for medical research. With the Bill of Rights‚ these animals would be able to live in better condition and have a better lifestyle. It would not be fair to them since humanity invaded their land when they were there to begin with. There are killer whales
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PRESENT DAY Habitat and Geographic Location The Orcas can be found in all the world’s oceans. Their location ranges from the equator to both polar regions. Orcas inhabit deep ocean waters and coastal shallows. The northern and southern ranges are limited by pack ice. The orca stays in one area all year‚ and travels within its home range for prey. Some populations migrate toward the equator in the winter and back toward the poles in the summer. The orcas adapt well to any climate‚ however‚ coastal
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251 cases where more than half of marine mammal workers have been injured by these animals (Farinato 35). Some incidents that are notable include the infamous death of Dawn Brancheau‚ A Seaworld orca trainer‚ who was pulled into a tank by a killer whale named Tilikum during a Seaworld show; it is still considered controversial if Tilikum was playing or he was frustrated with being captive (Harmon 1). It’s most likely that he was attacking due to frustration because orcas in the wild rarely attack
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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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Tanks. Collapsed dorsal fins. Fights. Stress. Depression. Abuse. Death. This is captivity. Orcas‚ or commonly known as killer whales‚ have been held in captivity since 1961. Marine parks‚ like SeaWorld and Marineland‚ tear orca families apart by plucking whales from the ocean and selling them for millions of dollars or trapping them in tanks for entertainment. Most of the times‚ there are orcas that are sometimes aggressive towards the other orcas in the tanks and are forced to do tricks and entertain
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Throughout history‚ men have been more respected than women The Whale Rider directed by Niki Caro and written by Witi Ihimaera and the story of Antigone by Sophocles reflect this statement. Though written in two different eras and cultures both stories have elements of gender inequality. Both show that women have to to put in more effort for what they want than most men. In both Antigone and Whale Rider‚ the gender roles reveal that women are lesser beings than males. In Antigone‚ Creon‚ the king
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who kill many types of whales. In the 18th‚ 19th and 20th century whaling fleets set their voyages from Europe and North America; they sourced the whales for their oil‚ whalebone for corsets‚ ambergris for perfume and meat for villages. The Japanese Whaling history goes back as far as 10‚000 B.C. when whales were driven into nets and harpooned repeatedly‚ then they would dispatch with a long sword or a wooden plug driven into the blowholes to ensure they were deceased. Whale meat would feed their
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DARBEY TANTICO ANALYSIS TWO 12 MARCH 2014 Introduction: Sea World is a place for people to get a splash of happiness and amusement watching whales do intricate tricks but is the fact that the Orcas are held in captivity and unhappy worth that splash of amusment. The case of “Blackfish” deals with the captivity of Orca Whales in Sea World and the bill being put up in California to ban the captivity and breeding of Orcas called the California Captive Orca Welfare and Safety Act (Sanchez‚ 2014)
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states killer whales should not be kept in seaworld cages and for the incidents have been reported from sea world caused by killer whales. Tilikum was the main topic in Blackfish because Tilikum caused most of the incidents happened at seaworld for the bad treatment he had received when he was first brought into seaworld in Canada. In my opinion‚ killer whales should not be kept at seaworld in cages because that causes them to be aggressive towards the trainers. I state that killer whales should be
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huge part of the diet for the Spinner Dolphins. These dolphins have no problem successfully hunting in the deeper and darker waters. They can survive from 20 to 20 years in the wild. Natural enemies of spinner dolphins are sharks‚ killer whales and pilot whales. Spinner dolphins are very social animals. They live in groups (called pods) of 100 to 1.000 animals. The average size
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