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¶ … unpredictable as animals. They are more unpredictable than animals, unless you include wild animals. Domestic animals are really very predictable. For that matter, if one knows anything about wild animal behavior, their actions are fairly predictable as well. A terrified horse will always run; he has not claws to fight, for example.
But let's investigate the behavior of domestic animals. Consider the cat. The cat will always seek a warm, soft spot to lie down. If it's chilly, the cat will seek the sun coming in the window. If it's too warm, the cat will seek a cool, dark place where it can rest its eyes and be relatively comfortable while it does what it usually does, sleep. When it awakes, it will stretch. It then will do one of a very few things. It might groom itself. Or it might go to its food bowl. Or it might meow to be let out if it's an 'outside cat' or it might go to its litter box. It might climb the furniture, too, to entertain itself.
If you've observed many cats, that's about the range of their activities except for playing with a ball of string or a similar toy if a human offers to play, or maybe...
Dogs seem to have a bigger range of behaviors than cats. They won't always seek the softest spot. Sometimes they lie on a soft, warm bed for a while, then they might get down and lie on the hard, cool floor. When they wake up from a nap -- and they take them frequently, too -- they might stretch, or they might not. They probably won't ask to go out because, being smarter than cats, they know what time their owner takes them for walks. If they have a fenced yard, they might ask to be let out there to chase birds. If the owner is eating something, they might beg for some. If they are really bored, they might go get their soft squeaky 'froggie' toy and toss it around a bit, pretending it is some bit of wild food they are killing. All of this is very predictable. It is also predictable that most dogs will bark when the UPS driver pulls into the driveway. And they also bark at mail delivery people. They bark at people they don't know or who seem to them to be 'attacking' their home. That's what the noisy UPS truck doors probably sound like to a dog. They growl menacingly at people who are…
Siberian Huskies do not bark the way most other domestic canines do, but howl amongst their pack members much more the way wolves do. As pets, they are known to vocalize by whining or yowling, which must be addressed through corrective training to avoid becoming a persistent behavioral annoyance. Because they do not bark, they are largely incapable of performing satisfactorily as watchdogs because they will not alert to the
Animal Experience - Abstract Though Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Wyatt, 2011) is classified in the Sci-Fi genre, this film portrays the reasonably foreseeable possibility of intelligent apes successfully revolting against humankind. The main character, Caesar, is a chimpanzee injected with an experimental Alzheimer's-treatment drug that surprisingly develops Caesar's humanlike intelligence and emotions. Though initially well-treated by the drug's inventor and a primatologist, Caesar is eventually relegated to an
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...This whole country is dry...If you don't have to burn it, don't burn it" said the fire marshal from the area (Shay & Johnson 2008). Fire damage at Yellowstone such as the damage that occurred in 1988 and 2008 has come at a tremendous cost: "Since 1984, the annual average number of fires that burn 1,000 acres or more has increased from 25 to 80...and the total average number of
E., they became helpless). Furthermore, other behaviors of the dogs were adversely affected (e.g., the dogs appeared apathetic and had poor appetites) (Hitzemann, 2000). In his essay, "Animal Models of Psychiatric Disorders and Their Relevance to Alcoholism," Hitzemann (2000) reports that, "Both fear and anxiety are alerting signals that warn the individual against impending danger and enable the individual to take defensive measures. For animals, the distinctions between fear and
A survey of scientific responses to extinction at the present moment is fairly unambiguous, however. Paleontologist James Kirchner calculated in 2002 that extinction rates could more or less be statistically inferred from the fossil record, and uses this to quantify what he terms "evolutionary speed limits," which is to say the rate at which the Darwinian process of natural selection (which depends upon the effective extinction of species insofar as