Zoology Essays and Term Papers

eels, they are actually ostariophysians, but have a strong physical resemblance to true eels. .  An electric eel is mostly tail. The internal organs are compressed into the anterior (front) 1/5th of the body, and the rest of the fish consists…

Homosassa Springs Park was the sight of a joyous event. Sweet Pea, a wayward manatee rescued more than 900 miles from her home, was ready to be introduced to the wild. The 1,450 pound manatee was spotted near a municipal wastewater treatment plant…

There are more then 350 know species of sharks today, which can all be placed under 8 scientific orders that contain 30 families. They are placed into these categories by their shared characteristics, this is called taxonomy. The more closeley…

carnivores are descendents of animals called miacids that lived during the age of dinosaurs about 60 million years ago. These small mammals, with long bodies and short flexible limbs, evolved over millions of years into several hundred different species,…

jaws on the planet. Unlike most animals' jaws, both the sharks' upper and lower jaws move. Each type of shark has a different shaped tooth depending on their diet <Tab/>Normally, sharks eat alone. But sometimes one feeding shark…

all over the world, many animals are dying as you read this. Not natural deaths, not peaceful deaths, but painful deaths caused by experiments. Once I finish telling you about it, you will realize how utterly disgusting this practice is. Every week,…

by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease primarily affects the lungs and causes pulmonary tuberculosis. It can also affect intestine, meninges, bones and joints, lymph glands, skin and other tissues of the body and hence causes secondar…

<Tab/>The scientific name for the rhinoceros iguana is Cyclura cornuta. The Cyclura cornuta is the Animalia kingdom, the chordate phylum, and the reptile class. The evolutionary history of reptiles is from the extinct reptiles, which…

has been one of the largest arguments raging between scientists and animal rights activists for quite some time. Scientists will argue that a dog or cat will only comfort you and play with you as an instinctual reaction, as you are the caregiver,…

use it over a period of up to two years to lay several batches of eggs. She spends much time producing up to ten round egg sacs (1cm diameter), which are white, weathering to brown over time. Each egg sac contains approximately 250 eggs and only one…