Elephant Research Papers Samples For Students

My Experiences Touring Kenya’s Wildlife

My Experiences Touring Kenya’s Wildlife
Working as an environmentalist I have come to appreciate wildlife in Africa majorly the diversity that it has in the variance of creation. To sample a few of theattractions that drew me to Kenya includewilderbeastmigrationandthebig five (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and hippopotamus). I wasexcited to visit Africa with thepromise to feast my eyes on its wildlife. However, my visitwasalsodriven by environmental conservationinitiatives since there has beengrowingconcerns over poaching in Africa and Kenya to be specific. To thisend, I notethat elephants and rhinos havebecomethemainvictims of poachers for their ivory. Similarly, cheaters andleopardshave as wellfallenvictim ...

Badi'al-Zaman Abū al-'Izz ibn Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazarī or simply al-Jazari – was an outstanding engineer and inventor, mathematician, astronomer of the Islamic Renaissance who lived (1136–1206) during the reign of the Turkish Artuquid Dynasty. In Arabic Islamic sources he is named literally as a “Kurdish inventor Ismail, the son of Rezzaza from Jazeera” alongside with a name of “Man of Honor”. Al-Jazari gained world fame generations ahead as an inventor of strange mechanisms that advanced far beyond the XII-XIII centuries during which he lived and made great scientific discoveries, but personally he was "more interested in the ...

A global language pertains to a language that is widely spoken and learned by many people. To be considered a global language, it has to be spoken internationally and acquired as a second language. It must also be recognized as the language used when dealing with organizations all over the world and when communicating with other nations. Among these languages are English and Russian, which are considered as two of the major languages in the world today.
Both languages belong to the Indo-European languages, which is why there are similarities between the two languages. While Russian uses Cyrillic alphabet, it has ...

Introduction

Do non-human animals have minds? This paper explores the possibility of the validity of the philosophical viewpoint that suggests that humans are not the only animals on our planet that have minds; that other animals are capable of conscious thought. It attempts to determine the consensus of informed opinion on the subject, in order to arrive at what might be considered to be the majority and hopefully correct answer.

The Research

Mountain (April 2013) published a feature entitled “Scientists Declare: Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious” which clearly came down on the side of deciding that those creatures do have minds. In his opening ...

Introduction

In the past, humans practiced hunting and gathering as a way of finding food. They would hunt down animals for food and feed the different communities. Over time, as the human population grew. The growth in human population meant that there was an increased demand in food, thus leading to an increased number of animals to hunt down. It became impossible for the humans to solely depend on animals for food. Another result with the increased human population was increased demand for land. The humans turned to cutting down or burning vegetation. In the process, some animals were burnt ...

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), the ecosystem under study, is situated in the foothills of the Himalayas i.e. the Shiwalik range and falls within Nainital and Pauri Garhwal districts of the state of Uttarakhand. Corbett National Park (CNP), 520.82 km2, and 301.18 km2 of adjoining Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary along with 466.32 sq.km of buffer zone together forms 1288.32 km2 of the tiger reserve (Barthari 12). CTR lies between 290 25’ N to 290 40’ N latitudes and 78 05’E to 790 5’E longitudes (see Fig. 1).
Figure 1: Location map of Corbett Tiger Reserve.

CLIMATE

The climate of ...

Changes in my perspective regarding project management

Project management is a task that is constituted by proper integration of a number of interrelated activities. The different portions that are combined to build up a complete project are referred to as the work breakdown structure. Initially, I viewed project management as one huge task that a project manager has to carry out single-handedly. Considering of my perspective, the project manager would be involved in all the stages that a project had been scheduled follow. Provided the project manager has the vision and motivation, the project would terminate successfully in respect of time and objectives. However, after the simulation, I have acquired further ...

Research Designs

A research question is a set of words that describe a phenomenon that a researcher wants to study. It is also the questions that a researcher aims to answer through the findings of the research. For one to develop a good research question in any given field or subject, they need to consider some important aspects. First, the researcher must have adequate knowledge in the field he intends to research. The researcher must also have access to past literature in that field. The researcher has to know the past researches done in that field, identify the information gaps which his research aims to fill. ...

Abstract

A clear understanding of historic lifetime traits of species is important in understanding the strategy of the male species. A Threatened species in the ecosystem need to be considered for safety using an intervention on their generic characteristics and behavior. Conservative measures for these species especially the elephant which has a considerable longer reproduction period need to intervene on the basis of anthropogenic interventions on the reproduction dominance. The result of the relationship between African male elephant’s age and paternity specific success tactic showed that paternity rises with age having a small number of active old bulls in the musth ...

Circuses are meant to be a source of fun especially for children who love them. However, behind all these entertaining unnatural acts of animals lie extreme cruelty, pain and torture. Animals used in circuses are unwillingly forced to comprehend the unnatural acts in very harsh environments. This kills their sprit and denies them the rights of enjoying what they enjoy most. The animals` mental well-being and health are jeopardized during the show. This paper discusses the reasons why animals should not be used in circuses.
Firstly, in circuses, animals are forced out of their will to perform acts and ...

Introduction

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in July 21, 1899, Oak Park, Illinois. He was an American writer and journalist. Most of his works were fiction characterized by mainly economy and understatements. Owing to his profession of being a journalist he was also an adventurous person. He did his production in the 20th century (the mid 1920s and also mid 1950s). He ventured into journalism after finishing school where he worked for The Kansas City Star. Afterwards he left for the Italian font where he became an ambulance driver during World War I. This is what led to the production of ...

The application of the “Precautionary Principle” for the deployment of climate bioengineering initiative requires that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through the Subsidiary Body for Climate Geoengineering (SBCE) to conduct regular and continuous monitoring initiatives of the perceived adverse and positive effects of the reengineering program. It will also require continuous collaboration and active participation among its different stakeholders.5
The precautionary principle states that if our organization performs an initiative that could pose potential harm to the public in sync with the absence of consensus in the scientific community, the burden of proof that the ...

Part 1 Video Critique

The video chosen for the critique is a video showing the discovery of wooly mammoth carcass in Siberia by scientists (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GQKWQ1t9r0). The wooly mammoth was a big, shaggy and tusked elephant like animal that lived in the ice age period. The animal belongs to the mammoth species which is the common name for the elephant genus Mammuthus which is now extinct. A catastrophic weather event, climate change, disease and human activities may have wiped out these huge shaggy beasts. They lived in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America during the ice age period. The last mammoths may have lived around 1700 ...

Abstract

This paper defines long-term care (LTC) and the challenges the LTC industry currently faces. Areas covered include a shortfall in funding needed to provide LTC of an acceptable quality, the fact that more and more people are requiring care over a longer period due to an increase of average life expectancy, a significant increased incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia variants, an infrastructure that is lagging the demand, and a shrinking workforce in the industry coinciding with an increased demand for its services. The paper concludes that the funding shortfall is probably the major challenge, because without sufficient funding, care of ...

Geog 315: Assignment 2 Literature review

Introduction
The Tohoku magnitude-9 earthquake occurred on March 11th 2011. Its epicenter was on the undersea floor of the Pacific Ocean, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of Tohoku in northeastern Japan, and at a depth of about 20 miles (32 km). The cause was the sudden movement at the junction of two tectonic plates – the Eurasian Plate rising over the Pacific Plate. The tremors lasted about six minutes, and caused a huge and devastating tsunami. Huge waves reached Japan’s coastline less than an hour after the earthquake itself, and in some locations travelled inland as far as six ...

Electricity can flow in two different ways; either in direct current (DC) or in alternating current (AC). Electricity is a moving electron through or along a conductor, for instance a wire, which have been connected for energy (Daly, Peckham & AudioGO, 2013). Therefore, the variation between DC and AC is the direction of electron flow. In direct current, the electrons flow in one direction (forward). In alternating current, electrons keep changing directions, sometimes forward and at times backwards (Daly, 2013).

Origins of DC and AC Current

A magnetic field next to a wire can make electrons flow along the wire in one direction, because electrons become repelled from the negative ...

All fringe parties aside, The United States basically has a two party system, in which Democrats and Republicans compete for control of both the federal and state governments in the United States. Though they disagree on many issues, in the United States as compared to other countries this differences are marginal. Some countries have dozens of parties that vie for power and have the need to form a coalition government. In those countries there are parties who believe in communist ideals who are competing with other parties with capitalistic ideals. These stark contrasts are of a much less degree with the two ...

Abstract

Strongly influenced by Freud’s theories about the structure and the workings of the human psyche, the surrealist movement dived deeply into the exploration of the unconscious – hoping to find the essence of the human mind and spirit in an alternative reality. Salvador Dali is one of the main representatives of this movement – his works constantly defied the boundaries of reality and imagination. He was a prolific artist, always in search of new ways of creative expression. Due to his personal background, he was always attracted to the world of fantasy, which made him very suitable for the surrealist movement. ...

Feminism has been a societal movement since the sixties and as such its effect on Hollywood has received an enormous share from both literary and film critics. Movies, or Motion Pictures, as they were referred to in the early days, were understood by feminists as being a practice exemplifying stereotypes about women and womanliness, in addition to portraying men as macho and strong beings.
Over the years, a new form of literary criticism that focuses on the engenderment of Hollywood has been taking root and has come to be known as Gender or Feminist Criticism. This style of analysis examines the manner ...

SECTION ONE: ASSESSMENT OF CHILD’S HEALTH: RAW DATA PRESENTATION

The child’s name is Heidi; she is female, aged 10 years and 5 months. The assessment session was administered at the child’s home. She is 144cm tall, has a weight of 37.6kgs, and her BMI value is 17.3. The child’s temperature is 36.60C, her respiration rate was 16, and her pulse was 77bpm.

The questions asked during the Child’s Health Assessment: Health of Infants, Children and Young People.

ORAL HEALTH AND ORAL HEALTH BEHAVIORS
Do you brush your teeth? Answer, yes.
How many times a do you brush in a day and at what time? Answer: Once a day in the morning.
Assessor’s comment: the child has a broken front tooth; the ...

Abstract

Mobile Virtual Network Operator(s) (MVNO) are mobile service providers who do not have their own radio spectrum frequencies that are licensed and they also don’t have all the necessary infrastructures required to offer or provide telephone services. However, there are many opportunities that are coupled with the existence of Mobile Virtue Network Operators for instance to the telecom as well as non-telecom companies Labordere, (2009). These companies are given an opportunity to take part as participants in mobile sectors. Incoming players in this arena have all the opportunities of extracting much from their present clients by adding ...