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
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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
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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
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Whale hunting in countries like Japan and Norway is deeply rooted in their culture. For centuries (Japan since the 12th century and Norway since 9-10th centuries) whaling was a source of food and income for the local fisherman. A lot has changed‚ though‚ in the 20th century when whale hunting became commercial and its scale grew exponentially‚ leading to over-exploitation and endangering of the species. To help regulate whaling and "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make
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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
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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
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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
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Introduction Whales are the largest marine mammal in the world‚ living in all of the major oceans from the Arctic and Antarctic oceans to the tropical waters around the world. Human whaling is to hunt and kill whales for the use of their meat‚ oil and blubber. It is estimated that three million whales were killed in the twentieth century alone. According to the survey‚ there are only 10‚000 - 20‚000 whales surviving in the oceans today. Rapidly decreasing number of whales has affected the ocean’s
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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
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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
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