Beached whale

Re "Hooked on a Myth," Oct.20,2015: Victoria Braithwaite claims that fish feel pain. I absolutely agree with Braithwaite. Some people might think of fish as dumb animals,because they don't show much emotion when a hook is in their mouth or a spear is thru their heads. But this doesn't mean that fish cannot feel pain. I have gone fishing very many times and know the empty looking face that most fish make after you reel them in, and the flapping gasping for water look while lying on the deck.…

the graphs in Figures 3 and 4, it is obvious that killer whales are the cause behind the deaths of a large amount of sea otters. Despite the data for Figure 3 showing all sea otter the researchers encountered, while the data for Figure 4 showing sea otters with radio tags, both figures still show a drastic decrease in sea otter population with the only main difference between Kulak Bay and Clam Lagoon being the ease of access that killer whales have to the areas. The researchers looked at 2…

The North American River Otter (Lutra canadensis) is an animal that is often seen in zoo captivity. Previous research demonstrates that otters are solitary with age, form kinship like relationships, often undergo positive reinforcement and active training techniques, and become lethargic after feeding. This study sought to demonstrate the effects of number of people and time since feeding on river otter backflip activity. By observing two river otters every minute post feeding for backflips and…

presence and their ultimate death. I thought the author did a great job telling the story in a way that was honoring to the whales, even as you see all these horrible things being done to them, “The rope began to cut into the whale’s flesh (71)” as they tried to move it, “scientists used chainsaws to cut the lower jaws off sperm whales that had died only a few feet from whales that were not yet dead (72).” They story easily could have been told from a scientist’s point of view, or a city…

Whether Moby-Dick is a whale or a fish is a trifling matter—what is significant about it is that it is a great “white” whale. The color white is usually connected to innocence and purity; however, in “Moby-Dick”, the quintessentially white sperm whale defies the qualities attached to its color as Ahab sees it as the archetypal evil. In a novel overwhelmingly about whaling, Melville frequently explores colors and their meanings and use them to paint a picture of characters and sceneries in the…

One horrible cold and grueling night in a boggy swamp I saw something that I would never forget. This was something that was so unexpected and it would keep me up and alert for many nights. My dad and I were your normal gator hunting. we were out doing our usual line run like we do every day it was pretty much the same as every day catch a few nice size gators, then it went to some smaller gators then it went to nothing. Then we rebaited some lines and moved some and baited them.…

Are you trying to figure out what movie you should watch next? Do you want a movie with horror, mystery, drama and a little bit of humor? Well, you're at the right place, The Shallows is a great movie to watch while cuddling with your favorite blanket and eating your favorite snacks. The Shallows were directed by Jaume Collet-Serr. He also directed a movie called Non-Stop, another great movie you should watch featuring Liam Neeson, but back to the movie review. The Shallows is a great movie to…

Trial and Error Envision surviving on a fearful island. Full of violently wild animals such as snakes and lions. Even bizarre animals like whales, donkeys, and ostriches just to name a few. In the novel Swiss Family Robinson, the family gets stranded on this island, because they are shipwrecked. While on this island, they attempt to tame a donkey and an eagle. The Robinson family eagerly selected a donkey, who was missing because of the devastating shipwreck. The donkey was relatively easy to…

high altitudes, but they swim in the deep dark water mostly. They are highly intelligent creatures that have very close knit social groups. The bonds they make with each other are as strong as the bond between human and their relatives. A young orca whale will stay with its mother for its entire life. A group of mothers and their children, young or old, it called a matriline. It is very rare for a member of a matriline to stray away from the group for over an hour. Forcing these beautiful…

George Millay, Milt Shedd, Ken Norris and David DeMott originally founded the SeaWorld we know today in the late 1950’s to early 1960’s. It was originally a subsidiary of Busch Gardens, housing a bird sanctuary, and eventually it turned into a water park. Its founders, however, had plans for the facility. They envisioned an underwater restaurant that would allow guests to look into a large pool and see marine animals close up but that idea soon expanded when Ted Griffin, sold Shamu to SeaWorld…