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What do prayingmantis eat?
yes a Praying Mantis is a omnivore... it eats plants and little insects.
What weapons were used in Battle of Gettysburg?
The battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3 1863. the battle was fought with rifles and cannons. Both were single shot weapons, requiring time to reload, as apposed to modern weapons which reload almost instantaneously.
What are some ways to help the silverback gorilla from extiction?
Lowland gorillas were recently determined to be Criticially Endangered (the closest category to extinct)...they have gone from Threatened to Endangered to Critically Endangered in the past 15 years or so. The technical reason they are listed as critically endangered is that they are projected to lose > 80% of their population within the span 3 generations---in fact they may lose 67% in just 25 years (about 1 generation). There are two main reasons for this: commercial hunting and Ebola. Given their isolated ranges, it's hard to tell exactly the effect of these 2 influences, but it seems that in the short term Ebola will cause massive gorilla population reductions. To learn more about it and contribute to vaccination programs that are in their starting stages, visit http://email.eva.mpg.de/~walsh/. Hunting is also having its impact, which will make the reductions of >90% in many areas even worse instead of giving gorillas a chance to rebound after this natural spread of disease. In the short term, though, hunting will not kill nearly as many gorillas as Ebola will. Because gorillas have long periods of gestation and lactation, it takes them a long time to increase in population, so it will be hard for their population sizes to rebound from this massive die-off. And in a few decades, the remote areas they live in will likely be less remote and more apt to be exploited by lumber companies and otherwise used to help people. So, in the long term, they may suffer from significant habitat loss, too. Mountain gorillas (the ones Diane Fossey studied), are listed as Endangered. They live only in a very small geographic area, which keeps their population size low, perhaps only 1000 individuals. So they have much fewer individuals than lowland gorilla populations, but they are better protected and not currently facing threat from Ebola (though they may in the future). They are subject to some hunting and habitat degradation, but for the most part their numbers have been increasing in the last couple decades and they seem to have a healthy population size. But of course they have such low population sizes that renewed outbreaks of war or disease could quickly lead to their extinction if they happened.
