Seabird

Easter Island is said to have formed from three converging volcanos about 7500 years ago. It is also believed to be the most remote spot on Earth making it an amazing thing that people happened upon it and made it their home. These people lived on a thriving island for hundreds of years before the downfall and ultimately their near destruction. Napa Nui are the people who occupied Easter Island and are said to have been religious and superstitious, giving the belief that the mysterious 850 or so, eighty ton statues that are scattered around the island were created to help them feel like their lives had a purpose. In fact, that purpose became an obsession with them (the families or tribes), developed a competition to determine who could make the best and biggest statue. Whichever family or tribe won would have the honors to rule the next twelve months. However, this fixation consumed them, and they began to use their resources more abundantly, as a result caused dangerous levels of depletion to their resources, and what was not utilized by them was severely diminished by hurricanes and other natural disasters. Soon in a devastating state they find themselves participating in cannibalism, though some argue against this, in order to survive. It is said that the Napa Nui people became so ashamed of what they had become that they decided to destroy the figures they came to call Maoi. These great figurines were made to represent and protect them, but the Napa Nui people felt these…

ON PUFFINS AND THEIR OPTIMIZATION FOR DUAL LOCOMOTION BY B. SIDELL ABSTRACT -- Puffins, one of the few wing-propelled diving birds, are specialized into a specific niche. By balancing the optimization of their bodies for locomotion between the two media of air and sea water created a unique anatomy for a bird. The evolution of Auks, which includes the puffin, shows a mixture of characteristics similar to those of the ultimate diving bird, the penguin, and the large-winged flyers, such as the…

According to “Saving Penguins, One Sweater At A Time”, an oil spill once broke out near the island of Australia, and covered many birds native to that area ( Lewis 19). In “Saving Penguins, One Sweater At A Time”, the penguins started to get harmed by the chemicals surrounding their land, and many different ideas were used to help the birds survive. One unique idea included using sweaters to keep the birds from harmful substances. In the end, the sweaters were put into good use, and enabled the…

Charmaine Sultana and welcome and thank you for your interest in my presentation of the effects of plastic debris has on seabirds and how it effects the environment. Brief Concerns Plastic is almost everywhere in our everyday lives. It has become a convenient commodity which is used every day, from storage containers and packaging to plastic bag to take home our goods. Gopal, Phebe, Kumar and Vani (2014) refer to plastic as being inexpensive and overused, hence polluting the environment. United…

Every single year many penguins are affected by oil spills. Oil spills affect more than 82,000birds, 6,000 sea turtles, 25,900 marine mammals and more. Around 2012 to 2013 there were more than 97,135 oil spills. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicle” have many similarities and differences like time and conflict. One similarity between “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicle” is conflict. “The Amazing Penguin Rescues” conflict is character vs. society. In this…

Have you ever heard about the little penguin or the African penguin? Lauren Tarshis and Kristin Lewis have both written amazings stories about Penguins that have been stuck in an oil spill that is really harmful to animals. Lauren Tarshis wrote “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” which is about 40,000 penguins that were in an oil spill and the people that helped them. Kristin Lewis wrote “The Seabird Chronicle” which is about saving the penguins that were in the oil spill and then making sure that…

Imagine that you were swimming then all of a sudden your eyes are burning and your arms are getting heavy, that’s how some of these penguins felt in these two articles. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicle” both talk about how the beaches that penguins live on are contaminated with a oil spill. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicles” have similarities and differences like similarity in conflict but differences in setting. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and…

Problem Statement The purpose of this inquiry is to investigate the topicof debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with the main focus being the detrimental effects of plastic waste matteron sea birds.Scientists estimate that 90% of seabirds have consumed plastic debris (ChrisWilcoxa, 2015). The ingestion of plastic debris in seabirds can lead tostomach obstruction and death (Chris Wilcoxa, 2015). The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a large mass of floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean that…

penguin rescue and The seabird chronicle According to “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle”, the oil spills are hurting more than 41,000 little penguins. When the penguins were getting sick in the oil spills tons of thousands of people started helping to save the penguins. “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle” have similarities and differences such as the conflict and how the setting creates a specific mood of the story. One similarity between “The…

Dr. Henson than went on to depict a diagram similar to the one mentioned in class about the scopes that math, science and religion have. The next series of questions that we asked was targeted specifically to her field of research which is seabird ecology. One of the questions was if she had come across anything in her research that had seemed a to be a contradiction to her faith. Dr. Henson responded that her research was primarily focused on recording the amount of cannibalism that was…