On May 11, 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state to join the United States of America (Minnesota). Early on, the state was filled with vast resources and an abundance of wildlife. Most of the wildlife, such as deer, elk and moose, contributed to the settler’s diet. Natural predators created competition and hardships for the new settlers; one of these animals was the Gray Wolf. The decrease in the amount of large mammals that the settlers consumed left wolves’ preying on cattle.
Unfortunately, Ranchers had to change their strategy from focusing on making income to minimizing losses. Income was not as important as preventing losses. Unfortunately, the market share for beef fell by 27% between 1970-1997 and in 1997 with a 13.3% increase in new poultry products, new beef products only increased by 3.5%. Focusing on preventing losses would allow for a stable income. However, some of the smaller ranchers had to sell to their larger neighboring ranchers.
It is always fatal causing death within weeks to months of symptom onset. When the cow starts to reflect signs, the cow usually dies between three months and the brain tissue slowly dies, the animal loses control over its movements and behavior; they seems to be aggressive and mad as the name of the disease is named “Mad cow disease”. According to my gathered articles and knowledge of this disease human can not get infected because this is a bovine disease. However, in an Alabama cow that tested positive in 2006 for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, is identical to one that causes a related brain wasting disease in humans. BSE arise spontaneously in cattle and once human digest the cows infected meat, the disease mutates into its human version called Creutzfeld Jacob Disease(CJD).
The Rise and Fall of the Plains Indians Horse Cultures Pekka Hämäläinen Introduction The thesis in Mr. Hämäläinen’s article is “The horse era began for most Plains Indians with high expectations but soon collapses into a series of unsolvable economic, social, political, and ecological contradictions.” In “The Rise and Fall of the Plains Indian Horse Cultures,” Pekka Hämäläinen discusses how the introduction of horses by European explorers allowed the Plains Indians to transform themselves from obscure foot nomads into an equestrian people. Academia has commonly contrasted the achievements that the horse culture brought to native Americans with the death, disease, and despair that the Europeans brought to America. Hämäläinen proposes that today’s scholars consider the Plains Indian culture “the ultimate anomaly—ecological imperialism working to Indians’ advantage.” Many historians view the introduction of the horse and the Plains Indian culture as a success story. However, until looked into deeper, it is shown that horses in reality, brought “destabilization, dispossession, and destruction.” The horse was a two-edged sword. While it helped to move, hunt, trade, and fight, it led to the destruction of the environment, ruined economies, and uneven social pyramids.
6. Where are the cheetahs mostly located now and why? When mammals began to die, so did all the cheetahs in North America and Europe and most of those in Asia and Africa. Cheetahs may have migrated to more suitable environment as ice covered a large part of the northern hemisphere and sea levels fell. 7.
A survey financed by the Countryside Alliance showed that in spite of control, 30% of farmers had experienced significant losses from foxes in the preceding twelve months. This figure is supported by the research of an eminent Oxford biologist, Dr David Macdonald, who also found out that the percentage of farmers believing that foxes should be controlled varied between 82.2% in the Midlands and 96.2% in the sheep rearing districts of Exmoor. However I do not think that foxes are pests at all as most of the fox’s feeding habitats are not detrimental to farming – on the contrary, their main prey are rabbits, rats and voles, all of which are considerable pests in the 70% of farmlands given to arable production, so on one hand foxes can be benefit to the farmer. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, predation on lambs by foxes is ‘insignificant’. Studies show that even by farmers’ estimates, only one in two hundred lambs fall victim to a fox, whereas between 10% and 24% of lambs die from hypothermia, malnutrition or disease or are still-born.
The horses do and don’t have the same significance as they did in the Paleolithic period; yes we still use them to ride but not to for the same reason as nomads did. Today we use them for recreation but the nomads they where a way of life without horses it may have changed their whole culture. The rhinos on the other hand are depicted very much like we see them today. I think that if humans in future viewed a picture of a deer that they would wonder why it was so significant to our culture. A cave drawing of a deer in North America would show that deer have either always been here or where once hear, even if extinct when people
Although it was not presented in Odyssey and it touched in Atala, it is such a big connection between the two that it must be brought up. The Native Americans were nearly wiped out by the white people. They got in contact with the Europeans and it nearly wiped out the entire group because of the diseases that the white people that the Natives were not immune to. It did not help matters that the white people took over the land that already belonged to the Natives, and then have their white ancestor claim to have found the Americas. The white people made the Native Americans walk thousands of miles from their own homeland.
Finally, Native Americans did not have a lot of major diseases before Europeans arrived and did not develop the immunity to a lot of the diseases they had in Europe. After Europeans arrived, all of the things changed for the Native Americans. One good thing that came for them was they could trade for new or better goods. Europeans brought things that the Native Americans had never seen before like armor, horses, and foods and could now try and trade for this. Europeans however also brought advanced weapons like guns and they traded for a few but mostly the guns conquered the Native Americans.
With the introduction of the Royal Exchange, the agriculture-based economy of England changed drastically. Before, villagers bartered good, but the implementation of the Royal Exchange eliminated bartering and a goods market was established. As a result, landlords and other villagers expected money in return for services. A major economical focus in the Elizabethan Era was raising sheep. When Queen Elizabeth took the throne in 1558, it is estimated that there were more sheep than humans in England.