Oceanic dolphin

Hold a T-shirt and let a dolphin paint it for $55. Send a handicapped loved one to dolphin "therapy'' swim sessions for upward of $2,000 a week. -But, according to an industry trade publication, SeaWorld alone attracted 11 million visitors last year. 2 questions to the author: 1. List one method people use to…

Neoceratodus – * Neoceratodus is commonly known as Australian lung fish. *It is described as “living fossil” as it has undergone little changes during nearly 300 million years. *It is found in rivers and pools of Australia.…

This documentary follows a young group of activists who study the lives of dolphins, whales, porpoises, and other marine mammals. The group goes travels around the world and goes to the area’s where they are slaughtering these animals for food and other resources. The film speaks of how it’s not the fact that killing them for food is not the reason to alert the world but the sole fact in the way that they do it. These people slaughter the mammals by luring them into this certain area called “the…

Distribution: The alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) is found from northern Florida to southern Georgia and through the Gulf states into Texas (Nichols, M. 2007). It can also be found in more northern areas such as Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana; there have also been sighting as far west as California and Arizona. The alligator snapping turtle is confined to river systems in the United States that drain into the Gulf of Mexico (Clarke 1981). The most common sightings include the…

Should Orcas be kept captive at SeaWorld? SeaWorld first began its journey in 1964 in becoming a marine zoological park in San Diego. In 1997 they captured their first orcas and as of 2017 SeaWorld holds 22 orcas. We all enjoy a good time with our family and one of the popular places to go is SeaWorld, to see the marine life and the performances that SeaWorld is so famous for. Their show biz is what got their high title, and this caused people to flock from all over. With cute acts that the…

Recently many dolphin deaths which have occurred in captivity have been recorded. Articles have been written of dolphin mistreatment at aquariums. “Mental, emotional, and physical stress weaken an immune system which make them prone to disease”- US Whales and Dolphins. Dolphins should not be in captivity because it decreases life span, ability to swim freely and natural behaviors. Many aquariums like to put dolphins in captivity just to get money from people who just want enjoy a dolphin…

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to explore and delve deep into the ocean. I dreamt of breathing underwater and discovering a vastly unknown world that surrounds all of us. This lead to my interest in Marine Biology and how it has pushed my character past any interfering influence. There were so many media outlets that helped drive my passion for the water. The best way I can imagine to spend my time is to relax on a couch watching some of the best ocean films in history. There are great ones…

aquatic creatures (sharks, dolphins etc.), invertebrates (centipedes, spiders and millipedes),…

using Minoan art. The Palace of Knossos was home to King Minos of the Minoans. In this palace we can see restored frescos by Sir Arthur Evans of Dolphins and fish swimming in the ocean (5.2). In this fresco, we can see that the artwork of the actual dolphins and fish are very stylized. The dolphins all have the same design, indicating that they are dolphins…

Arthropods are made up mostly of crustacean about 50,000 known and divided into groups; Branchiopods, Maxillopods, Malacostraca and Ostracods. The Malacostraca is divided into five different groups, decapods, stomatopods, euphausiids, amphipod and isopods. Decapods include crabs, lobster and shrimp it’s the largest species. Decapod means ten to five pairs of legs most first pair are modified as large claws, called chelipeds. Most decapods hatch as a zoea but on some occasion shrimp can hatch a…