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1,384 wordsMy girlfriend, Marianne and I live in Urbana, Illinois. For several years I worked in a pet store, but only dabbled with fish breeding. We started breeding Bettas in June of 1994. What started as a pastime, has now To the question, "How hard is it to breed Bettas?" : We seem to think that the most difficult parts are, carefully watching the breeding couple from mating until the eggs hatch (usually about 2 - 3 days), and being diligent with live feeding of fry until they can eat other foods. We g...
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Lorna Doone Ensor Doone John
520 wordsI recently finished the book "Lorna Doone. " It was, in my opinion a wonderful tale. The author, R. D. Blackmore did a wonderful job of spinning this yarn, its full of action, romance, and suspense. You can really believe in the characters. In the story, John Read is taken home one day at school, by his friend, a hired hand at the family farm old John Fry. The Doone's, a terrifying band of robbers and outlaws, had killed his father and now he was placed with the responsibility of Plover Barrows ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Ice Hockey
1,259 words... the building of dams. One species of beaver occurs in North America, the other in Eurasia. The two species differ chiefly in the shape of the nasal bones and are so much alike that some authorities consider them to be varieties of the same species. They are large rodents; the average adult beaver weighs about 16 kg (about 35 lb), but specimens as heavy as 40 kg (90 lb) have been found, and some extinct beavers were almost bearlike in size. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1975). Beavers have long ...
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Means Of Communication Worker Bees
1,308 wordsThe social Organization of Honeybees A truly striking aspect in the world of insects is the evolution of the honeybee colony. Apis Mellifera, the most widely distributed species of honeybee is know to flourish all over the earth's surface from the tropics to the sub-artic areas. There are however three other species of honeybee which are all found in South-eastern Asia. These species include Apis Florida and Apis Dorsata, both of which build their single cones under the branch of a tree or on th...
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Carbon Dioxide Dry Season
3,157 words... "The ants's unless lies in the evolutionary concept of kin selection" (Hoyt 1996). This concept occurs when members of a species work for the survival of relatives - genes by descent from a common ancestor rather than for one's survival of its own offspring (which is called individual selection). This is a very complicated process in which many people have devoted their lives to its study. The gathering of food by the leaf cutting ants is a complex series of interactions and communication wh...
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Survival Of The Fittest Herbert Spencer
1,277 wordsNatural Selection Table of Contents Intro Page 3 Natural Selection and Charles Darwin Page 4 - 5 Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinism Page 5 Arguments against Natural Selection - Page 6 Conclusion Page 7 Bibliography Page 8 Evolution is one of the most controversial topics that has been argued about for centuries. Natural selection is one of the main supports for the evolution theory; it is defined as: the process in nature by which, according to Darwin's theory of evolution, only the organisms bes...
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Species Of Bird The Roseate Tern
835 wordsLike many other species the Roseate Tern is also endangered. These creatures are some of the worlds most beautiful animals and are slowly being killed by man and nature. The Roseate Tern somewhat resembles a sea gull with a slender body and short reddish legs. They have pointed wings and long streamer tails, like the streamer on a kite. Their bodies are a pale gray and are white with a pink tinge on their underside in the early breeding season. This tinge however, is not a good way to tell if a ...
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Vasco Da Gama Marco Polo Spices
571 wordsThe Search for Spices Merchants who sold spices kept in secret where they were buying spices and the routes to places rich in spice plants. They invented many legends and made a mystery of spice origin. Some of them told that cinnamon is brought from snaky valleys, and cassia is brought from the banks of shallow lakes and rivers where huge and furious birds built their nests at high limestone cliffs. Merchants said that they were lucky to gather spices when these nests were falling down from cli...
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Bird Species Generalist And Specialist
604 wordsBird Species, Generalist and Specialist Double Crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax audits) Double Crested Cormorant is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. Assuming that generalist / opportunistic species are widespread and more or less uniformly distributed, Double Crested Cormorant can hardly be categorized as generalist (Generalist an organism able to utilize many food sources, and therefore able to flourish in many habitats), as the bird may occur along inland waterways and coastal are...
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Mothers Chicken Coup Mothers Chicken Pen Sarah
850 wordsCreative Writing: The Chicken by Da Pimp Sarah lived on a small farm in Ohio in 1959. She was nine years old, had brown hair and green eyes. Her mother raised chickens to eat and would sell the eggs. One day Sarah's mother gave Sarah her very own chicken to raise. Sarah named the chicken Maryanne. Sarah couldnt wait for Maryanne to start laying eggs because Sarah wanted to sell the eggs and buy a necklace that she had been wanting for just about a year now. She found some wood, some chicken wire...
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Males And Females Coral Reef
1,136 wordsAs a by standee over viewing the preparation and or the act of courtship in the coral reef fishes, one may think they have taken leave of their senses. The bicolor damselfish tends to quiver while performing a headstand. Blue pullers engage in a series of high-speed jumps. Lyretailfish swim in jerky zigzag patters. Frill fish goby undulates frantically against the sand. The Sergeant major rubs its body hard against the side of a rock or coral cavity and nips at these surfaces. (P 92) These are m...
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899 wordsAny Desert Biome DESERT BIOME Any barren region that supports very little life may be called a desert. The cold expanses of Antarctica, extreme northern Asia, and Greenland are therefore true, but cold, deserts. Most commonly, however, the term desert is used for regions that are barren because they are arid, or dry. Arid deserts receive little precipitation and are characterized by specialized plants that tolerate drought conditions and salty soils, and by distinctive land features. Most desert...
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Bald Eagle Endangered Species
662 wordsThe bald eagle is truly an all-American bird it is the only eagle unique to North America. It ranges over most of the continent, from the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada down to northern Mexico. The bald eagle, our national symbol, is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 43 of the lower 48 states and listed as threatened in Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. (There are about 40, 000 bald eagles in Alaska and none in Hawaii. ) However, bald eagles ha...
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Endangered Species North America
878 wordsPeregrine Falcons: On the road to recovery The peregrine is the worlds fastest bird; it can reach over 200 miles as it dives from tall cliffs onto smaller birds (1). It circles high searching for prey and when a smaller bird like a pigeon takes off it plummets to the earth and kills it with razor sharp talons. The Peregrines identifying characteristics include its large size, long pointed wings and dark mustache set against white cheeks (11). The female has a wingspan of about 4 feet and often w...
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Animal And Plant Billion Dollars
795 wordsPerhaps we take it for granted that our beautiful homeland will be forever changed because of the effects of modern civilizations. The environment, local animals, plants, and neighboring niches are all being affected by a few factors. The insensitivity of humans towards our fellow living creatures has caused the Everglades to shrink dramatically in the last one hundred years. The health of the everglades has been compromised because we as humans need more space to live on, bigger roads, and adve...
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Knuckle Walk Female Orangutans One
1,015 wordsThe orangutan, Porno pygmies, is an ape that is found in the moist, coastal rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo which consists of Indonesia's Kalimantan provinces, Malaysia's Sabbath and Sarawak, and the kingdom of Brunei Darussalam. Orangutans live in tropical rainforests and are arboreal primates meaning that they are tree dwelling. Orangutans construct nests in the tree branches for the night in which they will curl up and sleep. These nests are made out of leaves and branches and they will som...
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