...Do you know how tigers are like sergeants in the army? It is simple they both wear stripes, or do they. Tigers can have a mutation that causes albinism, and the stripes stay the same black shade or almost all the stripes disappear. This happens when two Bengal tigers who mate, both have a recessive gene that controls the color of their coat. I find it fascinating, how they look, the genetics that cause it, and some of the genetic defects that occur while inbreeding. White tigers have snow white fur or a very pale tan that almost looks white, with the usual black, are rare. Their fur allows them to hide in snow, or light tan, or hide in tall grass and be harder to spot by their prey. The most common eye color for these tigers are varying shades...
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...Tess never felt the loss of anyone, something the nurse has by losing her own daughter Susan, whom she replaces with Juliet. The school is closed because of the massive amounts of snow and Tess has to call Tiger and inform him about the news. Tess likes him, in a teenage kind of way:”I imagine him smiling. There’s four miles of hard-packed snow between us but I’ve never felt so close.” (p. 3 ll. 53-54) . He’s in the play as well, but only as a minor character. At the end Tess is told by her acting teacher, Mr. Swick, that Tiger is dead, he fell in a window well while shovelling snow. From that moment on she’s the nurse. Superficially, Tess seems to live a rather normal life some would say even boring. Her father is a priest and her mother owns a fabric store. The future of Tess is predicted by her parents, once she grauates college she will take over her mother’s store. But Tess has ambitions of her own “I want to live in New York City. I want to worry about rent and the smelly man outside my door(…)” (p.3, l.80-81). Tess is trying to get away from her boring life by acting, by being another person. Playing the nurse is, as earlier mentioned, difficult for her to play. She can’t empathize with the feelings of the nurse, because Tess never felt sorrow or loss of someone. Tess falls in love with Tiger, for the first time she experiences how it feels to...
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...area of the country. Scattered all across the country, these sanctuaries and parks attracts the tourists with their beautiful landscapes, amazing rock formation and diverse range of flora and fauna. Most of these sanctuaries were originally private hunting grounds of the former Indian aristocratic families. Paying a visit to India's wildlife sanctuaries is something that one should not rule out when on a holiday to this country. These sanctuaries and forest reserves are home to several endangered species of animals and birds like the Asiatic Elephant, the Royal Bengal tiger, the Snow Leopard and the Siberian Crane. Many of the forest reserves and wildlife sanctuaries of India are famous for some particular species of animals. For instance, the Kaziranga in Assam is known for the Indian Rhinoceros, while Periyar in Kerala is famous for its elephants. Corbett national park in north india famous for tigers and elephant, Nagarhole and dandeli national park in south for elephants. National Parks in India State | National Parks | Started | Area (in Km) | Attractions | Andaman Nicobar Islands | Wandur National Park | 1983 | 281.50 | Estuarine Crocodiles, Coconut Crab | Arunachal Pradesh | Namdapha National Park | 1983 | 1985.23 | Leopard, Gaur, Himalayan Black Bear | Assam | | | Kaziranga...
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...I. The snow leopard’s natural habitat is in mountain ranges across 12 Central Asian countries. Some of these countries include Afghanistan, China, India, and Mongolia. Snow leopards are large cats and are classified as Panthera Uncia or Uncia uncia. II. Once snow leopards are pregnant their babies stay in the womb around 100 days and the liter sizes range from 1 to 5 cubs. Snow Leopards first leave the den around 3 months of age, become fully independent around 2 years of age and can reproduce around 3 years of age. Snow leopards usually live between 15 and 20 years. III. The respiratory system of snow leopards relies on the diaphragm to expand and oxygen is rushed in, then contract to push out what is remaining (mainly carbon dioxide). A unique characteristic about the snow leopard is its thick white fur. This fur helps the snow leopard hunt and keeps it warm during harsh winters. IV. It is believed that snow leopards, tigers, jaguars, leopards and lions belong to the Panthera class and all were similar evolving around the same time; however the snow leopards and tigers are may closer related to each other, while leopards, lions, and jaguars are closer to each other. V. Something that is very interesting about the snow leopard is that unlike most big cats, the snow leopard cannot roar. VI. References Matt W. Hayward, Michael Somers, Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators, 1st edition chapter 8, 2009 Blackwell Publishing retrieved from http://site.ebrary...
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... save trees now they will save you in future Save Trees or else their leaves will only be seen in Museums Trees are green gold. A plant a day keeps the flood away Trees – the lungs of the world LET THE GREEN BE SEEN ! Each one, Plant one They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. Cut a Tree, Cut a Tree and there’ll be no more left to see.. killing trees is killing us….. Save the trees, I will even say please Save a tree to help us breathe If you love to breathe, Save the trees Save Tigers: Tiger Tiger burning bright, will not let you fade out of sight, that is my promise and for you we will fight. Killing tigers is the GREED not the NEED : SAVE TIGERS Tigers are one of a kind, so please keep them in mind. Fight for the Right of the Tigers. Mighty tigers hear them roar, for they may be no more. Look at the tigers mighty and strong, killing them for their skin is very wrong. Save the Tigers, Save a Life. Keep your “Eye On the Tigers” Save our Tigers,...
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...all the fish. There are several other animals and mammals that are either severely endangered or extinct. With that, zoologists and others seem to think it is better to have species such as these kept captive in a zoo. Zoos are a means of entertainment in addition to a safe haven for animals that are in danger. “Both the Baltimore Zoo and the Detroit Zoo have taken in polar bears rescued from a traveling circus, and the Bronx Zoo took in an orphaned snow leopard from Pakistan in 2007. The cub, Leo, now spends his time frolicking and chasing small animals that wander into his enclosure” (Nancie Majkowski, ver. 2). On the rebuttal side, zoos are believed to be inhumane camps merely for the enjoyment of spectators and for cities to make a buck. There are several organizations that demand the release of these animals and to keep zoos and facilities such as this closed down permanently. Organizations such as PETA, ASPCA, and American Humane Society are just a few. The actions of the more ferocious animals like the tigers and lions are merely acts of self-defense. “African elephants in the wild live more than three times as long as those kept in zoos. Even Asian elephants working in...
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...makes it hard for Tess to imagine how the nurse feels and therefore how to play her role. In this short story, however, Changnon uses symbolism to throw light on feelings from characters we might miss out on when we normally read or watch the world famous tragedy. How the nurse feels is about the high-school student, Tess, who is playing the role of the nurse in the school production of Romeo and Juliet. In the very middle of her struggle finding out how to act her part, there is another drama taking place outside. Bad weather conditions have postponed the play and cancelled school, and suddenly Tiger De Soto, a minor performer in the play, has disappeared. Tess seems like a typical high school student, living a life with the relatable struggles of a teenager; parents with expectations, boring environment and confusing romantic feelings. She seems attracted to the boy Tiger, whom she barely knows and when she finds out that he has disappeared, she jumps to the conclusion that “He got the hell out of here”(page 3, line 85), meaning that he ran away to live the desirable big city life. Tess herself dreams of going to New York, and is tired of giving “feedback on my father’s sermons”(page 4, line 103) and living in a pink satin bedroom designed by her mother, who also expects her to overtake the fabric shop after college. In her struggle...
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...Water's Edge, The PPG Aquarium: Open Ocean, Coral Reefs, The Tropical Freshwater, The Worlds of Discovery, and The Islands soon too come. The Tropical Forest has lemurs, monkeys, bornean orangutans, and western lowland gorillas. Next, in the African Savanna there is such a variety of different animals and species, such as the flamingo, black rhino, african lion, springbok, dama gazelle,ostrich, african elephant, masai giraffe, grant’s zebra, and the cheetah. The Asian Forest has snow leopards, amur tiger, red panda, komodo dragon, amur leopard, and a safari amphitheater. The Kids Kingdom has such a variety of animals that the kids can have fun looking at such as, california sea lion, hornbill,white-tailed deer, river otter, beaver, barn owl, kangaroo, llama, mini donkey, and sheep/ goat yard. Also,the kinds kingdom has a playground with many different slides that they can play on and an animal motions and connections playgrounds. Next, there is the Water’s Edge which includes, polar bears, sea otter, sand tiger shark, and there is a cool underwater tunnel to see all of the animal if they are swimming under the water. The PPG aquarium has the largest variety of species in the zoo, the coral conservation, sea turtle, puffer fish, The Freshwater Fortune: PA fish and tropical freshwater fish, Coldwater Climates: penguins, jellyfish, octopus, and the seahorse, The Coral Reef: live coral, spiny lobster, garden eel, clown fish, The Open Ocean: shark and moray eel, The Tropical Freshwater...
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...The short story “How the Nurse Feels” by Greg Changnon was first published in 1998. It treats of universal themes such as growing up and how the transition from child to adult is not always an easy or desired process. The adult world can seem alien and impossible to identify with but through the story it is told how a single event can alter the perception of it. It also deals with the boundary between fiction and reality which can be quite blurred especially at this transitioning age. While fiction can help us understanding the world around us, the short story also stresses the importance of life experience in order to fully understand the fiction. These are all things the main character, Tess, has to deal with. Tess is playing the Nurse in her school’s staging of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. She is a fifteen year-old girl who lives in Winetka with her parents. Her father is a priest and her mother owns a fabric store. It is a very isolated community which bores and frustrates Tess: “Neither of them […] know what it’s like to have your whole world contained in the tenblock radius of the church, school, home, and the fabric store. This, I know, is why I act. I have to feel what it’s like in somebody else’s skin.”1 Tess desperately wants to leave Winetka and craves a more exiting existence in New York: “I want to worry about rent and the smelly man who sits on my doorstep. I want to have three lovers at three different theatres, one suicidal and the other two Caribbean”2...
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...The Impact Of Climate Change On Nature The Impact Of Climate Change On Nature Climate change affects are more complex than just a change in the weather. It refers to seasonal changes which occur over many years. Climate patterns play an important role in molding the ecosystems. Many wildlife species and human cultures depend on them. A change in climate can have a major impact on how and where plants and animals eat and live. For example, a change in the usual rain pattern or temperature can have a drastic affect on when animals breed, migrate, and hibernate. It also affects plant life cycles and their ability to grow. The impact that climate change has on nature can be catastrophic. Climate change has already had a noticeable effect across the globe and on the environment. Glaciers are shrinking, ice along rivers and lakes are melting earlier, plants and animals have shifted their ranges, trees are flowering sooner, and sea levels are rising. These effects were predicted in the past by scientists, and they are finally occurring. Most of climate change is caused by global warming and the greenhouse effect. (Gardiner, 2004) Global warming is a rise in the average temperature on the earth’s surface. Scientists who study the climate have evaluated climate patterns since the early 1800’s. From their evaluations, they have noticed a rise in temperature, from about 0.7 to 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit and they estimate...
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...TIGERS The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to 3.38 m (11.1 ft) over curves and weighing up to 388.7 kg (857 lb) in the wild. Its most recognisable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar and snow leopard. Tigers are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. They are territorial and generally solitary but social animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey requirements. This, coupled with the fact that they are indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans. Tigers once ranged widely across Asia, from Turkey in the west to the eastern coast of Russia. Over the past 100 years, they have lost 93% of their historic range, and have been extirpated from southwest and central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and from large areas of Southeast and Eastern Asia. Today, they range from the Siberian taiga to open grasslands and tropical mangrove swamps. The remaining six tiger subspecies have been classified as endangered by IUCN. The global population in the wild is estimated to number between 3,062 and 3,948 individuals, down from around 100,000 at the start of the 20th century, with most remaining populations occurring in small pockets isolated from each...
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...Siberian Tiger I. Introduction a. How I Became Interested b. Threats c. Groups Helping d. Chances of Survival II. History a. Name b. Habitat c. Stages of Life/Behavior III. Characteristics a. Physical Features b. Reproduction/Mating c. Population Trends IV. Challenges and Threats a. Poachers b. Natural Threats c. Human Activity V. Outlook a. Things Being Done To Conserve b. Groups Working On It and Challenges They Face c. What Can You Do To Help VI. Summary d. Is This Animal Expected To Survive e. What Are the Chances f. Remainder of remaining population On July 28, 2002, my family and I visited the Houston Zoo. As we walked looking at the different animals and exhibits, a group of Siberian tigers caught our attention. We were amazed at how large and beautiful they were. While admiring the tigers we were invited to attend an exhibit on the Siberian tiger. The exhibit was on the preservation of the Siberian tiger. During the exhibit there was a lecture given informing everyone on the life on the Siberian tiger. I learned that the Siberian tiger is considered critically endangered. There are many groups and organizations that are fighting for the preservation of the Siberian tiger. The Wildlife Conservation Society is one group fighting to save the Siberian tiger. Another group is the Siberian Tiger Conservation Association. I think that the Siberian tiger has no chance of its continued survival. Siberian tigers are also called...
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...SPECIES- Ursus Maritimus, Polar Bear, lord of the Arctic. Lives in an area of five million square miles of snow and ice. From Siberia to Alaska and across Canada, Greenland and the Islands north of Norway, he is the master of all living things except man. It lives in the brutal cold, ice, and snow. The temperature can plunge down frequently to -40 degrees and sometimes even lower but that does not bother the polar bear because of its color-less skin and layer of insulation fat. Its range extending around the northern polar region. Necessities of Life-The polar bear eats mostly seals which he has to hunt. His trick is to wait by a breathing in the ice and when a seal comes up by that breathing hole, he grabs it so fast it knocks it unconscious and then he eats it. Other pray is a walrus calf or a musk ox stuck in snow, birds, eggs, fish, and dead whales. And sometimes in the summer it eats berries and grass. The polar bear has no water to drink so it only eats the skin and blubber, avoiding the meat. So by eating the blubber and leaving the meat the male bear is helping keep his body in balance with the surrounding environment. The bear would usually stay in a den or bury it self in the snow to avoid the suns ultra violent rays. Usually the pregnant female polar bear stays in the den.Food Chain-The polar bear finds its way on the top of its food chain. No predator on earth approaches the bear in size. The polar bear towers over everything else in his food chain. The...
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...In the short story The Most Dangerous Game, Written by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford is being hunted by General Zaroff. In the end of the story he wins the game by killing Zaroff. But how did he win. Sanger Rainsford succeeded at the game because he is great at making traps, he is very fit, and he is an amazing hunter. His first skill is in trap making. And his first trap is the malay mancatcher, then there is the burmese tiger pit, and finally the uganda knife trap. These traps are very dangerous. The first on injured General Zaroff’s shoulder and after he said, “If you are within the sound of my voice, as I suppose you are, let me congratulate you. Not many men can make a malay mancatcher”(Connell 26). All of the traps helped...
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...There were woolly mammoth, woolly rhinos, cave bears, bison, wolves, horses, and herds of reindeer like modern day reindeer. The kinds of mammals were: Insectivore (shrews and moles), Edentate (sloths, armadillos, and anteaters), Carnivore (lions, tigers, and bears), Rodent (squirrels, rats, mice and beavers), Lagomorphs (rabbits and hares), Perissodactlya (horses, rhinos, and tapirs), Artiodactyls (deer, cows, sheep, camels, and pigs), and Proboscides (elephants).They were synapsids, they were distinguished by having extra openings in the skull behind the eyes. The Pelycosaurs were mammal-reptiles. The Baluchitherium were large, extinct hornless rhinoceros, were herbivore that ate leaves from leaves, and they were one of the largest land mammals. The cave lion was the biggest lion that had ever lived and they are about 25% bigger than the lions today. The Glyptodon (family glyptodontidae) was one of the largest Pleistocene armadillos and were herbivore. Woolly mammoth, cave bear, and woolly...
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