2. The dolphin slaughter takes place in Taiji, Japan, they are the biggest exporters of live dolphins that are used in marine shows, and dolphin meat that are sold in fish markets.
4. Ric 'o' Barry was a former dolphin trainer, he helped capture and train five wild dolphins who played the role "flipper" in a TV series. The TV series was a big hit, and had made dolphins more popular, and loved by the general public, and had resulted in marine parks having dolphins as one of their attractions. One of the dolphins "committed suicide," by closing her blowhole voluntarily in order to suffocate, and died in Ric's arms. The death of this dolphin had made Ric realize that dolphins aren't meant to be living in captivity, they were meant to run free into the wild, where there is no limits to how far they swim. Ric, later on got sent to jail, because he tried to free the remaining dolphins that were kept in captivity back into the wild. After he finished his time in jail, he had decided to change people's minds, he wanted to inform people of what was happening to the dolphins.
6. The country that indirectly runs the International Whaling Commission is Japan. Japan would pay some small countries that were having difficulties financially and pay them money so that they do not go against them in the IWC conferences.
8. Fishermen would make noises by hitting a hammer against a pole. Since dolphins are very sensitive to sound, they would run away from the sound that was made by the sailors. The dolphins would then swim towards the lagoon/cove, and then the next day, people would go to the lagoon and look for bottled nose dolphin females to send to different parts of the world, and then kill the rest for the meat.
10. Around 23, 000 dolphins are killed in the secret cove a year.
12. The toxic substance that is found in dolphin meat and any other oceanic animal is mercury.
14. Japanese people eat meat, because there is still some nutrients in the dolphin meat. Also some fish stores in Japan sold dolphin meat labeled as whale meat.
16. Fish is severely declining because around 7/10 people rely on fish for protein, so there is an increase in demand of fish, which makes many fisherman over fish the fish.
18. Dolphin meat is sold as whale meat in fish markets, but the government chooses to not interfere.
20. The main character went through the conference with a big screen attached to him, that showed the hidden camera footage's of what happens in the secret cove.
22. Whaling was banned in 1986.
Calvin Cycle
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The lady that was giving us our lesson was really nice, and she knew everything there was to know about the animals in the display. She seems like a person who was really passionate about her work, and looked like she really enjoyed doing what she did. She gave us a variety of lessons; she gave us a lesson about the mistletoe bird, and how the seed of the mistletoe causes the bird to poop 25 minutes after eating it and causes their poop to be stuck on their tails causing the bird to rub it against a tree, the flower that looked like a pokemon which creates a stench that smells like rotting meat and is the colour of dead meat that will attract bugs like flies, the story about lemmings and how their population is inconsistent and that one year there can be a huge population of them and then the next they would be on the brink of extinction, and a story about the corals and how they are so sensitive to change that the plant species that live on them will leave and cause the coral to be "bleached".
Passenger pigeons were pigeons that enjoyed staying in big flocks, and when I say big I mean real big, as in they have the ability to cover the sun and rain bird poop, making it seem like the world's ending I guess. One of the reasons that they fly in such big numbers is because it is safe to be in great numbers since they don't have any protective mechanisms that will help them since they're just pigeons.
Since Passenger birds was abundant back then, having a population of over 3.5 billion, humans decided to kill them for food, since I guess they thought pigeon meat taste good, and also to make sure they don't eat all their crops, although according to our teacher the pigeon's poop will become very beneficial for next year's crop. You can shoot up at the sky with a gun and you are 100% guaranteed to be able to get at least one pigeon. Another method that the humans did was pluck out the eyes of a passenger pigeon and then tie it on a tree to make to fly in distress. Many birds that see this will want to fly towards the poor bird and try to save it since they are social birds, but end up being clubbed to death. There was a record that over 4000 pigeons were killed a day for a few months which ended up killing a lot of the population. Since these pigeons are social birds they start to die off when their population starts decreasing. Because of the decrease of population, the birds did not breed often, resulting in another factor that had caused their population to decrease even more. The last passenger pigeon was a female at the Cincinnati Zoo (1914). It really saddens me that humans are the cause of the extinction of animals. Without this tour, I wouldn't have learned about passenger pigeons. 
