with dogs‚ dolphins‚ apes and a whole menagerie of other animals. Scientists recently developed a speaker that can project the full range of the high- and low-frequency sounds that dolphins make — including those used in dolphin-to-dolphin communication and the echolocation clicks used to locate food. Dolphin researchers designed the speakers to broadcast a specific series of vocalizations and then record dolphins’ responses; over time‚ this back-and-forth could reveal what dolphins are "saying
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Topographical classification Rivers can generally be classified as either alluvial‚ bedrock‚ or some mix of the two. Alluvial rivers have channels and floodplains that are self-formed in unconsolidated or weakly consolidated sediments. They erode their banks and deposit material on bars and their floodplains. Bedrock rivers form when the river down cuts through the modern sediments and into the underlying bedrock. This occurs in regions that have experienced some kind of uplift (thereby steepening
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Over the past few years animal captivity has gotten more controversial with new reasons. Orca and dolphin captivity have been connected to the brutal attacks on trainers at animal amusement parks. Everyone has their side and their reasons for animal entertainment. Captivity can be for animals to keep them safe from hunters‚ environmental changes and used for food. Occupytheory.com says “Animals are being hunted down for a lot of reasons including their fur‚ ivory‚ some medical benefits (that aren’t
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telling of the story of the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji‚ Japan‚ on the island of Honshu‚ and the police surveillance of the filmmakers‚ the cameras disguised as rocks‚ the thermal imaging‚ infrared video‚ and sneaking around at night contribute to the power of the film. The process of filming the slaughter has a secret ops feel which is exciting but what is really engaging is the story of Ric O’Barry. He takes responsibility for the popularity of bottle-nosed dolphins as the main trainer on the television
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reproduction. In general a dolphins live pods of up to a dozen individuals. Dolphin pods can emerge temporally forming
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1. Introduction Cetacean stranding’s in the United Kingdom are unfortunately a common sight. In 1990‚ the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) started running (1)‚ since their programme began they have collected data from 12‚000 stranded cetaceans (2). Post mortem examinations are often carried out; these are vital in understanding the cause of death. However‚ if the carcass decomposition rate is advanced‚ a post mortem is not essential (3). Through our actions we have caused cetaceans
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Richard O’Barry was the man who captured and trained the dolphins for the television show "Flipper" (1964). O’Barry’s view of cetaceans in captivity changed from that experience when as the last straw he saw that one of the dolphins playing Flipper - her name being Kathy - basically committed suicide in his arms because of the stress of being in captivity. Since that time‚ he has become one of the leading advocates against cetaceans in captivity and for the preservation of cetaceans in the wild.
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merciless slaughter of dolphins in Japan. I watched the film in absolute horror... Sometimes with my hand covering my eyes‚ and saw something horrible‚ something bloodier and more brutal than any fictional horror movie could ever do to my mind. I’d seen the previews of the bright red water in the cove where dolphins were killed. I just never realized that what I would learn in the documentary and all its extra clips would be far more horrifying than I could have imagined. Many dolphins suffer terribly
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with sound and how dolphins and other whales use sound in water. You may use information from the web sites to support your findings and explanations‚ but your work should be original. Some things you may wish to consider: Which medium (air or water) is more effective at transmitting sound waves? How does sound production differ between humans and dolphins? How does sound reception differ between humans and dolphins? What are similarities between the two? Bottlenose dolphins communicate through
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“animal therapy” involving felines‚ canines‚ equines‚ and dolphins has resulted in physical‚ emotional and psychological rehabilitation of human beings‚ and how effective is this fairly new
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