Essays on Zoology

As a child, I always visited zoos, national parks, and nature conservation sites. I was always so fascinated by the beauty of nature but more importantly, the animals that inhabit these remote areas. But as I grow up, more and more animals, specifically predators, are…

A cute little tiger cub is drinking water from the river with its mother, and then BAM! a cute little bullet pierces the tigers’ brains and leaves it lying by the river, dead. Oh, the inhumanity! This inhumane and illegal act of killing animals is…

The term zoo is a common abbreviation for “zoological garden”, an establishment that maintains a collection of wild animals, typically in a park or gardens, not just for concerned with entertainment, but also with conservation, education, and scientific research. Today, zoos open to the public…

Can you imagine that you are forced to live in a cage for your lifetime? What would it be? Are you willing to live this kind of life? Animals preservation is a popular issue nowadays. As human consciousness of every kind of rights gradually increases,…

The use of animals in research has become a hot topic these days having people debating whether it is ethical or not. However, the use of animals for research is nothing new. Physicians in ancient Greece dissected animals for anatomical studies, as using humans was…

In Jane Goodall’s essay, “I Acknowledge Mine,” she argues that it is inhumane to test products on animals. Goodall travels to a research facility and sees animals being cruelly kept in miserable conditions for animal experimentation. Goodall’s purpose in writing the text is to educate…

For this year’s Research Report, I had decided to look into the issue of tribal whaling, under the topic – Human and other species. The allowance of tribal whaling has been repeatedly questioned across nations and cultures. The Makah has been hunting whales for at…

Introduction Cognition is the understanding and development of mental processes through senses and experiences to obtain knowledge. The areas of cognition in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) I will be exploring are: long term memory, attention and sensory perception. Early interest in bottlenose dolphin cognition arose…

Haliaeetus Leucocephalus, also known as the Bald Eagle, is very important to the United States and the environment as a whole. Importantly, Psalm 11:1 “ I take refuge. How then can you say to me:Flee like a bird to your mountain. ” Once an endangered…

Found among the islands of Luzon, Leyte, Samar and Mindanao, the Philippine Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi lives as one of the largest and most powerful among forest raptors in the world. The bird of prey is equipped with a massive narrow-arched bill and large black claws,…