Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Managment Plan Reflection


Species Management Plan Reflection
What we did was conducted field work at a place called DNS (Durango Nature Studies). The field work mainly consisted of catching any frogs that we could analyze the area for signs of other animals in the area catching macroinvertabrates in the river and in the pond and finally testing the water to see if it was polluted and also to find out if there was a chance of an algal bloom which if the pond has to many phosphates the algal bloom will happen and destroy the pond with algae we made the tests also check if there was coliform which is different from chloroform in that coliform can hurt frogs and make them have deformities. We collected the data of the macroinvertabrates and got
Pond
Damsel flies      53                  Mayflies          41         Midge       5       Caddis fly 2      Dragonflies 1
River
Caddis fly   120        Mayflies    125        Midge     15           Black fly          5         Coleoptera   5

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Innocence Project


Project innocence
Miguel Roman was the man I chose he was convicted of just murder, but the victim had was 17 year old Carmen Lopez, She was 6 months pregnant and was Miguel’s ex-girlfriend .The only evidence that the police had to go off of was the neighbor which said that they had heard sounds of physical confrontation around 8:30 P.M. January 3, another neighbor said that he had seen what looked like Miguel’s car. He served 18.5 years in jail, but his sentence was a 60 year he was sentenced 1/3/88 and was exonerated 4/2/09. What led to the exoneration was that there were three items that they needed to check for DNA for a rape kit, a cloth that blinded the victim, and an electric cord that strangled the victim. The DNA found on all three things were negative to Miguel’s DNA.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Lucy The Chimp

The story about Lucy is that she was a chimpanzee that Mr.Temterlin. He wanted to she what would happen with presenting and bringing up a chimp as a human. Mr.Temterlin succeeded in that sense and saw amazing results in his work.
Lucy was human like by how she walked like a human she ate at the table with utensils. Lucy also was attracted when she was older to other humans instead of other chimps.
But everything needs to be let go like Lucy especially since Lucy was getting to hard for the Temterlins to handle.So what happened to Lucy is the Temterlins tried to find a place for Lucy to go finally they found this park which was enclosed so Janice someone hired by the Temterlins during this time to look after Lucy to make sure she made a good transition to chimp hood. Janice not liking how enclosed this area and seeing the other chimps like humans being there decided to bring them to an island. It was hard for Lucy to transition and Janice had to finally had to sit in a cage to get Lucy to finally go into chimp hood.
After Lucy became a chimp Janice left but, watched the island when she could and finally came back to see Lucy and Lucy was dead she was dead from poachers.
What we can learn from this is that teaching a chimp to be like us is something that shouldn't happen.