Some interesting facts about the Burrowing Owl are that they can make more then seventeen vocalizations, and when alarmed they can make a hissing sound that sound like a rattlesnake. They make the hissing noise to scare predators, so they think there is a poisonous snake nearby. Burrowing Owls put dung at the entrance of their hole to attract bugs to eat. The burrowing owl is an endangered species, and here are some reasons why. Burrowing Owls are losing their habitats, because there is construction, like the building of houses that takes space in the desert.
We will not make them suffer long painful deaths. Ethical treatment of animals can be solved using the deontology theory. “Deontology focuses on what we are obligated to do as rational moral agents. It is particularly important to see that the deontologist does not say that actions do not have consequences; rather, the deontologist insists that actions should not be evaluated on the basis of the action's consequences (Mossler, 2010).“ One example of the deontology theory in action is your livestock is being attacked by a wild animal. In efforts to protect your livestock you shoot and kill the wild animal.
Predators... Predators to the fruit bat are pythons, hawks, owl, pet cats and also humans because we destroy their habitat by cutting down
No matter how many flyers would be sent out to residences, nor how many commercials announced that pesticide would be sprayed on a particular day there are still citizens that would have been uninformed to what was taking place. The poor citizens that do have television and the uneducated citizens that would not understand what they were reading and the harmful effects that the pesticide would have on them would be the ones typically to be outdoors when the spraying is taking place. The agricultural workers in the fields would be sprayed or would handle fruit or vegetables with the residue from the pesticide and get very ill. Killing the mosquitoes is a short term fix, when in all actuality the city needs to take the money donated and educate the citizens and tourist on how to avoid contracting the West Niles Virus. Educating people how to take care of themselves is a long term solution that will not cause irreparable damage to the
When the fleas bit the rats they would then go to a human and bite them giving them the horrible disease they so fretfully waited for. They would never know that the fleas were biting them, let alone carrying the terrible Black Death. After five years, twenty five million people were dead. The disease was killing most of the people that lived in England. The first signs of the Black Death were swelling of the lymph nodes, mostly in the armpit, legs, neck, and groin.
Since everything is being dealt with in mass quantities this increases the risk of disease. This is very dangerous because the employees have to give all of the animal’s antibiotics. If the animal is taking a lot of antibiotics this could potentially make our food dangerous to eat. The Humane Slaughter Act is a federal law, designed to decrease suffering of livestock. According to the law animals have to be unconscious before they are slaughtered.
When taken out of cages their bones are so fragile they tend to break. Male chicks are no value to the industry so they are killed at birth. Hens cages are stacked in rows on top of each other so thousands of birds can be housed together with approximately five to eleven birds in each cage. Their is not much human contact, Birds fall out of cages, get stuck between them and end up dying from having no access to food or water. With waste accumulating, ammonia can cause burns to the animals skin, eyes and respiratory tracts.
Tourism has caused habitat loss for those endemic animals of the environment, specifically the pygmy possum. The pygmy possum is endemic to this environment, coz of its extreme weather for breeding and hibernation. The construction of homes and resorts at Mount Kosciuszko has resulted in the loss of habitat for the pygmy possums. The loss of habitat has resulted in man-made homes for these animals. The location of this home for the pygmy possum was made difficult for breeding of these animals.
Brohen Krsulic March 3, 2012 Mr. Demarco History 161 Black Death The Black Death The Black Death is a terrible disease that left many Europeans dead back in the Middle Ages. The Black Death is thought to have started in Asia then started to spread west towards Europe. It spread so fast, that people did not have time to realize what was happening. It devastated cities with death and panic.1 One of the main reasons for the spread of the Black Death was due to fleas. The fleas were carried by rats; fleas are a blood sucking parasite that feed on humans and other animals as well.2 The disease spread in two ways one is by a flea going on a “feeding frenzy” and by saliva.
The Bubonic Plague The bubonic plague was an infectious disease originating in China in the early 1300s. It is known as a zoonotic disease which is an infectious disease carried by the fleas on rodents, most commonly rats. In the early 1300s it spread throughout part of the world killing millions of innocent people, from as young as infants to elderly people. By the painful and horrific events encountered from this disease people gave it its infamous nickname “The Black Death”. The bubonic plague began in the early 1300s in China and quickly spread throughout Europe by ships on trade routes.