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NetVet Veterinary Resources / Electronic Zoo Animal Species Text and Non-Netscape Browsers, [Start Here] Select a Species from the Pick List, the Image Map above, or the Menu below. Return to: Endangered Species Sauts Clip N Go Food Chain - Kid's Corner The Food Chain Every living thing needs energy in order to live. Everytime animals do something (run, jump) they use energy to do so. Animals get energy from the food they eat, and all living things get energy from food. Plants use sunlight, water and nutrients to get energy (in a process called photosynthesis). Energy is necessary for living beings to grow. A food chain shows how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature. A simple food chain could start with grass, which is eaten by rabbits.
ARKive - Discover the world's most endangered species Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. Therefore, the charity had been using its reserves to keep the project online and was unable to fund any dedicated staff to maintain Arkive, let alone future-proof it, for over half a decade. Therefore, a very hard decision was made to take the www.arkive.org website offline in February 2019.
A Dog Trainer Confesses: I Rarely Walk My Dogs! Too often, dog owners are told that more exercise and more walks are the solution to many behavior problems including aggression, reactivity, and separation anxiety. While it is true that a lack of exercise can exacerbate these issues, it's rarely the cause or the cure -- although it is part of the treatment plan. I think that for many dogs (and their people!) Until my reactive Saint Bernard, Cuba, is more comfortable around these things in his environment, chances are high that when we're out together, he may be put in a situation where he rehearses undesirable behavior and learns that he cannot trust me to keep him safe; not a fun situation for either of us! I grew up in a rural community where you rarely saw a dog on a leash except at the vet's office. There are many alternatives to leash walks that may be preferable for some dogs for a variety of reasons -- energy level, training deficits/behavior problems, breed type, owner preferences and schedules. 1. 2. 3.
Rainforest Animals The Learning Zone: Extinct & Endangered Museums are probably the only places you can see extinct animals and often the only places you can see some endangered animals. Although we prefer animals to be left in the wild today, scientists can use the information they gain from museum collections to understand more about the animals still in the wild. Select one of the links below to find out more about animals in the Museum. Dodo Coelacanth Thylacine Blue whale Golden toad Giant panda Passenger pigeon Schaus' swallowtail Or find out what extinction really is, and meet our hippo by answering these questions. What does being extinct mean? There are heaps of different facts, figures, pictures and resources about extinct and endangered animals in this section. Find out about the extinct and endangered animals in the Museum. Go to the Homepage to find out about hippos and the causes of extinction.
WHY PLAY DOG SPORTS? I am on the train home now, after a fantastic weekend teaching Treibball with Dogzworth in Montreal. Great dogs, great people and a fantastic time. AND sushi for lunch. When I do workshops like this I often have the opportunity to visit people who are excited about a new sport or activity with their dogs and who are keen on learning new things. There are a wide variety of sports you can play with your dogs now. In the group I was teaching we had a wide variety of dogs with a wide ranges of backgrounds and talents. First and foremost, I do sport with my dogs because we enjoy it. Secondly, dog sports, regardless of which ones, are activities that you and your dog do together. In order to play dog sports, you have to have a set of skills. As I taught the Treibball workshop yesterday, I was able to make ties between the skills we were teaching and a number of other sports. We teach a long go out in Treibball. We also teach the dog to go in the direction that we tell them to go.
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5 sports canins favorisant la complicité maître-chien Pratiquer un sport canin est l’occasion d’entretenir votre santé ainsi que celle de votre chien. Exercer une activité ou un sport commun, que ce soit en simple loisir ou en compétition, vous permettra de renforcer votre complicité et satisfaire les besoins naturels de votre chien. Voici 5 sports canins à la portée de tous et pour tous les chiens : Agility L’agility est un sport canin à la portée de tous les chiens à condition d’avoir les bases minimales d’éducation. C’est un sport canin basé sur la complicité maître/chien dans le prolongement de l’éducation par les méthodes positives, alliant souplesse et intelligence. De nombreux concours sont organisés à travers la France mais il faudra une bonne dose d’entrainement avant de remporter une médaille. Obé rythmée Inventée parallèlement aux Etats unis et en Angleterre, l’obé rythmée ou obéissance ryhmée est un sport canin alliant créativité, complicité et obéissance. Frisbee Canin Canicross Canirando
Wildlife & Nature Videos | Clips | Photos | Programmes - itvWILD Camoflauge in Animals Mimicry Some animals and plants look like other things -- they mimic them. Mimicry is another type of deceptive coloration. It can protect the mimic from predators or hide the mimic from prey. If mimicry was a play, there would be three characters. The Model - the species or object that is copied. The Mimic - looks and acts like another species or object. The Dupe- the tricked predator or prey. The poisonous coral snake and the harmless king snake look a lot alike. The viceroy butterfly and monarch butterfly were once thought to exhibit Batesian mimicry where a harmless species mimics a toxic species. Could You Tell the Difference? Aggressive Mimicry Some mimics look like something else, not to avoid predators, but to catch prey. The frogfish or angler fish lures its prey to where it can strike. Cryptic Coloration Some organisms look so much like another object that they almost disappear! Eyespots: I'm Watching You! Some butterflies and moths have large eyespots.