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    research fellowships and an education program for schoolchildren. Just when Brengle felt confident that the Museum was on track toward implementing the new strategy‚ another unusual opportunity arose. Off the shore of Cape Cod‚ an enormous Sperm whale died‚ and the U.S. Coast Guard asked if the Museum wanted the skeleton. Accepting the skeleton would imply supplementary fund-raising as well as finding a creative way to get it physically inside the Museum. Brengle’s leadership of the change process

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    GEOG1016 Nature Conservation  for Sustainable Societies Guidelines on the use of the pdf files of lecture handouts: (1) The files shall only be used by registered students of the course for learning  purpose only. (2) The files must not be transmitted in any form to any third parties who are not  registered students of the course. (3) The copyrights of all the texts and illustrations in the files must be strictly  observed‚ and they must not be copied or used in any way outside the realm of  normal learning use

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    outline the cause for the nearly endangered Chinese White Dolphins‚ followed by the protection scheme implemented by the government. It then argues the effectiveness and efficiency of the scheme. Sousa chinensis‚ namely Chinese White Dolphin‚ is a humpback dolphin species which is white or pink when they mature. Living up to around forty years‚ Chinese White Dolphins live in estuarine habitat‚ including Lantau Island‚ Sha Chau‚ Lung Kwu Chau‚ etc. To predict the population trend‚ the yearly abundance

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    there are parts about hunting whales and either keeping them in captivity or killing them. In these selections there are explanations to go along with what both of the people think as to what they’re going to do when they capture the whales. One similarity in Moby Dick and Blackfish is that in both of these there are people trying to catch whales. For example‚ in Moby Dick it states‚ “The narrator becomes a sailor on Captain Ahab’s ship and joins the hunt for the whale that bit off one of Ahab’s legs

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    vegetables‚ the Faroese have always had to rely on the ocean as a source of their food. In particular‚ the Pilot Whale‚ which they kill in a hunt known as the grindadráp‚ or grind. The word “grind” which rhymes with the word wind‚ is actually Faroese for Pilot Whale‚ and may refer to the activity of whale slaughter‚ whale meat‚ or the animals themselves. On the islands‚ hunting whales for food is a tradition as old as the isle itself. But in recent years‚ animal’s rights activists have taken offense

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    Whales and Dolphins

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    Cardio respiratory endurance-ability to sustain moderate intensity‚ whole body activity for extended time periods Exercise-physical activity that is planned‚ structured‚ and repetitive‚ and that results in improvements is fitness Muscular endurance-ability to perform repeated‚ high intensity muscle contraction Muscular strength-maximum force applied with a single muscle contraction Physical activity-any movement that works the larger muscles of the body‚ such as arm‚ leg‚ and back muscles Physical

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    Whales in Paradise: An Overview Whales in Paradise became the Gold Coast’s first whale watching tour company when it was registered in 2004 and started operations in 2005(Whales in Paradise‚ n.d.). As of now it offers 3 tours daily from Surfers Paradise with the add offers a pick-up service from Brisbane to join the midday cruise(Whales in Paradise‚ n.d.). Each cruise each lasts approximately 3 hours 15 minutes‚ including a free cruise through the Nerang waterways with a commentary on the history

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    the many incidents involving the killer whales and trainers. Cowperthwaite’s purpose is to inform the audience how the whales are treated horribly and persuade the audience to boycott SeaWorld. She adopts a dramatic‚ gloomy tone in order to convey her audience the idea that SeaWorld is an inhumane place to keep killer whales. Cowperthwaite begins her film by incorporating real life tragedies that occurred at SeaWorld and interviewing experts on whales and former trainers employed by SeaWorld

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    Joyas Voladoras

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    Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird. Joyas volardores‚ flying jewels‚ the first white explorers in the Americas called them‚ and the white men had never seen such creatures‚ for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas‚ nowhere else in the universe‚ more than three hundred species of them whirring and zooming and nectaring in

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    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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