Wildlife conservation varies worldwide in its form, function, and underlying principles. In recent years, efforts have been directed to describe the key attributes that collectively make wildlife conservation in North America unique. Although efforts to articulate wildlife conservation in North America have come of late, awareness among practitioners in the U.S and Canada that their wildlife …
These days few biologists would try to pin their religious faith, if they have any, on biological evidence, and the apparent design to which Paley referred would be attributed instead to the evolutionary mechanism which Charles Darwin called natural selection. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is universally accepted among serious biologists (except for a …
Explores the courtship behavior of different animals, including insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
A biological community refers to the distribution of organisms in a certain time andspace, usually including animals, plants, microorganisms, and other species popu-lations. Biological communities are the living parts of an ecosystem. Biologicalcommunities depend on the environment; usually, each environment has a corre-sponding specific biological community. Therefore, the ecological environme…
Wildlife Management is “Game management is the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use.” Leopold 1933 " the management of wildlife populations in the context of the ecosystem.” Sinclair et al. 2006 “the application of ecological knowledge to populations of vertebrate animals and their plant and animal associates in a manner that strikes a bala…
The mammalian order catacea includes three suborders: the archaeoceti ancient whales, extinct forms known only from fossils. including at least ten living species of baleen or whalebone whale; and the odontoceti or toothed whales, including about 70 living species of dolphins, porpoises, and whales with teeth but no baleen. So far, humans have not driven any cetacean species to extinction, alth…
Crowbar in hand, Isaac Van Amburgh became famous for confrontinglions in the confined space of a cage in a new type of public enter-tainment. His look alone was believed to subdue lions although inperformance he manhandled them forcefully. Sensationalist handlingacts proliferated and the feat that came to typify 19th-century travellingmenageries involved tamers, including lion queen Ellen Chapm…