My grandparents have a small, man-made pond in their yard. There are a lot of different frogs and fish that live in their pond. My grandfather has lived in our small town all his life, and our family has kept a pretty decent record of events in the town. Its really interesting, because he knows basically everything thats gone on in this town since it was founded. Behind where the pond is now, there used to be a railroad track and we can even find Native American arrow heads sometimes out in the woods. Only a couple of decades ago, all the places where our houses and neighborhoods and schools and stores are, there used to be just woods. And the woods were just everywhere, and now so many people have moved here and we’ve taken up so much space. We’ve gotten rid of so many trees and places for the native animals to live. We’ve seen coyotes and deer and turkey and many other animals in the woods. Its really suprising how the land we live on now really used to belong to so many other animals, and we’re just pushing them out, more and more all the time. 
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May 24, 2010 by violinbeatlesgirl
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That is very interesting…I agree that it is wuite interesting to think that not long ago, the land where our houses now stand belonged to animals. I also have to wonder why people complain about having wild animals in their backyards when the animals were there first. Humans have invaded so much land, it’s unbelievable! I to have coyotes living in woods behind my house. Whenever we let our dogs out at night, we are careful to monitor them and make sure they don’t get eaten.
I think that the way that you applied the subject of biodiversity into your everyday life was very interesting. Your point is a very good one that at one time this land belonged to animals other than humans. The one thing I would have done differently is explain biodiversity. Nice blog!!!!
Diagram of biodiversityhttp://www.greenviewresource.com/biodiversity-stimulus.jpg