distances‚ and the water does not support visual cues over great distance. This is why whales and dolphins use primarily auditory signals. Auditory signals can travel great distances and travel four and a half times faster in water than in air (Ford‚ 1984). Killer whales or Orca (Orcinus orca) are very social dolphins and live in pods often consisting of family members from between four up to fifty for residential whales while transient pods normally are only between two and five animals (Ford‚ 1989)
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relationship between a boy and a young Orca whale. It is one of my favorite movies because I watched it many times (along with the rest of the franchise) when I was younger‚ as my sister had an odd obsession with killer whales. I believe the trailer does a just job of explaining what transpires over the course of the movie for many reasons. The first reason being the opening monologue‚ which expresses the major conflict in the movie: Willy (the Orca) is brought into captivity and forced to perform at a rundown
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In the documentary Black fish‚ Gabriella Cowperthwaite (2013) illustrated the truth behind SeaWorld. The director uses Logos‚ Ethos‚ and Pathos to persuade the viewer to think twice before attending SeaWorld and viewing it as a haven for orcas. SeaWorld may have changed and updated some of their safety precautions now‚ but it used to be a concrete prison that confined several orcas in and inhumane and misunderstood environment. Gabriella Cowperthwaite (2013) the director of Black fish uses logos
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Stacy Rodenbough ENGL 1010 October 1‚ 2012 Orca- Greek God of the Underworld There are very few animals that can compare to the top mammal of marine animals. The Orca or killer whale is the largest of the dolphin family; with the full name of Orcinus Orca; meaning Greek god of the underworld. They are whales with distinct black and white coloring and have teeth that can be up to 4 inches in length. Not only they one of the largest of the sea they are also the fastest of marine animals and
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Investigator. I always thought that there was no doubt in my mind that Sea World was a good place that was until the movie Blackfish came out. This first article is about questioning the ethics that the investigator used to gain his insight on the killer whales that he used for the movie. I feel like this is not a good creditable source because there are many bias issues at hand which tends to lean towards one side which in this article is Sea world. How I can to this decision is the facts at hand which
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This higher brain function can account for attacks such as the one by Kasatka who on two occasions‚ 1999 and 2006‚ attacked veteran trainer Ken Peters during live shows in SeaWorld San Diego (Hardgrove 97). In 1999‚ another whale named Tilikum made headlines when the mutilated body of a twenty-seven year old man was found floating in the water after he’d snuck into the facility and Tilikum attacked him (Hardgrove 98). Tilikum had previously killed a trainer in Sealand of the Pacific in 1991 before
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I intend to write a creative piece of writing about Animal abuse for human entertainment. Written in first-person‚ the reader will see through the perspective of a Killer Whale‚ who is torn from it’s ocean home and held captive in an unnatural environment. From my short piece of writing‚ I want people to understand the emotion these animals endure through being forced out of their ordinary. I want this piece to give us an insight to what Algernon went through in the novel “Flowers for Algernon” by
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Problem (2 Points) What is the purpose of your experiment? What are you trying to find out? Problem(s): Does keeping Orca Whales in captivity affect their lifespan and health? Do wild Orca Whales have a longer lifespan? Research (2 Points) What topics would you be researching? Behaviors of Orca Whales‚ affects that captivity has on once wild animals‚ differences between captivity and the wild. Hypothesis (4 Points) This is your prediction of the outcome. Your hypothesis should include an explanation
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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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of Iceland in 1983 at the age of two. 33 years later Tilikum is still being held captive in Seaworld Orlando. Over 25 orcas are being held in these facilities and 37 whales have died in the three Seaworld’s in the United States. Seaworld’s website reads “We do not capture killer whales in the wild… we haven’t collected a killer whale in the wild in 35 years” They stopped 35 years ago because 35 years ago they were exposed for taking them.
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