COVENTRY UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF BUSINESS‚ ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY Module M58: Ecological management and assessment Re-sit Coursework 2010 Submitted by: ELAICHOUNI MEHDI 2009/2010 Executive summary CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Importance of herbivore foraging in terrestrial environments III. Negative impact IV. Conclusion and recommendations V. References Introduction An herbivorous animal is an animal that feeds almost exclusively on vegetation
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1. Some observations found about termites are that they live in moist‚ dark environments‚ they are sterile and lack eyes‚ and their primary task is to collect food. From this information the hypothesis that due to their lack of eyes‚ they use feeling of their skin to find what they are searching for and a pencil line would give a feeling of wood that would attract the termites. By making a course that split into two paths of a pen line and pencil line‚ the termites will prefer the pencil line and
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the host is regulated by a mix of pheromones produced by both the host and the SPB (Thatcher‚ 1981; ?????‚19??). Once the pioneers located a suitable tree the release of aggregation pheromones will start. The pheromone primarily consists out of frontalin‚ which in combination‚ with the smell of the beetle itself‚ will attract the male SPB for mating plus other males and females. Aggregation is increased when the other males arrive as they also release pheromones‚ including endo-brevicomin (????‚19
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The act of giving out and receiving information is called communication. A dog’s bark may be either a sign of warning or welcome; the meow of a cat may indicate hunger or loneliness. A pet owner can tell animals something by means of spoken or visual signs that the animal has learned to recognize. Some animals‚ particularly chimpanzees‚ have been taught to communicate with people through such devices as sign language and symbols. The three primary purposes of animal communication are to make identification
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food. As soon as ant finds the food it analyses its quantity and quality and carries some of it back to the nest depositing a chemical pheromone trail on the ground. These pheromone trails are directly proportional to the quality and quantity of the food source and guides other ant to the food source. This indirect communication between the ants through the pheromone trail leads them to find the shortest path between the source and the nest. This property of real ant colony is exploited to artificial
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Tool Use Among Chimpanzees Jane Goodall was the first person to ever document seeing a non-human animal create and use tools. (Atkinson) We now see that tool use among chimpanzees is not uncommon. Upon this discovery we have figured out they have many ways to use and craft tools. There is a bit of a difference between tool uses and acquisition among wild and captive Pan troglodytes. The wild chimpanzees have all types of materials to choose and work from in the wild and rely more on tool use for
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They even have their own thoughts and feelings‚ just like humans. According to The Honey Bees Suite “ … [F]ighting bees release an alarm pheromone …. The alarm pheromone makes other honey bees aggressive‚ and more fighting means more pheromone is released which means more bees join the fray. The situation can escalate quickly” This means that bees are most aggressive when other bees are fighting and according to CNN “‘Bees will only sting
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ANIMALS CAN THINK. Student’s name Professor’s name Institution 24th June 2013 Animals can think. Intelligence and competency varies from one individual to another. In animals it is believed that they also have a varying degree of intelligence. It is believed that domestic animals as well as other animals have minds. They have varying level of perception and also their ability to think also varies. According to research done by Davis and Cheeke to investigate whether animal differ
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nimal Defenses Animal AnimAl BehAvior t Animal Communication Animal Courtship Animal Defenses Animal Hunting and Feeding Animal Life in Groups Animal Migration Defenses ChristinA WilsDon Animal Animal Behavior: Animal Defenses Copyright 2009 by Infobase Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚
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Jheon Webb Earth Science Mr. Tokarski Article Summary Earthworms‚ ants‚ termites: The real engineers of the ecosystem Date:October 23‚ 2014 Source: Investigación y Desarrollo The topic of Earth Science that this article falls under is soil science. The contribution or advantage of having a home garden is the preservation of biodiversity‚ or the diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment. Economics and human health prompted a multidisciplinary group
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