Essays on Zoology

Elephants are known to be the largest land walking mammals on the planet. The elephantidae specie has lived on this planet going back 5-10 million years where they have spread throughout Africa and Asia. As they are known for their long pointy external teeth or tusks, elephants are the most poached species in the world....

Koalas in Australia are dying off because of the severe wildfires spreading rapidly throughout the environment. The fires are ruining so much of the vegetation and habitat for koalas and other animals like kangaroo that they have nowhere to go and have been slowly dying of severe burns and smoke inhalation. Even after rescue the...

The species and ecosystem that I chose were the Mantis Shrimp and its corresponding habitat, the Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs. Going into this project, I was already familiar with the existence of the mantis shrimp. I knew some things about it, such as that it was the largest and strongest shrimp. I was also fascinated by...

The main objective of the article conducted by Antonioli, Christian, & Reveley, Michael A, (2005) was to assess how successful animal facilitated therapy was using dolphins, to treat mild to moderate depression in the framework of the biophilia hypothesis (Antonioli, Christian, & Reveley, Michael A, 2005). In the research study that was conducted, participants were...

Phorusrahicidae is the scientific name, this creature is known as the terror birds. They were class birds, and the phylum was chordate. They also were the biggest birds during the Cenozoic era. This creature was from 3ft 10 into 10ft 10in tall. In addition, they have been extinct from 62 – 1.8 million years ago....

Birds are a good organism to analyze when looking at the world’s crisis of biodiversity because birds can virtually be found anywhere around the world and live in almost every environment. Also, birds have been studied for a long time and they are very well known and have very accurate information about them which may...

Teleosts are fin fishes comprise 96% of all known fish species exist in earth. Fish were the first vertebrates of this world and through evolutionary adaptation it still remains in almost all aquatic bodies including freshwater and marine water. Currently, based on fishbase.org, there are more than 34,000 fish species present in our earth whilst...

The Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) is an Old-World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to east Africa. They are semi-terrestrial and medium-sized monkeys with long tails; the average body length for an adult male is about 50 centimetres and about 40 centimetres for female adult. This species is widely spread in east Africa and their...

Over very many years primates have changed in many distinct ways. Every change that these primates have gone through is categorized within the Cenozoic era. The Cenozoic era is known to be the era of mammals. Within the Epoch of the Cenozoic era there are four grades of change with the oldest being 65 million...

Abstract: Researchers in Germany and Japan created transgenic monkeys, and found that a human-specific gene causes marmoset to develop a larger neocortex. The question of how many creatures there are on the earth is a bit difficult to answer. Although the exploration never stops, there are still a lot of unknown things. If narrowing the...