Essays on Zoology

The Bottlenose Dolphins Of The Moray Firth: Cetaceans On A Precarious Knife-edge

A little Background A massive array of wildlife make the Moray Firth their home; including many European Protected Species such as Harbour Porpoise and Minke Whale Otters, Grey Seals, Harbour Seals, seasonal visitors such as Basking Sharks and various Seabirds. However, it is the globally unique Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) who are the talking point...
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Animal Biology: Sensory Systems Of Wolf

Olfaction- smell The olfactory receptors are connected to the brain which helps the wolf to classify which scent that they are detecting. There are millions of smell receptors inside their nose. Wolves use their sense of smell in order to hunt, to mark and understand pack territory, to engage in social pack relationships. They are...
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Cry Of The Kalahari: Mark And Delia Owens About Lions

Mark and Delia Owens are two individuals who shared the love of researching and understanding animals in their natural habitat. They were zoologists who strove to their dream of saving the precious life in Africa. They met in the early 70s as students at the University of Georgia, and soon were able to live their...
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Killer Whales: Distribution Of Orcinus Orca Around The World

Introduction Orcinus orca, the killer whale, is widely distributed in all of the world’s oceans and some of its seas (Fig.1). A member of the dolphin family, it is easily recognized based on its large size and distinctive black and white markings that set it apart from any other marine mammal on the planet. Though...
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General Characteristics Of Gentoo Penguins

Gentoo penguins have the ventral side white and the dorsal side black. These colors help them to protect for depredators while they swimming underwater; the white color being on the ventral side makes the predator to be confused with the sky, and on the contrary the black color makes them confuse with the deep sea.....
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China’s Wild Pandas: Nature Reserves For Panda Conservation

1. Introduction After spending 30 years on the “endangered” list, China’s wild pandas have risen in numbers. Due to population rise, panda nature reserves have grown from 40 to 67 since last surveyed. Traditional methods such as supporting the construction of roads and railroads, mining, deforestation, and poaching have steadied to a decline, increasing the...
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Endangered Animal Species: Red Panda And Arctic Fox

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends. The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with...
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Koala: Destruction Of Natural Habitat

Australia is the only country in the developed world that is now known as a ‘Deforestation Hotspot’. According to research by Noel D Preece and Penny Van Oosterzee (Scientist from James Cook University), Australia was recently ranked in the top 10 countries in the world for mass land clearing. Up until 2017 Australia had a...

Cows: Basics Of Cattle Breeding In Queensland

Question 1: Go to https://www.mla.com.au/prices-markets/Trends-analysis/livestock-distribution-maps/ scroll down and click on the Cattle Herd Distribution Map. Choose one region from the map and describe the environmental features of this region (e.g. climatic conditions, vegetation etc.). Include a map of your region (and it’s relative location in Australia) in your fact sheet. Desert Channels: Climatic Features =...
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