Essays on Zoology

In 1983 an advocacy group known as Lynx had a goal to influence people’s outlook on the topic of fur coats and change the way people behave. Its campaign became one of the most successful in history. The ad by Lynx identifies fur-wearers as idiotic…

In this study by J. Brinkman and H.G.J.M. Kuypers, the neuronal connections from the cerebral cortex to the spinal chord were examined in order to determine how the descending contralateral and ipsilateral pathways supply the upper extremity muscle fibres. This experiment suggests that in rhesus…

I have always been enraptured by animals, and by the logical processes of sciences. Only in the last few years did I begin to connect these passions, leading me to Veterinary Medicine, which I have fallen for. Touching upon areas such as neurology and immunology…

Bullfighting has a very long history. Evidence of it’s existence dates back to 2000 BC in Crete, where a mural depicting a woman and a man avoiding a bull in an arena was found. It was also common in ancient Rome, but it is most…

Material and methods Animals Sprague–Dawley rats (220-250 gram, male) were purchased from Pasteur Institute of Iran and were kept in animals’ house under standard conditions 12h/12 dark/light cycle (light beginning at 7 a.m.) and temperature states of 22 ± 1o C. All rats had free…

ABSTRACT Biomimicry is becoming an increasingly popular discipline. In the field of fluid dynamics, designs inspired by nature have outperformed conventional ones in terms of reduced drag, flow separation and improved stability. Recent work done on biomimetic airfoils demonstrate this fact. In this article, I…

The matter at hand needs impartial acknowledgement of the common effects of fishing and dredging of marine phosphate sediments in order to fully come to a conclusion. The proposed method is said to take phosphorus “directly out of the sea, sucking it up from the…

Materials and Methods Fish collection and maintenance. Live fish specimen of selected carps species (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, Cetenopharyngodon idella and C. carpio), irrespective of sex, average range length of 21 centimeter (cm) to 34 cm and weighing 210 – 910 grams of each species were procured…

DiscussionIn present study, all selected carps (H. nobilis, C. idella and C. carpio) secreted huge amount of mucus. Also mucus secretion varied among selected fish species. Blackstock and Pickering (1982); Negus (1983) and Nigam, Kumari, Mittal and Mittal (2012) also reported the similar results. This…

When most people think about discrimination, they typically think of a person being discriminatory to another for their race, gender or various other reasons. Very rarely do we think of animals being discriminated. Now most people will ask how can you discriminate against an animal?…