An aquatic animal is an animal‚ either vertebrate or invertebrate‚ which lives in water for most or all of its life.[1] It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills‚ or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that live in them can be categorized as aquatic (water) or terrestrial (land). Animals that move readily from water to land and vice versa are often referred to as amphibious. The term aquatic can in theory
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Julia Foster Mr. Kinney American Culture Honors 14 March 2014 Animal Soldiers “Do you give [a] horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust‚ striking terror with his proud snorting? He pauses fiercely‚ rejoicing in his strength and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear‚ afraid of nothing‚ he does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side‚ along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground
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9 Keeping Animals Captive There are many animals in captivity all around the world. The animals that are in captivity usually live in zoos or on reserves. A main contributor on helping animals become captive is Animal Rescue. Many animals die or get injured badly in the wild‚ and being in captivity helps heal the injured animals. Animal captivity can help endangered animals stay alive. Breeding animals in captivity can help preserve the species. Zoos and animal reserves breed animals to help them
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Animal Farm is set on the Mannor Farm‚ during the chaotic time of an animal revolution. The main characters include Snowball‚ a inventive‚ effervescent pig‚ who took over after Jones left. Napoleon is a Berkshire Boar and is vastly different from Snowball. He’s strong minded‚ selfish‚ and pompous. He and snow ball are in constant conflict until Snowball was chased off the farm by Napoleon’s dogs. Other character’s include Jones‚ the owner of the farm‚ who was constantly drunk and treated the animals
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Jack as an Animal William Golding‚ author of Lord of the Flies‚ intends for the reader to view Jack as an animal because the longer the boys are on the island the more they are becoming like a savage. First‚ the author uses a simile. As Jack is hunting for pigs‚ the author writes‚ “Then dog-like‚ uncomfortable on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort‚” (48). The simile in this passage is Jack on all fours like a dog. Since Jack is a human‚ he walks on two feet‚ not four legs. This gives the reader
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Draft 1 Ban Animal Experimenting With the exact number unknown‚ the USDA reports more than 100 million animals every year suffer and die in cruel chemical‚ drug‚ food and cosmetic tests‚ biology lessons‚ medical training exercises and curiosity-driven medical experiments. Each year animals are subjected to experiments so painful and damaging that no one would ever do on any human being. As experimenting on animals is immoral we should stop using animals for experiments. Animal experimentation
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In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell the political allegory was the Russian Revolution. This book mocks the totalitarianism of the Russian Revolution. Everything happens the same way in the book as the revolution but instead the people are represented as animals on a farm and farmers. The animals felt they were being treated cruel so they decided to over throw the farmer Mr. Jones. After the revolution the pigs who were the leaders of the revolution decided to take over. The ironic part in all
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112-2 HOM Animal Testing One of the worst feelings in the world is being tortured and not knowing why it is being done. Imagine if animals could talk‚ do you think that animal testing would still be done? Of course because of animal testing some various things have been discovered‚ but is it worth putting these animals through torture over and over again? Personally I think that animal testing is wrong‚ and in most cases a waste of money because it can take multiple tries and animals just for one
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Should animals be used for research? Isn’t it animal cruelty? To test cosmetics‚ cleaners and other products‚ hundreds of thousands of animals are poisoned‚ blinded and killed every year. In circuses‚ animals are being tortured cruelly. This has been an argumentative issue for a long time. Some argue testing on some animals now will prevent lots of human suffering and save lives in the future. Others say it is unethical and cruel. Still‚ everyone agrees that millions of animals are subjected to
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Animal testing benefits human health. Medical research involving animals has dramatically improved the health of the human race over a significant period of time. Advances in antibiotics‚ insulin‚ and other drugs have been made possible through research done on animals. Despite these benefits‚ some people believe that animals should be not be used for testing medical techniques and drugs. In order for scientists to create new drugs‚ that help cure diseases‚ they have to be able to test them. Scientists
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