Common Bottlenose Dolphin

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever,” an infamous marine biologist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau once said. He knew this spell well, enduring many dangerous marine trips in the waters surrounding his home country of France. The French-Marine explorer sailed around the world, learning about the organisms inhabiting it. This would not have been possible without his invention of scuba gear. Students study him in order to get a better understanding of marine biology.…

Imagine this, you are taken away from your family to go live in a bathtub and forced to do tricks for food, for the rest of your life. This is the everyday life of an Orca at SeaWorld. Orcas should not have to live in captivity. For one the tanks are way too small. The small tanks can leave the orca to become angered (US Whales). Therefor, all the emotion can build up can lead most orca to go crazy. Orcas will break their teeth, trying to chew their way out, or orcas will even chew on the bars…

The Great White Shark that I chose to research was Katherine. She was tagged on August 20, 2013 in Cape Cod Massachusetts. She weighed 2,300 pounds, 14 feet and 2 inches. She was named in honor of Katharine Lee Bates, a Cape Cod native and songwriter—best known for her poem and song “America The Beautiful”. The latest ping for Katharine is off the coast of Florida, near New Smyrna Beach. This area is also known as the shark capital and it consists of murky water that has bait fish within it.…

paradise; from the beaches, blankets of sand covering the shore. The gorgeous sunsets and sunrises taking place on the horizon. The lovely palm trees with coconuts dangling high. The animals are also so beautiful; from the glorious sea creatures such as dolphins and sea turtles, to the humming bees and butterflies. I am an animal person, I love animals so much. I’ve seen so many videos of the wildlife in Hawaii and I’ve been so fascinated. I’m also an outdoors person. I love being outside and…

There is an old legend about a monster living in the depths of Loch Ness. Some say that it is a dinosaur, others say it's a giant serpent, and others believe it is something else. However, I believe it is one big fat hoax. Many Loch Ness plants and animals are large, large enough to be confused for a monster. One example of something that could be confused as a monster is a sturgeon. Many Loch Ness sightings described Nessie to have bony plates on its back, which matches a sturgeons…

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…

Humpback whales can be recognized by their large size, bumpy head, and long flippers. Atlantic humpbacks have mainly white flippers, but those in the Pacific have a darker color to them. In the Northern hemisphere, humpback whales are found in the North Pacific to the South-East Alaskan. Humpbacks from the Western area and the Bering Sea migrate to Northern Marianas. Humpback whales are facing extinction due to poaching. Poaching is the illegal hunting and killing of an animal. Humpback whales…

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 Japanese government officials claim that killing dolphins is part of Japanese culture and tradition. Despite these claims, historians have found no evidence of dolphin hunting in Japanese…

magnificent lighthouses are just some of the charms of Laguna, Brazil. Laguna is perhaps most famous for the symbiotic relationship between local fishermen and a pod of dolphins which frequents the waters near Tesoura Beach. As the dolphins chase fish toward the shore, fishermen throw out their nets to catch the incoming fish. The wild dolphins snap up those which escape the nets and then head back out towards deeper waters. As human-wildlife conflict grows increasingly problematic over limited…

between dolphins and humans is legs and tail fins, of course the color too. Well, duh! Who doesn’t already know about the differences? Despite how different us humans are from dolphins, we have an incredible amount of similarities. We may have some obvious differences, but we have more things in common than we realize. Yes, dolphins and humans clearly have a few major differences. The tail fin, dorsal fin, pectoral flippers, color, and the blowhole. It’s basically endless, because dolphins and…