Blubber

2007’s estimate of 4.7% of the fish to barely 1% of the run in 2012.Sea lions have been treated unfairly, they should get the chance to live freely. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, sea lions were Slaughtered for their hides, oil rich blubber and even their genitals which the chinese pharmacists turned into a tincture, and intended to rejuvenate the aged, by 1927 fewer than 1,000 remained. This shows that back then and still going on today they have been mistreated and threatened.…

Endurance by Alfred Lansing is an intense, attention-grabbing story based on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to be the first person to ever cross the continent of Antarctica. Ernest Shackleton was an Irish Explorer who specialized to explorations to the Artic region. His first exploration to the Artic region was under the command of Robert Scott from 1901-1903. Six years later, he was knighted for commanding the successful British Antarctica Expedition that began in 1907 and ended in 1909. On…

ORCA WHALES Did you know that people have developed sonar because of studying how orcas detect things using a series of clicking that they send out through their melon, or that orca’s skin grows 290 times faster than skin on your arm (Throp)? You can learn about many more things by studying orca whales. These are only a few things about orcas that have been studied; the appearance of orcas, how they hunt, and their relationship with dolphins. Orcas detect things using clicking noises that they…

Also, in this chapter, we get a feel for the isolation of the “outsiders.” The captain and his mates would sleep in cabins that were in the back of the ship, next, the Nantucket colonists would stay in the steerage, and the blacks, separated by the blubber room, stayed in front of the boat. After they embark on their journey, the men begin to complain about their rations. Pollard, was able to talk them into settling for what they had, establishing his power and…

If vegans try so hard to emulate the tastes of meats and animal products, the healthy way is to just consume the real thing. The popularity of becoming a vegan has risen in the past decade because of organizations falsely “exposing” the meat and the meat-packing industries. Those industries and the government have heavily regulated systems and laws in favor of treating the animals justly, and many studies have been done by the companies to make sure that they are doing so. For example, many…

lubricant. Other than the coagulation of spermaceti, another peculiarity of the substance is its desirable and distinct fragrance. The spermaceti oil extracted from a whale is of the highest possible quality and has the least imperfections; oil from blubber would sell for a lower price on the market. Spermaceti is undoubtedly a strange, rare, and unusual substance that for decades was the impetus for whalemen to nearly slaughter whales to…

I’m a military child, and as such, it’s always an awkward thing when someone asks me: “Where are you from?” I don’t really know, I can’t pinpoint an exact place where I can say: “I’m from so-and-so.” I can tell you where my family spent a lot time though, where the memories are the deepest, and the places I felt a strong connection to. Alaska is such a place. There’s nowhere in the world like Alaska, and I can say that with extreme clarity because my father has been everywhere. He’ll say…

Endothermy has a lot of benefits and costs compared to ectotherms. Endotherms depend on their bodies metabolism to produce enough heat to raise their body temperature. Endotherms balance heat production with heat loss. Each endotherm has a range of environmental temperatures that keeps its body stable and it does this by regulating the heat loss and heat production. They regulate their body heat by vaping their metabolic rate and change its rate of heat loss by adjusting their insulation.…

Time To De-Liver I was sitting on a cold, metal table in a stark, white room smelling of over sanitization when I heard a soft tap on the door. The doctor was here. I stared up at him in my paper-thin dressing gown, eyes wide with hope, and yearning for him to say the words I longed to hear. Much to my dissatisfaction, however, his eyes looked tired and dull. His wrinkled face frowned, and he shook his head. “Polly, you have Hepatocellular carcinoma in your liver,” he said sadly. “You might…

What is Oil Pollution? Oil pollution refers to the release of oil into the ocean. The source of the oil is more often than not due to human activity. The term is usually used to refer to oil pollution in the oceans but can also refer to oil pollution on land. Why is Oil Insoluble in Water? Oil is composed of hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are insoluble in water because water is a polar molecule and hydrocarbons are non-polar. The general dissolving rule is that ‘like dissolves in like’, since…