCH 2 – THE MAP OF ENDANGERED No one will ever again see a paradise parrot flash its rainbow colors across the sky or see the Tasmanian tiger slink through the wet Tasmanian forest. They are gone forever – they are now extinct. It is very sad‚ but it is too late. Extinction is forever. Plants and animals have become extinct before. Dinosaurs are an example. However the process is slow‚ taking thousands of years and longer‚ allowing sufficient time for other life forms to adjust to
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search for uniquely human adaptations‚ many might say that our opposable thumb is one adaptation that is distinctly human. This is not entirely true‚ however‚ as according to Damonte (2004) opposable thumbs appear in other species such as gorillas‚ orangutans‚ and chimpanzees‚ as well as‚ opossums‚ pandas‚ and even frogs (Hornaday‚ 1914). The following paper will describe the adaptation of the opposable thumb‚ trace its evolution‚ and discuss the types of traits the opposable thumb fits into. Description
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Haplorrhini a. This change moves tarsiers (Under the new classification‚ tarsiers would now be moved to monkeys and apes due to genetic data. ) 3. The original taxonomy had humans separated form apes‚ but if you look at the genetic information‚ the orangutan is more genetically different to apes than humans. A reclassification of the great apes has been proposed. Traditionally‚ there was pongidae and hominidae (where apes and humans are classified separately). The proposed change is that all of the
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to Canada in search for a better life‚ their boat suddenly begins to sink in the middle of the pacific ocean. Miraculously Pi is the only human that survives. But unfortunately for this poor boy he is stuck on a 26 foot lifeboat with a zebra‚ an orangutan‚ a hyena‚ and a three year old bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The themes religion‚ fear‚ and hope are repeatedly stressed to try to get the reader to greater grasp the concepts of what Pi was going through while stranded on a lifeboat for 227
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Life of Pi: The Importance of Storytelling What is the importance of storytelling? What are stories for? In the novel Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel considers these questions as he writes about a boy who survived in a lifeboat with a Bengal Tiger. Martel elaborates on the theme of storytelling as a coping mechanism. “That’s what fiction is about‚ isn’t it‚ the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?” Martel writes this within the first few pages of the Life of
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a young man; Piscine “Pi” Molitor Patel who finds himself lost at sea after his family’s cargo ship sinks in a storm. But Pi is not alone on this journey and must survive in a crowded life boat with four animals from his family’s zoo—a hyena‚ an orangutan named Orange Juice‚ an injured zebra‚ and worst of all‚ an adult Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. I felt the book was better as it offered much more than the movie. It was more detailed‚ more religious and more specific about events. The movie
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article “ Of primates and personhood” by Ed Yong talks about some projects about apes basically talks how “ Great Ape Project” was established in 1993 it demands a basic set of moral and legal rights for chimpanzees and apes‚gorillas bonobos and orangutans.” Yong state in his article “ i do think we have special obligations to the great apes as our closest relatives‚ but if we give rights to apes‚ what would be the compelling reason not to give rights to monkeys ‚dogs rats‚ and so on” imagine give
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Biological Anthropology Biological Anthropology is the study of human biology within the framework of evolution. There are four subfields of Biological Anthropology; genetics‚ human variation‚ paleoanthropology‚ and primatology. Primatology is the study of non-human primates and I find it the most interesting of the four subfields. The study of Primatology focuses on the biological and psychological aspects of non-human primates. Also it looks at the similarities shared between humans and primates
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Officials visited me and asked me questions about what happened when the Tsimtsum sank. Firstly‚ I told them that the ship sank and that I had jumped in the life boat‚ along with 4 other animals (Richard Parker the Bengal tiger‚ Orange Juice the Orangutan‚ a hyena and a zebra with a broken leg). Then I said that Richard Parker killed the hyena right after the hyena killed Orange Juice and the zebra. But then after a big storm and a night on the Meerkat Island‚ both Richard Parker and I wound up on
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Amazon Rainforest in Brazil Location The Amazon Rainforest is located in South America‚ south of the Equator It covers 2.1 million square miles of land. The longitude and latitude of the Amazon rainforest is longitude = 71 degrees‚ 45’ and 55”W and latitude = 15 degrees 31’ and 05”S. Biotic Components Animals -- boa constrictor -- toucan -- poison dart frog Plants -- ferns -- algae -- rattan palms Abiotic Components The Amazon Rainforest has a rainy and dry season. The annual rainfall
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