The Blue Whaleis exactly what it sounds like. Zoologist Hugh S. Davis originally built the sea mammal replica as a place where his grandchildren could play and swim. The whale took two years to create and was completed in 1972. Davis's daughter still owns the whale, but swimming is no l...
Department of Science and Engineering, Nova University, Alexandria, VA, USA Daniel A. Lowy Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Grant Hall NOSAMS Facility, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA Karl F. von...
A photogrammetric method to estimate total length of the largest mammal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)Bayesian modelBlue whaleGulf of CaliforniaPhotogrammetryPhoto-sequencesPhotographic field techniquesTotal lengthLength measurement of individuals provides useful information for biological and ecological ...
We have learned a profound lesson from the extinction of a marine mammal in the Yangtze River. The baiji, or Yangtze River dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), found only in the Yangtze River, was declared ''functionally extinct'' in 200721. The baiji experienced a catastrophic population collapse in...
This species of camel is not the largest artiodactyl (even-toed ungulate mammal), as the giraffe is taller and the hippo is heavier. Pic: Alamy Records change on a daily basis and are not immediately published online. For a full list of record titles, please use our Record Application Sea...
In this paper, Spratt (1857:183) mentioned that he found the snake vertebrae, along with an inde- terminate large mammal, "in the marls at about one mile N. E. of the Cape" (=Megalo Emvolon). Given that the geology of Megalo Emvolon was not well established until the analysis of ...
Seal meat, reindeer meat, and love it or hate it Whale meet (the one in front), all typical local food. Heads up, most tourists are shocked with Greenland cuisine because it is not heat-treated, and most are fresh mammal meat from its open seas.And no, it is not going to be fres...
Is the whale the world’s largest fish? No. It looks like a fish, but it is really a mammal (哺乳动物). Then what’s the world’s largest fish? It’s the whale shark. Although the whale shark is our biggest fish and lives in many oceans around the world, few people have ever ...
(d) Mammalapuram, Tamil Nadu97. Which one among the following is not correct about the Subsidiary Alliance ?(a) It was formulated by Wellesley (b) British army was posted in the subsidiary state (c) It did not recognize an adopted heir to a subsidiary state (d) A British Resident was...
mammal and reptile browsers25.Syzygiumspecies also occur as dominant mid-level canopy trees, affecting the ecosystems of plants, animals, and fungi in lower forest layers25. Many species co-occur; for example, there exist ca. 50 taxa on a single 52-ha. ecological plot in the Lambir Hills ...