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Pere Davids Deer December 2000 Web Species
520 wordsPere Davids deer is a rare Asian animal. Its original home is found in northeastern and east central China. In 1865, a French missionary by the name of Father Pere Armand David was visiting China. While looking over the wall of the Emperors Imperial Hunting Park he observed a captive herd and later learned that the animals had been extinct from the wild for over 1000 years. He also discovered that this was the last remaining herd in china, and quickly took actions to preserve it. When Father Dav...
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Companion Animal Veterinarians D V M Animals
616 wordsVeterinarians are doctors who treat diseased and injured animals and give advice on how to care and breed healthy animals. The first veterinarian appeared around 2, 500 B. C. in Babylon and China. There are two main types of vets. For example, there are large animal veterinarians that work with cows, horses, elephants, and numerous other large species. But there are also small animal veterinarians that work with smaller species, such as companion animals (pets). There are many different places o...
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One Of The Most Important Endangered Species
1,089 wordsOut of all the species that have ever existed since the beginning of time, 98 % of them are extinct (Facts). There are an estimated 5 - 10 million species that exist currently and only 1. 5 million have been identified (Sherry, 2). Scientists classify species into six different groups: plants, animals, insects, algae, fungi, and microorganisms (Todays Situation). In the tropical rainforest alone, most species are disappearing at the rate of 1 % a year (Sherry, 6). If the current trend continues,...
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Live With Freedom Animals Behind The Bars Zoo
594 wordsAs a child we all must have dreamt about visiting a zoo. During our visit we all might have teased the animals in the cage, or gave them some food to eat. We all might have made fun out of those innocent animals or even laughed at them. Often those animals behind the bars are treated as amusement and entertainment source by most of the visitors. But have we ever thought of those animals there? Have we ever dared to find out the reality as so why such guiltless creatures have to face such harsh p...
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Melbourne Zoo And Sovereign Hill
2,034 wordsMelbourne Zoo and Sovereign Hill The only place you can now see a performing animal is at a zoo. Why then, have we paid to go there? To go to the zoo is to be forced into thinking about the oddness of our relationship with animals. The trouble with the zoo as conservation project, it must be said, is that there are far fewer animals around, and they are in enclosures where you cannot easily see them. Watching the two black rhinos, you read that only 2, 500 are left in the wild. Walking past the ...
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Animals In Captivity Animals To Live Zoos
533 wordsAre Doing Time Doing Time Are zoos really safety retreats for exotic animals or wretched prisons? When I was a child, I used to think that zoos were cheerful and exciting places to go, wonderful places where humans helped misplaced animals to live happy lives. However, I was very wrong! Fortunately, I was blinded by the clowns and cotton candy and did not see that the animals were not happy or cheerful, and the zoos were not wonderful places. Now that I am an adult, I have come to realize just h...
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Ability To Perform Wild Animals
415 wordscan be Wildlife Ethics Wildlife can be found all over the world. Animals come in all shapes and sizes and some still haven? t even been accounted for. Animals were on this planet long before man, but they may not be here when man leaves. The animals? downfall results from the extensive studying, exploitation, and the destruction of their habitats, which should be against the law. There is a lot of information that can still be learned about certain species of animals. This information is good, o...
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Millions Of Years Square Miles
1,316 wordsTigers are descended from civet-like animals called niacin that lived during the age of the dinosaurs about 60 million years ago (Dang, 1994). These small mammals, with long bodies and short flexible limbs, evolved over millions of years into several hundred different species, including cats, bears, dogs and weasels. About 37 cat species exist today (Dang, 1994). Tigers evolved in eastern Asia, but it is not exact. Sabre-tooth tigers are not the ancestors of todays tigers. In fact, sabre-tooth t...
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Elisabeth Hardouin Fugier 19 Th Century Zoo
965 wordsParade of the beasts Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the Westby Eric Baratay &# 038; Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier 400 pp, Reaction Books A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future David Hancocks 296 pp, University of California Press The zoological garden is a European phenomenon as well as a European invention and export. Across the continent about 150 million visitors decide to go to the zoo each year. And the history of that all-too-concrete metaphor of ...
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Years Of Age Leader Of The Group
1,536 wordsMountain gorillas are the most endangered of the gorilla species. Approximately 600 or so remain. They are massive in size, with a short, thick trunk and broad chest and shoulders. Its eyes are very small in proportion to its other features. Older males develop longer heads, and are twice the size of females. The most severe threat to mountain gorillas is habitat loss. The fertile volcanic soil of the Virunga Mountains is as highly valued as farm land. Conservation programs have been set up in R...
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