... With not much space to live in thrive in, orcas and other massive mammals spend their whole lives swimming around small enclosed pools. Behind those glass tanks are beautiful, living animals who do not deserve to be trapped in compact pools. Guests and children are just far too blind to notice it. While marine parks are entertaining for families and visitors, they should be shut down and banned because of the negative mental and physical impact occurring on the animals being held captive. Whale and dolphin capturing for captivity have been around for a long time and it needs to be put to an end. From 1964 to 1989, a total of 138 orcas were captured for entertainment in aquatic parks. In 1972, 1,133 dolphins were picked out of the United States’ ocean to be held captive (Zimmermann). As of August 2015, there are 59 orcas being held in captivity in 14 marine parks in 8 different countries ("The Fate of Captive Orcas”). People do not realize these mammals have been horribly treated since the early 1960s until now. Orcas and dolphins have been kidnapped from their families and friends so people could keep them in enclosed pools for He 2 entertainment. These mammals are being stripped away from their families and are put with other mammals they do not even know. According to Zimmermann’s studies, 42 parks are...
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...Management and Leadership Paper Kathryn Bond December 13, 2010 BUS330 Israr Hayath San Diego Zoo is this paper’s subject for discussing leadership and management within the company, which is a non-profit organization. Leadership is leading by way of exemplary examples and instilling confidence in the audience. Leaders are working for the good of the Company. Leaders are good trainers since they want to pass the information on to trainees to avoid mishaps. Leaders change things like conventional believes and practices. Leaders are knowledgeable in their field. The Zoological Society of San Diego has existed 90 years. It is now referred to as Global Zoo. There many leaders at the zoo. There is a Board of Directors with 12 members. The leaders at this level are concerned with the Zoo’s mission which is conservation, education, and recreation organization dedicated to the reproduction, protection and exhibition animals, plants, and their habitats (Mission Statement). These are the leaders that stay abreast of environmental changes. At the administrative level leadership may not be so strong or evident to all zoo employees since there is rarely direct contact with them (Halogen). In 2006, the Society brought in approximately 100 million dollars for the first time. This level of revenue drove the society to re-evaluate its old practices and to create a new strategic plan that would modernize their way of doing business. One of the key elements of the...
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...Tomas Hannacher 6/18/16 Block 6 Seaworld Under Fire & What It Means For San Diego. Seaworld has been surrounded by media controversy the last several years following an orca activist documentary titled Blackfish. Blackfish, was released in 2013 and originally premiered in the 2013 sundance festival where it picked up traction and attracted Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films who funded Blackfish for a larger audience and screen, where Blackfish flourished and earned over $2 million dollars over two weeks in the domestic box office. Overall, Blackfish mainly investigated the death of an orca trainer at Seaworld orlando. The documentary suggests that Tilikum, an orca was involved in three trainer deaths due to the extreme traumatic experiences...
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...Savannah 12 November 2013 Is Killer Really the Right Word? “1961 first orca is captured and taken to the Marineland of the Pacific Park in Los Angeles. She dies a day later after repeatedly swimming around her pool at high speed and ramming into the sides” (Smith). Killer whales are a very large and powerful animal like any other wild animal, they can be unpredictable. Killer whales are beautiful creatures. The experience of seeing a killer whale for the first time is breath taking. My grandparents took me to SeaWorld in Orlando was I was 8, and after seeing a killer whale I was hooked. After going back many times it influenced me to want to become a whale trainer. As years have gone on I have learned killer whales in SeaWorld means they are in captivity. Why are these amazing animals spending their whole lives in a small swimming pool? Killer whales have been taken out of their habitats and put into captivity for research to be done on these amazing animals. An associate director of the Environmental Group Earth Island Institute Mark Berman says trying to incarcerate an animal as large as a killer whale or an animal with a large brain it’s proven it does not work (Pete). These killer whales need the freedom to travel wherever they’d like, not to have a routine day after day for the whole lives. The killer whales swimming in pools of aquariums builds frustration and aggression. Lori Marino is a neuroscientists says when whales in captivity are thrown with other whales that...
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...The capturing of orca whales for entertaining and performing purposes originated in 1964 when the first SeaWorld park was opened in San Diego, California. The exploitation of these animals in amusement parks quickly grew into a widespread phenomenon in the United States. America quickly fell in love with “Shamu”, the Killer Whale that became the face of Sea World. These wild creatures live their entire lives in captivity. In order to take a stand, parks like SeaWorld need to be shut down and forced to release their orcas into the wild, where they can live freely the way they were intend to. When orca whales are held in an unnatural environment for their entire lives, it causes a variety of problems for them. The wild animals become increasingly aggressive, suffer health issues and are ripped away from their families in the ocean....
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...Zoological Society of San Diego, a nonprofit organization that operates the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park, and San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research has more than 3,000 persons employs. Tim Mulligan, the society’s new HR director, feels that organization and its managers should some goals for themselves and their workers so that persons can be paid based upon those goals. He wanted the zoo to have more structure and managers filling and completing more appraisals forms than usual. He wanted to implement a system where persons understand and are able to complete the organization’s goals. Furthermore, after the society adopted the “Halogen Software’s eAppraisal System” they immediately saw results. More of the appraisals were completed and employees are more motivated than they were before. A performance appraisal is considered an evaluation that is recorded of an employee’s overall actions over a period of time. In other words, it is a report that a manager/supervisor should complete on how well employees fulfill their duties throughout the year. Furthermore, Non-profits need appraisal system as much as for profit organizations because it serves a vital pivotal role in the motivation of the employees. Additionally, even though non-profit organizations goals are not to maximize their profits, they still have goals to meet in order for them keep their customers and animals satisfied. Furthermore, organizations like the San Diego Zoological Society...
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...THE KUMEYAAY PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA by Your Name (boldface) ANTH 100: Non-Western Cultures and the Western Tradition Instructor: Dr. Steven R. James Nov. 10, 2014 INTRODUCTION In my quest to study the life of the ancient California inhabitants, I visited the San Diego Museum of Man which is an anthropological museum situated in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The museum was established in the year 1915 as a result of the Panama-California Exposition where several exhibits were displayed with ‘The Story of Man through Ages’ being the first. At the culmination of the exposition, San Diego Museum Association sought to retain the available collection and start a permanent museum. As a result, the collection was named Museum of Man in 1942 and later in 1978 as the California Museum of Man. Besides housing the history of the Kumeyaay people, who are the subject of this research paper, the history of other Native Americans from the South of California can also be studied in this place. The museum has a population of over 100000 ethnographic items, 25000 images, and a large library of books and journals. MUSEUM EXHIBIT 1) Artifact Display On the second floor of the museum, a wide variety of the historic sources can be found. Among the displayed artifacts there are models of the early man, reconstructions of the bones of hominids, cave paintings, coffins of mummies from ancient Egypt, stone carvings, and remains of the Egyptian mummy known as Lemon Grove. The culture of the people...
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...In 1964 Seaworld was founded by four young men, David Demott, George Millay, Ken Norris, and Milt Shedd, who all graduated from The University of California, Los Angeles. These boys set out on a dream of constructing an “underwater restaurant”, however, “the concept grew into a marine zoological park on 21 acres along the shore of Mission Bay in San Diego” ( “Seaworld: Waves of Growth”). Seaworld began with merely sea lions and dolphins in one location, but the parks have evolved to now house 22 killer whales, along with thousands of other animals, which they have been successfully breeding for 40 years in their three different parks. This world famous theme park takes pride in the fact that they have not taken an orca from their natural habitat...
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...Ecosystem Paper Deserts wide dry lands can sustain wild life and different plant life ecosystems that many different living things depend on. The Mohave Desert like other deserts utilizes solar energy to convert food fuel for life from green plants. The Mohave Desert major structural is its dry massive land and functional dynamics in the deserts ecosystem is how competitive it is for plants retrieve sunlight. Over time most plants are altered to reduce effects of too much energy from the sun. It is common for life of all living creatures that live in any surface of the desert to undergo the process of being part of a food chain which is the linkage of who feeds on whom. An example of a food chain that is part of the ecosystem would be how a hawk eats lizard, scorpion, tarantula, and insects. “Many animals get their energy by eating plants, but desert plants give up the fruit of their production very reluctantly. Sharp spines and chemical-laden leaves discourage plant-eaters….. Many are small and look like grains of sand. With sensitive front paws a kangaroo rat sifts sand to find seeds by touch eats them and transforms them into animal tissue.” -Desert Ecosystem. (n.d). Retrieved from http://digital-desert.com/joshua-tree-national-park/ecosystems.html For centuries, humans have affected biogeochemical cycles in many different ecosystems. Some of the impacts we have made on them are within the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycle. A desert like the Mohave Desert is...
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...body, which Tilikum held in his mouth and would not let go. All the trainers in Sea World, located in Orlando, Florida, as well as other locations throughout the United States, agreed that Tilikum was well behaved, easy to work with and always eager to please. So what exactly made Tilikum act so violently and take the life of his trainer? There is a reason that there have been no documented deaths of humans by killer whales in the wild – it is obvious that being forced to live and perform in captivity is the reason behind it. It has been argued and scientifically proven that no human being has ever been killed by a killer whale, or orca, in the wild. On the other hand, there at least a dozen documented deaths due to killer whales throughout the world. The main reason this is said to be true is because killer whales, which can grow to be more than 30 feet long and weigh up to 6 tons, are not meant to be kept in tanks and modules that are 20 feet wide and 35 feet deep. These tight living confinements have been proven to cause certain psychoses in animals. (Allen & Flannery 2014) They are essentially giving up the whole ocean for a bathtub. Since Brancheau’s death in 2010, Tilikum has been kept out of the spotlight and has lived a very lonely life. The 2013...
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...World Wildlife Fund Essay Outline I. Introduction [Intro] a. San Diego Zoo panda cancer story b. Gao Gao c. developed a plan for reducing human activities in habitat areas, conserving the bamboo forests, and maintaining captive populations of pandas d. In order to remain balance in our world between human and animal, the World Wildlife Fund is dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wild lands II. Well over 200,000 plants and animals in the United States are listed as threatened or endangered [Scale: 1-200,000] a. At least 10,000 out of 1,000,000 species go extinct each year b. 5689 endangered species in US, 1343 endangered species globally c. 1/10 species go extinct each year III. WWF raise’s millions towards protecting species, habitats, and communities [Fundraising] a. Panda Nation is the significant method of fundraising b. Earth Day Clean Up a. 1. Ongoing for the past 11 years and continues this year b. 2. On April 22 staff members from WWF and science students at the Francis-Stevens Education Campus help clean the school grounds and plant new gardens c. Revenue last year reach about $266.3 million c. Funding provides giant pandas with an increase in legally patrolled habitat area, patrolling against poaching, illegal logging, and encroachment, and continued research/monitoring d. Like giant pandas, tigers receive benefits from this funding, by directing these funds towards building...
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...attractions. While the comments here are concentrated on the wildlife park future, it should always be remembered that wildlife park sits in the wider context of tourism and leisure activities and the intangible, emotional attributes of Al Ain such as the unique combination of atmosphere, culture and Al Ain history. Government support: Abu Dhabi economic vision 2030 outline the economic diversification plans of Abu Dhabi Government to be away from overdependence on hydrocarbon industries. The company is being given 2.6 billion US dollars to be transformed into Al Ain wild life park and Resort. Continuous political stability in UAE attracting businesses to invest in UAE. This project is a chance for everyone to invest. Partnership agreements with international and regional organizations are another advantage for AWPR. The agreements further reinforce Al Ain Wildlife Park & Resort's commitment to partnering with conservation organizations both regionally and internationally. The agreement includes an animal and plant exchange program. As part of a major expansion, Al Ain Wildlife Park & Resort is developing a world desert habitat featuring the animals and plants. AWPR has a lot of partnerships and agreements such as: * Exclusive agreement with San Diego Zoo was a huge benefit to the Al Ain wildlife park & resort which is the one of the world's largest and most progressive zoos home to over 4000 animals of 800 different species stretching over 100 acres of land will...
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...forced onto the endangered species act from excessive poaching and extermination. In order to revive this species we must reintroduce it to its natural habitats including but not limited to Colorado. The last wolf in Colorado was believed to have been shot in 1943; seventy years excessively far too long to stand back and do nothing. I believe that a full wolf reintroduction to Colorado is a necessity. Considering, a wolf is only as dangerous as you make it and with the proper precautions they present little to no danger to humans and cattle, it makes sense to reintegrate this species before it disappears forever. In a realistic sense they present no real threat to humans or livestock as long as they are left alone just like any other animal. They are heavily misunderstood and a community wolf awareness lesson may be necessary, but they can easily reintegrate into our society, if trigger happy ranchers can be kept in check. In many cases they can help to eliminate the overpopulation of deer and elk in recent years which have been a nuisance to farmers and homeowners throughout Colorado. In a recent study of twenty high school students all twenty said they supported wolf reintroduction in Colorado (Warfield). If their survival lacks no real negative side effects and mostly positive outcomes then we must act now before it’s too late. Many argue that wolves are dangerous and that they threaten people, therefore it was justified for them being hunted to extinction. The truth is...
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...SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE FACULTY OF FORESTRY AND NATURE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT SPECIAL PROJECT PROPOSAL TITLE: OPPORTUNISTIC SAMPLING AS A TOOL FOR SURVEILLANCE OF PARASITIC DISEASES IN WILD ANIMALS; A CASE OF MIKUMI NATONAL PARK STUDENT NAME: KIBONA, Juma A REG. NUMBER: WLM/D/11/T/0057 A SPECIAL PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BARCHELOR OF SCIENCE IN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT FROM THE SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, MOROGORO – TANZANIA SUPERVISOR: Prof. E.K. BATAMUZI 2013/2014 0 Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................. 2 1.1 BACKGROUND OF INFORMATION ............................................................................................. 2 1.2 Statement of the Research Problem .................................................................................................... 4 1.3 OBJECTIVE ....................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3.0 General objective ............................................................................................................................. 6 1.3.1 Specific objectives ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS...................
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...the novel, Pi describes how “sometime during the night the hyena began snarling and … [he] heard a repeated knocking sound” (Martel 119). According to the University of Michigan, due to exceptional hearing and night vision, most hunting is performed at night when hyenas can have an advantage over prey (Law). Also, hyenas are known to “bite at the back of the neck” ("Spotted Hyena Fact Sheet") in a fight, similar to how in the novel the orangutan “throat was being squeezed by [the hyena’s] jaws” (Martel 130). Based on the research, Martel accurately portrays the spotted hyena as a fierce predator, known to fight during the night. Similarly, Martel also accurately represents the eating habits of hyenas. The San Diego Zoo, the spotted hyena is known to eat all parts of the animal including hair and bones, and often regurgitates indigestible material in the den or territory ("Spotted Hyena Fact Sheet"). Likewise, Martel reports how “once [hyenas have] digested their kill, they cough up dense hairballs, which they pick clean of edibles” (Martel 116) and “nothing goes to waste; even grass upon which blood has been spilt will be eaten” (Martel 116). Both the researchers evidence and Martel displays the barbaric nature of the hyena’s eating...
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