Key words: foraging habits, competition, gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), caching, distance, shelled peanuts, and unshelled peanuts. Introduction Caching animals display different feeding characteristics depending on the food type, distance involved, the presence of competition, and existence of different forms of distractions (Jessen, 2013). This discussion focused on studying the foraging behavior of gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) when exposed to shelled and unshelled peanuts. We studied this topic because we wanted to learn how human presence influenced the foraging habits of gray squirrels (Nilon & Parker, 2008). Additionally, the intention of this submission is to explain how food characteristics influence
Spencer Ferguson SOC 100/02 25th September 2011 Reflection on Lucy the Chimp: Progress in Research or Inhumane? When listening to this story, I was so intrigued, almost entranced in what this account had to tell society. It is truly mind-boggling to think that a closely related species, but a different species nonetheless is taught to eat like a human, act like a human, and truly think it is actually a human. It makes you wonder what else we could do with research, but you also wonder, is that natural? That is the battle I’m going through now over this story.
A Comparative Analysis Paper between ”Territorial Behavior” and “The Brown Wasps” A Tree in Your Heart When one watches Animal Planet, it is fascinating to discover that mice have their holes, pigeons have their nests, dogs have their doghouses, and even dragons have their lairs. What about humans? Loren Eiseley’s “The Brown Wasps” and Desmond Morris’s “Territorial Behavior” illustrate that, as well as animals, humans tend to cling to a special territory which provides them with a sense of belonging and protection. This theme is deeply rooted in everyone’s subconscious mind. Everyone searches for this territory, builds it, lives on it, and dies for it.
I am now just going to fill the square with bizarre questions and answers from http://www.chacha.com/askChaCha/BQ. Bizarre: My girlfriend just told me there were bugs in my chocolate. True? A: Possibly! A chocolate bar contains at least 8 insect parts, as cacao beans r harvested using poor sanitation.Bizarre: How many people can hide inside of a tree?
The Price of Beauty Is it worth killing animals for a mascara? Many companies to create a new mascara scientists test the chemicals on rabbits to see its reaction. The result is, hundreds of rabbits blind or dead due to the creation of ONE mascara. Alternatives have been created all over the world for animal testing on cosmetics, which are more accurate, since rabbits, dogs, cats, etc. don’t react the same way as us.
The rhesus monkey experiment "nature of love" (1958), undertaken by Harry F. Harlow bolstered our understanding of the emotional bond between a baby and its mother. Harlow was able to distinguish between emotional attachment and the biological desire for food. Harlow had left behind an extraordinary legacy relating to the ethical implications which lead to deprived love at a young age, Hock (2013) depicts the inhumane treatment towards the infants needs and how the research that Harlow had produced could not be done on humans as it would harm their psychological and physical state, as it had already done to the infant monkeys. The experimental research deprived the infants of their original mother by replacing them with a cloth, although he only did these with the infant monkeys due to the ethical principles. Harlow had found that the infant monkeys as young as a day old, became very attached to the cloth pads used in the experiment, most for comfort and security.
In the children’s movie “A Bug’s Life”, which began playing in 1998, a few sociological concepts are displayed within the colony of ants. A few of these concepts include their organized society and strict cultures. A society is the variety of people that are defined by their behaviors and beliefs known as their culture. Although this is a very well-known children’s movie that has been viewed by many, people rarely notice the differences in the different cultures and societies throughout the movie. A few of the differences include the society that the ants live in versus the society of the other bugs, the specific behaviors that make up the ant's culture, and the beneficial differences that can be made to the ants overall society and culture when they are open to the idea of change.
About the world around them. And just like every other kids, Harper Lee shows us in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird that Scout, Dill and Jem are very curious kids. But whether their curiosity is a big help or a big problem, depends on them. One example that the author illustrates Scout, Dill and Jem are curious kids is the time they went to the Radley house in order to get a look at Boo. A reason why this example shows that the three kids are curious is because they could get into big trouble by going there.
She is trying to give the idea of the bird doing another human activity. This is also another representation of humans becoming more sophisticated and moving away from nature, we no longer drink from the leaves and grass but from actual glasses. Dickinson shows the bird doing another human activity in this stanza. “And then hopped sideways to the Wall/ To let a Beetle pass” (lines 7&8) The bird is moving out of its way to let a beetle go by, but you would normally think that the bird would not even notice a beetle unless it was hungry. This also gives the bird a human trait, politeness.
Is Animal Testing Necessary? Do we see birds as an animal flying around in the sky or as a lifeless creature to be tested on? Do we see mice as being cute, class pets or the next control in an experiment? People today should be more aware of how animal testing may one day kill off a number of groups of animals, and can eventually harm the human race. People have yet to realize that their favorite type of deodorant or those good-smelling fragrances they like to put on were once tested on animals.