Week 1

Week 1 - Activities

 1.Setting
The setting for Whale Pot Bay is the eastern Wairarapa coastline. While Hauruanui is fictional, it is loosely based on the area inland from Castlepoint. Whale Pot Bay itself was created from the structures and rocks that surround Castlepoint. Google Earth has excellent images of the area, which can be viewed by entering: Castlepoint, Wellington. If you can't access Google Earth try Google Maps.

Help contribute to the Discover Castlepoint Doc by adding facts, pictures, maps and links. Make sure you don't repeat information other students or groups have recorded.

2. Facts?
Jake talks about Pygmy Sperm Whales and Sperm Whales.

Watch both video's about the Pygmy Sperm Whale. There is a contradiction in the information. Can you identify it? Which video do you believe and why?

Leave your answers in the comments below.

Video One:
 
    Video Two:



34 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 July 2015 at 17:41

    I think its interesting because it is a species of a tooth whale tell me what you thought of watching the videos and if i get some information wrong please correct me

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  2. Anonymous29 July 2015 at 15:40

    The pygmy sperm whales live in deep tropical waters and they feed on crabs,shrimp, fish and squid. They baby calves stay with their mother for an year. Just a little summary from the video one ^,^

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  3. Anonymous29 July 2015 at 17:13

    It's so cool that the sperm whales live in deep tropical waters

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  4. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 14:35

    Sperm whales are rarely seen they have lots of beaching in America. SO SO sad.

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    1. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 14:50

      Breaching is popping their head out of the water for a breath of air c:

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  5. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 14:36

    There is pygmy sperm whales too, I thought that there only that big sperm whale guy.

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  6. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 14:37

    good

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  7. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 14:43

    Its interesting because I would never have thought that wales would stay with their parents for 1 year.

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  8. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 14:43

    i think that the first video is real because i think wales are big so they need to live in deep water. i think the sperm wale dose eat crabs shrimps and fish but i dont know about squids.

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  9. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 14:52

    They have a special organ in their head which helps them with boyance ( incorrect spelling)

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    1. James Robson3 August 2015 at 15:31

      You are on the right track!

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    2. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 15:47

      For the pygmy sperm whale its used for the control of the sound.

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  10. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 14:56

    Sperm whales are found in most oceans, and they are toothed whales!!

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  11. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 15:21

    The Pygmy Sperm Whale is a tooth whale found around the world. They weigh around 180 pounds and 9 feet long. They prefer deep tropical waters, they usually feed on crabs, shrimp, fish and squid. They breed in the summer and a baby Pygmy Sperm Whale is born in the next spring. The babes are 120 pounds and 4 feet long.(the seasons might be wrong because the video might be made in a different country) Thanks for reading.

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    1. James Robson3 August 2015 at 15:33

      It's not to do with seasons.

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    2. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 15:39

      there head is 15 percent of there body weight?

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    3. James Robson3 August 2015 at 15:55

      Nope! When you find the contradiction it will be obvious.

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  12. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 15:23

    Both videos look real, I'm not sure which one is fake. ? Which one is fake?

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    1. James Robson3 August 2015 at 15:35

      They are not fake. But one video has an incorrect fact.

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    2. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 15:54

      Then I wonder which one has the incorrect fact.

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  13. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 15:45

    The first one says the spermasety adjusts buoyancy and the second video says the spermasety is used as a controller of sound making these two videos even thought they may not know it a contradicting each other.


    It is a bit hard for me to chose which one I believe because the first one at the end of where it lists where the information was got from says Wikipedia (not a website to trust) and the second website although the man seems to be speaking facts he does not seem to know what he is talking about, as in not confident in himself about what he is saying.

    Although seeing you can't really trust Wikipedia I choose the second website to believe.

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  14. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 15:56

    Pygmy Sperm Whale can live for 60 years or more!! -_- =0 =) =(

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  15. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 16:40

    I think the second one is true...

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  16. Anonymous3 August 2015 at 16:41

    Both videos seem a bit real but i think the first one is more real because it tells me more info about the sperm whales and about what they eat ,live and how the look.

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  17. Anonymous5 August 2015 at 17:31

    good

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  18. Anonymous5 August 2015 at 17:39

    im thinking that the second video is true
    The whales tooth is found all over the world
    They weigh 180 pounds 9 feet long.
    They prefer tropical waters.

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  19. Anonymous5 August 2015 at 17:42

    I think the first video is true because it it more specific with it's information

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    1. James Robson16 September 2015 at 05:53

      More specific but wrong! The first video is a report not a study.

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  20. Anonymous12 August 2015 at 17:44

    I believe video 2 because it has a pygmy sperm whale skeleton and I count it as proof.

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  21. Anonymous7 September 2015 at 17:45

    I think the first one is real because it tells you about the whales apperance and other information.The second one is a little bit real but it only talks about the structure of the body and how the whale died.

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  22. Anonymous7 September 2015 at 18:46

    I think the first one was true because in the second one the guy didn't seem very sure.
    And it was lent to him and he broke its jaw.

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  23. Anonymous7 September 2015 at 18:47

    I think the second video is correct because the first video says the spermacety thing adjusts buoyancy and the second one controls sound. The second video has a professor talking in it.

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