Whales are amongst the most brilliant marine mammals on earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal to ever exist. Regardless of this history, industrial whaling has left the whale species exceptionally endangered. Thankfully, whaling has actually been ended in numerous nations, but still exists in some. The impact of this continued whaling endangers the existence of the varieties, and if not stopped, could wipe out whales.
Whales are unbelievably brilliant creatures. Their tunes are a form of communication that are special to each animals and personal and are used to exchange details. Whales have lots of behaviors that are similar to humans; whales raise a single offspring at a time, whales have courting rituals, and whales have also been observed grieving each others deaths. Dolphins and whales are closely related, and countless of the enthralling behaviors that have been observed in dolphins have actually even been found in whales. The public raised a significant outcry when tuna fishers hurt dolphin human populations. Like dolphins, whales should not be eradicated for food.
Ocean Shepherd is an business that says Japan is in violation of the IWC rules on all commercial whaling. They point out that the Eastern public does not support commercial whale hunting, but all the major political parties do. Whale meat supposedly caught for “research functions” ends up in the well-known Tsukiji fish market, Marine Shepherd points out. They examine this embezzlement of whale meat on a regular basis and try to protect against whaling in the high marines as it is arising.
Sea Shepherd has boats and crews and go out to intervene throughout whale hunts. This is a unsafe and life-threatening undertaking for Ocean Shepherd’s companies, but they go on to go to conserve the whales from slaughter. As just recently as 2010, three Ocean Shepherd ships intervened
against unlawful whaling projects and one boat was purposely rammed and sunk by the Japanese. When the captain attempted to serve an invoice upon the Eastern for his sunken boat, he was taken to a Japanese prison. The Marine Shepherd’s remaining companies were not prevented and followed the Oriental fleets for 3 weeks, and not one solitary whale was killed throughout that time.
If you are one of the millions of folks who wish to contribute in ending this illegal activity, you can easily drop by Sea Shepherd – www.seashepherd.org to study more about how you can get include and help the organization in stopping Oriental whale fishing.
Where can i find good information on Humpback Whales? My sister is doing a report and she has to know What type of climate It lives in?
start with national geographic
Humpback whales live in several different climates. During the winter (depending on which hemisphere), Humpbacks will migrate to a tropical climate to mate and give birth to their young. Since the food source for Humpbacks does not grow well in a tropical climate, Humpbacks will return to cold waters to feed during the summer months (and after the babies are strong enough to make the journey to these cold waters, which can be thousands of miles away). Some of the tropical places where Humpbacks are common include: Australia, American Samoa, Mexico, The Philippeans, and The Hawaiian Islands. Some of the colder places Humpbacks are common include: The Bering Sea, Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and anywhere near Antarctica. So the Humback lives in two very different climates for equal parts of the year: tropical and arctic (or antarctic). Hope this helps. Good luck on your report!
The wikipedia is a great source and so are the other sources The list are endless, try surfing the net with your sister, you can be pretty surprise the information avaliable.
I take it male and female humpback whales have the same sized spouts? or do they differ in size because the male is smaller?
The source http://www.archive.org/stream/whales620slij/whales620slij_djvu.txt reports: “The height of the blow is probably the least reliable pointer, not only because a great deal of experience is needed to judge it accurately, but also because it depends largely on the size of the individual whale. Adult Greenland and Biscayan Whales have blows from 10-13 feet high, and the figures for other whales are: Grey, 10 feet; Blue, 20 feet; Fin, 13-20 feet; Sei, 6-8 feet; Humpback, 6 feet; Little Piked Whale, 3 feet; Sperm Whale, 16-25 feet; Bottlenose Whale and Beluga, 3 feet.” The average length of an adult humpback whale is 12.9 m (42ft) males and 13.7 m (45ft) females, the maximum size 18m (59ft), so the difference of 0,8 m should not effect a significant difference in height of blow. http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/wildlife/whales/humpback_whale.htm
Are humpback whales taught their ‘songs’ by other humpbacks or do they know them instinctively? I can’t seem to find an answer to this anywhere. I would assume that the songs are simply known instinctively, but after reading up on the complexity of them (the syntax and diversity, among other complex features) I couldn’t help but wonder if they are picked up by young humpbacks in a way similar to humans and our languages.
I’m pretty sure the songs are learned from other whales. I don’t thing the specificity involved is the kind of thing that would be instinctive. What would be instinctive would be the motivation to sing about something
they can learn from other whales to an extent, but mostly they learn from listening to CDs
What are some five syllable words or phrases connected to humpback whales? For a parody to the song Miss Independent
I knew a humpback whale called Anita Cartwright – that’s five syllables.
How about “Baleen in their mouths” or “Songs that make you smile”or “raise their mighty flutes”.
How do the following sharks interact with living humpback whales? tiger shark great white also does it depend on the location and where would the not eat them. Like would they leave them alone in bermuda?
They DON’T! & NO.
whats a Humpback whales niche? including food, reproduction, habitat, and how they interact in their ecosystem? Omg please help, i have this science project by wednesday and im stuck on this question!