Whales: Giants of the Ocean

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Whales: Giants of the Ocean

Whales are among the largest and most remarkable animals on Earth. These marine mammals live in oceans around the world, from warm tropical waters to the cold seas surrounding the poles.

Life Beneath the Surface

Although whales spend their lives in water, they breathe air through blowholes located on top of their heads. They must regularly return to the surface to breathe before diving again in search of food or traveling through the ocean.

Whales are warm-blooded, give birth to live young, and nurse their calves with milk. A thick layer of fat called blubber helps protect them from cold water and stores energy during long migrations.

Two Main Groups

Whales are generally divided into baleen whales and toothed whales. Baleen whales filter small animals from the water using flexible plates inside their mouths. This group includes blue whales, humpback whales, and gray whales.

Toothed whales use teeth to catch fish, squid, and other prey. Many of them also use echolocation, producing sounds and listening for returning echoes to understand their surroundings. Sperm whales, belugas, and orcas belong to this group.

The Blue Whale

The blue whale is the largest known animal to have ever lived. An adult can grow longer than a city bus and weigh well over one hundred tonnes. Despite its enormous size, it feeds mainly on tiny crustaceans called krill.

Communication and Migration

Whales communicate using clicks, whistles, pulses, and complex songs. Some sounds can travel across great distances underwater. Humpback whales are especially famous for their long, patterned songs.

Many species migrate thousands of kilometres each year. They often feed in cold, nutrient-rich waters before traveling to warmer regions where they mate and give birth.

Protecting Whales

Commercial hunting once caused severe declines in many whale populations. Today, whales also face threats from fishing gear, ship collisions, underwater noise, pollution, and changes to ocean ecosystems.

Conservation programs, safer fishing practices, protected habitats, and international cooperation can help whale populations recover. Protecting whales also supports healthier oceans because these animals play an important role in marine food webs and nutrient cycles.

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Max Plays Dead – A Night of Grateful Dead Music

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Built from a collection of Northern Colorado’s finest Grateful Dead tribute bands, “Max Plays Dead,” is always a night to remember.
Stu Crair and Dana Giove from the Great Dead Floyd deliver uncompromising depth and rhythm. On the keys, Chris Bell from Tumbledown Shack takes you on a creative and soulful journey. That leaves Max Mackey from Peak2Peak pushing the music into the stratosphere with swirling guitars and vocals.
The Riverside has several Deadheads in our venue family and are excited to bring you this first show of our 2025 Dead Night at The Riverside series. For many of us, the music of the Grateful Dead has been inspirational and even critical to our development as human beings. We have some amazing local and touring acts who are ready to rock your socks off at the coolest venue in Boulder!
Mark your calendars as these shows are not to be missed …..

International Day of Peace

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Dear People of Boulder,
Calling all leaders, organizers, people who care about Peace and cooperation, and our future. We are putting together a beautiful event for the International Day of Peace on September 21 at the Boulder Bandshell 4-9pm and we request your attendance, participation, and presence.
The International day of Peace used to be celebrated in a much larger way before Covid in Boulder, but since Covid, many events, including Earth Day, that are like this, are not alive anymore in Boulder. Please help us spread the energy of helping Boulder come alive again with hope and cooperation and build for our future.
This event will have presenters, dance and music performances, a unified meditation and holding the intention for peace in our community and for the world, and Native American groups, ecstatic dancers, and everyone who can join us dancing together in unity for Peace as well.
Please let us know if you, want to be a presenter, a partner group, media partner, a dance group, a musical act, an artist, or please just come if you want to participate and contribute to the action and energy for peace.
You can see more details and the schedule at http://riverside.events/event-calendar/
Contact us if you want to be a presenter, dance group, spiritual group, peace, group, leader, meditation, volunteer, youth group, vendor, etc., texting or on the web link
Our partners and supporters include but are not limited to Riverside, The Coffee Stand, Peace on Earth by 2030 Game, Unify, Unify Boulder, Ministry Of Movement, Rocky Mountain Indigenous Dancers, Beyond Your Impossible, Mishika dancers, and more adding daily.
We will also be hosting an org leader meeting for deeper collaboration on Sept 11 at 5:30pm on the Riverside patio on the Creek. Please RSVP back to this email to attend that as well.
If you want to join our team or planning meetings, they are every Wednesday at 1:30pm at the Riverside. We hope to see you there! May Peace Prevail!