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Bioacoustics scientist have spent a lot of time listening to different populations of whales and dolphins

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Watch—and hear—the impact human noises have on marine life

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With meditations on the different ways that narwhal, beluga, and bowhead whale’s breath in the Arctic, the ways baby seals learn to breath in infancy, this section offers us opportunities to look at what blocks our breathing, and the stakes of a society that puts profit over breath.

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How Do Marine Mammals Hold Their Breath For So Long?

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How is it possible for air-breathing marine mammals like sperm whales and elephant seals to hold their breath for so long? You can help protect the thousands of species of flora and fauna that call Pacuare home. Visit EPI's fundraising page at http://www.crowdrise.com/PreserveProtectPacuare.

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There are supposedly impossible hybrid dolphins along the route of the triangular transatlantic traffic trail of captive human cargo that defy species.

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In water that is always moving, having a dorsal fin provides balance, autonomy, and support for the swift turns you might have to make in this oceanic life.

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Coolaboration is natural and can be reclaimed. Mothering is an emergent strategy when it comes to communication to each other.

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I like how on paragraph 3 it says, "Some scientists think these scars may all be male dolphins. Have they fought each other and nonetheless decided to be best friends?" To me it was funny how 2 dolphins can be fighting each other, injuring one another, and yet still be best friends.

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I feel like most of the chapter is talking about how the dolphins wants us to be present in a way. A quote that i found said, "Could i learn from the Indus river dolphin a language of continuous presence and offering?" and i felt that the author was curious if he could find out how to learn their language.

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I liked how they satated "Thanks to oceanarium marketing, orcas are "loved"- meaning featured on posters, made into stuffed animals, starring as the main attraction at sea world. Marketable captives for capitalism. "loved" " Everything about that quote is true and sad. They are NOT "loved" but more of being used to entertain people and to use them for money, both whales and dolphins.

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In marine parks around the world, orcas exist in tanks barely longer than the length of their bodies, dolphins are used as tourist photo props, and fish of all species live in a world measured in liters. These intelligent, social, and complex animals are denied everything that is natural and important to them.

In their rightful ocean home, dolphins and orcas live rich lives filled with activity and interests. Swimming together in extended pods, they travel vast distances every day in the open ocean. In captivity-where their worlds are reduced from fathoms to meters-they can do nothing but swim in circles in tanks that are the equivalent of bathtubs.

Families Torn Apart

Countless marine animals have been taken from the ocean and placed in tanks . But just like us, orcas and dolphins share family bonds and have social networks. In the wild, orcas stay by their mothers' sides for life. Dolphins, too, have strong family relationships and travel in pods. If one of their own is captured, other members of the pod may try to save them.

Wild captures typically involve boats chasing dolphins into shallow water where they can't escape the surrounding nets. Unwanted dolphins who are released may die from shock, stress, or pneumonia. In 2014, during the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji Cove, Japan, a shocking 500 dolphins were corralled, and many were stabbed to death. Others were separated and sold to amusement parks. The dolphins frantically attempt to escape.

Captivity Kills

Orcas and other dolphins navigate by echolocation, but in pools the reverberations from their own sonar bounce off the walls, which can cause acute distress. World-renowned oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau compared the keeping of orcas in tanks to "a person being blindfolded in a jail cell."

Orcas in the wild can live for decades. (A matriarch named Granny is more than 100 years old!) A recent independent study shows significantly lower average orca longevity in captivity.

Captive marine animals, including sea lions, seals, dolphins, and whales, have died from a wide variety of causes, including swallowing coins, heatstroke, and conditions related to living in contaminated water. As a result of the extreme stress of captivity, some captive dolphins have reportedly taken their own lives by hitting their heads against the sides of pools or refusing to come up for air.

Let Them All Be Free

Governments around the world are recognizing that dolphins, orcas, and other cetaceans do not belong in tanks. India's Ministry of Environment and Forests banned the keeping of cetaceans in captivity . Israel and Australia both prohibit the importation of dolphins for use as entertainment. Vietnam and Malaysia have banned the exportation of marine animals, with Malaysia also banning the importation of native marine species. Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand have all banned the live capture of cetaceans in their waters.

What You Can Do

Please don't visit marine parks, zoos, or aquariums. Encourage your local aquarium to create more space for rehabilitating (and releasing) injured wildlife by refusing to breed or bring in more animals.

You can also leaflet outside the gates of marine parks, write letters to the editors of local publications, pressure officials to avoid subsidizing these facilities with taxpayer money, and ask local government officials to support legislation that prohibits the capture or restricts the display of marine mammals.

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The Truth About Marine Parks - Issues - PETA Asia

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In marine parks around the world, orcas exist in tanks barely longer than the length of their bodies, dolphins are used as tourist photo props, and fish of all species live in a world measured in liters. These intelligent, social, and complex animals are denied everything that is natural and important to them.

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The beginning is talking about how we should learn from our mistakes, and how it will help us and teach us to evolve.

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Any type of mammal should not be captured for entertainment purposes; we humans should let them be and live their lives

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Dolphins and Whales In Captivity: The Dark Truth

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When it stated, “Who first turned our adaptation into profit”, it kind of reminded me of slavery, and how it connects with the whites taking or stealing blacks and turning them into profit or selling them.

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Talks about how fishermen and/or other people choose to kill marine mammals because they look at them as a threat. Many of the dolphins have had injuries and died from propellers or have died due to dangerous chemicals that they put into the water.

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Record Number of Dolphins Killed in the Faroe Islands

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I like how It states, “ Too many great artists and most beaked whales, the Antillean/gulf stream beaked whale is only recognized after their death” and the truth in that is sad because now in society, some to most people don’t care about you or pay attention to you until they hear about your death, that’s when they’ll start to care, and it’s disappointing how people are like this.

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In the beginning when it said, “Like dolphins who beach themselves on shore to eat and trusting the tide to bring them back into the water,” it relates to the way of putting trust into something or someone. You rely on them to do something and put your trust in them.

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I like how it mentions Jesus finding one thousand fishes on the ocean floor, and how we should avoid distractions distracting us, or racists being racist for racist reasons.

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Hydroplaning Dolphins | Planet Earth | BBC Earth

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When it states, “The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol and taken thru a cold country where mist painted mockeries of my fury,” it highly reminded me of the Black Lives Matter movement and parts of racism when it said the black unicorn was mistaken.

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Something that stood out to me from the chapter title itself is that the whole world is being rushed, the oceans, animals, people, everything. In society, people are rushed into doing things without thinking twice or taking it slow, and that’s important. After all, we all should slow down to both do not rush into things so fast and cherish life at a slow pace, because we don’t want life to be past us in front of our eyes, we should live it every second we can.

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I like how the beginning talked about how the sea elephant gives birth and does not take any breaks (except a 1–3-minute eating break). That’s a good example of rest.

-After a mother gives birth to their child, it is important to get some rest. A change to the mother’s body has happened and it needs as much rest as it can get to recover.

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From the first few chapters, I feel like it's talking about how marine mammals, as well as human mothers, should take care of their newborns, and their blessings and Audre Lorde says, “We must be very strong/ and love each other/to go on living.”