Animal Essay Examples

How high do you think your chances of survival would be if you were placed in an arena full of tributes ready to kill you? In Suzanne Collins’ book The Hunger Games, District 12’s tribute, Katniss Everdeen, has to fight for survival in a deadly game known as the Hunger Games. The skills and experiences…

Rights, Steven M. Wise examines the intelligence of humans and animals. Wise’s main argument is that animals are people just like humans and that science can help prove that they should be treated as equals. In doing so, he gives a lot of reasons for his stance on the issue. Wise, like many others, is…

The ‘I’iwi, also known as the Hawaiian honeycreeper is native to the Hawaiian islands. Once common among the islands, their populations have been declining throughout the islands because of foreign diseases, predators, agricultural and urban development, as well as climate change (‘I’iwi). With the decreasing populations of these birds, the local ecosystems will be greatly…

Trophic cascades occur in nature when predators in a food web alter the behavior of their prey or suppress their number, thereby indirectly affecting the next lower trophic level in a positive way. This theory has been shown to be important in understanding the effects of removing a keystone species from a food web. Many…

In the two and a half short years that I have had my license I have hit two birds, one of them actually landing in the back seat of my car as I was driving. As many as 340 million birds are killed each year by cars and trucks. In the article from USA Today…

Several years ago, a team of wildlife researchers tested the effect of California’s 2008 lead ammunition ban on the blood lead levels of two scavenging birds, the Golden Eagle and the Turkey Vulture (Kelly, et al. 2011). The lead ammunition ban was enacted to aid the recovery of a critically endangered bird, the California Condor,…

The cassowaries are large, flightless ratite birds that are found in the rainforests of Papa New Guinea, Australia, and some of the surrounding islands (Sanft 1975). Weighing up to 85 kg, these birds are second in size only to the ostrich. Native peoples hunted the cassowaries and valued them as livestock; it was reported that…

Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) are 130-140g corvids that inhabit alpine environments in montane regions of the western United States and Canada. These corvids are extremely active during autumn, when plants are producing seeds in preparation for winter, and during this period; they can catch an estimated 22,000-33,000 pine seeds in over 5,000 different locations. These…

The Masked bobwhite quail is an extremely rare and fragile subspecies of the more popular and widespread Northern bobwhite. The Masked bobwhite is and has been endangered from the moment it was discovered. These quail are very susceptible to habitat loss. They are native to the desert grasslands of Arizona and Mexico, but have been…

On page 25, paragraph 2 the text reads, “Desperately he struck out with strong strokes after the receding lights of the yacht, but he stopped before he had swum fifty feet. A certain coolheadedness had come to him; it was not the first time he had been in a tight place. There was a chance…