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    wolf was originally eradicated in the Yellowstone Park in order to increase quality of life for the elk. The elk was the natural prey of the wolf‚ and faced dwindling populations due to its presence. Following the elimination of the removal of the wolves‚ the elk population flourished‚ reaching numbers as high as 19‚000. This eventually turned out to not be 100% good news for the park‚ as the elk greatly diminished the park’s trees. As Yong mentions‚ the populations of the predator and prey must

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    would get used to it. Which is just what the government wanted‚ cultural assimilation. Molly‚ Daisy‚ and Gracie fleeing the Moore River Settlement is a direct defiance of being assumed they were uncivilized. According to Dave Grossman’s‚ “On Sheep‚ Wolves‚ and Sheepdogs” there are three types of people in the world. “Most people in our society are

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    people got there first they whould let the other one out first. But at the end they got killed by a pack of wolves that they thought were the one guys men till they got close. I think that these two topics have a lot in common with each other because they both die‚ that is how their families stop hating each other but in “the interlopers” it is not from poison it is from a pack of wolves. That got to them before their men could. the two lines were “ Put this in any liquid thing you will And

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    Question 1: “Mr. Baloo‚ I would like to talk about Mowgli‚ do you think he is one of the wolves or one of the man-pack? Question 1 Answer: “Hmmm… Well I recall him saying something like this before his fight with the red dog: { Mowgli the Frog have I been‚ Mowgli the Wolf have I said that I am. Now Mowgli the Ape must I be before I am Mowgli the Buck. At the end I shall be Mowgli the Man. Ho! } He won the fight by being brave like a wolf‚ clever and silly like a monkey‚ willing like a buck‚ and

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    something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then‚ and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer‚ that no wolves would mean hunters ’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die‚ I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view. Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain‚ and seen the south-facing slopes wrinkle with a maze of

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    stories intended for adults‚ their stories are often told to children for the moral. The moral is not to be deceived by symbolic wolves. The Grimm brothers wrote‚ "She did not know what a wicked animal he was‚ and was not afraid of him." The moral for Germany in the 1700s was meant to resonate with adults about the people in their lives who they did not realize were symbolic wolves until they were

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    Reading through Dennis Johnson’s Train Dreams‚ it quickly becomes evident that this book isn’t just a novella on the life of a man who loses his wife and daughter to a forest fire‚ but instead something much greater. Throughout the novel and even on its cover art‚ Train Dreams hints at how “…the cataclysmic changes wrought by twentieth century” led to “…the disappearance of a certain kind of American life”. In this novella‚ Robert Grainer is a man whose life is caught up in the middle of America’s

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    There is actually lots of irony in this story. The key piece is that the two characters in this story hate each other. They want each other dead and in the end‚ both of them end up dieing. Irony is the best thing to have in stories in my opinion. They make it interesting and funny so at the end you can say “ha sucks doesn’t it”. Ulrich and Georg have grown up hating each other and wouldn’t mind killing one another. They show this from a young age‚ “as boys they had thirsted for one another’s blood”

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    Ed Yong’s article‚ "Scared to Death"‚ describes how returning wolves to Yellowstone affected the elk population’s patterns and behaviors. Many people believe that the fear of being eaten is what drives animals away. However‚ this theory is not completely true. The Yellowstone elk population was thriving‚ but the wolves’ return impacted it on many different levels. Yong wrote‚ "Seen through the eyes of an elk‚ the physical terrain is overlaid with a mental map of risk‚ complete with "mountains"

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    Cascading Trophic Effects in Response to Apex Predator Removal Introduction The seemingly simple interaction between predator and prey can create effects that disseminate throughout an entire ecosystem. These interactions‚ or lack thereof‚ specifically result in trophic cascades. Cascading trophic effects typically occur from a change in the population density of apex predators. Due to the ever increasing impact of humans on nature‚ this field of ecological study is gaining more popularity as ecologists

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