Concept+Questions

Form Paul A
What do the pink dolphins look like?

Pink dolphins are 2.5 meters long to 3 meters. There skin color is usually pale pink. The pink dolphin has bigger tales than any other dolphin and it has a kind of a hump on its back. The pink dolphin have tiny eyes and his beak has little hairs on it. The pink dolphin is about 90 kilograms. The pink dolphins only enemy is the humans. Pink dolphins have 40% more brain capacity then humans do although it gets killed by humans. Pink Dolphins is one of the five species of a dolphin. Males are much larger then female. Males can grow up to 3 meters high. You can find out if pink dolphins are old by there skin color because the older the pink dolphins get the pinker they are. The baby pink dolphins that are just born are gray. When you are a teen aged pink dolphin you have spots of gray and pink. They are very friendly animals. They swim like if they were hopping on the water.

=Function Sidhonie P S= Pink Dolphin's Behavior

Wave-Riding ~ When the Pink Dolphins hear the engine sounds, they quickly swim to the boat to play with the waves. The Pink Dolphins like to perform flips and turns above the water. They like accompany of people.

Communication - Communications with Sounds Since the pink dolphins live in a habitat of thick and muddy waters, they eventually learn to communicate with sounds in the water. To warn other dolphins, they create a loud echoing sound that gives the attention to other dolphins, it is called echolocation.

Social behaviour - They like being alone with out no dolphins around them, because there are no predators like sharks.

=Causation Paul A= What is causing the pink dolphins from dying.

You may be wondering why the pink dolphins are getting extinct. Most of the blames go towards the humans. Buildings are being made underwater which is causing there to be less habitats for the pink dolphins. The construction of several dams along the water will result in the dolphin pods being cut off from one another. Which makes several dolphins get captured by other fishermen's.

Fishing is another cause of pink dolphins becoming endangered. The dolphins become entangled in the fishermen's nets and the fishermen are selfish for which pens they get. They either drown because of the fishing nets becoming entangled with the pink dolphins or they are killed by the fishermen to preventing them eating all their fish.

The pink dolphins in several places are usually killed by people or taken to amusement parks. In Hong Kong the pink dolphins also die because of the careless people who throw oil into water and that litter in the water which causes them to choke on bad items and to suffer from the chemicals in the oil. Also the mom needs to give them milk for 18 to 20 months once the baby pink dolphins are born. So the pink dolphins maybe drinking milk with chemicals because the mom might have been eating and drinking bad things. So its very important for the mom to be healthy.

=Connection Paul A=

How are pink dolphins connected to the fisherman
Most of the fisherman that are killing the dolphins are in Japan. Most of this crisis is happening in a little village called Taiji in Japan. The dolphins and fisherman are not really connected in any way. They only capture them because they want to kill them to eat them or take them away to not let them eat there fish. Or they capture them to put them in amusement parks. In Japan some bays have had lots and lots of blood of the dolphins. The only way its connected is because in Hong Kong there is a place called ocean park and dolphins are very happy there.

Fishery By-catch means dolphins are caught in fishing nets. In Hong Kong, fisherman let the Pink Dolphins get away when they are trapped in the nets. However, there have been six dolphins that have been captured from 1983 to 1998.

=Change/ Perspective/ Responsibility= =How can we Change the Fact that pink dolphins are dying=

We are making a petition to influence the government of the fisheries to not let ocean park and disney land buy dolphins. We are also going to send a letter to some fishermans trying to persuade them to not capture pink dolphins becuase the pink dolphins are eating their fish. The things a big comunity could do is make many petitions and send many letters to the government of fisheries.

=Reflection=

=How do we know that pink dolphins are dying=

We know that pink dolphins are dying because the HK pink dolphin watch send letters out saying the problems that pink dolphins are having. The issues are also starting to get in the newspaper. From 1983 to 1998 there was dolphin cathing the it stoped but it restarted in 2007.