Purpose: The purpose of the experiment was to understand how strong a bessbug by using weights and observing the time the best bug takes to travel to a certain distance. Background Information: The horned Passalus; also known as the Bess Beetle, is widely known beetle that is easily recognized. The Bessbug is a shiny black insect with a hard shell.
The park abounds with bird life, some 70 of the 100 bird species known to live on the Darling Scarp have been recorded in the park. While picnicking here, it is also quite common to be joined by western grey kangaroos.
Article Review #3 The article “Ardipithecus ramidus: A New Kind of Ancestor: Ardipithecus Unveiled” written by Anna Gibbons, talks about how scientist learn many things about human evolution through artifacts of ancestors, DNA and bones. All of this helps reveals different things about our past and how we came to be. This article briefly mentions Lucy and it mainly focuses on the discovery of ardipithecus ramidus.
When I first read about the Scopes Monkey Trail I wasn’t sure what side I wanted to choose. While both sides made great points I agree more with the school teacher John Scopes and his attorney Clarence Darrow. If I was a juror I would not vote to convict John Scopes. Often Christian parents try to shield their children from anything they feel is unchristian like. These children aren’t going to live in Dayton, Tennessee their whole lives, when they go off to college or move away from home there are going to be people whether it’s a professor, spouse, coworker or friend that will teach them about evolution and other subjects the parents my feel are unchristian like so why not prepare them for their future and teach them these things now?
Sugar Glider V. Flying Squirrel Sugar gliders and flying squirrels are two small animals with a lot of differences and similarities that get them mixed up all the time. Sugar gliders and flying squirrels look very similar but belong to separate families. Sugar gliders are found in Australia, while flying squirrels are native to North America. Flying squirrels also lack the pouch that sugar gliders use to shelter and protect their young. Gliders are also more vocal than their flying squirrel cousins.
The Atlantic Slave Trade was one of the largest and inhumane human slavery systems in history. William Wilberforce played a key part in its abolishment, however; he was not the sole person responsible for its downfall. William Wilberforce can be seen as the leader of the ‘abolitionist’s’, so it can be said that he had a large part to play in the slave trades abolition although there were other key people involved in its abolition like; Olaudah Equiano, John Newton, Thomas Fowell Buxton and Thomas Clarkson. There were also groups involved such as the Quakers and Women and Women’s groups. The abolishment of slavery was not due solely to the work of William Wilberforce because there were many people who aided him in his fight for its abolition
The Burmese python is a powerful snake. Being native to the grassy marshes of south Asia, it is one of the largest growing snakes in the world. These powerful creatures grow up to 200 pounds, and 23 feet long. The snake is around the size of a telephone pole. Burmese pythons are carnivores and feast on small birds, and mammals.
Why do so many people not believe in sensational subjects such as bigfoot? Because such a huge animal like that would surely at least leave some evidence behind, and then there's the fact that there can't just be one bigfoot or mythical creature everyone claims to see. There would theoretically have to be more than one. Although we all might like to believe in the possibility of such creatures, why would you actively believe that there are mythical beings out there without proof? Although there are some people that are quite naive and will easily believe such things without any proof whatsoever.
The ecology of sloths When people hear “sloth” they usually think of a lazy mammal that does barely anything and isn’t that interesting, but they are wrong. Sloths are very interesting, they have many interactions with lots of different organisms. Sloths are arboreal{tree dwelling} mammals that live in the rainforest canopies of central and south America. A sloth’s diet consists of plants, when they are ready to defecate they go to the forest floor dig a hole and go, this sends the nutrients back into the ecosystem and makes an area for sloth moths to lay their eggs.. Sloth are very interesting mammals that are a big part of the arboreal mammals in some areas of central and south American rainforests.
Bigfoot is like Santa Claus. When you are young you believe in Santa until your parents tell you they were lying to you all those years. Bigfoot is the same in many ways. Some people choose the believe that bigfoot exists, even though there is no proof, just as there was no hard evidence proving the existence of Santa Claus. Others choose to believe it does not exist, until proven otherwise.
Anodorhynchus leari more commonly known as the indigo macaw has a small range of natural homes and is almost extinct. This parrot stayed hidden in the wild and was only accepted as a species in 1978, when naturalist Helmut Sick finally located the population. The species is restricted to a small area in northeast Bahia, Brazil. The two known colonies are found in Toca Velha and Serra Branca, south of the Raso da Catarina plateau.
We are told that immediately after the shock of seeing their leaders contradict their self-proclaimed vision, the animals "... might have uttered some word of protest"(97). It is explicitly stated that the animals would not dare express their opinion in earlier chapters, where some of their peers were silenced by the dogs and then 'justly murdered '; this indicates that they now have a stronger motive to rebel at the moment of the treason. We are also told that the animals wish
The animals’ aspiration to create a perfect society without humans and corruptions is demolished due to their struggle to restrain soaring greed for privileges through consolidating power, deceiving and harming one another. In spite of their efforts, their ultimate goal of creating such society remains only as a dream. Thus, it can be safely concluded that the animals’ resemblement of negative human attitudes has contributed to the destruction of their utopic
Faizaan Amanat 1st Trimester Exam 1. “WOW... Jar Jar Binks is soo funny! He totally didn’t ruin the entire Star Wars franchise for almost two decades!”
