Picture credits: Most pictures courtesy of NOAA except - Fin whale off the coast of Greenland, Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland Creative commons 2.0 generic license / Sperm whales off the coast of Mauritius, Gabriel Barathieu - Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 license / ...
Like most dolphins, males of this species are also larger than females. It is weighed 660 to 1100 lbs (300 to 500 kg) which makes it the largest species known as 'dolphin', while pilot whales and orcas are the actual dolphins and do not derive any such common name.Risso's Dolphins ...
dolphins, whales , tropical reef fish and mermaids in 1980 when he first moved to Maui, Hawaii. His imagery has been an inspiration to many including other Artists . Since the early 1980s Apollo has become one of the worlds favorite Hawaiian Artists. Apollo's Art has been published since ...
The advent of genetic methods has led to the discovery of an increasing number of species that previously could not be distinguished from each other on the basis of morphological characteristics. Even though there has been an exponential growth of publications on cryptic species, such species are ...
Typically found around India and Nepal, these fish are one of the largest types of catfish in the world. The Arctic Ocean is known for the brisk waters that animals already have to survive in, but it still manages to contain: Bowhead whales. The bowhead whale can weigh up to 100 tons...
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Dolphins and whales are protected from consumptive use but there are no regulations nor guidelines for dolphins and whale watching (Ponnampalam, 2011) which, given the rapid increase in tourism, may put this resource at risk. As early as 1987, asea turtlemanagement plan was drafted under the ...
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who captured the image during the whales’ wintering season off the Pacific Island of Mo'orea, is careful not to definitively describe the behavior she witnessed as “play.” There’s obviously no way to know for certain what the animal was thinking as Ca...
After the blue whale, the fin whale is the second-largest mammal on Earth. Fewer than 90,000 of these whales remain in our oceans.Underwater noise pollution, or human-generated noise that drives marine life away from important habitats, is one threat to the fin whale's survival. ...