Nereids. In order to avenge the insult to his nymphs‚ Neptune sent a sea monster to ravage the Ethiopian coast. (Some accounts state that the constellation Cetus represents the sea monster‚ but a more common view of Cetus is that he is a peaceful whale.) The horrified king consulted Ammon‚ the oracle of Jupiter‚ who said that Neptune could be appeased only by sacrificing Cassiopeia’s beautiful virgin daughter‚ Andromeda‚ to the monster. Andromeda was duly chained to a rock on the coast‚ fully exposed
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the water hunting for prey‚ however it does not venture out very far from its territory due to the fact that their main predators tend to be there. Their prey is primarily fish‚ squid‚ octopus‚ and crustaceans‚ and predators are sharks and killer whales‚ but humans are not a threat now. Pursuing this further‚ humans were a prodigious threat previously when sea lions of all kinds were hunted for meat‚ skin‚ and oil. Luckily‚ though hunting of this species and many others have been banned and their
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know that when a baby bottlenose dolphin is born‚ it has to be born tail first or it will drown. Also a bottlenose dolphin can grow up to be 2.8 meters‚ and that’s really long! Bottlenose dolphins only have 2 predators‚and they are humans and killer whales. You know what’s cool‚ is that when male bottlenose dolphins are babies they can weigh up to 106 through 132 cm. Also bottlenose dolphins pods can grow up to be from 2 dolphins to 15 dolphins! Unlike humans‚ bottlenose dolphins use echolocation to
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important that individuals develop technology that is compatible with the kind of society they want to build (p.52). Thus‚ it is significant to scrutinize three constituents of philosophy of technology namely political‚ social and ethical. In The Whale and the Reactor‚ Winner discusses technology as a form of life. He emphasizes that the traditional view of technology is misleading; it is based on the theory of creation
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uniquely different. Members of Carnivora have diverse food habits‚ although many are primarily carnivorous‚ and carnivory is widely distributed in mammals‚ being found in many other orders including bats‚ marsupial mammals‚ primates‚ and dolphins and whales. Carnivores occupy just about every type of terrestrial habitat‚ and many aquatic habitats as well‚ from the tropics to the poles. They live in forests‚ deserts‚ mountains‚ grasslands‚ scrublands‚ tundra‚ and on open ice. Aquatic and semi-aquatic
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Crocodiles and alligators are two of the most ferocious and feared animals on the planet. With huge jaws filled with razor sharp teeth and their great ability to swim people usually tend to stay away from these two creatures. However‚ they are not the same animal even though they have numerous similarities. Crocodiles and alligators come from the same family although they are two separate species. They differ in physical appearance‚ habitat‚ and behavior. The physical appearance and stature of crocodiles
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Looking at the chart shown in the results section‚ it is clear the most frequent behaviors are bark‚ yell‚ and yelp. The correlation between these three behaviors is that all of them are vocal behaviors. Beginning with the behavior of barking‚ barking is a very typical form of communication for seals and revolves around establishing and defending territory and mates (SOURCE). Harbor seals‚ usually males‚ will bark at other males in order to create territorial boundaries among themselves. These territorial
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There is a fire that ignites within me when I talk about my aspirations in life. A fire that burns so brightly that it can not only be seen physically in the way my hazel eyes light up‚ but felt radiating from my soul through the conversations that others have with me. Even when I was younger this fire always burned within me to better the world and aid those suffering in it. For some of my friends this same fire manifested into them becoming doctors‚ for me however it manifested into becoming a
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Brady Barr is a very famous herpetologist and is the host on Nat Geo WILD’s “Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr.” He was born in Fort Worth‚ Texas‚ and was raised in Bloomington Indiana. Brady received a Bachelor of Science in science education from Indiana University in 1987 and launched his teaching career at North Central High School in Indianapolis‚ teaching subjects like zoology‚ biology‚ and earth and life sciences. In 1994 he went and received his masters degree and in 1997 he received a
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What is the breeding program at SeaWorld? The breeding program is where scientists breed orcas through natural ways or artificial insemination. Artificial insemination is where female orcas are impregnated without having to come in contact with a male orca. When scientists do this‚ they take the male orca’s reproductive cells and inject it inside the female orca‚ so her eggs will be fertilized. Occasionally‚ the scientists have to breed them this way because orcas will sometimes refuse to mate in
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