Evolution of Whales Whales have evolved dramatically to adapt to life in the water as they started out as typical land animals. It has taken 12 million years for the modern whale to become as we know it. They had feet and legs suited for walking on land. They also had long skulls and carnivorous teeth‚ these whales evolved nostrils that were positioned further and further back along the snout. This trend has continued into living whales‚ which have a "blowhole" (nostrils) located on top of the
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Full Name Dr. Lisa Ampleman English 101-13 10 October 2013 Killer Whales: Rhetorical Analysis of a Blog Throughout the history of cetacean captivity‚ two orcas have been labeled as murderers. In the winter of 2009‚ at the park known as Loro Parque‚ an orca named Keto killed his trainer‚ Alexis Martinez. Exactly two months later‚ in Sea World Orlando‚ an orca known as Tilikum killed his trainer as well. Tilikum had previously been involved in the deaths of both another trainer and a park
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In the video “Why do whales sing?”‚ the speaker mentions that whales sing to communicate with one another. First of all‚ due to the fact that light and smell do no travel well in the water‚ most of marine animals rely on sound‚ which can travel four times faster in water than in the air. Especially‚ whales communicate by using sound very skillfully as if they sang. According to the video‚ unlike land mammals‚ who generate sounds by exhaling air‚ whales produce sounds by using an organ called “Laryngeal
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photographs on display the one that caught my eye was the “Diving Humpback whale” by Wayne Levin (born 1945). This paper will focus on why Wayne Levin takes photographs of the underwater world and why the “Diving Humpback Whale” photograph was my favorite. Wayne Levin is an accomplished photographer and a great deal of his works are on display in numerous museums worldwide‚ including the Art
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Lauren Aguilar Mr. Caleb Clardy English 131.011 2 April 2012 Zach Wahls Speech Zach Wahls goes before the House of Representatives in support of marriage equality. The nineteen year old University of Iowa student stands before a full room of people to discuss his personal experience of being raised by two women. Zach‚ a well-spoken young man‚ explains that he has a full blooded sibling that was conceived through in vitro fertilization. He goes on to reference his home life as being just as normal
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Whale Rider The “Whale Rider”‚ filmed in New Zealand and directed by Niki Caro‚ is a film based on the novel of the same name‚ by Witi Ihimaera. Many of the extras in the film were actual residents of the town Whangara. The film is about a girl‚ Paikea Apirana‚ played by Keisha Castle-Hughes in her debut role‚ who battles to gain her grandfather’s respect‚ and to become the chief of the tribe. By tradition‚ the leader of the tribe should be the first son‚ however Pai’s twin brother had died at
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The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is a cetacean inhabiting the marine arctic and is found throughout the arctic seas as well as smaller seas such as the Beaufort Sea‚ the Chukchi Sea‚ the Bering Sea‚ Cook Inlet‚ and several other seas (Frost and Suydam‚ 2010). This species is migratory and will migrate to shallower coastal waters during the summer‚ but as winter approaches they travel back to the northern icy waters (Goetz et al.‚ 2012). Beluga’s feed on small fish‚ as well as squid‚ octopus
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In the beginning‚ before man was created‚ animals of the highest status ruled over the many regions of Earth. For the water region it was Killer Whales‚ for the sky region it was Eagles‚ and for the land region it was the Wolves. Before man‚ wolves didn’t stay in separate packs; they were one. Out of this‚ there was a kind and brave leader who went by the name of Luna. She ruled justly over her people‚ but being a just and powerful leader has its own costs. One day while out on a hunt‚ Luna and
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Niki Caro’s film The Whale Rider‚ conveys the importance of rebelling in order to progress through depicting the stage of finding the boon of success in the Heroine’s Journey. After Koro’s young‚ male students fail to retrieve Koro’s rei puta to determine who would become the next chief‚ Paikea secretly retrieves his rei puta. In this scene‚ Caro alternates between shots of Paikea diving into the ocean and shots of the rei puta lying on the ocean floor with seaweed surrounding it. Through the portrayal
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Mike Shot Sharks And Saved Them “We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be‚ for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it’s theirs.” - Peter Benchley (Author‚ best known for his novel ’Jaws’) It is interesting that Benchley should say that because it is perhaps “Jaws” (1975)‚ more than any other work of art‚ that is responsible for the unreasonable and unjustified fear that humans have of sharks. The premise of his story though is based upon a true incident
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