(1) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(2) Last month, toymaker Mattel announced that it would no longer produce a SeaWorld version of its Barbie doll, which came dressed as a SeaWorld orca trainer.
(3) Its breeding programme is probably doomed by a combination of regulation (Californian authorities last year refused redevelopment plans for its San Diego site unless it stopped breeding orcas) and the fact that its virile male, Tilikum, appears to be dying .
(4) Partly out of recognition of Tilikum's huge size – at 12 tonnes he is the largest orca in captivity – and partly out of knowledge of the past, the park's 28 trainers were never allowed to swim with him.
(5) Would people bring their children to SeaWorld if they knew the cruelty behind the orca whale circus show?
(6) SeaWorld has long known this but accepts that abnormal (even desperate) orca behavior ... is the price paid for this form of human entertainment and company profit,” the court documents say.
(7) It asks whether a large corporation that makes money from the orca whales in its amusement parks has covered up dangers to the trainers and to the whales.
(8) The documentary implies that the orcas are driven to psychosis – and attacking humans – by the cruelties and indignities of their imprisonment.
(9) It is the second time SeaWorld has been sued in less than three weeks, after a similar class action lawsuit was filed in California last month alleging the company is misleading the public by claiming its captive killer whales, or orcas, are happy and thriving.
(10) It had previously issued a steady stream of lower-key newspaper ads, trying to push back aggressively against the message presented by Blackfish and the pall that was cast over the company when, in late 2009 and early 2010, trainer Alexis Martineau was killed by a SeaWorld-owned orca on loan to a Spanish theme park, and another trainer, Dawn Brancheau, was killed by a giant male orca during a show at SeaWorld in Orlando.
(11) But none of the conditions that led to these tragedies have truly changed for him, for the trainers, or for other orcas.
(12) The completeness of the amino acids composition of Orca meat proteins enables it to utilize this raw material for obtaining valuable food products in the form of concentrates or hydrolysates.
(13) Its five-day Orcas and Northern Lights break, staying in Grundarfjordur , costs from £1,148pp, with flights and full-board.
(14) They are also beautiful, rugged and rainforested, with views to the Rockies, and bays where you can often see orcas and humpback whales.
(15) The story she unravelled about Tilikum, a male orca at SeaWorld that was involved in the deaths of three people, turned her into an inadvertent activist.
(16) • Park website , Sacajawea Interpretive Center San Juan Islands national monument Facebook Twitter Pinterest An orca in San Juan Islands.
(17) They include excoriating cinematic treatments of Indonesian death squads, evangelical homophobia in Uganda, the uprising in Tahrir Square and an attack on the incarceration of orca whales in marine parks.
(18) SeaWorld lawsuit alleges orcas are drugged and confined in 'chemical tubs' Read more The environmental advocacy and research group Earth Island Institute, based in Berkeley, California, is advising the legal team representing the plaintiffs.
(19) At multiple points, the trainers attest to the orcas’ advanced emotional and mental characteristics, yet see no problem with locking that intelligence up for mere circus spectacle.
(20) The proteins of the Orca meat contain all the amino acids, including essential ones.
Whale
Definition:
(n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(2) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
(3) Australia is hoping to put a permanent end to Japan's annual slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, in a landmark legal challenge that begins this week.
(4) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
(5) If anything, we empathise with the whales more than the humans because they're treated like animals.
(6) In 2011, a young sperm whale was found floating dead off the Greek island of Mykonos.
(7) At higher pH, this signal changes in a way different from that observed for whale myoglobin.
(8) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
(9) Crystals have been grown of "sperm whale" myoglobin produced in Escherichia coli from a synthetic gene and the structure has been solved to 1.9 A resolution.
(10) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(11) Crystalline myoglobin was isolated from the skeletal muscle of the finback whale and fractionated, in its cyanmet form, into nine components (I-IX) by chromatography on CM-cellulose.
(12) While in detention in Tokyo he indicated he no longer wished to take part in anti-whaling activities.
(13) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
(14) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.
(15) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(16) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(17) 3.06pm BST More scientific reaction Ken Collins, a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, said there was no justification for using lethal methods for researching whales.
(18) Ben Lewis (@ben_lewis10) The 'vibe' of the #ICJ decision so far- #Whaling can be done for scientific research... but Japan doing on too big a scale.
(19) Occurrence of BaP adducts in the brain of three whales of this population coincides with the high incidence of tumours.
(20) Only one bryde's whale sample was available for investigation.