Dorsal fin

physical consequences that occur too. There have been many cases where their teeth have been damaged, the enamel wearing off or even teeth falling out, because they chew on the metal bars along their tanks. All male orcas in captivity have collapsed dorsal fins, a condition that rarely occurs in the wild. It's a sign of a lack of health, and is caused by an inability to swim freely or an unhealthy…

is Cetacea, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Bottlenose dolphins are in the Delphinidae family, consisting of moderate toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Their genus is Tursiops, a class of larger dolphins with sickle-shaped dorsal fins and a stubbed snout, and the bottlenose dolphins’ species is Truncatus, which was derived from the word truncate. According to Dictionary.com, the word truncate means “To shorten (something) by cutting off the top or the end. A truncated cone…

The beach has three major parts: beach face, berm and back beach. The area above the water, including the intertidal zone, is known as the beach berm. Beach berm can include vegetation, such as trees, shrubs, or grasses. The most familiar characteristic of a beach berm is its type of sand or rock (Marinebio.net, 2014). Along the backshore, accumulations of wind-blown sand may form sand dunes, and when these are sufficiently stable they become consolidated by a characteristic dune vegetation, for…

Individuals have been noticing an increase in dorsal fin collapse with their orcas. Seaworld is trying to tell the press that this phenomenon “isn’t an indicator of the animal’s health or well-being,” even though it is almost never seen in the wild. according to an article from One Green Planet.org written…

describes the first shark who takes parts of meat away, “He was a very big Mako Shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws...he swam fast, just under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifing through the water without wavering...This was a fish built to feed on all other fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no other enemy”(101). A skilled critic of literature does the same thing as…

Making a Splash: The Practice of Profiting from Whales Based on what we know today about the effects of holding and breeding whales in captivity for the sole purpose of making a profit, it is no longer acceptable in today’s society to allow this archaic practice to continue at places like SeaWorld under false pretenses. The release of the documentary “Blackfish” has raised questions on the treatment of Orca whales in particular, illustrating the inhumane conditions and treatment of these animals…

A bit of Pokemon history to begin, Pokemon has been around for twenty years. Pokemon was created by Satoshi Tajiri and developed and released by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures or better known as a trio joint company Pokemon Company or Pokemon Company International. Which was not official until 1998. The first sets of games were released in Japan on February 27, 1996, under the name Pocket Monsters Red and Green for the Nintendo Game Boy. While it has been here in the United States under…

Orca Whales If someone were living in a bathtub for two-thirds of their life, would they be upset? Whales living in the ocean are different and similar to whales living in SeaWorld in many ways. Blackfish is a documentary about whale abuse in SeaWorld. Blackfish is a film that took 1 year to make. They didn 't make any profit. They made this film out of their love for whales (“No Cash”). A marine biologist said that it was important that someone from the outside that world delivered…

In-between work and my busy personal schedule tending to my exotic animal farm in my hometown Austin, Texas. I found the time to take a road trip up to Myrtle beach, South Carolina to do some scuba diving and capture pictures of barracudas, manta and sting rays, as well as the bounty of coral reefs for my school project. With my Advanced Open Water Diving license not only am i able to dive by myself but i can enter protected zones in the deep sea diving zones of Myrtle beach. There is over 10…

hatching from the eggs. Gross morphology and taxonomy. Lionfish are the marine fish and they do have distinctive stripes that are brown to maroon as well as white in color that do cover the head and its body. Their fins are fan-like in the pectoral region. They also have long, separated dorsal spines, which are poisonous. The lionfish have oval to elliptical scales with a smooth surface. Adult Lionfish size ranges from 2.0 to 17.7 inches in length; juvenile lionfish may be as small as 1 inch in…