Maternal Care and Learned Foraging in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncates) Janalee Martin Behavioral Ecology Fall 2012 INTRODUCTION Maternal care is a major factor in juvenile development and studies dating back several decades have shown the impact of early life events on the development of behavioral responses to differences in maternal care (Francis and Meaney‚ 1999). Maternal separation causes acute stress in individuals resulting in them being extremely fearful in situations that
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For the exclusive use of Y. Chen INS370 JPMorgan & the London Whale Photo: ALAMY 03/2014-6003 This case was written by Andrew Chen‚ INSEAD MBA July 2013‚ under the supervision of Claudia Zeisberger‚ Affiliate Professor of Decision Sciences & Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI) at INSEAD. It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Funding
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The Blue Whale Game‚ some may be confused of what the game exactly is. Well‚ this online game is supposedly the reason why over 130 teenagers committed suicide. The name Blue whale is believed to be a reference to the sea creatures‚ Blue Whales who are speculated to swim shallow towards the shores themselves on purpose‚ causing them to die. As the game ‘The Blue Whale’ seems to have a similar effect‚ not on whales though‚ rather on teenagers around the Globe. The idea of the Blue Whale game is
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sexes in the mind corresponding to the two sexes in the body”(Woolf 37). Throughout out the movie Whale Rider‚ the androgynous mind is also illustrated through the character of Pai. Woolf states “it is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly” (Woolf 39). Pai is a strong and determined young girl who displays and defines what it means to be “woman-manly”. Whale Rider tells the story of Pai‚ who faces the subtle resentment of her grandfather Koro as he attempts
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back in time. The Bible contains a story called Jonah and the Whale‚ this story describes a different form of an island; however‚ it is still depicting the meaning of isolation. According to the story it states‚ "Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah‚ and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights" (Holy Bible‚ New International Version 1:17). In other words‚ the island in this case is the belly of the whale because it is isolated from the rest of the world‚ and there
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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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Greetings‚ thank you all for being here today. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Faidah Manishimwe‚ but you can call me Faidah. The purpose of my talk today is about Koro (pai’s grandfather‚ the village chief). This oral presentation will discuss the cultural issues which Koro had with his community as he was a chief who faced many issues and I will compare them to my own situation. Issue 1 As Koro was getting older he became worried about his community and the fact it might collapse
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was about. I then decided that I wanted to take on a more challenging film‚ one that I had never heard of‚ and one that I would really have to study to understand its full meaning. After looking into a few of the listed movies‚ I ended up choosing Whale Rider‚ a drama filmed in New Zealand in 2002. After watching the movie two times‚ I feel that I now understand some of the more drastic cultural and gender based problems that are occurring today. The film’s plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana
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across a female white whale and moved in close. "She was asleep‚" he recalls‚ "but after a while she opened her eye and looked me over. You would see her eyeball rolling in her head and then she closed her eye again. Basically‚ the whale was just saying‚ Well‚ if you’ve seen one of us‚ you’ve seen them all." Born in 1935 in New York‚ Payne has been studying whales for 40 years. He has built his career on science and activism‚ but ask him what it’s like to swim with a whale and what you hear in his
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Humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) are beautiful and majestic sea creatures. They have been popularized by the mellifluous sounds of their voices‚ and are known as some of the largest mammals on earth. They have very interesting migration patterns that take the whale vast distances. They also possess many puzzling qualities‚ and scientists work to decipher the cause of these behaviors. The average male humpback whale is about 40-48 feet long‚ while the average female is about 45-50 feet long
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