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Study: Federal regulations alone won’t help Hawaii spinner dolphins
Spinner dolphin. Photo courtesy NOAA.
By: Bob Berwyn
Duke University researchers say community based conservation measures also needed
Staff Report
FRISCO —Hawaii’s spinner dolphins need federal regulations limiting human access to resting areas, but that alone won’t be enough to help them survive in the long run. Along with any new federal rules, resource managers will also have to work to…
Can SeaWorld Really Send Our Killer Whales to China? Will They?
By: candace_calloway_whiting
“Ocean Kingdom is the first phase of transforming the last of the undeveloped Pearl River Delta islands into what Mr. Su describes as the “Orlando of China” which “will become the new benchmark for the theme park industry.” The Chimelong Group.
The short answer is yes, they can send the orcas to a foreign country.It is a viable option, and there are no regulations…
in love with this threatening yet promising sentence from some random sports post. yes. step into the water and grieve for your maker for you will become unrecognisable. submit yourself to the reckoning of the depth. abandon hope
What sublime joy, to be able to metamorphose into something completely novel to yourself, what ecstasy to discover yourself again.
At first I was like “That phrase sounds pretty metal if you think about it” and then I remembered that this is literally the plot of a Dethklok song, “Go Into the Water.”
South Asia//Paleogene (50 million years ago) // Cetacea//image source
Fun Fact: It is known that Ambulocetus was an early ancestor of whales because its teeth, ear bones, and nostrils are similar to those of later cetaceans.