Pollution affects not only humans. Animals of all kinds are subject to the same ills. Frogs are extremely sensitive to environmental changes and in Asia, species are becoming extinct before they are even identified. Other contributing factors to the problem of worldwide extinction of many amphibians are disease and habitat encroachment by humans. All animal […]
Moby Dick, the white whale of Herman Melville’s novel written in 1851, was actually modeled after a real live whale called Mocha Dick. Spotted often in the early 1800s, Mocha Dick’s home was the Pacific Ocean. He was usually seen near an island called Mocha off the coast of Southern Chile. Mocha Dick was a […]
The Zika virus is a mosquito-borne virus. It’s in the family of other viruses carried by mosquitoes such as West Nile virus, malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever and more. The Zika virus was first discovered in Uganda in 1947. It was found in a Rhesis monkey whose habitat was the Zika (overgrown) Forest. Little research […]
