Cheating on the Beachmaster by Rebecca Kessler has explained an intriguing behavior of female Southern elephant seals. The entire species of elephant seals are well known for their polygynous mating behavior, in which one male elephant seal dominates several females until another stronger male elephant seal dethrones him. This process involves violent fightings among the males and many other brutish behaviors. According to Burney J. Le Boeuf, a marine biologist studies elephant seals for years at the University of California, male elephant seals have the “habit of biting the neck when copulating”. Meanwhile, female elephant seals and their pups are expected to very vulnerable and independent because of their relatively smaller sizes compared to those of the males.
Chris Crutcher wrote the book Whale Talk for a reason to entertain the reader and because he felt it would send a positive and negative message to the reader. The book has multiple messages such as, bullying, harassment, racism, violence, abuse, teamwork, caring for others and family values. The biggest message he sent was about family values ( how family can affect a child’s life in a positive and negative way ). The first topic in the story is language, how the language that Rich Marshal uses towards his step daughter Heidi effects her. On page 94, Georgia is a friend of Tjs who is also a psychologist.
The events following this attack prove that there is an issue with these whales in captivity. The police report on the attack on Dawn first claimed that she slipped or “fell” into the pool, when she was actually pulled in by the whale. The lies told to the public clearly showed an issue with aggression. Not only did they lie once, they continued to change the story. After saying she slipped and fell, they then said that the whale grabbed her ponytail.
Through all of the problems the boys have faced they still maintain a friendship. Friendship is a combination of things but it is always built on a foundation of trust, and wanting the best for one
“A friend will strengthen you with his prayers, bless you with his love, and encourage you with his love,” (Proverb Zone). Friendship is the helping of others by inviting them to be a part of one’s life. In Chris Crutcher’s Whale Talk, T.J. has to build a swim team that can achieve a letterman jacket to prove others wrong about themselves. Friendship is seen throughout many books including this one. In Whale Talk, Chris Crutcher demonstrates friendship ensures that people are not alone through school teams, anti-bullying, and mentorship.
They said that Dawn had a ponytail which gave Tilikum a way to grab ahold of her, but there was many pictures before that proved that wrong. Lori Marino, a Neuroscientist claimed that, "... They're all emotionally destroyed. They're all psychologically traumatized, so they are ticking time bombs. " The whales aren't aware what they are doing is wrong, they eventually get tired of the environment they are living in that they decided to lash
As whales partner off, they get to experience different aspects of life with their significant other. By letting someone into one's life- something that is only possible with a vulnerable heart- its quality can be improved because it helps decrease one's
Peter Brannen started out with a simple question of what it was like for whales on 9/11.? How did it impact the marine life? And while it may have seemed like a silly drunken thought, let loose in conversation during a night at the pub, it turned out to be a real question with uncharted answers. He set out with Lisa Conger -a biologist to the Bay of Fundy to discover that Argentine whales have been slowly increasing the volume of their songs in order to adapt to the heightening levels of man-made noise in the ocean. As it turns out the low frequency noise of commercial shipping has been slowly drowning the sound of the whales, making it very hard to mind mates, therefore causing a drop in population.
(Blackfish). Killer whales in the wild are aggressive towards each other just as they are to humans, in 1989 an accident involving two whales: Kandu and Corky resulted in Kandu bleeding to death. (Kirby 2) this would have never happened if the whales had the enough space they needed to separate from each other. Contrastingly, killer whales in the wild are more peaceful toward each other and humans. There is only one accident of an orca biting someone in the wild.
During the capture of both Tilikum and Shamu, they were almost inseparable from their families; the capturers had to use a net to forcibly separate them. Even when the net was lowered to release the family, they did not leave the calf, instead the whales exchanged long, high-pitched squeals, whistles, and screams, that the capturers recalled as sounds of grief. In the documentary “Blackfish”, Lori Marino, neuroscientist, states,”They’ve got a part of the brain humans don’t have. A part of their brain has extended out right adjacent to their limbic system, the system that processes emotions.”
When killer whales were first captured the capturers tossed bombs to herd the whales. They were only looking for the babies, since they were easier to ship. The mother killer whales were “crying” for their babies when they were captured. If the wild there is no record of a killer whale doing any harm to humans. Killer whales use their own type of language to communicate in the
Humpbacks are baleen whales that use bristles to filter their food out of mouth fuels of seawater. Their diet consists mainly of plankton and krill, as well as small schooling fish. Whales, include the largest animals in all of life on Earth, and are a curtail part of the ecosystem today. They have high metabolic demands and when they were in larger populations, before industrial whaling, whales would have had a strong influence on marine ecosystems, even greater than today. They play several environmental roles including, consumers of several species, prey to large bodied predators, reservoirs of nutrients, and detrital sources of energy and habitat in the deep sea.
Both Hochschild and Davies claim that the emotional labor of the workers is being exploited by employers to gain a profit, suggesting that the control of emotional labor influences productivity. Hochschild, using the flight attendant as an example, illustrates the negative effects of emotional labor on the job. The worker is told that her smile is her best asset (Hochschild 4). No longer is her smile a true representation of her feelings, it is part of the product being sold to the consumer (Hochschild 4). The smile equals good customer service, which in return grants good ratings and a profit for the company because of the increase in sales (Hochschild 6).
It is a common misconception of natural instinct and imaginative onlookers; these whales are not people they are wild marine life. It is no secret that killer whales have a bad reputation, however what earned the reputation was sheer unintentional killings. Orinus Orcas are wild marine life that should not be prosecuted like human beings, and the name “Killer Whales” is the result of false
Whale sharks like to hang out together and eat together. Now you know about whale sharks.
