cut down. These rainforests are inhabited by small hippos‚ also known as the Pygmy Hippos. This tiny hippo is a symbol of the West African forest. It is part of West Africa’s culture which is something we can’t let go extinct. These little hippos are thought to have found their way through the forest with the help of a glowing diamond at night. It is believed that if you catch one at night you may steal their diamond. Pygmy hippos mostly confine in Liberia’s rainforest. For the past century‚ Liberia
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Pygmy Marmoset Classifications - CLASS: Mammalia KINGDOM: Animal ORDER: Primata FAMILY: Calithrichidae GENUS: Calithrix PHYLUM: Chordate Appearance - Pygmy Marmosets general appearance can vary in many colours. Pygmy Marmosets have very cute bushy brown fur‚ spotted with lighter and darker shades. Their back is generally grey to black with tawny brown. Their tail is ringed with tawny and black and can’t be used to grab branches or anything. The monkey’s forelimbs are shorter than
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Pygmy Marmoset Pet Pygmy marmosets are primates that are sometimes referred to as the smallest monkeys in the world. Even though they are cute looking animals‚ many people do not like to keep them as pets because they are very smelly. However‚ some people still keep them as pets. The adult monkeys are very unpredictable and are difficult to take care of since they require a lot of time and training. They become aggressive as they grow older it becomes difficult to tolerate them. The Cost of Maintaining
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The American pygmy shrew has a large habitat tolerance and is located in a variety of different areas. These areas range from the Gaspe Peninsula across Canada to Alaska and south to Northeast Washington. The range also extends southward in the Appalachian Mountains toward Northern Georgia. Due to the shrews vast range‚ it can be found in a variety of different habits such as old field‚ hardwood and coniferous forest. The American Pygmy shrew is restricted to primarily mid to upper elevations within
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Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth What do you know about Pygmy three-toed sloths‚ probably not that much. Sloths are very interesting animals. This is shown by their habits‚ habitats‚ life’s‚ diet‚ and size. Sloths are very interesting in that they are endangered and the pygmy three-toed sloths only live on an island off of the mainland of Panama. There are only about one hundred left. Sloths have a lot of interesting and odd habits. When sloths feed they use their long claws to eat leafs that are found in
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The Mbuti Ashley Hernandez Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Professor Kristin Akerele January 13‚ 2011 The Mbuti are pygmy hunter-gatherers‚ and are one of the oldest indigenous people of the Congo region of Africa. The Mbuti are composed of bands which are relatively small in size‚ ranging from 15 to 60 people. The Mbuti population totals about 30‚000 to 40‚000 people. They live in bands or tribes of 15-60 people. The hunter-gatherer Mbuti Pygmies are divided into several
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"Technologically man is a giant‚ morally a pygmy" Discuss ’Man does not live by bread alone’. This is a popular maxim. If man does not live by bread alone‚ what else does he need to make him live a man ? That is the crux of the discussion. Who is a giant ? Literally giant is a person of huge physical proportions and extra-ordinary powers and strength. Fables say that there were such persons having the strength of hundreds of men. Thus Hercules was a famous epic figure with immeasurable strength
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The Kung‚ Shoshone‚ and Mbuti Tribes: Hunting and Gathering Societies As in many societies different groups of people are connected by similar traits. People of hunting and gathering societies also share similar qualities. Although the Kung‚ Shoshone‚ and Mbuti live in unique environments they still share numerous common characteristics because of there life styles. The Kung San and Shoshone make critical decisions in similar ways. The people of the Shoshone and Kung are much like
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are forced to share their land with uncompassionate humans. One example is the Borneo Pygmy Elephant found in Southeast Asia. Their thriving population has diminished to less than 1‚500 in the past years. An analysis of the endangered Borneo Pygmy Elephant shows their characteristics and habitat‚ what is threatening them‚ and how they can be saved. Walt Disney’s Dumbo could not have portrayed a Borneo Pygmy Elephant better.
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tantalum – a metallic element used in components for cell phones etc Mbuti recruited to mine coltan (worth $80 a kg in 2001) Result: environmental damage: deforestation Increase in indigenous population = poaching of gorillas The Mbuti Pygmies Protected their way of life from outside influence Introduction of coltan mining: coltan is refined into tantalum – a metallic element used in components for cell phones etc Mbuti recruited to mine coltan (worth $80 a kg in 2001) Result: environmental
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