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    Aristotle even found out that Dolphins are not fish. In Famousscientist.org ”Aristotle discovered that Dolphins have lungs, and give birth to live offspring(not eggs).” The studies of the Dolphin was one of the many animals Aristotle paid attention to. All before Aristotle thought of Dolphins as a fish because Dolphins lived in the ocean. Aristotle took time and looked at Dolphins because of this inspection of the Dolphins and his studies one could say that it was the start

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    primary producer didn't exist, a entire food chain would more than likely collapse. We depend on our weakest links and everything around us. The caterpillar could be eaten by a fish eaten by a dolphin that travels near France, where there is one place to eat ice cream, or the tundra. Either way caterpillars, dolphins, arctic foxes, ice cream, and the eiffel tower are all related even if they aren't all animals, food, or monuments they are connected. Ever wondered about caterpillars? I have. Caterpillars

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    ways. Dolphins can talk to each other by clicking noises. Dogs understand when you are mad at them. They hang their heads in shame until they know that you aren't mad at them anymore. Bats use echolocation to catch their prey. This is what I'll be talking about in my essay. In the story "The Pod" Jesse is going to a store and sees the stranded dolphin. He goes to try to save it. The dolphin starts whistling and clicking to Jesse because his pod is waiting for him in the ocean. The dolphins pod starts

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    lives and the nature world. Both films centre on this theme but The Cove explores the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan while Grizzly Man focuses on Timothy Treadwell’s attempt to live with grizzly bears. Both have a certain tragic plot about them, The Cove because of the cold blood slaughter and Grizzly Man because of Treadwell’s death. Both choose to focus on one species, for The Cove its dolphins, Grizzly Man, its grizzly Bears. They may be both focused on the same topic but are they’re both

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    techniques to make an extremely persuasive argument highlighting issues such as gun violence levels in America and the Columbine High School massacre itself. Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove uses statistics and archival footage to persuade the audience that dolphins are beginning unnecessarily slaughtered, and there is something underhanded going on in Taiji, Japan. Michael Moore’s, Bowling for Columbine manipulates the viewer to believe that gun violence in America is directly linked to the laws in place

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    of the many ways. This type of evolution is seen in echolocation in mammals. Echolocation is a phenotypic trait that is known to have evolved independently in two groups of bats (Yangochiroptera and Rhinolophoidea) and in toothed whales such as dolphins. This process involves many different factors, with the most important being production/amplification, nerve transmission/reception, and signal recoding/processing of ultrasonic pulses. The species described above both use echolocation for things

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    Bycatch Research Paper

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    issue with delphinids contrary to dolphins, once they are caught in purse seine nets with yellowphin tuna, they cannot escape it and therefore die. Although this issue what happening as early as in the 1950’s, it only started getting monitored in the 1970’s. for the many years when it was happening, the annual mortalities were around 200-500, 000. Even with the new monitoring, many dolphins are continuously being killed through this fishing technique. Thanks to dolphin safe labels and movement, there

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    The 1985 Bears

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    people have gave the defense the credits to why they won the championship. But their offense which had some of the best players football has produced, from the trenches to the back field. I'm going to compare this team with other teams such as the 72 dolphins and the 2007 patriots. The 1984 Bears had a rough season going 10-6 and not making it to the playoffs. The head coach NFL football HOF Mike Ditka was set to make a change on the upcoming season. With a new starting QB Jim McMahon and arguable

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    her to Seaworld. Once there they placed her in with the dolphins and told her what to do for a performance with the dolphins.

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    training period, the dolphins were acquainted with several gestures and sounds. They were presented with simple two-choice sound-discrimination stimuli to familiarize them with some sounds that the study would use. Correct responses were rewarded with freshly thawed silver smelt fish. The positive reinforcement aimed at developing a positive attitude toward learning and encouraging dolphins to solve problems. Gestural training was also initiated in this period to accustom the dolphins to responses that

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