Marine mammal

onlookers. She’s easy to work with, knows many tricks, and has had seven calves. Her calf Kalina was the first healthy killer whale born in captivity. “[Katina] was one of the first animals I ever got in the water with,” says John Jett, currently a marine mammal scientist at Stetson University. For four years in the 1990s, he was a trainer at SeaWorld. Now, John Jett feels that it is morally wrong to keep killer whales in captivity. “It doesn’t work out for the animals and it’s never going to…

with the animal. To be able to perform in front of a large crowd, they need to have good public speaking skills. You need to have a Scuba certificate to be able to become a trainer and is beneficial to have some knowledge in marine biology as trainers do deal with sea mammals. Based on these factors, it has led me to believe that becoming a dolphin trainer is more than just fun and games because you need to have a lot of training and trust to be able to properly handle dolphins. The dream of…

The power of emotion: compassion In Marina Keegan’s essay, Why We Care About Whales, Marina claims on how humans value the life of humans and the life of non-human animals. The essay starts with a social occurrence of emerging beached whales. A natural force that is created by the movement of both the moon and the Earth push whales to the beach. While giving a detailed, vivid explanation of how beached whales die, Marina maximizes the sadness and lamentation of whales’ deaths. Furthermore, she…

pick dolphins and sea lions; they chose them because of their abilities. Dolphins have a biological sonar, a sense that allows them to use sounds to detect things around them. This can be used to detect the mines underwater. The manager of the marine mammals program, Mike Rothe, states “They’ve evolved over thousands of years to have a remarkable sonar. We’ve been developing UUVs for several decades.” Meanwhile, the sea lions are trained to use their enhanced underwater hearing and vision to…

Panda are a big ticket item in all zoos. Pandas bring prestige and fame to a zoo. What most people don’t know though, is that fame and prestige cost a lot of money. For each panda that a zoo has, it cost them one million dollars per year plus another six hundred thousand dollars every time a cub is born. On top of that, the money that the zoos make annually is not enough to cover the cost of the pandas (Washington Post 2). Pandas are not worth one million dollars a year, simply to look at. There…

Sea Worlds Decision to End Orca Breeding & Captivity Sea World was originally founded to provide entertainment, education, and revenue for its clientele. Throughout its lifespan it has dealt with criticism from the public and animal rights activists. Most recently a film titled “BlackFish” brought Sea Worlds practices to light. This blow to the organization and their success has caused Sea World to make some crucial decisions. Sea Worlds decisions on keeping wild animals in captivity and…

Almost everyone, especially children, absolutely loves visiting the zoo. It is cost friendly compared to paying to see animals in the wild. People get to catch a glimpse of the exotic animals that he or she can only see on TV documentaries, or maybe dreamt of when their parents read them stories like The Jungle Book as a child. People’s eyes fill with excitement when they get to go see the lions, tigers, and bears. However, the animals are less than enthused. While I think that zoos are…

Numerous menageries and marine exhibits all over the world have left animals to rot in their cramped cages when they die; left animals unfed, untreated for wounds; or left in areas so minuscule they cause psychological trauma. Seaworld has some of the worst cases of animal cruelty on documentation. One of the most notorious cases of animal cruelty in Seaworld is their care of orcas. Seaworld keeps orcas in containers inadequate for their size. At night, the orcas are placed in a cramped shelter…

Have you ever realized how zoo animals live? Imagine seeing an elephant in the zoo just standing there doing nothing, but then in movies and pictures you see them always walking and playing just always doing something. They don't have that choice in the zoo. Animals should not be kept in zoos or in captivity because they don't have the life they would have in their natural habitat, they are not taken care of well and they are not happy. Animals don't have as much space in the zoo as they would…

I chose the Vancouver Aquarium because it is known to be the largest aquarium in all of Canada and gives us a clear representation of why the Pacific Maritime is famous for their sea animals. One of Pacific Maritime’s most popular attraction is whale-watching but instead of making a game out of it and risk not seeing a whale, the Vancouver Aquarium represents the whales in a historic way. This particular Aquarium has a long past with whales like the killer whale, Moby Doll who was the second…