People have always wondered if apes are as smart as us. For a long time no one knew and we started to think that it wasn't possible, but two scientists came up with an experiment to see how human can a chimp can get. what they did was to get a baby chimp and raise it as a human. after a short time, Lucy the chimp could sit at the table and eat like a human, she soon began to do sign language. After a ten years Lucy was to strong and to wild for the scientists. With that, they brought her to Africa were she was thought to be like a chimp. It was a big struggle but soon learned but got killed by poachers years after.
This was a interesting and touching story. It was amazing what a ape is capable of. What I thought that Lucy taught us was that they are smarter than we thought. They have emotions and the ability to speak. What she taught s about being human is that we are not the only ones that can learn like this. We can be very impacting on other living things around us. I have a totally different perspective on chimps after this story. They are so much smarter than I thought and they have so much more to them then I taught. I think the scientist Termerlin's experiment was worthwhile because he got to actually see if chimps are capable of. He got to see how a chimp learns and what is the effect of it. Lucy's end made me feel sad. After all she went through and what she did, it really sucked that her end came to that.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Ted talk on fish farms
With all of the fish we eat fish populations are decreasing rapidly and we don't even know it; but now with this issue at hand, fish companies are build fish farms all around the world, some be some of the bad, some good. Hear are the big fish farms that is in this ted talk on fish.
This is all happening right now and the problem is getting worse. One man saw this problem first hand and thought to look more into this fishy business, so he set off to see were our fish come from. Why, because when this man was in Spain, he had the best fish he had ever tasted. So he he set off to see all of these fish farms.
They and first fish farms he visited was industrial fish farms and no one like the fish because they were dirty and badly fed. Then he came upon a fish farm in Spain that had around 15 to 75 acres of wet lands were they can raise their fish. It was the biggest and nicest fish farm he had ever seen, the fish were in natural ponds and didn't have industrial food; they fed themselves with the algae and all of the stuff at the bottom of each pond. Plus the cool thing about this is that they let birds feed off of their fish! He asked "Why are you keeping these birds here?" The man said its natural way of feeding, fish eat algae and the birds eat 20% of our fish. So with this system; This man has managed to build the best fish farm in the world and feed 2,000 species of native birds. Finally the coolest thing about this farm is that it takes polluted water from the near by river and through the fishes life process; it cleans the water of all chemicals and stuff and then puts the water back into the river, there for cleaning the near river.
What I took out of this Ted talk is that we need to find better ways to get our fish and that there are already really good ways to farm fish, and to make the environment cleaner and healthier to all life.
This is all happening right now and the problem is getting worse. One man saw this problem first hand and thought to look more into this fishy business, so he set off to see were our fish come from. Why, because when this man was in Spain, he had the best fish he had ever tasted. So he he set off to see all of these fish farms.
They and first fish farms he visited was industrial fish farms and no one like the fish because they were dirty and badly fed. Then he came upon a fish farm in Spain that had around 15 to 75 acres of wet lands were they can raise their fish. It was the biggest and nicest fish farm he had ever seen, the fish were in natural ponds and didn't have industrial food; they fed themselves with the algae and all of the stuff at the bottom of each pond. Plus the cool thing about this is that they let birds feed off of their fish! He asked "Why are you keeping these birds here?" The man said its natural way of feeding, fish eat algae and the birds eat 20% of our fish. So with this system; This man has managed to build the best fish farm in the world and feed 2,000 species of native birds. Finally the coolest thing about this farm is that it takes polluted water from the near by river and through the fishes life process; it cleans the water of all chemicals and stuff and then puts the water back into the river, there for cleaning the near river.
What I took out of this Ted talk is that we need to find better ways to get our fish and that there are already really good ways to farm fish, and to make the environment cleaner and healthier to all life.
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