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    The shark population has dropped 80%. More than 10 million sharks die every year. Ocearch has been tagging sharks for a long time. People think sharks are vicious beast that mean to eat and kill humans but they have benefits that the whole world uses everyday! To begin with, great white sharks are mythical beasts and are fascinating.To start with, the ecosystem that sharks live in is the Pacific ocean or seas all around the world. When sharks attack they don’t want to eat humans but might mistake

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    Essay About Pulo Cinta

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    Pulo Cinta (Love Island) Located in District of Boalemo, Pulo Cinta is a mainstay of Indonesia International tourism in Gorontalo Province. This island is in the middle of the sea and shapes like a heart lobe. The island is accommodated with several floating resorts that are very exclusive, and certainly, show the exoticism of the charming sea. Pulo Cinta Gorontalo has been already familiar in the ears of the foreign traveler as "Maldives van Gorontalo". Pulo Cinta was commenced by Coordinating Ministry

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    Sharks shouldn’t be culled in order to make our waters safer for beach goers because sharks are necessary to the ecosystem, they’re eating for survival and there are ethical/moral issues involved. Sharks should not be culled because they are necessary to the ecosystem. In every species there are the sick, old and dying. A shark grooms the species and ensures the population is left healthy. The shark’s ‘grooming’ prevents disease from spreading and ensures the population is controlled which strengthens

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    pound beached whale on Long Island Beach. Since its discovery, experts from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research & Preservation who specialize in marine life have begun looking into the possible causes of death. The cause of the 12-foot minke whale’s death is being investigated because many wounds were present on its body, but it was unclear whether the bite-like wounds were inflicted before or after the creature’s death. A Possible Shark Attack The wounds, resembling shark bites, spooked

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    order Cetacean is further divided in two types known as the Odontoceti, or toothed whales, and the Mysticeti, or baleen whales” (Cadelinia 5). The bottlenose dolphin falls into many categories. According to San Francisco State University of Department of Geography “the bottlenose dolphin falls into the oceanic family, which is comprised of thirty-four species. It has been concluded that dolphins, porpoises, and whales evolved from Mesonychilds, a group of land-loving carnivores. They have been estimated

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    The author of the passage and the professor both discussed how humpback whales can migrate long distances. The author considered that maybe humpback whales migrate in long distances by navigating stars. However, the professor discords with the ideas mentioned in the passage. He offers three reasons to oppose the arguments of this article. Frist of all, the author in the article considers that humpback whales are well-developed in cognitive ability, so it can provide a sound basis for the ability

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    The reading contends that humpback whales migrate long distances by means of their ability to navigate their ways with the help of stars.The lecturer, however, casts doubt on the claims made by the article and provides some evidence to refute them all. First, the author holds the view that the wales intelligence confirms the fact that they can use stars for navigation because they are more clever than many other animals. Conversely, the speaker brings up the idea that this reason is highly questionable

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    trend will continue. Sharks unfortunately are a species that are at high risk due to the actions of humans. Yet until recently they weren’t given very much attention. So now that the public is aware that something is going wrong with sharks what can they do to change it. The public could start with simple things to just become more environmentally friendly. They could recycle their plastics, try to reduce their contribution to climate change and become more educated about sharks. The next step they

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    specific: Killer whales are inter specific and can be both food competitors as well as potential predators to different species such as sharks. Predation: They are the apex predators and can hunt freely without fear of being hunted or attacked Defence mechanisms: they are rarely separated and are closely bonded. This helps them to protect one another from prey posing potential threats such as sharks that may try to fight back Symbiotic relationships/parasitic relationships: the killer whale has a symbiotic

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    Megalodon Research Paper

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    Does he still roam the seas? Does he eat the dolphins, whales...anything? Megalodon,(Big Tooth). That is his name. He has been around for 2.2 million years and has been around since the Cenozoic Era or WAS? People think that Megalodon is extinct, not real, a myth, but with all the evidence the researchers need, I think we have our answer. There are so many things about Megalodon that people don’t know about but there are some things that people do know about like how long is Megalodon? Looking at

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