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Hey, Tim...It's Mrs. McKee! I like that you have research questions...what other questions do the answers bring up? The goal of research is to learn more and more...How do you know the japanese want to kill 1035 whales? is this per day? per year? if "scientific research" is the official reason, what's the unofficial reason? How do they get away with this atrocity? Keep going, kiddo! You're on the right track.

Keep going and finding more! You can do this! -Mrs. Poole

JAPANESE TRADITIONAL WHALING

Whaling in Japan originated in primitive from in neolithic prehistory, and seems to have been conducted inter mittently throughthe medieval and Tokugawa eras.At Taiji, on the Pacific Ocean coast of the Kii Peninsula of Honshu, sometime around 1606, a powerful local magnate, Wada Yorimoto, organized regular shore whaling according to principles that were later widely adopted throughtout Japan. Teams of several hundred men in fleets of locally built boats captured,and killed the whales and towed them to shore according to highly orchestrated procedures. Around 1677 the founders grandson, Wada Kakuemon Yoriharu, introduced net whaling resulting in great efficiency and fewer lost whales. The nets made it very difficult to escape. Still restrained by the net, the weary animal was mortally wounded with lances and towed to shore with a kagura winch, then flensed on the beach and the bone, blubber, meat, and oil elaborately processed in capacious, purpose built factory warehouse.

Further investigation questions: 1. What is the whale that the Japanese target? The Japanese try to kill the hump-back whale because it has alot of oil in them. 2. How much can a hump-back whale? An adult hump-back whale can way up to 1 ton per foot. 3. Where does the oil from a whale come from? Its extracted from the blubber and other parts of certain species of whales. It varies in composition, color, and the degree of fishy odor according to the method and extent of refining. 4. What is whale oil used for in todays world? It is used today in soapmaking, as a leather dressing, and as a lubricant. Some is hydrogenated to form edible fats. 5. What is the average size of and adult hump-back whale? Adults hump-back whales typically range in size from 35 to 48 feet.

A HUMP-BACK WHALE