Imagine yourself as a Minke Whale being chased by a whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean. After half an hour‚ BAM! A harpoon hits you. Instantly you feel an agonizing pain in your side. You still fight for another hour until you feel weak‚ as if you cant move one more muscle in your body‚ you start to slow down and give up. Then the whalers shoot you with a shotgun‚ until you die. Every year this happens to over 2‚500 innocent‚ beautiful whales‚ I believe that this is wrong. People
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[pic]The largest creature ever known to have existed on Earth is the present-day blue whale. The largest dinosaur attained a length of about 22 m and weighed about 36 tons. Today’s blue whale is even larger than its ancestors‚ and may reach a total length of 33 m and a weight of 145 tons. This giant animal is placid and shy. On the ocean surface‚ its normal cruising speed is about 12 knots‚ but it is capable of attaining 20 knots in short bursts. The maximum reported depth reached by the species
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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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Orlando‚ Florida. In 1983 is when SeaWorld obtained a permit to capture 100 Alaskan orcas. SeaWorld should not be able to have whales. The reason SeaWorld should not be able to have whales is because they live in terrible conditions and are not well taken care of or‚ happy. If the whales are not kept well‚ they can become stressed‚ frustrated
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or hunting of whales mainly there for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least 3000 BC. Industrial whaling emerged with organized fleets in the 17th century; competitive national whaling industries in the 18th and 19th centuries; and the introduction of factory ships along with the concept of whale harvesting in the first half of the 20th century. As technology increased and the need for the resources stood high‚ catches increased highly by the sustainable limit for whale stocks. In the
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1946 to monitor the whale stock and a proper development and coordination of the whaling industries‚ to know for what purpose the whales where been killed and Whales stoke of whale being killed (David‚ 2014The). However in the 1980s‚ admissions of non-whaling countries that advocated an anti-whaling campaign increased rapidly under the influence of environmental pressure groups. The IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982‚ but still allows that the meat of whales killed for scientific
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Introduction: General feature of the whaling issue・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 1 Chapter One: Background of Whaling disputes ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 4 1. Science of Whales 2. International Understanding of Whales 3. The History of Whales in the World 4. The History of Whaling in Japan Chapter Two: Japanese Whaling and International Law・・・・・・・・・・・・ 14 1. International Laws Concerning Whales 2. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling 3. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
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a diagram of a whale and details about how the whale has evolved physiologically and has become adapted to fit the environment. Kingdom: Animalia‚ Phylum: Cordata‚ Class: Mammalia‚ Order: Cetacea‚ Sub-order: Odontoceti‚ Family: Delphinidae‚ Genus: Orcinus‚ Species: Orca. Whales occupy all oceans and major seas‚ even some are in larger river systems. They are very large animals. They can grow up to 100 ft. or more in length. They can weigh up to 200 tons or more. Whales live in families
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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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non-fearful and highly anthropomorphic ways. In this study’s wild whale site‚ some whale insiders referred to the first captive orcas as‚ in a sense‚ serving as ambassadors for wild orcas.4 Ironically‚ as captures killed and traumatized individual area orcas and devastated their populations‚ the captives helped create an atmosphere in which the public for the first time became concerned about whales. Instead of fearing or hating killer whales‚ people began to find they could relate to them.5 At the
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