Humpback whale

world, the Megaptera novaeangliae, also commonly known as the humpback whale, is one of many species that dictates the environment surrounding them. As they migrate from the polar waters where they prefer to feed during the summer to tropical waters to breed during the winter, they cover up to 16,000 miles each year. But how does each whale know exactly what to do, where to go, and who to follow? They accomplish this through their communication system of songs, clicks, whistles, and pulsed calls. To humans, this tasks deems highly challenging, for we use words to communicate with each other; however, whales do not need as elaborate of a vocabulary. Male humpback whales produce long, repetitive vocalizations…

The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about humpback whales migration using the starts to cover long distances, and provides three main reasons for supporting. However, the lecture casts doubts on the claims exposed by the article. He thinks that the reason whales can migrate long distance has nothing to do with the starts. First, the reading passage relates the high level of intelligent and ability to develop abstract cognitive thoughts in humpback whales with the capability of…

Humpback Whale In this paper, I will discuss a Humpback Whale biome of their choosing as an animal from that biome. I will explain how a humpback whale lives in weather and their biome. Also, I will explain where does a humpback whale live at in different oceans. The humpback whale is a species of baleen whale. A humpback whale is one of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from 12-16 meters 39-52 feet and weigh approximately 36,000 kilograms 79,000 pounds. The humpback has a…

Humpback whales can be recognized by their large size, bumpy head, and long flippers. Atlantic humpbacks have mainly white flippers, but those in the Pacific have a darker color to them. In the Northern hemisphere, humpback whales are found in the North Pacific to the South-East Alaskan. Humpbacks from the Western area and the Bering Sea migrate to Northern Marianas. Humpback whales are facing extinction due to poaching. Poaching is the illegal hunting and killing of an animal. Humpback whales…

from whaling. Blue whales and other species of whales all weigh tons, meaning they can provide enormous amounts of meat, blubber, skin and other body parts with a single catch. It is believed that an average sized whale contains “152 tons of more or less edible material” and with some calculations, a single whale can provide “604,000 people [with a] single meal” (Nessen 1), and this excluding the other benefits such as blubber and skin which can be used in other applications. As a result, during…

today in many cultures as a tradition. However, years of hunting have pushed the whales on the edge of extinction. Strict protection legislations are desperately needed to save this species. The history of whaling can be traced back to the earliest human society. The early people of Korea were hunting whales as far back as 5000 BC, and those of Norway began whaling at least 4,000 years ago. Various peoples living in the North Western American coast and the Arctic have a long tradition of…

art of good construction and irregular forms which is neither an easy task, nor a brief one. However, Garner also engages the reader by using arguments from the descriptive side. One of the most enlightening of these comes from the linguist Steven Pinker. In an explanation about whether language should be instinctual or constructed from meticulous choices, Pinker states that language is much like the song of the humpback whale. We would not criticize their song, saying that it was incorrectly…

to do whales harm. The process of whaling has been around since about 800 A.D. whales were hunted for their meat, oils and bones. They were also turned into shoe polishes, margarines, dog foods, and tennis racket strings. Coastal species in Europe, and then in North America declined to an extremely low level. Species such as the humpback, fin, right, blue, sei, bowhead, and the sperm whales were hunted…

Quebec about the traditional Beluga whale-hunting event as they agreed to reenact it for the one last time. One of the most outstanding themes from this film is the inheritance and innovation of the tradition and the modernity. In order to reflect such struggles, the film takes the benefits from its selected topic in which the event itself is an act of honoring the past, and it reveals the issue by showing the personal conflicts between the attitudes and viewpoints…

Whale hunting has suffered from decreasing popular support in recent years. Greater understanding of whales and their place in the ecosystem has coupled with global initiatives and coordination between countries has reduced the number of whaling countries to only three - Japan, Norway, and Iceland. All three of these nations claim that whaling is an important cultural activity worthy of an exemption from a global ban on whaling. This paper will focus on Norway and Japan. Cultural activities can…