...from shore * Diet: schooling fish, mammals and sharks. * they have large, scarred and nicked dorsal fins resembling those of transients * Encountered off the west coast of Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands. * Offshores travel in groups of 20–75, sometimes in larger groups of up to 200 * Offshores appear to be smaller than the others * Females are characterized by dorsal fin tips that are continuously rounded Transient Orca: * Diet: marine mammals (sea lions, seal, walruses) * travel in small groups, of two to six, and have less persistent family bonds than residents * Transients vocalize in less variable and less complex dialects * Females are characterized by more triangular and pointed dorsal fins. * the saddle patches of transients are solid and uniformly gray * Transients roam widely along the coast in both southern Alaska and California. * Nickname: Bigg's killer whale in honor of Michael Bigg. Offshore Orca: * Discovered in 1988 in the northeast Pacific, by a humpback whale researcher who observed them in open water. * they travel far from shore * Diet: schooling fish, mammals and sharks. * they have large, scarred and nicked dorsal fins resembling those of transients * Encountered off the west coast of Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands. * Offshores travel in groups of 20–75, sometimes in larger groups of up to 200 * Offshores appear to be smaller than...
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...children of all ages were seated in Shamu Stadium waiting and watching for their star to give its world famous performance. His name was Tilikum and the 12,000-pound killer whale had performed the same routine with the same trainers many times before. However, on that day in February, something was different. News reports claimed that it was “trainer error’ that caused Tilikum to grab his trainer, Dawn Brancheau’s, ponytail and drag her into the water with him. It took the other trainers 45 minutes to extricate Brancheau’s body, which Tilikum held in his mouth and would not let go. All the trainers in Sea World, located in Orlando, Florida, as well as other locations throughout the United States, agreed that Tilikum was well behaved, easy to work with and always eager to please. So what exactly made Tilikum act so violently and take the life of his trainer? There is a reason that there have been no documented deaths of humans by killer whales in the wild – it is obvious that being forced to live and perform in captivity is the reason behind it. It has been argued and scientifically proven that no human being has ever been killed by a killer whale, or orca, in the wild. On the other hand, there at least a dozen documented deaths due to killer whales throughout the world. The main reason this is said to be true is because killer whales, which can grow to be more than 30 feet long and weigh up to 6 tons, are not meant to be kept in tanks and modules that are 20 feet wide and 35 feet deep...
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...and fixates on the eye, giving it qualities that it can never possess. It is simply an eye, nothing more, it was not judging him or taunting him and yet his fear of it made him believe it to be the source of something evil. It was the only thing described about the old man that made him different and was the key problem for the seemingly mentally unstable killer. The final push into his despicable act was the man's belief that the old man could hear his thoughts, another completely irrational belief. The man believed that the old man...
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...will be made to Sea Worlds management to address shortfalls. 2 Part A 2.1 The history of Sea World In 1958, Australian businessman, Keith Williams bought a large tract of land along the Nerang River in Surfers Paradise and established the Water Ski Gardens. Williams’ primary objective of the venture was to attract tourists to Australia from abroad. Due to the expanding tourist numbers, the attraction was moved in 1971 to Split, Main Beach as 'Ski Land Australia'. (Tomar, 2012) SeaWorld took a giant step forward in 1973 when its main competitor, Marine land, was purchased by Williams. The famous aquatic performers were transferred to SeaWorld, strengthening the quality of its employees (A Short History of Sea World on the Gold Coast, 2012). To differentiate, marine mammal shows were in 1976 and amusement rides in 1978 (Kind and Hyde, 1991). Sea world has gone from strength to strength, with many more amusement rides being added to its repertoire the past two decades. Even though Sea World is an entertainment park, it also has its roots embedded in education. The park has become a common destination for school field trips where children...
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...ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY An earthquake so powerful that it knocks the earth off its axis and the coast drops off three feet. A tsunami follows the earthquake leaving tens of thousands of people dead. When watching a live tsunami along the Japanese coast is quite an amazing sight. It was such an extraordinary and dramatic sight to get to witness broadcasting live into the homes across the world. This is an analysis on what is known to be the largest earthquake and biggest tsunami ever to hit Japan on March 11, 2011. The earthquake and tsunami Japans coast lies in ruins after the earthquake hit followed by the tsunami picking up everything in its path like cars, houses, and warehouses. Seismometers, strain gages, and title gages records the disaster. P-waves travel at four miles a second and within seconds warnings flash across the country. The S-waves shake the ground making earthquakes so damaging and the reactor core is shut down (Kerger, 2011. Four miles below the surface the earth is altering caught in a gigantic slow motion collision. Japan lies at the Pacific Plate and rams into the Eurasian Plate causing the Eurasian Plate to shift and cave under. Eventually the plates snap causing an earthquake. This earthquake lasted an impressive five minutes and measured at a magnitude 9.0. The Eurasian Plate is dragged under the Pacific plate grinding under it and the upper plate compresses then it springs back when the earthquake hits causing the four mile deep mass of water upwards...
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...BP.com vs. SeaWorld.com Credibility is defined as the degree to which someone or something is deemed trustworthy and believable. A company's credibility often determines success or failure. Efforts to build and sustain credibility must be ongoing and resolution must be immediate if that credibility is threatened. Comparing and contrasting BP.com and Seaworld.com both companies have faced a loss of credibility. Most public companies, at one time or another will have to deal with either negative or positive PR issues. The companies that have the negative PR must counter slanderous attacks immediately or they can potentially cause great harm to their company. Companies should perform in a safe and ethical manner at all times, but some choose not to. Most times special interest groups will object to what a company represents if the feel strongly enough towards an issue. When a company has to defend itself against strong beliefs that have been vocalized loudly in a public manner it must protect its own interests while retaining their profits and getting past the negative press. The easiest way for a company to communicate to the world is through its website. A company that wants to survive in this day and age has to have a website that a consumer can visit to obtain information and/or purchase products. A company gives itself a platform, via the website, to protect itself and rebut negative notations and address issues it feels it must address. A company...
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...of a kind, the Oregon coast. The Oregon coast would be a great place to spend a vacation, it’s inexpensive and relaxing. So how much would it cost to go to the Oregon coast? What kinds of attractions would one be able to see? Is there stuff for the kids to do as well as adults? What kind of food do you get to eat when you go to the cost? These are all great questions that you ask yourself before planning a trip anywhere. When planning a trip you will want to figure out what the area has to offer. This will give you a sense of where you what to go and when. I enjoy the thrill of adventure and enjoy traveling to places. I have never been to the Oregon coast, so I decided to plan a trip there and find out what attractions they have to offer me. By googling “the Oregon Coast” the first website that I came across was the “Oregon Coast Visitors Association” link (Oregon Coast Visitors Association, 2008). This website’s home page displayed a slide show of pictures of the coast and a map that you are able to click on different areas to find out more information. I clicked on the Newport link and discovered the Oregon Coast Aquarium and the Hatfield Marine Science Center. With two attractions now in mind I was able to google both the Oregon Coast Aquarium and the Hatfield Marine Science Center. Both of these fun and exciting places are among the many where you can explore your imagination and the unique world that lives under the ocean. The Oregon Coast Aquarium...
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...Killer Whales are not Pets Why are humans keeping killer whales in captivity when people know the consequences? Keeping killer whales also known as Orcas in captivity is wrong. In captivity killer whales life spans are reduced, cut in half or even less. Killer whales are very social animals and live in pods and they are basically what a family is to humans. Killer whales in captivity live very low quality lives in captivity. This not only harms them but also the people caring for them then why do we continue to keep them in captivity. Killer whales should not be held in captivity because they are meant for the wild, there health is greatly affected, and leads to dangers. Killer whales are not meant for captivity. They are huge animals and live very socials lives in the wild. Michael McCarthy says that killer whales are very intelligent and even have their own communication system (Mccarthy). They become very lonely and distressed when they are alone. An example of this is when In 2002 Keiko the whale that was in the Free willy movies was released but was never able to find a pod to live in and died 18 months after off the coast of Norway (Mccarthy). The only reason undomesticated animals should ever be in captivity is for their own safety if they are...
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...In her other world, the English world, is a world that she displays as being full of trash and waste. Kapugen, her father, thought to be killed in a kayaking accident, fished for seals off the coast of the Eskimo hunting camp before debris of a wooden kayak washed up on the shore of the village. If Julie spends enough time with the Wolves, she will get her link with the natural world back. When Julie spends time with the wolves she does many marvelous things, such as showing that she's dominant over some of the wolves by tackling them down and staring at them as...
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...SeaWorld is not as amazing as it seems. Where does SeaWorld get their killer whales? Tilikum was a killer whale that had been caught when he was two years old, taken out of his home in the wild to be brought into captivity for SeaWorld. Tilikum was one of the most known killer whales SeaWorld has ever had. In the article “All's Whale that ends Whale,” He was brought into captivity in 1983. He was captured off the east coast of Iceland. SeaWorld wanted him because he of how big he was. At two years of age he was 11.5 feet long and they wanted to use him for the shows. The trainers started to train him and he caught on easy but if he would mess up or that day he decided to not do as many tricks as he was told to do, the trainers would either not feed him as much food as they usually would or they would put him in a tank with two to three other females. Female killer whales love to show that they are more dominant than the males, so when they put Tilikum in a very small tank with three to four female whales, they would go after him and bite his skin away, cut him open, or hit him with their tail. Tilikum...
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...whales, such as killer whales and sperm whales, use clicking sounds as a means of their communication, because they were born with possessing teeth and a unique cavity that allow them to produce this special sound (Whale facts, 2016, “How do whales communicate?”). Due to the use of clicking sounds of toothed whales, whale signals are not only specialized for the purpose of communication, but the clicking sounds are used as an echolocation, which is different from a human communicating feature. Echolocation is a method of determining where objects located by sending sound waves and listening for its returning, namely echoes (Arizona State University, n.d., “What is echolocation?”). To elaborate, killer whales produce clicking sounds as a method of echolocation for projecting sound waves and interpreting the location of objects through the echo (Seaworld Parks & Entertainment, 2016, “Communication and echolocation”). As a consequence, specialization is the feature that makes whale communication distinct from human language. Moreover, cultural transmission is another outstanding feature that was found in whale communication. The research by Noad, Cato, Bryden, Jenner, and Jenner (2000), the researcher of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Pathology in Australia, illustrates that cultural transmission is one of the remarkable features that whales have in common to bird songs. They have observed that the song of the humpback whales in the Australian west coast has influenced...
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...Exxon Valdez - Historical Development On March 24, 1989 an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California—the Exxon Valdez—struck the Bligh Reef located at Prince William Sound (PWS) in the state of Alaska. The result of this event caused upwards to 38 million gallons of crude oil to spill into Prince William Sound and eventually spreading out to 11,000 square miles of ocean as well as 1,300 miles of coastline (Newton, Dillingham, & Choly, 2006). Through a later investigation it was learned that the ship’s captain had not been at the control of the ship due to the previous night spent drinking; the Exxon Shipping Company failed in its supervision as well as a failure to provide a rested crew sufficient in numbers to operate the ship; a failure of the ship’s third mate to appropriately maneuver the ship, which may have been due to an excessive workload or fatigue; and a failure on the part of the Exxon Shipping Company to maintain the ship’s Raytheon Collision Avoidance System (RACAS), which would have warned ship’s crew of an eminent collision (Newton, et al., 2006). As noted by Peterson, et al. (2003) the consequences of the spill were largely predictable and based upon lessons learned from previous oil spills, “Because marine mammals and seabirds require routine contact with the sea surface, these taxa experience high risk from floating oil” (p. 2082). However, the ecological damage inflicted upon animal life within PWS was no less than devastating. Approximately 250,000 seabird...
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...Hip-Hop is a cultural movement that was formed during the 1970’s among African American youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. Hip-hop is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestation of the culture; oral, aural, physical and visual. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music. The origin of the hip-hop cultures stems from the block parties of the Ghetto brothers, when they plugged the amps for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd street and Prospect Avenue; and used music to break down racial barriers. Since 1970’s hip hop has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the world. Hip-hop music first emerged when contemporary disc jockeys and imitators creating rhythmic beats by emphasizing a percussive pattern. It was later accompanied by a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry often presented in 16-bar measures or time frames, and beat boxing, a vocal technique mainly used to provide percussive elements of music and various technical effects of hip hop DJs. In the early days of Hip hop young partygoers initially recited popular phrases and used the slang of the day. It was fashionably for DJ to acknowledge people who were in attendance at a party. Early raps featured someone shouting over instrumental break, which would usually evoke a response from the crowd. Rap caught on because it offered young urban New Yorkers...
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...More than honey The movie takes a good look at bee colonies in the USA, Australia, Switzerland and China. Throughout the movie, its creator Markus Imhoof repeats Einstein’s saying:“When the bee population dies out, humans will die out 4 years later.“ Seems ridiculous and phony, but when you take a moment to think about the fact that one third of our food is pollinated by bees, you start to think differently. One third may be pollinated by bees, but at least another third relies on the pollination of honeybees. Yet the bee colonies are starting to disappear. The movie tries to explain why and how while showing how they are being treated in different environments. The movie describes brilliantly how the bees live: how they work together in their hive from the moment they are born. They remain loyal to their family no matter what and work to create a queen and keep the colony running like clockwork. The movie shows the many reasons that together make the lethal combination for the bees: toxins, transportation and diseases. To say honestly, it is heartbreaking, even for the viewer, to see a beekeeper open a hive and see thousands of little dead bodies on the ground with no particular reason. I guess that is what the movie relies on - the compassion and heart of the viewer. In China, once Mao Zedung told to kill all the sparrow because they eat the seeds on the crops. As a result there were so many insects that they had to start destroying them too. Due to that in some districts...
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...Killer Bees Russell Montoya Eastern New Mexico University Killer Bees Introduction Many people around the world are familiar with the rap group Wu tang Clan and their nick-name the “killa bees” but people don’t really know much about the bees they are actually named after. The Africanized Honey Bee are the original name given to these bees but they have been deemed with name “killer bees”. The book titled “Killer Bees. The Africanized Honey Bee in the Americas” defines the killer bee as, “crosses of European races of Apis mellifera with the more aggressive African subspecies, A. m. scutellata” (1992). These bees originated in South Africa but in the 1950’s Brazil brought some in for honey production after which swarms escaped and traveled to the Americas and ultimately arrived in North America in 1985. Today they are mostly used for the pollination of honey in the southern states of America. Cause of Problem The difference between the Africanized honey bee and other bees is their aggressiveness. This causes a problem because these bees tend to attack and express more aggressive behavior than any other bees. Africanized honey bees traits according to Columbia.edu are "a highly defensive nature, responding more quickly and more bees sting, sensing a threat from a person or animas 50 feet or more from their nest, and perusing a perceived enemy ¼ mile or more” (2002). One can see how these bees are perceived different than other bees. Their angry behavior also...
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