Orcas in captivity face premature death, “In the wild they have an average life expectancy of 30 to 50 years—their estimated maximum lifespan is 60 to 70 years for males and 80 to over 100 for females. The median age of orcas in captivity is only 9, and orcas at SeaWorld rarely make it even to the average life expectancy of their wild cousins.”(SeaWorld oh Hurt) Orcas need to swim up to a hundred miles each day but in the parks they are only confined to a tiny pool and forced to swim in the same space their entire life. Being in such small spaces, light has been shed on the fighting between killer whales. “Orcas who are not compatible are forced to live in tight quarters together. The resulting anxiety and tension cause fights between orcas.
When I ask the kids at Rosario Beach (at Deception Pass State Park) which critter is their favorite, they often tell me it's the hermit crab. It's easy to figure out why kids and adults love hermit crabs. Their antics in the tide pools are certainly entertaining. I'll bet you didn't know that some hermit crabs are terrestrial. One amazing species (Birgus latro) can climb coconut trees, cut a coconut loose, and can make a hole in a coconut so it can eat the inside!
The Oceanic White-Tipped Shark is a pelagic shark which means it lives close to the surface and rarely goes to the ocean floor. It is an aggressive slow moving fish that usually will find a carcass of a whale or other large marine animal and dominate the feeding frenzy. It gets its Name white-tipped shark because every fin on the shark has a white tip except the anal fin which has a black tip. They inhabit most of the Salt water of the world because they can live in cold or warm water. Excluding the occasional feeding frenzy, white tips also eat a diet that consists mostly of cephalopods.
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Nadya is a single mother who has to raise all 14 of her kids by herself. Angela Suleman, Nadya’s mother, told Nadya that when she gets home from the hospital, “I’m going to be gone.” With her mother refusing to help and a father out children by herself, with 8/14 of the children being the exact same age. Nadya Suleman is one example of many women who give birth to infertile children. “Many infertile couples turn to in-vitro fertilization and about 50 000 such infants are born each year in the United States – a number that has roughly doubled over the past decade. About 1 percent of U.S. babies are conceived using the technique,” researchers said.
Staying at home | |with her two small sons, she was the ultimate earth mother, gardening, canning fruits and vegetable, | |making her son’s clothes, stitching and knitting. “I macramed two hammocks,” she admits now. “I needed | |help.” | |That help came in the form of a blizzard in February 1979, which left her stranded at home for a week. | |In an age without four-wheel drive vehicles, getting down the hillside from where she lived was | |impossible. Morning kindergarten was canceled for a week.
The Emperor Angelfish also known as the Imperator Angelfish is usually found in most parts of the Indo- Central Pacific Ocean and in the warmer parts of the Red Sea. They live in areas with rich coral growth Young emperor angelfishes tend to live alone, hiding in reef holes and crevices. In some parts young emperor angelfishes frequent shrimp cleaning stations and would occasionally help shrimps pick off parasites and dead skin from a fish waiting to be cleaned. The emperor angelfish is a carnivore unlike most species of angelfish that are herbivores. Emperor angelfish eats coral heads, small invertebrates like sponges, and crustaceans such as shrimp and shellfish.
They're also thought to have a sophisticated "language". Dolphins use tools in their natural environment and can learn an impressive array of behavioural commands from human trainers. Like many of the most intelligent animals on Earth, female dolphins remain with their young for several years, teaching them all the tricks of the dolphin trade. Scientists have observed groups of bottlenose dolphins around the Pacific Ocean using a basic tool. When searching for food on the sea floor, many of these dolphins were seen tearing off pieces of sea sponge and wrapping them around their "bottle nose" to prevent
Sea World is an online organization whose mission is to educate and create awareness to scholars, parents, and children about the relationships between humans and the environment, where they mention that penguins mostly live in areas that are free of land predators due to their inability to fly( Sea World). They usually live near the sea for about 75% of their lives where food supply is abundant. All 17 species reside in different regions and live under different climates and temperatures. The regions are either the southern hemisphere were the climate is usually spring and summer as where in the northern hemisphere they usually experience fall and winter. For all penguins especially those who live in colder temperatures are conveniently warm with the feathers that uniforms their body.
Whales are mammals that live for a long time and breed slowly. Every year or so, a female gives birth to a single calf that takes many years to mature and begin its own breeding cycle. With this slow life cycle, mass commercial whaling can easily lead to extinction (Greenpeace). The commercial whaling industry had existed for many centuries in other oceans before whalers moved into the Southern Ocean. In the beginning of the 20th century whalers began to exploit the herds of southern whales.