benefit by the other organism called a parasite. An example of parasitism is fleas which live on the skin of other animals and feed on their blood which helps the flea but only weakens the animal. Grazing is where the predator eats the prey but does not kill it, for example a cow eating grass. Predators play an important role in an ecosystem for if they did not exist then a single species could become dominant over others. Grazing is important as it helps to keep grassland from growing out of control.
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whaling is basically the killing of whales. To me I do not agree with commerical whaling at all. Why kill whales for the benefit of yourself ? Such as food ? I think that is what the main problem in society which is one of the main reasons to extinction. Kill a whale because you ( human ) need the food for your own type of survival while those who prey on them or feed off of them lose out on their food too? What sense does that make? None. Personally I think its just causing a major issue in our ecosystem
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Since the beginning of man, we have hunted. We hunted for food and for supplies. More and more recently, though, people have been saying that hunting should be stopped. Today, fewer and fewer people hunt. People should hunt because it prevents overpopulation, stops environment destruction, and it supplies food for people. Hunting prevents overpopulation. When too many animals live in the same habitat, the habitat can’t produce enough food for all of the animals. Animals starve and are forced to move
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All About Corn Do you know what is in our food and what they do/use to make it? Michael Pollan mostly talks about what we eat is mostly made of corn in one way or another. That not only adults are hitting the obesity stage but children are getting it now too. “But it is hitting the poor people the hardest. That’s because if you count the calories, foods loaded with sugar and fat are the cheapest foods in the market. A recent study showed this is true. In typical supermarket, one dollar
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and the sight of them can make everybody smile. On the other hand, there are always cruel people out there wanting to take these amazing creatures from the world by killing them for food. This illegal act is called whaling. Japan is the leader of this horrifying act has long said it was their tradition and culture to kill whales. To this day there are many health concerns when it comes to eating a whale and many worries about the inhumane ways that whales get killed too. To compare history to today
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First Argument: The first reason why is that they kill animals just to have the next medicine,soap, and food ingredient. My first piece of evidence: Right now there are millions of animals such as dogs, cats, rats, mice, and primates getting tortured just to get the next product of eyeliner. In a recent article by PETA they said that “More than 100 million animals every year suffer and die in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests”(PETA), just to see if the products work
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Wolf Ecology Essay by Kyle D. The habitat that the wolfs are usually in the tundra to woodlands, grasslands and deserts. Today gray wolves populations located in alaska, northern michigan, northern wisconsin, western montana, northern idaho, northeast oregon, and the yellowstone area in wyoming. Wolfs are the only species to be deliberately driven to the brink of extinction by humans. Also wolves are carnivores
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seem to apply to these animal abuse laws; it seems the meat industry has immunity. Even though things like slaughterhouses make it easy for the public to get their meat it contributes to other problems, and there is no such thing as a humane way to kill. Despite the overwhelming
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pot, bud, and mary jane. Now, why are these words thought to be "bad". Why are we taught from such a young age that marijuana is bad. Why are we able to go into any store and buy tobacco, which kills 400,000 people annually; alcohol, which kills 100,000 people annually; and caffeine, which kills 2,000 people annually. According to the New England Journal of medicine, you would have to smoke 1500 pounds of marijuana in under 15 minutes to OD. Marijuana was prohibited in 1937, but marijuana
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other and Ted is the last one alive. AM was furious, however, he couldn’t do anything about it. He couldn’t revive them. This made him take out all his anger on Ted, converting him into a big chunk of jelly. This, it did so that Ted wouldn’t try and kill himself in any way possible. One theme that I found to be relevant in the story is "Desperation can make you do unreasonable things". Ted tells the reader how the other four have something against him. AM barely had done any damage to him. He was
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