somewhat different depending on the degree of modification produced by evolution. One use for the vertebrate forelimb is swimming. Whales‚ otters and penguins have forelimbs which are modified to allow them to swim efficiently. The bones in whales are relatively compact and do not move within the flipper. This provides them with a strong paddle’ which allows the whale to control the direction of their swimming. However‚ Otters have more flexible arms which allow for more movement. The metacarpals
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the whale could face extinction‚ I only found out the other day that there are an estimated 5000 whales killed every year. Firstly once you have killed a whale it takes a longer time to replace it‚ when females have babies every 1 to 3 years and they are pregnant with the baby from 10 months for a smaller whale and for the bigger whales 16 months‚ so if people just keep on taking and taking it is going to take longer for all whale species to repopulate. Secondly the way the whales are
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Grind happens is that during the summer‚ the Faroese people surround pilot whales with a semicircle of boats‚ then they drive these whales to shore where the hunters wait to kill them. Sea Shepherd does not believe that this should happen and have gone done to the Faroe Islands to stop it. 2.) The first group that is considered a stakeholder would be the Faroese people who rely on this meat for much of their meals. The whale meat makes up about 30% of all meat produced locally on the island. The
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life that are similar to whales. On the other hand‚ others think that underwater noise has absolutely no affect on marine life. Two affects of underwater noise on species of marine life similar to whales are causing them change feeding and diving patterns as well as causing their communications to be interrupted and making them respond cautiously and affecting their behavior‚ which still substantially affects them. The first effect on species of marine life akin to whales is making them change
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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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distances‚ and the water does not support visual cues over great distance. This is why whales and dolphins use primarily auditory signals. Auditory signals can travel great distances and travel four and a half times faster in water than in air (Ford‚ 1984). Killer whales or Orca (Orcinus orca) are very social dolphins and live in pods often consisting of family members from between four up to fifty for residential whales while transient pods normally are only between two and five animals (Ford‚ 1989)
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Moby Dick Context Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819‚ the third of eight children born to Maria Gansevoort Melville and Allan Melville‚ a prosperous importer of foreign goods. When the family business failed at the end of the 1820s‚ the Melvilles relocated to Albany in an attempt to revive their fortunes. A string of further bad luck and overwork‚ however‚ drove his father to an early grave‚ and the young Melville was forced to start working in a bank at the age of thirteen. After
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developed into nations which revolve around a market for such cetaceans as whales and dolphins. In fact‚ in Taiji‚ a small town on the southern shores of Japan‚ over thirty percent of their annual economy is generated from a market oriented around whales and dolphins (Hanlon‚ The Whaling Debate Intensifies). However‚ the idea of whaling can be seen as immoral to the rest of the world as it involves the death of cetaceans‚ such as whales‚ people have grown to love. This being said‚ whaling is an issue involving
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there are parts about hunting whales and either keeping them in captivity or killing them. In these selections there are explanations to go along with what both of the people think as to what they’re going to do when they capture the whales. One similarity in Moby Dick and Blackfish is that in both of these there are people trying to catch whales. For example‚ in Moby Dick it states‚ “The narrator becomes a sailor on Captain Ahab’s ship and joins the hunt for the whale that bit off one of Ahab’s legs
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Australia legal whale measure case Date: April 12‚ 2013 Question presented Is Australia whale measure an international issue has respect to other countries? Do other countries have right to argue or complain to the world trade organization to intervention with Australia legal measure? Does GATT& SPS measures applicable? Short Answer Yes. Australia legal whale measure ban on whale products trade both internationally and domestically‚ imply trade obstacles of whale goods. As a public
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