pod of 8 Humpback Whales off the coast of Sydney Australia.MTS Video
Whales are majestic creatures, famed for their high intelligence and attractive singing. For centuries, humans have actually exploited whales for oil and meat. Due to this hunting, whales are close to extinction and the intercontinental community has actually banned whale angling. Nonetheless, Japan defies the ban on whale fishing.
One country in specific that has been engaging in this inhumane and immoral task against nature is Japan. Large whale angling vessels have actually been dispatched around the seas of Japan, primarily in the western Pacific Ocean, to hunt down innocent whales and harvest their meat and additional parts to be utilized for oil, fertilizer, perfume, shampoo, cleaning soap, gelatin, margarine and other items. Regardless of the usages it can bring, these living creatures ought to not have to pay their lives just for this senseless reason.
Marine Shepherd is an organization that expresses Japan is in violation of the IWC rules on all commercial whaling. They point out that the Japanese public does not support commercial whale hunting, however all the major political parties do. Whale meat supposedly caught for “research functions” ends up in the well-known Tsukiji fish market, Ocean Shepherd points out. They investigate this embezzlement of whale meat on a regular basis and try to protect against whaling in the high oceans as it is taking place.
Marine Shepherd has motorboats and crews and go out to intervene during whale hunts. This is a harmful and life-threatening undertaking for Sea Shepherd’s crews, however they go on to go to save the whales from slaughter. As recently as 2010, three Marine Shepherd ships intervened
against illegal whaling projects and one boat was purposely rammed and sunk by the Oriental. When the captain attempted to serve an invoice upon the Japanese for his sunken motorboat, he was taken to a Japanese prison. The Sea Shepherd’s continuing to be companies were not deterred and followed the Eastern fleets for three weeks, and not one solitary whale was killed throughout that time.
If you are one of the millions of individuals who want to contribute in ending this illegal task, you can drop by Sea Shepherd to learn more about exactly how you can easily get include and help the organization in stopping Eastern whale angling.
Why do people hunt Humpback Whales? I need it for homework, sorry! It’s for a reading project and I have to write about endangered species. If you can help then, thanks!
People hunt whales for meat, oil, whalebone and ambergris, and for scientific research. Whale oil is used as a lubricant and as a component of soaps and cosmetics (and was formerly used for margarine and as fuel for lamps). Ambergris is used as a fixative in perfume production. Hope that help
Why can’t humpback whales survive in fresh water? My dad said that it was because God made it that way; true; I guess, but there has to be some scientific reason to it.
A humpback whale can survive just fine in freshwater. It will not take in water and explode. The main reason the whale dies in freshwater systems is that there is no food for it there, the freshwater is much more shallow and the whale becomes sunburned and there are typically boats, people and land surrounding it which stresses the whale. Also, the pH of the freshwater is different which can irritate the whales skin, leading to parasites taking hold and stressing the whale. The whale is also probably is poor shape when it enters freshwater, which could be why it dies in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis “Osmosis is an important topic in biology because it provides the primary means by which water is transported into and out of cells.” That would be the key. They pump full of water…they’d explode slowly, like cherries in too much rain. On the other hand, if you put a fresh water creature into salt water, it dries out. You can see that on your hand – if you take a long bath, your hand is all crimpled because of the water drained out of your skin.
Well the answer to this question is valid for almost all marine animals…. Every marine animal has its body salt concentration and its body structured to prevent loss of water to high salt concentration containing saline water. So when you put the animal in freshwater (with much lower salt concentration then in saline sea water) it starts gaining water in a way which causes its organs to fail ,due to cell death.The phenomenon responsible for this is called osmosis.
For: -They could be viewed easily and you could learn more about them: behavioural actions, feeding actions, breeding actions, basic living…etc. -It would be easier than having to travel all the way to another country to view them in the ocean. Against: – They are far too big to be kept in captivity. No matter how big an enclosure/tank they were kept in they would still not have enough room and it really wouldn’t be fair to them, as they couldn’t move about easily or explore. – It would cost too much to be able to put one humpback whale in captivity, never mind several. -They wouldn’t have the correct environment or food, no matter what environment they are put in or food they are fed. – By removing a wild animal from its natural environment, it causes distress and upset for the animal
Reasons for are hard to justify. Seeing whales close up and personal is an educational thing. Caring for them helps us understand them. If they’re a threatened species, captive breeding might help preserve them. Reasons against are easy… I’ll leave it to you. But you wouldn’t want to be imprisoned, would you? The slowly increasing awareness of the interconnections of all species and their right to be undisturbed in their place in the world is something that gives us hope that we might learn our true place in this world.
For: People can observe them creating revenu for the industry We can easily track their feeding habits and their behaviors etc… Against: Humpback whales are a wild species and belong in nature Removing species from nature can upset the balance of an ecosystem.
how many white humpback whales are left? im just wondering how many whales are left in the world?? i know theres not many and im do a report on Migaloo, so i just want to know exactly how many white humpbacks are left? please help me! thanks..
http://www.migaloowhale.org/ Facts about Migaloo Other white humpback whales:…Migaloo is the only known occurrence of an all-white humpback whale in the 20th century…. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7519263.stm…A white calf was spotted with a normal humpback mother in Byron Bay two years ago. Experts say the new whale could be the offspring of Migaloo but further tests need to be carried out… Migaloo is an albino humpback whale and not a subspecies of humpback whales. There is not a separate population of white humpback whales, just rare occurrences within the humpback whale specie. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/13006 Humpback Whale…he available population estimates total more than 60,000 animals…
Why do people hunt Humpback Whales? I need it for homework, sorry! It’s for a reading project and I have to write about endangered species. If you can help then, thanks!
December 11, 2011 at 9:19 pm