Desert The Tortoises Analysis

In "Can the Desert Tortoise Be Saved" by Mackenzie Carro, the article explains how the desert tortoise is endangered, so conservationists such as shields are using technology to help save the desert tortoise. Many people have moved to the Mojave desert in the past 50 years. With each person more trash gets produced. Humans have also built fences and telephone poles which ravens build nests on. In those past 50 years more and more ravens have moved to the desert. In fact the raven population grew as much as 700 percent. With so many ravens living in the desert they all need food, and baby desert tortoises are their favorite snack. With so many ravens, so many desert tortoises are being eaten. Nonetheless, conservationists are trying to help

In these dry deserts of Nevada and surrounds states, you can find the Desert Cottontail Rabbit (Sylvilagusaudubonii) hiding in shrubs or running to shelter. This brownish grey cottontail finds itself surviving living in burrows made by other rodents and coming out throughout night hours. These desert cottontails reproduce quickly due to the short life span of 2 years. The structure of these cottontails provides them defense against their pray by using their feet and paws to slap predators or jumping to avoid surprise attacks. With the hotter and drier lands as the years go by, the cottontails fight to keep their population growing no matter the circumstances. From dancing face to face to chasing each other, these cottontails will find themselves having fun before mating which is

The Red-bellied Cooter is being threatened by both man-made and natural causes. Do to economic growth, areas that used to be a good habitat for these turtles are now being turned into new, buildings like apartments, houses, and stores. In areas where the turtles can live, they are threatened before they have even hatched from their eggs by other predators like raccoons, skunks, or even snapping turtles. Almost all of the eggs in a nest are harmed before they have a chance to hatch. So while humans taking up land takes the Red-bellied Cooters’ homes, their predators take their lives.

The Graptemys caglei, also known as the Cagle’s Map Turtle, is an endangered turtle species found in San Antonio, Texas and along the Guadalupe River. It identifies easily by the pattern on its shell which resembles an aerial view topography, as well as its spiked shell edges, which are not as sharp as other map turtles of the same genus. Although the Cagle’s Map Turtle has natural predators pose a threat to the individual turtles’ lives, the predators are not a greater threat than habitat disturbances created by humans. Unfortunately, this species suffered a significant drop in population since the mid-1970 through changes in its habitat disallow support of a larger population of the turtles(van Dijk, P. P., 2011).

This arid-region subspecies of T. ornata, commonly known as the desert box turtle, is adapted to drier ecosystems than the ornate box turtle. The term luteola derives from a Latin root word meaning “yellowish.” Referring to the overall lighter appearance of the desert subspecies as compared to the darker ornate subspecies, luteola may also allude to the relative abundance of yellow patterning on the carapace of the desert box

In “Can the Desert Be Saved?” Mackenzie Carro explains that desert tortoises may go extinct but their is a scientist willing to help. Desert tortoises were and still are being eaten by ravens in the Mojave Desert. The reason their are so many ravens in the Mojave Desert is because of human pollution like throwing bags and other garbage ravens can use to their advantage. But tortoises don't have to worry because a scientist named Tim Shields is here to help. He is using advanced such as fake baby tortoises that spray a bad smell, lasers to distract and get rid of the ravens and more. Scientist like shields want to help the tortoises . “Technology is a powerful tool, but it’s up to us to figure out how to use it” said Tim Shields.

In order to analyze the character archetypes for this assignment, I chose The Tortoise and The Hare, a fairy tale found at Animated Fairy Tales for Children. Overall, this tale falls into the classical animal archetype. These animals are used to teach us a moral lesson that we can be successful if we do very things steadily, thoughtfully, and carefully. The tortoise and the hare are foil characters, whose views about life are completely different. The tortoise is an archetype of a humble, friendly, smart, and careful person. The tortoise always does everything in a slow, thoughtful, and steady manner; he knows how to control his emotions despite the hare keeps teasing him about “being so slow.” The hare is the archetype of a mean, boastful,

We explored the role of demography, seasonal, environmental and anthropogenic drivers on the structure of burrow-use based contact network of desert tortoises. Desert tortoise spend majority of time in burrows, and simultaneous or asynchronous use of common burrows might play a role in the spread URTD from infected to susceptible individuals. We find that seasonal variation has a strong impact on tortoise burrow use behavior. Our results also show that older burrows and burrows located in higher topographical positions tend to be visited by more tortoises and, therefore, have the potential of serving as hot-spots of URTD spread in desert tortoise populations. In addition, we investigated the effect of three major population stressors affecting this species (translocation, drought, disease), and find that translocation alters tortoise burrow use behavior, with translocated animals visiting fewer burrows than

During my travels, I took a trip to Costa Rica to enjoy the beaches, the views, the surfing, as well as to see my favorite animals, sloths. I found myself exploring the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica whose mission is to place focus on the rescue, rehabilitation, release and research of sloths and conserving the Costa Rican rainforest. Many of the sloths in the sanctuary were recovering from wounds due to human interference. While sloths have evolved over 64 million years making them perfectly designed for a quiet life in the rainforest, humans are encroaching on sloth homes much faster than our lazy friends can adapt. Unfortunately, due to the increase in habitat destruction over recent years sloths are at a higher risk for extinction.

Native Americans held great admiration for nature and their gods. People often dispute back and forth on whether or not we are similar or different compared to our Natives. Based on “The World on the Turtle’s Back,” “The Coyote and the Buffalo,” and Brother Bear, I can conclude that we obviously, for the most part, differ from ancient native cultures; people today do not hold nature to a great value and our religion is thoroughly different.

Tasmanian Devils have been labelled as ‘endangered’ species by the Tasmania’s Threatened Species Protection Act 1995. The population of Tasmanian devils have been decreasing due to number of factors including their stage in the food chain, competition, road accidents and destruction of their habitats. The main factor for their decrease in population is the natural death from Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) which has rapidly decreased their population. One other factor of the reduce in population is from the introduction of the red fox in Tasmania. Red fox is a competition for the infant devils as they share a similar habitat and are similar in size.

Often times in the course of an average life, one feels invincible as if they are the center of the universe, and that nothing is too big or fearsome that they cannot handle. They make themselves uniquely special in their minds and try to elevate themselves above others when the honest truth is that they are small, helpless, and meaningless really in the perspective of the entire universe. In the painting Trapper in the Wilderness by Sydney Laurence, the insignificance of the trapper is portrayed in his size compared to the rest of the space used in the painting and the distribution of emphasis, additionally.

Although animals have adapted to many different environments, there is one that trumps them all: the tardigrade. Commonly called water bears and sometimes moss piglets, tardigrades are able to endure many environmental stresses, such as dehydration and extreme temperature changes (Herkewitz). They can even survive in space (Herkewitz)! This essay will prove that the tardigrade is the most resilient animal on earth and give a glimpse into the everyday life of a tardigrade.

Sea turtle hatchlings are now having trouble finding their way to the sea because of all the lights from buildings that are built on the coast. They get disoriented when they are born and will wander in the wrong way away from the sea. This leads them to predators that live inland or will even cause the turtle to become dehydrated and die. Humans are also building coastal armoring that is blocking female turtles from reaching a suitable nesting habitat. This is a severe problem in Florida where they have many coastal rock elevations and sand bags. Where all this beach development is occurring thousands of sea turtles are trying to nest. Beach dredging is also having a direct effect on sea turtle's trying to nest. If the sand is too impacted or is drastically different from native beach sediment, the mother will have trouble creating the

However, they disagree on whether or not it is harming the wildlife populations in those areas. Terris says “roads and sprawling neighborhoods are replacing pristine wildlife habitats at an alarming pace, putting the survival and reproduction of plants and animals at risk.” Terris also believes it may be “the problem for U.S. wildlife in the 21st century”. (Terris) According to Terris, one victim of sprawl is the Florida panther, which has been reduced to a population of 30 to 50 adults. Furthermore, in the Sonoran Desert many plant species are affected, which also affects the animals that rely on those plants. She goes on to give numerous examples of animals and plants that are being harmed that spreads across the U.S., supporting the fact it is widespread.