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Hawaiian monk seals
(Big#1: The Importance of The Hawaiian Monk Seal)
The Hawaiian monk seals are predators, and they help maintain the balance of the marine ecosystem. They are also prey for larger predators like sharks. Monk seals like to eat fish, octopus, and other crustaceans and their waste will help nourish the ocean. They add variety of life in the area with the being for health for ocean. Here is food web with the Hawaiian Monk seal. Fish, octopus, and other crustaceans eat sea grasses, and algae.
Monk seals, manta rays, and moray eels eat fish, octopus, and other crustaceans.
While tiger sharks eat all. But what if the Hawaiian monk seal disappears?
Prey such as fish, octopus, and other crustaceans would overpopulate and depletion their own food. While the tiger shark will eat others prey and would maybe cause a shift in the balance ecosystem.
(Big#2: Economic Sector)
The fishing industry impacts Hawaiian monk seals mainly through entanglement in fishing gear. This can cause injuries, restrict their movement, and sometimes lead to death especially to baby seal they more prone and weaker. Fishing boats burn fossil fuel which releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and leads to climate change.
(Big#3: Impacts)
Fishing disturbs the monk seals as they rest, breed, or hunt for food. Overfishing reduces their food supply, making it harder for them to find food. A way to reduce Greenhouse gases is using solar panel powered boats that reduce pollution. A way to reduce CO2 emissions is to restore forests and trees so they can absorb the CO2 from the atmosphere. Clean energy can come from using wind turbines, solar panels, and water.
(Big#4: Mitigations Measures)
When a fishing net is now useless and it’s going into the trash, we should at least cut the net into pieces. This could reduce entanglement, decrease marine debris, and improve marine life. Some environmental impacts are marine life losing homes because of pollution. Greenhouse gas emission makes the ocean mor acidic due to higher CO2 levels lowering the pH of seawater, affecting marine life and the seals. The Papahānaumokuākea uses indigenous knowledge and put it into action, they value the environment and care for it, and they have the right to make decisions on how they can take care of the environment. The Papahānaumokuākea especially helps and take care for the Hawaiian monk seal because they are endangered as a cooperations of the indigenous group.
Websites I Use:
Hawaiian Monk Seal | NOAA Fisheries
Hawaiian Monk Seal | The Marine Mammal Center
Hawaiian Monk Seal – Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
An interesting description of my work done:
We had to pick a animal that we were interested in. Since my favorite animals were seals and they have different breeds, I got to pick the Hawaiian Monk Seal. One of the thing I research is how they breed and it was kind of shocking for me. So a mother and father gets a baby seal. Once the pup is born the father leaves and does his own things. They just leave the mother to do all the work.
The presentation I completed in class:
Making the presentation part was fun because it was just pictures. There was no words in the presentation because you had to explain it without words in the presentation. So I tried making an animation type presentation but I did not expect to be good since it is in PowerPoint. (It didn’t go so well. lol.)
How I could improve on my presentation, Powerpoint and work habits for your passion project in the future:
I can by making the Powerpoint better by using more pictures and maybe making it cleaner transitions. Some work habits I can do focus on the work and don’t get distracted. By putting everything that distracts me away. (Where? I don’t know I forgot) After that I can do the work and think what I can do after my work’s all done and it won’t bother me that while I’m doing stuff that is not school related.
Owl Pellet and Skeleton Articulation
Questions:
1.) What surprised you during the dissection?
I thought the pellet was going to be hard instead of soft.
2.) What challenges did you face while articulating the skeleton?
The one challenge that was pretty hard was look for the smaller bones.
3.) What did you learn about owl diets and ecosystems?
I learned that they eat really small creatures and some owls can eat other owls.
4.) How does this activity connect on what we’ve learn in class?
It connects to the food chain we learned.