...Kangaroo Ecology Kangaroo’s are beautiful and majestic creatures. They are one of the most unique species. The kangaroo is one of Australia’s most well known animals. Kangaroos live on Australia and on nearby islands in the South Pacific. There are over 60 different species of kangaroo and they all vary in size and color depending on the area their breed has adapted to. The kangaroo has not cashed in on fame for no reason, they have many unique features for an animal. Their features include the inability to walk backwards, a giant and strong hop, very large and strong back limbs, and marsupial pouch for their young, and they don’t have thumbs. Kangaroos only have four fingers on their forearms and legs, they are marsupials. Kangaroos are herbivores,...
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...The Eastern Grey Kangaroo is an iconic native marsupial of Australia that belongs to the Macropodidae family. The Macropus giganteus or Eastern Grey Kangaroo (EGK) is located widely through the eastern states of Australia, including Tasmania in the open grass and woodlands, as they tend to favour denser scrubs and forests ("Eastern Grey Kangaroo", 2018). They are mainly focused on the coastal areas where there is more than 250 mm of average annual rainfall. The marsupial is well adapted to Australia's extreme fluctuations in climate conditions. The requirement for the rainfall helps the marsupial with its diet. As it is a grazing herbivore it adapts and will eat a wide range of plants across the country. The EGK rests in the shade during the...
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...The animal that we chose for our second paper is extremely cute and fun. Its specific latin name is Macropus rufus. It doesn’t have a pet name but its commonly known as red kangaroo. This beautiful red kangaroo is located at the Jungle Island in Miami, Florida. The caretaker’s name is Kristyn. The most notable personality traits of this animal are that they are very mellow and sleepy. Red kangaroos are partially nocturnal. They take their naps during the day, and only wake up at dawn and dusk. Also, they always try to find the cooler sand areas to lay on. Red kangaroos breed all year round. However, they prefer to mate and reproduce during the summer season. They usually choose mornings to have sex. This animal has sex as often as he wants. It engages in sex in order to meets its needs and to reproduce. There is not special sexual ritual. They usually mate with whoever is available. They are not very particular when picking a mate. There are not many differences between the male and female of this animal. The males can reach up to 6 feet tall in their hind legs. On the other hand, the females can reach up to 5 feet tall in their hind legs. Another difference worth mentioning is that the females...
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...Sue was completely obsessed and in love with her gorgeous brown and orange striped cat, kangaroo, kangaroo has always been there for her throughout all of her hard times. Words were never enough to express her overwhelming compassionate feelings towards kangaroo so every day at exactly one a.m. She would hide a fish somewhere in the house and kangaroo would search her little heart out for it when she would wake that morning. As years passed by little sue grew into big sue and got very caught up in her studies and extra achidemical courses that she forgot to go fishing for more fish and didn't hide a fish for kangaroo. That morning kangaroo spent the whole entire day searching for her fish but just couldn't possible find it. So she decided to take a Nap and wait for her loving sue to come home from school. When sue came home kangaroo jumped on the table hovering over her studies and was begging her with her magical kitty cat ears to tell her where she could have possibly hid the fish, but sue would not budge and pushes little kangaroo off of the table. Kangaroo figured that she was just really stressed out from school ad would wait till tomorrow morning and be overwhelmed with two fishes as an apology from sue. As time ticked by and daylight turned to night sue never got up to hid the fish, when kangaroo excitedly woke up she immediately started her Search. When she came up empty again she filled with dread and hollowness. She came to think that sue didn't love or appreciate...
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...Summary of the Shot Story “Just like that” The story is about a boy who is on a hunting trip whit a man. They are hunting kangaroos and shoot them whit a rifle. In the beginning the boy is fascinated when he look the man kills the first kangaroo. The bloods are coming out of the kangaroo’s nostrils, and for the boy is were the first time he so a kangaroo being kill. The kill happened so quickly and easily, so it was difficult for the boy to believe his experience. After the killing they left the dead kangaroos to rot. Next the boy starts to shoot and kill a kangaroo. He feels nothing and is surprised him how easily it is to hit the kangaroo. After the kill the boy feels a disappointment. The kill should give him a sense of becoming a man – and now he realize that no chance had happened. By following the river they came to a large mob of kangaroos. The just start to shoot the kangaroos until the ammunition was spent in the cartridge magazine. The man puts a bullet in every kangaroo’s brain, and in that moment the boy feels that something inside him dies. Next they meet the grandfather of all kangaroos. The man push the boy to shoot the big kangaroo, but the boy is hesitated. Eventually the boy kills the big kangaroo and he feels his hands sweating. The big kangaroo are dead – just like that. In the end the boy gets angry and feels empty. Maybe he kills the man? – just like that....
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...Richards The story takes place in Australia, where a man drives a boy to the outback to shoot kangaroos. The boy is actually a quite nice shot, but the boy dislikes the situation more and more, as the number of killed kangaroos rises. Finally, the boy spots a male kangaroo, he shots the animal and feels like a man, but he also feels regret. There are only two characters in this short story; we have the boy and the man. The boy is the essential character, and the one we follow throughout the entire story and the man is merely a sort of guide (page 1 line 1 – 9). The man could very easily be the boy’s father, but since he is not mentioned as “the father”, he could also very easily be a man, who the boy shares a bond with. The boy is in his youth and is actually on his way to becoming a man, which he also does at the end (page 4 line 16 – 19), while the man is probably somewhere between 35 -45, since he is still in shape to hunt (page 1 line 16 – 19), but he is still old enough to provide some sort of guidance. The boy relies on the man to help him execute the mortally wounded kangaroos (page 3 line 25 – 30), but the man does not seem to gain anything from this arrangement, besides that I might be his duty to see to it, that the boy completes this rite of passage. The environment is pretty typical for any random outback in Australia; we have kangaroos (page 3 line 12), the temperature is high, the trees are green and the plain is long and wide (page...
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...man and boy haunting kangaroos, who are very optimistic and in hopes of the boy becoming a man afterwards. In the beginning of the “Just Like that” the boy believes that taking another life would somehow help him on his path to become a man, but at the end of the story he finds out that it is wrong way of thinking. As the story builds up, the readers come to know that the theme that Michael Richards is focusing on is how one person can develop and find their path in life on their own. The story does not tell us the exact relation the man has to the boy, but we know that the boy looks up to the man as a roll model. The man does not care for the kangaroos, and it seems like he often goes haunting for the fun of it. The boy asked, “What do we do with them now?”(p. 26, l.5) Where after the man responses: “Let them root.” (p. 26, l. 6) The man is fearful about the boy holding a gun. He seems afraid that the boy might accidentally shoot him. "Don't walk behind me, said the man.” (p. 25, l. 9) That is something he continued telling the boy. The boy was speechless when he saw the man shoot the first kangaroo. He was drawn to it and walked even closer. “The boy was fascinated. He had never seen anything like this before.”(p. 25, l. 35-36) The kangaroo was described almost like a human. Comparing the forepaws of the kangaroo to hands. “It’s forepaws were curled like small hands.”(p. 25, l. 24) this can be interpreted as the boy seeing the kangaroos on the same level as...
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...testing technology that can sense kangaroo movement. The automaker is currently testing a radar installed in the cars' front grille that will scan the road for hopping kangaroos, Volvo said Thursday. If a kangaroo is detected, the car will automatically apply the brakes to avoid collision. The system has a reaction time of .05 seconds, which is much sharper than the human reaction time of 1.2 seconds. The technology is currently used in Sweden to detect for slow-moving animals, like cows, but needs to be refined to accommodate for kangaroos' speed. There are more than 20,000 collisions with kangaroos on Australian roads each year, according to Australia’s National Roads & Motorists’ Association (NRMA), amounting to more than 75 million AUD ($54 million) in insurance claims each year. “Unfortunately, many kangaroos are active on our roads," Robert McDonald, NRMA's insurance head of research, wrote in a statement. "They are often looking for food at sunrise and sunset and it’s during this time that an increased number of collisions occur.” Volvo's safety experts travelled to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, a slightly inland area that is between Sydney and Melbourne, to study and film the marsupial’s behaviour in their natural habitat by a road. Canberra is known as a hotspot for kangaroo collisions, Volvo said in a press statement. “Whereas Volvo Cars’ Pedestrian Detection technology is geared towards city driving, our kangaroo detection research is focusing on...
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...shoot some kangaroo, the boy hopes that shooting a kangaroo would make him a man, so he shoots more than 5 of them, but the boy does not want to shoot kangaroos. But he has to so he can pass the man’s test of manhood. He develops throughout the text and becomes a “man” Death is new to the boy, who is surprised by how easy it seemed when the man killed the first Kangaroos, it was exactly like the man had told him ”dead just like that” (p.1 l.1). So when the days starts are the boy immature. “The soft hair on his legs where soon matted and tangled” (p.25 1. 4). He has soft hair on his legs, and therefore are the boy young. The boy dies. “Suddenly the boy felt very calm. His eyes saw his hands lift the rifle. He felt nothing. He felt as if he were dead.” (p.29 l.18). The boy does not die, but has become a real man. When he has shot his first kangaroo he does not feel very good, he cannot even remember pulling the trigger” …He was empty as if his heart and guts had been sucked out of the barrel of his gun” (p.2 l.29-30). He is disappointed ”he had thought that somehow this would make him a man- but it had made no difference at all.” To him killing the kangaroo has been pointless, it did not make him a man. “The boy was surprised to find himself with an empty gun in his hands” (p.3 l. 28-29), again he does not know exactly what has happened, every time he shoots a kangaroo, it is like he does not do it himself. But he still does not feel like a man - more kangaroos have died...
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...Maybe in Australia. They speak English, and there are kangaroos. 2. What is the weather like? Is it important to the story? - It’s a nice sunny morning, and the grass is still wet from the dew. 3. That is the effect of the words “like small hand”, “caress” and “peaceful” used about the first kangaroo the man shoots? - It makes it seem harmless and innocent. 4. Which statements are true and which are false? After the man killed the first kangaroo * He is fascinated 5. Find two examples of religious vocabulary? What associations do these words bring to mind? - They entered a cathedral. 6. Characterize the way the boy feels when he is about to shoot. Why does he feel this way? - He is nervous 7. Which statements are true and which are false? After the has his first kangaroo he feels – Disappointed and it has been easy 8. How well do you remember the words used in the text. - We remember them very well. 9. What is the boy’s state of mind p. 27 11. 14-15 - He doesn’t know what he’s doing. 10. Explain: “He watched while the man strolled among the cripples blessing each with his wand.” Is the man a Christ figure? - It means that he’s watching the man killing the kangaroos, that he crippled. 11. “Something inside the boy died” What? - His innocence. 12. “It’s going to be a bloody good day”. Comment - Bloody. They have killed a lot of kangaroos 13. “This one, this big one, the boy knew, would...
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...shooting kangaroos. The purpose is transforming the boy into a man. The story takes place in Australia. Language: The language is easy to read and understand. There are some direct speech but mostly it’s storytelling. Narrator: It’s a third omniscient narrator from the boy’s point of view. We know how he feels and what he thinks about the events that are happening. Themes: Growing up. Pressure: the man pressures the boy. Characters: The boy is on his first kangaroo hunt, I believe. Read: p. 25 l. 40 – p. 26 l. 2. He seems very fascinated by how easy it was to kill the kangaroo. When the boy uses the rifle it’s like he’s dead for a second – read: p. 26. l. 24-25. He can’t remember pulling the trigger. At first I don’t think the boy likes shooting kangaroos but later he becomes this sort of machine, which just does it. The man might be the boy’s father, we don’t know that. The man puts a lot of pressure on the boy. When he wants the boy to do something he says: if you can’t do it now you never will. (Ex. p. 26 l. 17) Symbolism: The man in the story says several times: don’t walk behind me. I think that he knows what it does to a person, when they start shooting. I mean, the boy gets really fascinated about it, and how easy it is to kill another living being. Ending: Read: p. 29 ll. 18-21. We don’t know exactly what happens, but I kind of get a feeling that the boy shoots the man. The man has been pressuring the boy through the whole story to shoot the kangaroos. And...
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...War Horse Joey’s earliest memory is of being taken to the town marketplace with his mother whilst an auction that he did not fully understand took place around him. Two men bid feverishly against each other until the auctioneer brought down his hammer and Joey was led away. He had never been apart from his mother before and started crying for her, hearing her cries for him becoming more and more feint as he was taken further away. Joey's new home was a farm, with plenty of land and a comfortable stable where he was given a stall next to a placid, motherly horse called Zoey. He likes her very much but dislikes the farmer who has purchased him, but forms a deep bond with the farmer's son, Albert, the two becoming soul mates as Albert works hard to transform Joey into a farm horse, his father having threatened to get rid of him unless he can work with Zoey in the fields. It is the onset of the First World War and heading that the army are buying horses for the front, Albert's father takes Joey to market and sells him to an honorable soldier called Captain Nicholls. Too late Albert rushes to market, but is unable to reverse the sale. He tries to join the army with Joey but is too young so he promises Joey that as soon as he is of age to enlist he will do so, and he will come find him. Captain Nicholls promises to take great care of Joey and to keep in touch with Albert. Joey misses Albert and his old life. He makes friends with Topthorne, a beautiful black thoroughbred, and the two...
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... The wet grass was cold on his legs. Grass seeds stabbed through his socks and prickled his ankles. Flat seeds stuck to his skin. The soft hairs on his legs were soon matted and tangled with the sticky dew and the seeds from the grass. [pic]The man stopped. He said, 'Watch'. [pic]He raised his rifle. It cracked and the first kangaroo flipped into the air and fell down. The second kangaroo froze, staring directly at the man. He fired. The second kangaroo flipped and fell in the grass. [pic]They walked to the bodies. The boy was slightly behind and on the man's left. As he walked his rifle wavered. [pic]'Watch where you point that,' said the man. [pic]The first kangaroo lay on its side with its head in a puddle of blood. Its forepaws were curled like small hands. It lifted its head to caress the boy with its large limpid eyes. he was surprised how peaceful it looked. The man squatted beside it. He poked its belly. He lifted its tail then dropped it so it fell like raw meat. [pic]'Dead,' said the man. 'Dead below the neck. It doesn't feel a thing.' [pic]The boy edged closer. He knelt to look for the hole where the bullet went in. The kangaroo swivelled its eyes, trying to watch both the man and the boy. Its throat was spongy with blood. [pic]The man put...
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...Ecosystem of the Mojave Desert Bio/101 March 5, 2012 Ecosystem of the Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert is 54,000 square miles of its own special brand of diversity; it is one desert - rather than a series of separate entities. By becoming aware of the combined identity, appreciation and better understanding of the issues that affect the Mojave Desert can occur on a holistic level. Generally, at the edges of the Mojave are areas where dominant plant and animal species change from one to another and both, to various degrees may be possibly found on the fringes of the other. The Mojave Desert ecosystem evolves from plants and animals which are resources within each other. Adaption to the rough temperatures and little water, these ecosystems finds many ways to survive. This ecosystem plays host to a wide variety of plants and animals living in an environment that humans may think are harsh conditions. Many animals get their energy by eating plants, but desert plants give up the fruit of their production very reluctantly. Sharp spines, such as a cactus, discourage plant-eaters. The Mule deer avoids these obstacles by eating seeds, although safe to eat, they can be hard to find. Many are small and look like grains of sand. The plant's solar energy flows through the ecosystem as Mule deer, and other herbivores like jackrabbits, fall prey to carnivores like great horned owls, coyotes, bobcats, or snakes (Townsend, Harper & Begon, 2000). Survival in the desert cannot occur...
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...diverse native fauna. Key threats include climate change, urban development and habitat lost, however, the 2 that will be discussed is wildlife trade and kangaroo culling. Current legislation will be analysed as well at the action/inaction of the government, followed by case studies to support and concluding with suggestive recommendations. Australia is one of the most important nations on Earth for biodiversity. In fact, Australia is one of only 17 “megadiverse” nations and is home to more species than any other developed country. The primary factors causing...
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