Whale

truly disagree with Japan and Norway using cultural exception as a reason to justify their continuation for whaling. When most of their population are starting to lose an appetite for it and even more controversial is that 113 metric tons of Minke whale meat was sold to an animal feed manufacturer in 2014 (Bale R., 2016). If the consumption is going down, doesn’t that mean that it is not an essential tradition, and having shown that they had to waste so much as to resorting to use it as animal…

In contrast to most sea creatures, these unique critters “live on the skeletons of whales, which drift down to the ocean floor” (Ennis). Because zombie worms are attached to the whale bones, they must use them to contribute to their diet. These ocean animals “lack a mouth and gut, [so] the worms drill into the bones [to] extract the stored nutrients” (Ennis). Without this adaptation…

the us and Canada ban whaling which was not hard to do after proving the facts about how over hunted these animal are. Whale are one of the only animals with bigger brains then humans along with dolphins. And according to Dr. Moore this means there is no humane way to kill one of the largest animals ever to live on our beautiful planet. The two country’s that continued to whale the longest was the USSR and Japan and since in the 80’s with the cold war in full swing a peace group didn’t want to…

of the year, not even in the spring. They heavily relied on hunting sea animals and sometimes land animals, but they were harder to find. They would hunt sea animals, such as the walrus and seals, when they were on land. They would also hunt beluga whales and…

One horrible cold and grueling night in a boggy swamp I saw something that I would never forget. This was something that was so unexpected and it would keep me up and alert for many nights. My dad and I were your normal gator hunting. we were out doing our usual line run like we do every day it was pretty much the same as every day catch a few nice size gators, then it went to some smaller gators then it went to nothing. Then we rebaited some lines and moved some and baited them.…

Are you trying to figure out what movie you should watch next? Do you want a movie with horror, mystery, drama and a little bit of humor? Well, you're at the right place, The Shallows is a great movie to watch while cuddling with your favorite blanket and eating your favorite snacks. The Shallows were directed by Jaume Collet-Serr. He also directed a movie called Non-Stop, another great movie you should watch featuring Liam Neeson, but back to the movie review. The Shallows is a great movie to…

APES Extra Credit Assignment PG 5 IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, ENSURING A FUTURE FOR SHRKS People are killing so many sharks for fins, and it causes them to get closer and closer to extinct. Sharks are important to marine ecosystem, because they play a key role in climate change and food webs. Some countries ignore the importance of control the amount of sharks, which they eat and sell for money, they catch. In order to help the population of sharks to go up, EDF and Mote Marine Laboratory of…

Summary of the african dolphin being put onto the endangered mammals list the reason why they are on the list. They label that something is vulnerable but they never check up on the species to see if there is a decline in the population and then they say that it is such a shame that it has to be the way it is. I think that if they would have watched the species that they would have never had the problem that they currently have. The humpback dolphin was poorly studied mammal used to be on the…

A shaman shares his observations regarding stress. He states that stress is simply a response to fear and in Indigenous cultures, stress being activated in dangerous situations indicate a human is mentally healthy. The stress that we experience in our modern society is an unhealthy aberration of the natural and healthy response to fear. The shaman said that Indigenous people observe animal’s behaviors to remind them of their own true instincts. He used an example of when a gazelle is chased by a…

Although there are many extinct animals, the Great Auk is an extraordinary animal. The Great Auk also had many variations in their egg’s, the streaks in their egg’s allowed the mating pair to recognize their egg at their breeding colony so they could determine the egg belonged to them. The Great Auk’s scientific name is also Pinguinus Impennis(“Great Auk”). The Great Auk’s habitat and geography. The Great Auk’s nesting colonies were settled upon rocky islands with sloping shorelines that…