Today is my first day volitering at the seabirds sanksuary and I am really exited. My first jod was to trim the tree branches and I know that it is not the most exiting job but, it is mine. When I was in the middle of cutting a branch I had just relized the there was a honey bee hive. I relized that I had to tell my maneger. At first I was scard that they would try to sting me but they did not. After that one tree my maneger said'' that I would take my first gruop of people around for a tore
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Have you ever wonder what it's like to be a penguin? Lauren Tarshis writes her article, trying to get the reader to put themselves into a penguin's flippers. On the other hand Dyan deNapoli writes about a first hand experience with rescuing penguins from an devastating oil spill. In this essay I will be telling you the differences and similarities between Lauren Tarshis’s and Dyan deNapoli’s point of view about a penguin rescue effort after an oil spill. Both Lauren Tarshis and Dyan deNapoli support
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Penguins What is the animal that can stay underwater for up to 22 minutes, is very tall, and sleds down icy hills. It’s an emperor penguin, of course. Emperor penguins are the largest penguins and the only type of penguin that lays eggs in the harsh chilly Arctic. Though emperor penguins look cuddly, they will hurt you with their beaks if you try to touch one. Emperor penguins get their food from the sea. The sea has a bountiful amount of fish, krill, and squid, which is perfect for emperor
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The problem addressed is how to drop an egg from approximately 18’ and enable the egg to survive the impact unscathed. There are many simple solutions available for purchase on the open market, but one of the constraints placed on this project is materials should be recycled or repurposed and not obtained from a retail store. The mission at hand is to obtain recycled materials, design a solution to the problem out of those materials, test the design and modify as necessary to improve the outcome
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One morning you look out your window and observe a group of vultures sitting in a tree. It may be unusual, but it happens. When they travel alone, people don’t notice. When they travel together they can be aggravating. Vultures can form committees which causes damage to neighborhoods, but there are ways to remove them. When a group of vultures forms a committee to live together, they start roosting in trees. A committee is when a large number of vultures decide to live together. Surprisingly,
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Lyonia Preserve is a great example of an inland scrub habitat. All though a majority of the area was roller chopped and prepared to be burned, it still displayed all the necessary characteristics of an oak scrub habitat. Throughout the semester we have discussed many times the importance of fire in a habitat and how fire actually maintains the area but this was the first time we have actually been able to see man’s role in the maintenance. Roller chopping approximately 25% of the area and allowing
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resided throughout Texas and Louisiana. It is a ground bird, known as a grouse, and part of the North American grouse family. The Attwater’s Prairie Chicken is roughly 17-18 inches tall and is smaller than it’s lighter colored relative, the Greater Prarie-Chicken Image of a male Attwater’s Prairie Chicken showing typical habits of their mating dance: cheek sacs inflated and the longer feathers at the ears and tail erect. (Image from TDPW) This bird is a medium sized grouse heavily bands of dark brown
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Although Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" have the same titles, there are many differences and similarities. The reason birds attack humans are different, as well as the season between film and story.One similarity of Mit's mother and Nat's wife. One difference between The birds and "The birds" is the reason birds attack human.In film The Birds,the characters never find why the birds attack,but one old woman who has two children;she is the only character who say that
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It was the crinkling sound again; this time the squirrel was much closer to the peanut bag lying next to my window. I tried shooing it away, but it wasn’t scared anymore. I opened the window and the window’s creaking sound scared the squirrel away. Although it looked totally scared, it was still roaming around the window as if it were bored to tears. Seeing this, a stroke of happiness rushed through my face and I knew I had found what I was looking for: boredom in animals, the topic that this paper
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1. The bird symbolizes Minnie herself. At one time she would wear pretty clothes, be happy and sing in the choir much like the pretty songbird. The fact that the bird is dead (probably by John) indicates the death of who she was before her marriage, her happier self. The birdcage symbolizes entrapment, as Minnie is trapped in her marriage. The quilt symbolizes Minnie’s mental state. At first, like the stitching, she is doing quite well. Then the stitching becomes messier and seems like she did them
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