cheetah and the leopard were once great friends. One day, they went out together to look for food. After travelling for more than 3 hours, they noticed gazelles grazing from a distance and agreed that the cheetah would go into the open land and chase the gazelles to the forest while the leopard would lay waiting in the forest and make a kill as the gazelles passed by. The cheetah spent more than 4 hours diverting the gazelles into the forest. Very late in the evening, the leopard rushed into the
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India, and Mongolia. Snow leopards are large cats and are classified as Panthera Uncia or Uncia uncia. II. Once snow leopards are pregnant their babies stay in the womb around 100 days and the liter sizes range from 1 to 5 cubs. Snow Leopards first leave the den around 3 months of age, become fully independent around 2 years of age and can reproduce around 3 years of age. Snow leopards usually live between 15 and 20 years. III. The respiratory system of snow leopards relies on the diaphragm
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Michael Jordan " I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." Those encouraging words were spoken by Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 17, 1963. His parents, James and Delores Jordan, moved to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was still a toddler. Jordan has two older brothers
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territory. Sheeps, goats and other animals they preyed on came back and repopulated the areas. Amur Leopard Also known as Far Eastern leopard is a leopard subspecies native to the Primorye region of southeastern Russia and Jilin Province of northeast China. Its ecological role: Amur leopards hunt a very wide variety of animals including roe deer, sika deer, badgers and hares. Amur leopards are threatened by poaching, encroaching civilization, new roads, exploitation of forests, and climate
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Assignment 2- Science at the Zoo Introduction- The different roles that can be done at the zoo are education, animal welfare, recreation, research and conservation. The zoo participates in captive breeding programmes and conservation projects in the wild. This allows a whole variety of sciences to be used. Ecology are veterinary are the two main ones and the science goes into a lot of depth when considering breeding programmes. Conservation- is the preservation, protection, or restoration of the
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The Pittsburgh Zoo is a great place for anyone of all ages to enjoy. They opened the zoo in June 1898, therefore people could enjoy the many different species that the Pittsburgh Zoo provides. As well as, as the years went on they now have conservation projects, tons of info on all the different animals such as, how they survive in certain climates and environments wild vs. zoo. The zoo had many different species when they first open and now there is over one hundred species of animals from all
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curves and weighing up to 388.7 kg (857 lb) in the wild. Its most recognisable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar and snow leopard. Tigers are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. They are territorial and generally solitary but social animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey requirements
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Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae, and includes the four, well-known living species of the lion (Panthera leo), the tiger (Panthera tigris), the jaguar (Panthera onca), and the leopard (Panthera pardus). These four extant cat species are considered unique in having the anatomical changes enabling them to roar. (New World Encyclopedia) The Panthera genus comprises about half of the seven extant species in the Pantherinae subfamily also known as the "big cats"
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but I would like to start off with the fact that endangered species lifespans are longer in the wild than they are in a sanctuary. For example, the Giant Panda lives up to 38 years in the wild, but only around 30 in a zoo or sanctuary. Also, the Amur Leopard, at a population of around 257
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PEREVOZNAYA, Russia — Stretching from Lake Baikal to the Sea of Japan, the first trans-Siberian oil pipeline is to run 4,150 kilometers - more than three times as long as the trans-Alaska pipeline. At a cost of $15.5 billion, it looms as modern Russia's biggest infrastructure investment, President Vladimir Putin's answer to the Trans-Siberian Railway of the czars. Because China and Japan both rely on the Middle East for about 85 percent of their oil imports, both economic giants competed fiercely
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