Cetacea

Dolphins’ Methods of Hunting Many organisms have developed intriguing methods to hunt their prey. This report explains the hunting methods of several species of dolphins. Relevant background information is provided. Hunting strategies are broken into two categories: individual hunting methods, and group hunting methods. Not all hunting methods belong strictly in one category; several of the methods covered are exhibited in other marine organisms. One group hunting method is unique to dolphins.…

Introduction: D is an 11-year-old boy who has just finished the fifth grade. He is the child of a friend who goes to school in a neighboring district. Due to the fact that school has already released for the summer, and my placement out of the classroom this year, it was necessary to reach out to a student within the middle school range who was known to me, but not in an educational relationship. D has tested as high average in informational text and literature and high in vocabulary use and…

In their paper “Trans-Pacific Consumption of Cephalopods by North Pacific Killer Whales (Orcinus orca), “ Hanson and Walker points out that cephalopods, specifically squid, may be a larger part of the diet of many transient killer whales in the North Pacific Ocean that was once thought. They identified three particular ecotypes of whales observed in the North Pacific which include residents and offshores that both feed primarily on other smaller fish, and transients which feed on marine mammals.…

While you're paying money to go see sea animal do tricks, looking like they're happy and having the time of their lives, you’re actually just paying for more equipment for them to make these sea animals lives even more miserable. In captivity, many sea animals such as Orcas suffer from poor physical and mental health. When they are not in captivity they can travel 50 to 100 miles a day. But with them being in places like sea world their tanks are normally only twice their size, forcing the…

No, no way, the Canadian government shouldn't ban the seal hunt due to many reasons. I feel the main reasons are: we would lose resources that we acquire from the seals, due to the increase in population of the seals, fishes that we eat are decreasing in population some are even close to extinct, and that the media is going above and beyond by showing nonsense and causing people to act against the seal hunt which is hurting the economy, specially the fishermans. First of all the seals are…

Narwhals are commonly names to be the unicorn whale because of the horn or tusk. Narwhals scientific name is monodon monoceros. The narwhals’ domain is Eukaryotic because it has a nucleus. The kingdom of narwhals is animalia. The phylum for dolphins is chordata the class of narwhal is mammalia. The geographic location for narwhal is in Greenland, Canada, Russia, and the Arctic Ocean. The biome where you can find narwhals is on the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Narwhals live in the icy waters of…

Canadian Seal Hunt The famous Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai once said “Environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain our environment, we can not sustain ourselves” This has led me to the belief that the Canadian Seal hunt should not be banned because of the environmental benefits, economical benefits and the health benefits it provides that have been discovered through well developed research. Firstly, the seal hunt is balancing out the…

Whaling has existed throughout many different cultures through many different eras. It has been, in the past, a largely profitable commercial business for many years that many nations would partake in including Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Japan. It became evident that the continuation of whaling on a commercial scale would soon lead to the extinction of the species and that forms of regulation needed to be created to prevent the loss of these mammals. Through regulation was seen to be needed,…

In the news report ‘It’s the Wild West out here:’Gulf Islanders raise alarm over too many whale-watching boats by CBC in 2018, and in the poem The Famous Tay Whale written in 1883 by McGonagall, the human-animal relationship has evolved from In the news report, ‘It’s the Wild West out here:’Gulf Islanders raise alarm over too many whale-watching boats by CBC in 2018, and in the poem The Famous Tay Whale written in 1883 by McGonagall, the human-animal relationship has evolved from…

In 2009, Louie Psihoyos brought attention to what was previously and undiscussed topic. His documentary The Cove showed the world a tragedy that occurred in Taiji, Japan every year. From September to March thousands of dolphins and porpoises are killed in the waters of a small cove. The film makes a strong argument about the heinousness slaughter. This mass killing in Taiji is without reason, could end in the extinction of the species, and is giving the world a bad perception of Japan. Many…