Sea Lions Dying at Increasing Rates In five months alone‚ over 3‚000 sea lion pups‚ at a point teetering towards death‚ washed ashore on Southern Californian beaches‚ fifteen times more than in past years‚ due to toxic algal blooms. Merriam Webster calls algal blooms‚ “rapid and excessive growths of a plankton population.” Since 1998‚ scientists have been aware of sea lions and their pups being intoxicated by domoic acids from toxic algal blooms. Agricultural and suburban areas are the main culprits
Premium Ocean Mammal Marine debris
When the word dolphin comes to mind what do you think of? Seaworld? Flipper? or what about tuna? What most people don’t think about is Dolphins helping the United States Navy. Since 1950’s dolphins have been trained in captivity to assist the navy with important missions. The Navy also has done research with dolphins to help better understand the way this animal lives in its environment and to see how to protect it. This program is called Navy Marine Mammal Program(NMMP).This program turns heads
Premium Dolphin Mammal Cetacea
Many people grow up taking trips as a family to the zoo‚ to the circus or to marine parks. Therefore‚ seeing animals being used for human entertainment is part of everyday life. But are the ways animals are treated in zoos‚ circuses and marine parks fair and humane‚ are the animals’ habitats small and dirty? Are animals forced to perform tricks that are harmful to them? Is using animals in entertainment really worth it? I am strongly against the use of animals in entertainment and in this essay I
Premium Marine mammal park Whale Animal welfare
The salmon of Alaska have been here for millions of years and over those years five specific and distinct species have evolved and developed. Theses five species are Chinook‚ Chum‚ Coho‚ Pink and Sockeye salmon (Morrow‚ 2013). These salmon all have very different looks and different timetables of life. However‚ they all share the same main lifecycle going from egg‚ to alevin‚ to fry‚ to parr‚ to smolt then on to their adult stage (Marrow‚ 2013). They have a difficult life and only a few eggs of
Premium Fish Ocean Salmon
Growing up in California‚ SeaWorld visits were a huge part of his childhood. “It’s different for people who have actually seen the orcas‚” Ethier said. “Someone who’s never experienced it for themselves might not support SeaWorld in keeping the whales.” I asked him for his thoughts about the controversy. “I think it’s a good thing to have some orcas in captivity‚” Ethier said. “It’s a good way for them to be studied. I just think that they were very careless with Tilikum. He was exposed to
Premium Animal rights Killer whale Animal testing
Should Orcas Be Held In Captivity? Orcas‚ also known as “killer whales”‚ are the largest specie of dolphin. You can go to just about any marine park‚ such as Sea World‚ and watch these mammals entertain. A lot of people are completely unaware of the suffering and emotional stress that Orcas endure in these parks. Should these mammals be held in captivity just for the public’s entertainment and money? Over time‚ there have been at least 145 orcas captured from the wild
Free Whale Killer whale
Atsuki Yamamoto (David) Empathic response on the Whale Rider You are Kahu at the end of the concert when Koro didn’t show up. Write your thoughts. Paka didn’t show up to the concert today. That speech that I gave at the end was for him. I wrote it because I wanted him to know how much I love and admire him‚ but the seat that was reserved for him was empty throughout the whole concert. If only I was a boy‚ Koro would have loved me more than he does. At the beginning of the concert I thought
Premium New Zealand Debut albums Thought
want. If Seaworld is to continue with these actions and brings in more animals from the wild it could possibly lead to the extinction of some species. SeaWorld was but on the deaths of Orcas. In 1965 the first ever Orca performance was held. The whale that performed was a female Orca named Shamu. When Shamu was still just a baby she was captured and taken from her parents. During her capture though her mother was killed by a man named Ted Griffin using a harpoon. Ted worked for SeaWorld in capturing
Premium Whale Killer whale Beached whale
life? Killer whales stuck in seaworlds bathtub-like tank have to suffer with this for their whole life. In the documentary Blackfish‚ Seaworld’s cruiety to these beautiful creatures is exposed to the public hoping to stop people from visiting the theme park. It has convinced me for sure. Killer whales swim up to 100 miles a day in the wild. At seaworld‚ they can only swim in circles over and over during the day. It gets worse after 5 p.m. when the shows end. At this time the whales are placed in
Premium Life expectancy Whale Killer whale
Literally every single day a trainer and killer whale shared the same tank that trainers’ life was on the line. Many trainers were often injured “Hargrove‚ who quit SeaWorld in 2012‚ suffered numerous broken bones and nearly destroyed his sinuses. It was a risk he ran with his eyes open‚ and one that‚ in the end‚ he seems to feel was almost worth it. "I owe those whales‚" he says in an interview. "They gave me so much in my life and my career." But the whales’ physical and emotional well-being‚ he grew
Premium Killer whale Whale Beached whale