reality for many helpless dolphins swimming the Taiji waters. Taiji is a small town located in Japan that plays host to the very cruel and inhumane slaughtering of dolphins. Every year from September to April the Taiji Dolphin Drive takes place and brutally strips hundreds of dolphins of their lives while others are captured and exported to aquariums all around the world. In 1987‚ one year after the International whaling commission placed a ban on whaling‚ the number of dolphins slaughtered tripled.
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In the small village of Taiji‚ there is a hidden cove where Japanese fishermen slaughter thousands of dolphins each year. The massacre of these dolphins goes on for six months out of the year. The dolphins are driven in to captive by using torturous underwater noises and large nets to trap them in to this cove where they are slaughtered. Some of the dolphins are killed in the cove‚ by fishermen cutting their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears‚ while others are taken off shore into trucks
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Drive Clean Drive electric Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! Dr. Paul Mac Cready ‚ Jr. The future of transportation is here‚ and it’s knocking at your door! Our day-to-day means of transportation is changing and the more municipalities‚ business leaders‚ utilities and end-users know about Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs)‚ the more prepared they will be to embrace the “vehicles of tomorrow”
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Species: Tursiops truncatus or Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Jenkins) The Common Bottlenose Dolphin is arguably the most popular species of the Delphinidae family. Because they are found in both temperate and tropical waters‚ they are the most studied; a majority of our Physiology knowledge about Delphinids as a family is based on Bottlenose Dolphins (Cozzi 411). Because of the wide variety of habitats and climates that Bottlenose Dolphins inhabit‚ there is a lot of debate about how many
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that I read was Behind the Dolphin Smile written by Richard O’Barry and Keith Coulbourn. It has 288 pages‚ and was Published July 7th 2000 by Renaissance Books (first published September 1st 1991). Behind the Dolphin Smile is a book that is based on the true story of a dolphin trainer that was holding the dolphin that played Flapper on TV in his arms as it died of stressed. It was then that he realized that his career training dolphins had been a mistake and that dolphins deserve the same freedom as
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Dolphin assisted therapy (DAT) is a highly controversial topic in the medical world. Is it medicine or simply recreation? Whatever you might believe‚ you cannot deny the fact that dolphins are loving and nurturing mammals with the ability to show compassion. Along with that ability for compassion‚ some may claim that there is actual science‚ which proves that interactions with dolphins have helped to treat many patients. Most of the patients in dolphin assisted therapy are children with autism‚ Down’s
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How To Protect Endangered Species? Indus River Dolphin Common names: Indus river dolphin‚ bhulan‚ blind river dolphin‚ Indus dolphin‚ side swimming dolphin‚ Plataniste de l’Indus (Fr)‚ Delfín del Indo (Sp) Scientific name: Plantanista minor What are Indus river dolphins? The Indus River dolphin (Platanista minor) is one of the world’s rarest mammals and the second most endangered freshwater river dolphin. The species is characterized by a long beak‚ rounded belly‚ stocky body‚ very small dorsal
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Sharks and dolphins are very fascinating creatures because of their unique personas and behaviors. Their personalities seem to clash when compared to each other. Sharks tend to have a mean and intimidating character thanks to their razor sharp teeth‚ while a dolphin seems to be a bubblier and clever creature. Even though they have similar features‚ they are far from alike. Whereas sharks and dolphins are different in behavior‚ reproduction‚ and hunting‚ they are similar in body shape‚ and habitat
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White Dolphins in Hong Kong Periodically‚ all government needs to balance between economic and environmental development. Chinese White Dolphin‚ being one of the marine biodiversity indicators‚ has been under international concern in the 1990s. Being one of the major habitats of the Chinese White Dolphin‚ the seabed near Northern Lantau was under reclamation for the Chek Lap Kok Airport construction‚ which resulted in a loss of local habitat and cause rapid decline in population of the dolphins. Soon
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January 2011 Dolphin Trainer A Dolphin Trainer is a dream career of many people! Almost everyone has seen a dolphin‚ read or had some type of interaction with them. It’s amazing how such these beautiful creatures can perform such cool tricks. It’s even more amazing what the trainers have to do to instruct the animals to perform the tricks‚ it might seem easy while they are cueing the dolphins‚ but there is so much more behind of all of it. What people don’t see is the unique dolphin-human relationship
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