commercial whale hunting since 1986. Japanese use the whales they hunt for numerous purposes in their culture. Japanese have used whales to make food‚ oil‚ handicrafts‚ and meats. The teeth of whales and their baleen are used to make crafts and traditional bunraku puppets. Whale jaw bones are used to make shamisen plectrums‚ a Japanese instrument. (Takahashi et al. 1989) Oil that is extracted from the livers of whale contains a lot of Vitamin A and D and is used as drugs (Matsuda‚ 2011). Whale meets are
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states killer whales should not be kept in seaworld cages and for the incidents have been reported from sea world caused by killer whales. Tilikum was the main topic in Blackfish because Tilikum caused most of the incidents happened at seaworld for the bad treatment he had received when he was first brought into seaworld in Canada. In my opinion‚ killer whales should not be kept at seaworld in cages because that causes them to be aggressive towards the trainers. I state that killer whales should be
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who kill many types of whales. In the 18th‚ 19th and 20th century whaling fleets set their voyages from Europe and North America; they sourced the whales for their oil‚ whalebone for corsets‚ ambergris for perfume and meat for villages. The Japanese Whaling history goes back as far as 10‚000 B.C. when whales were driven into nets and harpooned repeatedly‚ then they would dispatch with a long sword or a wooden plug driven into the blowholes to ensure they were deceased. Whale meat would feed their
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of a whaleship named Essex‚ in the year 1820. Aboard the Essex African Americans were treated equal to the white once they set foot on the vessel. From Nantucket in 1819‚ the Essex set sail on a whale hunt that was supposed to take two to three years out in the Pacific ocean.Once at sea the whale hunters had a bad feeling of the squall that slowly approached them‚ but the captain didn’t hesitate to reassure his crewmates that they would be fine. Unfortunately Captain Pollard miscalculated how
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Science Many people want to become involved with marine mammals such as sea otters‚ dolphins‚ seals‚ manatees‚ or whales. Perhaps such interest has been sparked by Flipper the dolphin on television or Keiko the orca whale in the popular movie‚ Free Willy. Interest in marine mammals has also been generated by the many underwater movies publicly pleading for protection of endangered whales. Others are just simply scientifically curious. At any rate‚ there are many reasons for public interest of a career
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Executive Summary This report is focused on a New Zealand Organisation called Whale Watch Kaikoura. With the use of this organisation the report will show a brief overview of its strategies‚ its purpose and its vision. It will discuss how it implements its business and its processes with regards to its key strategic resources‚ which will then lead to the entities knowledge-based resources and its capabilities‚ with specific notion towards its intellectual capital. The report will be broke into
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seen as the faster and unshaken movement of the whales because the faster they rock the more they can get the chance to reach the “depth of the seven seas easily which is a metaphoric usage.To illustrate the word “sensual” is important with its sudden intervention as the meaning might get changed because even though the whales are portrayed with the act of rocking‚ their sexual side is demonstrated.In that sense‚the narrator portrayed the whales with a kind of personification to reveal that they
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Ahab. Captain Ahab was a guy who gave everything to hunt a whale. Melville the author of the great american novel “Moby Dick” was heavily influenced by two writers Nathaniel Hawthorne writer of “The Minister’s Black Veil” and Edgar Allen Poe writer of “The Raven”. The story of the Essex is mostly about captain Pollard‚ Chase‚ Nickerson. And their crew hunting whales. But in the end most of the crew die trying to kill a great white whale.”In the Heart of the Sea” was a movie that was well received
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species of dolphins‚ and different types of Whales are able to use their voices under water to detect and “speak” to other conspecifics. This range can reach distances over miles and miles away‚ and can also be influenced by the distance at which these different species are from
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precious dolphin (in the movie “Flipper”) that he once trained committed suicide in front of him‚ which shows one of the many problematic aspects of marine-mammal entertainment industries. Marine park shows include marine mammals such as dolphins‚ beluga whales‚ sea lions‚ orca‚ cetaceans and so on. Since the 1960s and the movie “Flipper‚” these animals started to be displayed to the public in special shows with radically increased public demand. Meanwhile‚ it is debatable whether humans have the right to
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