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Visiting South Africa's Cape Town from a Gardener's Perspective

In this paper consisting of five pages the botanic possibilities of this region and their source of fascination for any gardening ...

Illinois' Endangered River Otter Species

successful that the State of Illinois discontinued the program because their numbers were successfully increasing on their own. T...

Species and its Nature

that there are actually two different universes which coexist (Plato and the Perfect Universe, 2002). According to Plato, there i...

Animal and Plant Evolutionary Examples

Each has a definitive place in the worlds ecology. As our first example of the contention presented above, take the...

Owl Ears and Their Presumed Efficiency

not balanced with each other and are different shapes. This is in order to augment depth perception. Owls have very keen vision ...

Examination of Biodiversity

would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...

Antibiotics Resisting Bacteria and the Theory of Evolution

are prokaryotic organisms. This translates to mean that their cellular nuclei lack a nuclear membrane. Consequently, even though...

Administration of President George W. Bush, Endangered Species, and International Trade

of all the various ways animals serve mankind, there has historically been little thought given to their own right to existence, h...

Overview of Merriam's Shrew

considerable difficulty identifying each individual species, inasmuch as they share so many common characteristics. With the exce...

Mammal and Bird Diversity and Global Spatial Patterns

deserts, forests, and saltwater marshes (1995). Ecosystems serve several functions and may affect climate and other things; they a...

Endangered Species the Indiana Bat

has the distinction of being classified as the last mammal to be discovered from that area. While the Indiana bat is found all th...

Gracile and Robust Australopithecines and Dental Patterns

robustus, members of the gracile and robust groups, respectively. The others were limited to the region of Ethiopia, the place of...

Fireflies of the Eastern United States

the females attention away from competing males (Nevins, 1999). Species also vary according to their flight pattern, the time of...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

A Tidepool Hermit Crab Consideration

("Marine Life," 2003). Hermit crabs are able to protect the vulnerable part of their bodies through the utilization of an empty sn...

Overview of the Exotic but Very Poisonous Puffer Fish

exist in controlled conditions for economic purposes (Labb?e, 2003, p. 42). Puffer fish earned its name because when threatened, ...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Endangered Species Conservation, Cultural, Economic, and Political Constraints

interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Entomology Cases: Compare/Contrast

who were also at the site of the attack; without this intrinsic connection, it is highly probable that the correlation would have ...

Mangroves

this information it is evident that all of these mangroves are intricately connected. And, it is also noted that they all present ...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

4th Grade/Endangered Animals Web Quest

a place where students share ideas. One of the wonder features of the Internet is that they can provide 2-way communication with c...

Public Service And Professionalism

many people and industries alike; however, Althen et al (2002) note how it is by way of such an objective that one becomes labeled...

Internet-Based Activities

the site entitled Endangered Specie.com, The Rarest Info Around, which is sponsored by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This site...

Monkey Eating Eagle of the Philippines

Noting how the Monkey-eating eagle requires "a contiguous territory in excess of 100 square kilometers of advanced second growth a...

Megafauna

Interestingly, the Actodus simus still lives today and is thirty percent larger than the grizzly bear ("Pleistocene Megafauna," 20...

Darwin's Theory and Genesis

occurrence of profitable variations" (Darwin IV). This offers the reader an understanding of how change and alteration creates new...

Overview of the Endangered Species Act

CITES [section 3]; * All Federal agencies were required to undertake programs for the conservation of endangered and threatened s...

Engineering or Evolution in Aldous Huxley and Charles Darwin

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...