And I quote the essential portions of the assignment paper: ‘…You are to look up characteristics and the history surrounding the animal (extinct) and write a 3-page memorial/obituary. You are to tell the story of the animal’s life. Make the story entertaining, well-written’….’Include all relevant, scientific information you can find, but keep personal commentary to the barest minimum.’
Then it says ‘be sure to include and FULLY EXPLAIN the following in your ESSAY:
1. Scientific name and complete taxonomic classification.
2. Animal characteristics
3. Optimal habitat and geographic distribution
4. Niche relationship to its environment….’
etc.
HOW IN THE WORLD do I incorporate scientific information (Like the Scientific name and taxonomic classification?!! HELLO?!!) into an obituary-style essay?! Please, please help me. I can’t ask my teacher because he is gone until the due date. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Posted on February 29, 2012.
“HOW IN THE WORLD do I incorporate scientific information (Like the Scientific name and taxonomic classification?!!”
Very easily.
An obituary (as distinct from a celebrity death headline) tends to read more or less like an encyclopaedia entry for the person. It will start with when they were born (often giving their full name at birth if different to their popular name), their parents (if known), where, what they did in their early life, significant achievements, children etc then how they died.
Well, most obituaries start by listing the full name of the deceased and noting any surviving relatives. So, for example:
“Thylacinus cynocephalus, known to its friends as the Thylacine, died in 1930. Though preceded in death by all its close family, it is survived by the members of the Order Dasyuromorphia, including the quolls, ningauis, dunnarts, and tasmanian devils.”
If you need to, keep going on up the line, pointing out that it is distantly related to all of Infraclass Marsupialia, Class Mammalia, Phylum Chordata, and Kingdom Animalia.
Good luck!
I suggest simply using it after you introduce the name of the animal, for example:
The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) became extinct on this date in 1883. They are a subspecies of the plain zebra, belonging to the Animalia kingdom, Chordata phylum, Mammalia class, Perissodactyla order, Equidae family, Equus genus, Hippotigris seubgenus, Equus quagga species and Equus quagga
quagga subspecies. The last mare died in captivity in on August 12, 1883.
Then go on with your obituary, keeping it entertaining and well written.