Between these period people began living in camps and cave-settlements for seasons at a time, this is the reason why they were called semi-nomads. Crop plants became an useful food source, people no longer depended on hunting wild animals for food, though hunting still went on. ...
The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. ... The so-called Hudson River School appeared in the mid 1820s. ... The Hunter's Return represents wild woods surrounding a glade where a family seems to be living in symbiotically with the prevailing forces of nature. ... America was still a new country, and many considered it as a Garden of Eden, plentiful and wild. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation i...
Millions of wild and domestic animals are used in research such as dogs, cats, rats, guinea pigs, monkeys, and others. ... However, some people, called anti-vivisectionists, say that we should allow no experiments on animals, while vivisectionists believe that we can do whatever we like to animals. ...
An international treaty known as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora went into effect in 1975 to outlaw the trade of endangered animals and animal parts. ... The male spotted owl defends his territory by calling at dusk and at night with his loud, deep calls that sound somewhat like a barking dog. ...
