Callan Thompson's Blog

      The article "Stories Have Teeth" by Laurel is about the connection the native people of Hawaii had with the ocean and the animals living within it. The article focuses on a shark that was believed to be the protector of Pearl Harbor. The shark, Ka'ahupahau, was a bit of an urban legend in the waters. Children from Pearl Harbor were told that the shark would scare off foreign sharks or kill them, and that that was the reason there were no man-eating sharks in their waters. Ka'ahupahau and the people lived in harmony with an understanding that the shark would keep dangerous sharks out, and the people would respect his water. The article then goes into how the U.S. Military took over the land and waters and caused many different problems. Especially after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1937, the problems only got worse and eventually turned the area into a constant war-zone.      Reading this article really opened my eyes to look at Pearl Harbor fro...

      My tree is located outside my living room window. I chose this tree because I see it all the time when I'm sitting on the couch and look out the window. My tree looks like a Christmas tree but I know it's not that. It is much more narrow than a regular Christmas tree. The pines on it are also not nearly as long as a Christmas trees pines. There are many more tiny pines on it than there are on a Christmas tree. I just started really looking closely at it today but I think it's looked the same all semester. I haven't noticed any changes to it. Unlike the other trees around it that have been losing its leaves with the changing weather, my trees still has all of its pines. It might start to "fall" and the pines and branches will start to spread out. The pines have been a constant green color all semester and have not and will not change. I'm not sure what type of tree it is, when I look up the characteristics of it I get a lot of results for Christma...

    Section 1 - The Endangered Species   The Tricarinate Hill Turtle is an endangered species found mostly in Northeastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. It is a turtle with a dark brown/maroon shell with a yellowish orange stripe down the middle with a lifespan of about 15 years. Its main diet in the wild is fruit and its fruit of choice is from the downy jasmine plant. In captivity however it is known to eat vegetables and sometimes fish. In terms of the food web, this turtle is a consumer and in the middle of the food chain. It mostly eats the producers from it's biome, and is prey for the larger animals. The population of this species is rapidly decreasing and considered endangered.  Melanochelys tricarinata (Tricarinate Hill Turtle) (iucnredlist.org)  It's unknown how many are left due to the fact that many are captured and sold into illegal trade, (an estimated 2,000). The females give birth to between 1-6 eggs at a time. Nesting occurs during the...