Essays on Nests

Bee’s, Honey, and Humans

A close relationship has been established between honeyguide bird’s species and humans, as witnessed in the woodlands of Mozambique. This relationship is due to the gained adaptations over the centuries in humans and the birds and has led them to work together. The relationship is established whereby the honeyguide bird’s lead honey-hunters towards bee hives upon hearing a specific sound from the honey-hunters, and producing a sound in response to the honey-hunters. It is believed that these birds do so with accuracy. Experiments were performed by scientists to test the practice validity and they were successful. According ...

Over the years, behavioral scientists have repeatedly attempted to understand, define and explain tool usage by different animal species. However, given the complexities involved in data collection, it has remained an elusive and somewhat difficult to quantify task. Initially people believe that developing tools for different activities such as transportation, food gathering or for defense was what inherently differentiated ‘humans’ from animals . This is because crafting tools for improved productivity and to make daily tasks easier and simpler to perform, required a certain level of intelligence and maturity of thought that scientists believed animals did not possess. The goal ...

Introduction

The role of sociology in the society cannot be ignored. One can easily make use of social theories to reflect on the environment they live in. The conflict theory stipulates the existence of class structures in a society. Simply put, there exist social inequalities. This paper gives a reflection of this social theory in relation to the lifestyle of a given community.

The segment that gives the best reflection of my neighborhood is the ‘New Empty Nests’. As the term implies, people and families classified under this segment do not appreciate staying at home, hence the reason their families ...