After reading "scared to death" and "wolf family values" I think the second article gave better reasoning behind why we should protect the wolf population. Both articles talk of the wolves return to Yellowstone national park, but the first essay "scared to death" by Ed Yong focuses on the wolves effect on the elk population. The second essay "wolf family values" by Sharon Levy focuses mainly on the wolves and their population and changes of their behavior because of hunting and trying to manage the population. it also focuses on the effects they have on the environment in general. "scared to death" discussed reintegration of the wolves after their population was accidentally eradicated for almost 70 years.(Yong ll 1-2) Although the wolves were the focus of the article it spoke more about the effect they had on the elk population just by being back in the area. A landscape of fear was created by the them among the elk population. This "landscape of fear" is a graph of how the wolves effect the elk by just being around. They create a fear among the elk that causes a drastic change in their behavior, creating this map or graph of …show more content…
This makes them seem less menacing and scary like the first article makes them look. Sharon Levy says in part "It is only in the two decades that biologists have started to build a clearer picture of wolf ecology….Instead of seeing rogue man-eaters and savage packs, we now understand that wolves have evolved to live in extended family groups.." (ll 19-22) This article also explains the positive overall effects of the wolves moving back to Yellowstone. Not only did the wolves have a new home filled with beautiful elk for prey they were also protected from hunters. This changed the attitude of the wolves as well as their population, of course their population grew and stayed more
In the document “Doomed to Perish”: George Catlin’s Depictions of the Mandan by Katheryn S. Hight, she analyzes the work of George Catlin while he traveled to the Mandan colony west of the Missouri River. Hight identifies that Catlin created a false and imaginative depiction of the Mandan Indians based on his social and political ideas which ended up creating an entertainment enterprise rather than reporting history. Catlin’s extravagant depictions of the Indians, which did have an impact on the Indian Policy in America, seemingly motivates Hight to write on this subject.
“Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf” by Mary Ellen Hannibal, explains the impact wolves carry if they are ever extinct. Hannibal uses scientific data to explain to the audience the important a wolf has in the wild. Hannibal points out how fragile the food chain is, and when one player is out the who system tumbles down. Hannibal connects the action of the wolves in the wild and how it trickles down the food chain.
The book I read was Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde. Never trust a Dead Man is a very interesting murder mystery. The main plot of the story is that Selwyn has been framed for murdering Farold. You would automatically assume that Selwyn murdered Farold if you knew that Selwyn and Farold were bitter enemies, Farold stole Selwyn’s girlfriend, and Selwyn’s knife was found stabbed right through Farold’s back. Naturally, all arrows are pointed at Selwyn for murder, but surprisingly he wasn’t the murderer. Now under disguise, he must find out who the real murder is with some help from a witch named Elswyth and Farold, revived from the dead. I think something to learn from this book is that you should always be cautious of what you have and what you do with it. Allow me to explain.
In a 2008 Sally Forth comic strip, Sally attempted to offer her daughter some encouragement before taking her final exams. She declared, “You’re going to ace your finals, sweetie.” Sally expanded on this explaining, “And you know how I know? Because you’re the smartest, most gifted, brilliant kid there is!” Her daughter responded with, “You’d say the same thing if I were a full-blown idiot, wouldn’t you?” Sally replied with, “I guess you’ll never know” (Marciuliano & Keefe, 2008). Although this situation was used for the purpose of entertainment, did Sally tell her daughter the right thing?
...I think that repopulating wolves in an area where they might have to deal with people is kind of a feeble-witted idea. Wolves are not an animal with a great reputation, even though they might not deserve that reputation most people do not like. I think that people as a whole would probably rather have deer in their back yard rather than wolves. Therefore, the questions what can happen, what should happen, and what will happen, with the deer problem all three have different answers. These answers will differ due to the area that the deer are in and the peoples' feeling towards these deer. It is too bad that there is not one perfect solution to the deer problem. Maybe in the future there will be, but until then we will have to deal with each problem that comes up individually.
During 70 years of absence from the Rockies, the Grey Wolf had been protected under the Endangered Species Act that was passed in 1973. Since the wolf is under the protection of Endangered Species Act a person could be punished with up to a $100,000 fine and up to 1 year in jail for killing a wolf. Back in the 1850's there was a major population increase of the wolves in America, this was due to settlers moving west. These settlers killed more than 80 million bison, the wolves started to scavenge on the carcasses left behind.
Fear in Journey's End The definition of ‘fear’ is a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger. ‘Fear’ is reflected by the continual tension throughout the play. All the characters deal with fear in their own different ways. This reflects their personality and gives us an outline of how they really deal with the troubles, which arise during their experiences in a dangerous surrounding, and also, by dealing with the outcomes that they have to face in life. Stanhope deals with pain and fear through expressing his anger and also by his drinking habits.
In the book Deadly by Julie Chibbaro there were many themes that were analyzed and illustrated throughout the book. There were only three that catches the eye love can be blind, death can hurt and oppression of women. These themes stood out the most because this book take place in somewhere in the 1900’s because in that era there were many disease taking place in New York. Such as the typhoid, Yellow fever, small pox and other contagious diseases that cause many deaths and also when the Germ theory was just a theory not a law. This book mainly talks about Prudence, Mr. Sopher, and Marm especially but there are others such as Dr. bakers, Jonathan this book talks about how typhoid was carried by an Irish Woman named Mary Mallon and the disease
Fear is the emotional state that someone goes into when they feel threatened or endangered. The fact that we do not know everything makes us think that everything we do not know is feared. There are many stories that include the fear of the unknown. Each poem, story, and drama include some type of fear. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “Hills Like White Elephants”, and “Poof” there is an extensive amount of fear for the unknown. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ernest Hemingway, and Lynn Nottage all used the fear to their advantage while writing and making an entertainment for the readers.
Another reason wolves are bad for our society in the southwest, is a good piece of income and food is raised from hunters every year; with wolves being in the wild, hunters would feel afraid to go into the back country looking for a good deer or elk, the best animals would be eaten by wolves thus reducing the number of permits that are being given out, reducing the money generated by hunting permits. Every year hundreds of people purchase hunting licenses and tags for elk and deer. All of that money goes to the forest service’s fund for improving trails, roads, and safety systems in the national forests. With reduced tags being sold, that revenue is lost. In addition to that money being lost, the best animals will be taken down by wolves, leaving the hunters to go for small, sick, injured, or extremely old animals. The effect of releasing wolves into the wild would be detrimental to the southwest’s hunting community.
Before the wolves turned up, they have been absent for 70 years. As a result, the number of deer, because there was nothing to hunt them had built up in the Elliston park. Despite efforts by humans to control them, managed to reduce much of the vegetation there to almost nothing. As soon as the wolves arrived, although they were few in number, had the most remarkable effects. They
Wolves are a very interesting species because of their interaction with the environment and home they became man's best friend. Wolves are highly important to our food web wolves were also domesticated and have become different species of dog. Wolves are very important to our ecosystem. Without them deer rabbits and other animals would overpopulate forests and eat all of the plants. With them the forests will not be overpopulated in the forests . Wolves balance out the ecosystem and will prevent overpopulation .
Wolves are amazing animals. They do good and bad being back in yellowstone. They bring in extra $23 million dollars a year from tourists. Busloads of school kids have seen wolves hunting, fighting and falling in love witch is a really good thing to see if your a kid so it can ingage the kid into loveing the out doors. The wolves wear collars that send out a unique radio signal. Park workers can locate the wolves with special equipment that picks up the signal. But they have attacked ranchers cattel before. And that dosent make them too happy. I think the wolves are doing more good than harm in yellowstone.
The Gray Wolf is a unique species, demonstrating strong bonds with their family and being a notorious villain in children’s fables for hundreds of years, yet the gray wolf, being highly intelligent and social, has done nothing to warrant this reputation. With wolves bouncing back from the endangered species list, they are thriving like never
One of the first animals that captured my attention in the Hall of North American Mammals was the wolf. In Shore of Gunflint Lake, Minnesota by moon glow and the shimmering Northern Lights, a pack of wolves speeds after a dear. Wolves are highly social animals that live in packs. The pack is the nucleus of the wolf life. Most packs consist of a mating pair and their offspring. The mating pair is the dominant male and female. One of the key privileges held by the alpha female aggressively prevents other adult wolves in the pack from mating by snap or snarl at them. The alpha male is the leader and the decision maker, decide when the pack will travel and hunt. To ensure group hunting, he will block members from leaving the pack. After all, there some spilt off could happen to form packs of their own whereupon they become the competition. The adult males weighs from 65 to 175 lbs. (30-80 kg) and the adult females weighs from 50 to 120 lbs. (23-33kg). The average litter consists of one to eleven pups. Wolves have the widest natural range of any land other than humans and once occupied most of the Northern Hemisphere. Their numbers are improving after decades of persecution. Wolves eat deer, wild sheep, wild goats, small mammals, bison, moose and caribou. It's amazing of how deep snow helps wolves make successful kills. Deer are heavier than wolves with narrower feet, so deer sink further as the...