Monkeys range in size from the Pygmy Marmoset‚ at 140 to 160 millimetres (5-6 in) long (plus tail) and 120 to 140 grams (4-5 oz) in weight‚ to the male Mandrill‚ almost 1 metre (3.3 ft) long and weighing 35 kilograms (77 lb). Some are arboreal (living in trees) while others live on the savannah; diets differ among the various species but may contain any of the following: fruit‚ leaves‚ seeds‚ nuts‚ flowers‚ eggs and small animals (including insects and spiders). Some characteristics are shared
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• What are the 2 major forms of modern overexploitation? o Overfishing ▪ Fishery- fishing for a specific species • Populations have dropped so significantly that fisheries are stopping o Bushmeat ▪ The killing of tropical terrestrial animals for their meat and then selling this meat ▪ Usually takes place in rural‚ third world areas so it is hard to enforce laws on. ▪ With exploitation rates
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Poaching affects animals all over the world‚ but it has taken many cultures too long to realize what is happening to our wildlife population. For example‚ “Over the past 40 years alone‚ nearly 52 percent of the world’s wildlife have been wiped out of existence.”("10 Shocking Facts About How the Illegal Wildlife Trade Drives Species Extinction." One Green Planet. May. 22‚ 2016). Some species that are being killed by this terrible act include‚ but are not excluded to elephants‚ tigers‚ sharks‚ rhinos
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For other uses‚ see Ape (disambiguation). For an explanation of very similar terms‚ see Hominidae. Hominoids or Apes Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Holocene PreЄЄOSDCPTJKPgN Orang Utan‚ Semenggok Forest Reserve‚ Sarawak‚ Borneo‚ Malaysia.JPG Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) Scientific classification e Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Parvorder: Catarrhini Superfamily: Hominoidea Gray‚ 1825 Type species
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The UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 defined biodiversity as being the variability between all living organisms‚ terrestrial‚ marine and aquatic. This includes the diversity within species‚ between species and of ecosystems. A reasonable standard of living does not mean that a person should live at a luxury level‚ but neither does it mean that a person should only live at a subsistence level. It should be somewhere in between where the person can afford to eat nutritious food‚ buy clothes
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CENTRAL AFRICAN HUNTER-GATHERER RESEARCH TRADITIONS Barry S. Hewlett and Jason M. Fancher Washington State University‚ Vancouver For: Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Vicki Cummings‚ Peter Jordan and Marek Zvelebil‚ eds. Oxford University Press Biographic information: Barry Hewlett is Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University‚ Vancouver. He received a PhD from the University of California‚ Santa Barbara in 1987 and has had appointments
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Chimpanzee Droppings Lead Scientists to Evolutionary Discovery by Erica F. Kosal‚ Biology Department‚ North Carolina Wesleyan College Part I—Chimpanzee Behavior Far in the remote western African jungles of Cameroon‚ Dr. Beatrice Hahn and her team of scientists from the University of Alabama have been examining chimpanzee droppings. Members of the great ape family‚ chimpanzees typically travel in groups of to animals‚ forming smaller subgroups to forage during the day and then coming together
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HIV From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation‚ search "AIDS virus" redirects here. For the computer virus‚ see AIDS (computer virus). For the village‚ see Hiv (village). For the administrative subdivision‚ see Hiv Rural District. HIV Classification and external resources Diagram of HIV ICD-10 B20-B24 ICD-9 042-044 OMIM 609423 MedlinePlus 000602 eMedicine article/783434 MeSH D006678 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that
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1. Introduction to STD’s What is a disease? It is an abnormal condition in which the body of an organism is affected. Many diseases have come about by many factors; however‚ they can be divided into four main groups. They are pathogenic‚ deficiency‚ hereditary‚ and physiological. In this presentation‚ we’ll be looking at certain diseases which are pathogenic. In this category‚ microscopic organisms called pathogens‚ which are viruses‚ bacteria‚ fungi‚ protozoa and worms‚ are the ones that cause
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Wildlife Issues Topic Answers Reading One 1 Dr. Julie Savidge concluded that Brown-tree Snake predation was the cause of declines of forest bird populations on Guam. 2 Recently‚ the National Park Service banned snow-mobiling in Denali Nation Park. 3 The National Audubon Society of today is an offshoot of the Massachusetts state Audubon society. 4 False: Wildlife issues or other environmental issues should be resolved based on public opinion as the majority is never wrong.
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