...Siberia.However, most nuclei in the cells were damaged by ice crystals and were unusable. The plan to clone a mammoth was abandoned.In 2008, Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama of Kobe's Riken Center for Developmental Biology succeeded in cloning a mouse from the cells of mouse that had been kept in deep-freeze for 16 years. The achievement was the first in the world.Based on Wakayama's techniques, Iritani's team devised a technique to extract the nuclei of eggs--only 2 percent to 3 percent are in good condition--without damaging them.Last spring, the team invited Minoru Miyashita, a professor of Kinki University who was once head of Osaka's Tennoji Zoo, to participate in the project.Miyashita asked zoos across the nation to donate elephant egg cells when their female elephants died.The team also...
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...Running head: ELEPHANTS Elephants Student’s name SPC 1608 Brigette Robinson Pensacola State College Introduction: I. According to worldelephantday.org, status an estimated 100 African Elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts. II. My name is __________, and I would like to talk to you today about different types of elephants. III. There are two different types of elephants, African and Asian. They both have similarities and differences. IV. Today I will inform you about elephants and why they are endangered, which species is at more risk than the other, and the language used by this incredible species. Body: I. The years 2011 and 2012 indicate the worst record for elephant poaching in Africa; Tens of thousands of elephants were slaughtered (“National Geographic”, n.d.). a. In 2011 the highest number of illegal ivory seizures in the last 23 years was recorded. i. Ivory is the number one reason that elephants are killed. ii. Their meat and body parts are among the other top reasons elephants are hunted. b. Poaching is an illegal act. Now that we know about elephant poaching, let’s take a look at an endangered species of elephants. II. The most endangered of the species is the Asian elephant. c. Asian elephant’s habitat ranges over 14 countries across Asia. iii. Wild Asian elephants suffer severe habitat loss in some of the most densely human populate...
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...Mammalia and Order Proboscidae, modern day elephants descended from Moeritheriums, which were the approximate size of current day pigs1. Over the course of 50 million years, evolutionary trends have resulted in elephants gradually increasing in size. Although there are only two species of elephants today, the Asian elephant or Elephas maximus and African elephant or Loxodonta africana, it is believed that a single ancestor, the Paleomastodon, evolved into an estimated 352 different elephant species2. Charles Darwin coined the term “natural selection”, which is “the preservation of a functional advantage that enables a species to compete better in the wild3”. For elephants, this functional advantage was the development of the trunk,...
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...Aramide Have you ever wondered if humans are smarter than elephants? What if they could work together as a team like us? In an article called “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk,” a passage called, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task,” and in the video “Elephants Show Cooperation,” information is given about an experiment where two elephants need to work together to pull two separate ropes to bring a table towards them that holds bowls of corn. If they do not work together, they will not be able to retrieve their reward. It won’t work if only one elephant pulls because the food will fall over. This test is mandatory to find the cooperative skills of elephants....
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...is also the national flower of India, and is very often associated with yoga. It’s an aquatic plant with broad, waxy leaves and a red, pink, or white fragrant and symmetrically-petaled flower that grow in ponds or other types of shallow bodies of water. Lotuses have a number of symbolic or metaphorical meanings, the most common being enlightenment. Other meanings include divinity, fertility, wealth, and knowledge. The seeds of lotus plants are often used in Indian medicines that relieve kidney, spleen or heart ailments. The Indian lotus flower is the national flower of India, and has many associations with the Hindu gods, religion and literature. Its seeds, leaves, flowers and roots are all edible, and are frequently used in a variety of Asian foods and medicines. Commonly mistaken for a water lily, the lotus flower is a separate species. The roots of the lotus grow in the soil of ponds and river bottoms, while the leaves and flowers float on top of the water's surface. The leaves of the lotus are large, green and paddle-shaped and can grow over 20 inches high. The flowers, always pink, have multiple layers of long, blade-shaped petals and can grow up to 8 inches across. The plant itself can grow up to 60 inches high and can spread up to 9 feet horizontally. Jasmine: Jasmine is a...
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...What are Asian Elephants? Asian Elephants are sociable animals they gather into a group of females of six to seven and are then led by the eldest female. They sometimes join other elephant herds, although it is very rare. The female elephant may give birth to a calf every 2.5 to 4 years. The calves start to become independent around the age of 4. About two thirds of the elephant’s day is spent eating grass, large portions of tree bark, roots, leaves, and small stems. They also really enjoy crops such as bananas, rice, and sugarcane. They also enjoy fresh water and drink it at least once a day. Asian Elephants live in tropical and subtropical forests and are considered one of the largest terrestrial but are smaller than the African Elephants....
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...Title: Pygmy Elephants General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform about the endangered Pygmy elephants 1. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Satus... Endangered. Population... Less than 1,200. Starving, dying, and unprotected is an every day thing. For the Borneo Pygmy elephant, this is life. (WWF-Malaysia) B. Reasons to Listen: The Pygmy elephants found in the Malaysian state of Sabah, are a sub species of Asian elephants that has been endangered since 1986. C. Credibility: The first time I went to the zoo as a kid, I fell in love with the elephants. I became interested in their origins. I wish to one day travel to either Asia or Africa, where elephants are natives. D. Thesis: The Borneo Pygmy elephant is an endangered specie that is threatened by logging, poisoning and increasing contact with humans. E. Preview: To understand more about the Borneo Pygmy elephants, I will first talk about logging in the elephants' habitat. Then, I will speak about poisoning. Lastly, I will talk about the increasing contact humans have had with these elephants. 2. Body A. First Main Point: The areas where these elephants need to survive are the same forests where the most intensive logging in Sabah has taken place, because flatlands and valleys suffer the lowest cost when taking away timber. About 40 percent of Sabah's forests had been lost int he past four decades. A WWF study has shown that these elephants rather be on the lowland forests because...
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...Population growth concerns of African forest elephants A scientific paper recently written by Turkalo et al, Slow intrinsic growth rate in forest elephants, indicates that the recovery of African forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis, from poaching will require several decades. This species of African elephant has been experiencing continual population declines driven by illegal killing (poaching) and natural habitat range loss. These scientists completed the 1st ever demographic study on African forest elephant populations. Since 2002, it’s estimated that their population has decreased by 62% and that they have lost 30% of their habitat range. Using data collected in Dzanga forest, located in the Central African Republic, scientists found that...
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...varieties of African elephant – African Steppe (also known as Savanna) elephant, which belongs to Sudan region and is characterized by its big ears, four toes on the front, and three toe on the hind legs, and also Bush or Forest elephant, which has round years, five toes on front, and four toes on hind legs (p. 500). The measurements of the size and weight of this majestic animal, which is the largest to walk the earth, are impressive, “L [including trunk] 6-7.5 m, TL 1-3.3 m, shoulder height 3-4 m, weight 5000-7500 kg [making the African elephant the heaviest land mammals alive today]” (Grzimek, p. 500). And as for the...
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...Elephants are largely known as the world's biggest land mammals. A mature elephant is approximately 6300 kilograms in weight, and is up to 3.5 meters in height. There are two scientifically recognized species of elephants; the African elephant and the Asian elephant. The names of the two types of elephants correspond with the parts of the world where they largely live. The Asian elephant is the smaller of the two species. Interestingly, only the male Asian elephants have tusks. These Asian elephants use their single short lip, which resembles a finger, for sufficient handling of objects. The African elephants are well identified by their larger ears and tusks, rounded foreheads, and two finger-like lips on their trunks. Genetically, the African Elephant is further dived into two types; the African Bush (Savannah) elephant and the African Forest elephant. You can easily differentiate the two types of elephants by their tusk. In that, the African bush elephant has admirably curved tusks while the African forest elephant has moderately straight tusks that are often pointing downwards. Both the...
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...The common name is the African Elephant, the scientific name is Loxodonta Africana, the phylum is Vertebrata, the class is Mammalia, the order is Proboscidea, and the family is Elephantidae. The Closest Relatives to the African Elephant are: the Asian Elephant, mammoths, primitive proboscidean (mastodons), sea cows, and hyraxes. Scientists believe that the African Elephant evolved from one of its closest relatives, the Sea Cow. The geographical location and range of the African elephant covers all of central and southern Africa. In Ethiopia there are isolated populations that exist around Lake Chad in Mali and Mauritania. Also in Kenya, Rhodesia, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Zaire, and in National parks located in South Africa, as well as several other countries. African Elephants, originally, were found in all of the Sub-Saharan African habitats except desert steppes. Elephants still occupy diverse habitats such as: temperate grassland, tropical savanna and grass lands, temperate forest and rainforest, tropical rainforest, tropical scrub forest, and tropical deciduous forest despite their drastic decline in numbers. However, their migratory patterns and habitat use have changed, due to the fact that they are restricted to protected areas. The elephant can exist in many types of environments but it prefers places that have many trees and bushes, which the elephant needs both for food and shade. They also like warm areas that have plenty of rainfall. This ensures...
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...The American circus has a unique and often overlooked importance in American history. The first American circuses began shortly after the country was founded, and as the country’s population grew, moved West, went through the Industrial Revolution, and opened its gates to the world, the circus followed. Indeed, in many cases the circus provided people’s first view of new inventions, exotic animals and peoples, and popular entertainments. The history of the circus is in many ways a microcosm of the history of America. The history of a circus dates back to the ancient Roman period, when the first circus, or Circus Maximus, was founded. Soon after, Circus Flaminius and Circus Neronis also appeared. In Roman society, the circus was very different from how we may picture circuses today. It was used mainly for exhibitions for chariot and horse races, staged battles, displays featuring trained animals, jugglers and acrobats. The circus was important to Roman society as it was the only public event that did not separate men and women. Although the layout and the acts of this infant circus is much different than today, the circus still brought much joy to the public. The story of the first American circus begins with John Bill Ricketts, who set up a circus in America. Although his circus career only lasted seven years, he managed to befriend President George Washington, tour the East Coast, Canada, and the West Indies with his company, and present America a new type of entertainment...
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...with elephants is beset by contradictions. On the one hand, they are regarded with awe and fascination; while on the other, whole populations are eradicated in pursuit of land or ivory (David 444). Even though elephants do have natural predators- the young are often killed by lions, hyenas, or crocodiles- by far their most dangerous enemy is humankind (David 444). As far back as classical antiquity, North African elephant populations were dwindling rapidly. They finally disappeared during the Dark or Middle Ages (“Saving the Elephant”). The Arab ivory trade, which started in the 17th century, precipitated a further rapid decline among elephant populations in both West and East Africa (“Saving the Elephant”). The colonial era accelerated the process by opening up previously inaccessible areas introducing modern technology, notably high-powered rifles; in Africa, the destruction of elephants reached a peak between 1830 and 1900 (“New Rules”). Today, continuing deforestation and the encroachment of roads, farms, and towns into former elephants habits threaten both African and Asian elephant by restricting their range, cutting off seasonal migration routes, and bringing them into more frequent conflict with people (“New Rules”). Perceptions of the main conservation issues involved have changed radically since the 1960s when the debate centered on local overpopulation of elephants in protected areas (David 444). In the 1970s and 1980s the concern was that elephants were being...
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...changes in maximum number of Asian elephants between 1994 and 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words. [pic] The bar chart illustrates how the maximum amount of Asian elephants changed over the 7-year period from 1997 to 2004. It can be easily seen from the graph that the general trend was downwards. 7 out of 9 countries had less elephants in 2004 than in 1997. By contrast, Cambodia’s number of elephants increased slightly from 1200 in 1997 to 1500 in 2004, whereas that of Laos remained unchanged with 1150 elephants. India seems to have the greatest elephants population, accounting for approximately 10000 in 1997; however, this number dropped significantly to only 7500 in 2004. Nevertheless, 7500 elephants still made India the most elephants country in 2004, as the second one, Myanmar, only had 4800. China was the country that had least elephants in 9 considered countries with only 1000 in 1997, which even declined to only 500 in 2004. (141 words) model answer: The graph shows the estimated maximum population of elephants in a range of Asian countries in both 1997 and 2004. In most of the countries included in the graph, the population fell. This was most noticeable in Malaysia and Thailand, where the number of elephants was thought to be less than half the figure in 1997. In the former, the number of elephants dropped as low as 1000. India...
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...Monsoon Flood by Anne Ingram School Journal, Part 2 Number 2, 2009 Readability (based on noun frequency) 8.5–9.5 years Overview “Monsoon Flood” tells the dramatic fictional story of a young boy who is swept away in a flood and then rescued by an elephant. Told in the present tense and the first person, with vivid use of language, this is a story you may want to read aloud (or have students read aloud) for enjoyment and to prompt creative responses before doing any detailed examination of the text. This text includes: • some compound and complex sentences, which may consist of two or three clauses; • some words and phrases that are ambiguous or unfamiliar to the students, the meaning of which is supported by the context or clarified by photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and/or written explanations; • a straightforward text structure; • figurative language, such as metaphors, similes, or personification; • some abstract ideas that are clearly supported by concrete examples in the text or easily linked to the students’ prior knowledge; • some places where information and ideas are implicit and where students need to make inferences based on information that is easy to find because it is nearby in the text and there is little or no competing information. Reading standard, end of year 4 Options for curriculum contexts English (level 2, language features) • Show some understanding of how language features are used...
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