Oceanic dolphin

Kailua The location that I chose to observe was Kailua beach in Hawaii. The beach is known to be a local hotspot. There you will find many locals swimming, surfing, barbecuing, and enjoying themselves. Driving up to the beach you probably wouldn’t think that right behind the abandoned house was how you actually got to the beach. There is a small parking lot that locals wait to park in. There is no paved pathway to get to the beach there are only paths on the grass that have been made by people.…

What is your topic? The topic I have chosen to study is the Aquarius Festival held in Nimbin, NSW. The 9 day festival from May 12th to 21st 1973 may have been the best thing to happen to Nimbin. The dying dairy town in desperate need of business was approached by the Australian Union of students and asked to hold an alternative lifestyle festival on the showground of the town. Although the values of the conservative town members differed from the alternative festival attendees they agreed for…

Taiji’ the first recorded dolphin drive was in 1933, with following hunts occurring in 1936 and 1944. In 1969 the hunts were being lead in a larger scale. During this period the main aim was to capture pilot whales as prized attractions for the Taiji Whale Museum. Thus, the dolphin drive was purely for profit, having nothing to do with cultural history. As some local fishermen might claim (Whiting, 2014, para. 6). In Taiji in Japan, it is notoriously known for it’s annual dolphin hunting drive…

youngest teen activists, fighting for the rights of oceanic animals and fighting against animal captivity. Not only does she support ocean animals, she supports the ocean itself! 8.8 million tons of plastic trash makes its way into the ocean every year. No wonder why she wants a change! Growing Up & About Her Ella was first thrown into the world of activism at the age of 12, when she saw the documentary “The Cove” that exposed the brutal dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan. She then started to…

cetacean species. Dolphins are vertebrates and are one of the fastest swimming species due to their morphological stability. The morphology can determine the region of the species with greater or lesser flexibility. The form of the centrum, facial curvature, number of intervertebral joints, and structure and orientation of the processes are some of the ways to characterize and analyse morphology. Lagenorhynchus cruciger (L. cruciger), hourglass dolphin, is found in the oceanic cold waters such…

provoking story - Members of Oceanic Preservation Society(OPS) and Ric O’Barry are endeavoring to debunk a covert dolphin massacre in Taiji, Japan. And right now, it is the Japanese government’s responsibility to halt and suspend the seasonal dolphin hunt to ensure the health of their citizens and to diminish the population of stressed dolphins. Japan needs to account for the health of their citizens by ceasing…

The mammalian order Cetacea is composed of two parvorders, the Odontoceti (toothed whales) and the Mysticeti (baleen whales). They compromise of over 80 known living species of whales, dolphins and porpoises (Reiss & Marino, 2001; Simmonds, 2006). The compelling sets of characteristics they have acquired over their 55-60-million-year evolution including echolocation ability and complex social organisation (Hof, Chanis, & Marino, 2005) have created great belief that this order contains some of…

scale, the distribution of many large marine apex predators, such as dolphins from the family Delphinidae, is highly dependent on large-scale physical environmental…

are placed at the bottom of the food chain, thus being an important part of other oceanic organisms’ lives. Balanced levels of temperatures, according to its geographic placement near or away from equator, must be controlled, or the organisms prospering in certain temperatures will eventually die to the change of temperature. Water temperatures that are too warm can cause waters to lose nutrients needed for oceanic creatures, while water temperatures too cold can cause marine life to diminish,…

Killer whales make up a huge part of the ecosystem. Also known as orca’s, they are one of the most powerful predators in the world. They are very intelligent creatures that thrive in both cold and warm waters. And in both salt and freshwater. While there are many aspects that make up such an amazing mammal they make up a huge part of the world, in and out of water. Killer whales are very efficient hunters. They eat approximately 551 pounds of food each day. Their diet consists of squids,…