Random facts:
53% of those dolphins that survive the violent capture die within 90 days.
When a baby dolphin is born in captivity, the news is usually kept secret until the calf shows signs of survival.
Although marine mammals do breed in captivity, the birth rate is not nearly as successful as the one in the wild, with high infant mortality rates
Wild dolphins can swim 40 to 100 miles per day - in pools they go around in circles.
A dolphin’s flippers actually have finger-like bones inside! Scientists believe that dolphins used to be land animals. 50-60 million years ago, these land animals started living in the water so they could catch fish easier
dolphin s are part of the family of toothed whales that also includes killer and pilot whales.
tucuxi is the smallest of the dolphin.
dolphins eat a variety of food including fish, squid and crustaceans.
Dolphins like to team up and swim in shallow waters where tons of fish are. After swimming and gathering the fish in one group they chase them up to the land where the fish are trapped and making a dolphins job easer.
ABOUT the HUNT:The dolphin hutting happens from February to April. Small countries such as Japan and Taiji hunt not only dolphins but small whales too! This is a custom and a life style fot them but now the future has come and awareness in coming across the world. More then twenty thousand dolphins are killed each year in Japan. I cheeked up on other records about the other countires that kill dolphins and there in the 20,000 or more! There are so many toxins in dolphins that its really bad for people to eat!
ADH =Against dolphin hunting .. width="425" height="350" ..there has been found a photo of this in a magazine called Shock. It was a huge photo of what the magazine calls the "Blood Bath and the Real Red Sea".If you Want To Help: FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW.After reading the article ur probly disgusted and fucking horrified of the possible details behind something like this. found photos, death counts, and video. This pushed everyone like us to a new level of anger in this genre of cruelty. and found that this has been going on for decades.Below you will find a VIDEO, Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, this powerful video shows the annual massacre of dolphins that takes place in Japan. Please visit the following website for more information, and to help stop this barbaric practice:THE DEATH/CAPTURE COUNT:During the hunting season that began October 1st 2003 and ended March 30th 2004 the fishermen of Taiji killed 1,165 dolphins:444 Striped dolphins 197 bottlenose dolphins 102 Pantropical spotted dolphins 293 Risso dolphins 117pilot whales 12 false killer whales.. width="425" height="350"In that same period they captured 78 dolphins for sale to dolphinaria:67 bottlenose dolphins 6 Risso dolphins 5 pseudo orcasthis is a link to save everything in the ocean!.. width="425" height="350" ..
ocean facts:
75% of the earths oxygen is from the ocean!:)
the ocean controls are weather
the oceans occupy nearly 71% of our planet's surface.
The world ocean contains nearly 20 million tons of gold.
swallow of seawater may contain millions of bacterial cells, hundreds of thousands of phytoplankton and tens of thousands of zooplankton.
more ppl get killed by bees then sharks
80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface
The top ten feet of the ocean hold as much heat as the entire atmosphere.
Air pollution is responsible for 33% of the toxic contaminants that end up in oceans and coastal waters
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bottlenose: 440 - 600 lbs! size is 10 to 20 feet. live 30 to 50 yrs.found in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.and they ever prefer warm to tropical water. Consume 13 to 33 pounds of food per day. Bottlenose dolphins are social animals
pantropical spotted: life is 45 yrs. Some pantropical spotted dolphins develop so many spots that the background color can not be seen: There are two different forms of pantropical spotted dolphins; coastal and offshore: dolphins in Hawaii and the Gulf of Mexico aren't spotted at all: live in large groups of up to 1000 individuals
ABOUT the HUNT:The dolphin hutting happens from February to April. Small countries such as Japan and Taiji hunt not only dolphins but small whales too! This is a custom and a life style fot them but now the future has come and awareness in coming across the world. More then twenty thousand dolphins are killed each year in Japan. I cheeked up on other records about the other countires that kill dolphins and there in the 20,000 or more! There are so many toxins in dolphins that its really bad for people to eat!
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