Mathilde Tissier Study Of Strange Behavior

On October 4, 2016 we started a body farm lab on still-birth pigs. We were to observe the decomposition of the piglets because they decompose at a similar rate as human bodies. The piglets we observed were a naked and clothed pig suspended in the air, a naked and clothed pig on asphalt, naked and clothed pig on grass, naked and clothed pig on grass in the dirt, naked pig with a gunshot wound, naked pig with a stab wound, and a naked pig that has been burnt. After observing we were to determine what piglets decomposed faster than the others, what succession of insects were on certain piglets, and many other observations.

Eating is a necessary commodity. Every living being has to eat in order to stay alive. In fact, you can only survive about 3 weeks without eating. Many animals don’t receive backlash for the food they eat because, even us, human beings understand that it’s necessary to obtain proteins. However, the Big, Bad Wolf will always be unfairly criticized for eating pigs. Even though society views the wolf as malicious, that is very far from the truth as proven in sources B, C, and H because the wolf deserves to eat food as much as the pigs do.

To begin with, Pollan shows his readers that rats differ from humans because as opposed to rats, people have traditions. “But unlike us, rats can’t pass lessons or food habits down to their many many children. When it comes to the omnivore’s dilemma, each rat is on their own.” (Page 91, paragraph 1)

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself: what are you really eating? Recently, I’ve come to the realization of what I’m eating on a daily basis isn’t entirely healthy for me. Michael Pollan, who is the author of the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, has opened my mind. While reading the first couple of chapters of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I’ve realized that I don’t know much about the food I eat daily. For example, I didn’t know that farmers not only feed corn but also antibiotics to their animals (Walsh 34). In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan makes a strange statement, “You are what what you eat eats, too” (Pollan 84). Pollan continuously emphasizes this remark through various examples and he’s right, because strangely enough the food that our food eats not only affects them but us as well.

Throughout his Ted Talk, Szyf includes several experiments him and his colleagues have performed which establishes his credibility and appeal to ethos. One of these experiments include the observation of mother rats licking their pups after they are born. His colleague, Michael Meaney demonstrated that the biological mother did not define the property of stressfulness, but that the “mother that took care of the pups” (Syzf 2:03) did. This signified that epigenetics take part in the way these

In the developmental stages of the pigs’ corruption, it was hardly noticed and the animals accepted most of the pigs excuses. Though it quickly grew out of hand, “The mystery of where the milk had gone was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs mash” (51). “So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples

Truthfully speaking, this statement is amongst the strangest and most knowledgeable sentences I have ever heard or read. I know very little about nature, wildlife, and animals’ diets, so when I first read the sentence, I found myself utterly puzzled. I asked myself why a raccoon would eat a sugar cube and why someone would give it a sugar cube, but I quickly realized the statement was probably hypothetical. That was until I read the remainder of the article. Turns out that often times raccoons “wash” their food before consumption. Who would have ever known? I surely did not; however, in spite of the sentence’s eccentricity, I discovered a new fact. I suppose that is what reading is supposed to be about: learning new things, expanding language

Over the course of twenty-eight days, our criminal justice class performed an experiment that contained stillborn and natural death piglets. Thirteen piglets were put into certain scenarios such as: piglets hung in the air with and without clothes, on cement with and without clothes, in the grass with and without clothes, buried underneath dirt with and without clothes, burned with a torch, knife wound, bullet wound, and buried in a box with and without clothes. Over the course of this month, our group recorded on a daily basis the differences that occurred. To our amazement, we were able to find startling evidence as to how these piglets decomposed and the science matters behind it.

To prove the said study the scientist tested it with a group of mice. They fed it with a

Several different theories about the domestication of hamsters have been tossed around; however, most of these theories are not supported by facts. Despite this, there is one man whom is credited for the domestication of the Syrian hamster--zoologist Israel Aharoni. In 1930, Aharoni partook on an expedition, with local Syrian Sheikh El-Beled, to find and study rare Syrian hamsters. During the expedition, Aharoni found a female Syrian hamster along with her 11 offspring, in a wheat field. Having found the rare species, Aharoni brought the hamsters with him to Jerusalem’s Hebrew University to be studied. The trip to the university proved difficult for the hamsters; the stress of traveling caused the mother hamster to attack her young, and she

Viruses affect us in our everyday life and they have become something that is not an abnormal phenomenon or a fatal occurrence like it was in olden times. (Alic and Longe , 2015) Likewise, the viruses that affect us have much impact of what the actual disease is. Norovirus being an example of a virus that affects our daily lives and can be fatal. (Longe, 2015) This disease is highly contagious and is very often overlooked by the public eye, however it can have much impact on our daily lives and how we live. This virus can be seen throughout all of your lifetime and can affect anybody at any age, it is harder to treat as it can withstand high temperatures and can live in almost any environment making it difficult to damage and control. (Alic and Longe , 2015) Norovirus outbreaks are very common

In later experiments, Harlow’s monkeys proved that better late than never was not always right specially when it came to nurturing an infant. When Harlow allocated his baby monkeys in total isolation for the first 8 months of their life, forsaking their contact with other babies or with the artificial mothers, they were permanently hurt. Harlow and his friends kept repeating this experiments, assigning baby monkeys to diffrent periods of isolation times. They came up with the conclusion that the impact of early motherly deprivation could be reversed in monkeys only if it had lasted less than

Abnormality can be portrayed as a misbehavior, disorder, depression, and dysfunction. With the different types of abnormality models can very well describe what the individual is going through and help that individual overcome the abnormality. With the correct treatment or therapy, the abnormality can be cured for the moment or, it can be correctly cured for the rest of their lives. In treatment or therapy there does not necessarily need to be medicine to treat the patient for many reasons because, with the medicine it can have harmful effects on the person’s body. My abnormality model uses three different types of models to help cure patients of it abnormality function such as biological, psychodynamic, and human existential. With these

For instance, research in Africa has found that chimpanzees in their natural habitat sometimes ingest the poisonous Veronia plant. This particular plant produces terpenes, which are toxic. In the correct dosage, the terpenes in Veronia kill intestinal worms while leaving the host animal unharmed. Researchers found that chimpanzees eat only the pith (the soft, spongy centre tissue) of the Veronia plant – where the concentration of terpenes is optimal for the poisoning of parasites – and do not suffer any ill effects. The scientists have not discovered whether this self-medicating behaviour is learned or instinctive, but their research suggests that chimpanzees may understand the concept of dosage, as Veronia often proves fatal to other wild animals that ingest the whole plant. This research shows that chimpanzees and other animals have the capacity to treat parasites with plants from their natural surroundings; other research shows that when plants themselves provide the problem, wild animals employ yet another form of

This essay argues that although cannibalism is often conceptualised in today’s modern society as a myth, there is much anthropophagical evidence to suggest otherwise; that cannibalism is indeed an underlying reality. In support of this contention, this essay aims