you’d find that even the blue whale’s organs are huge compared to the sperm whale’s. The heart of a sperm whale is about 4 feet long and over 270 pounds (the average weight of two humans!).
The CCAMLR is the arm of the Antarctic Treaty System that applies to marine life and has a similar membership requirement: a State must be “engaged in research or harvesting activities in relation to the marine living resources to which the convention applies” (CCAMLR Convention Article VII.2 ...
In addition, mtDNA damage was also negatively correlated with the expression of the HSP70 chaperone, being higher in sperm whales (most of them dark gray skinned) compared to fin (dark brownish gray skinned) and blue (pale blue-gray skinned) whales, which could suggest an inhibitory effect of...
They are a great and less time-consuming activity as compared to the full subjective or objective tests. Great for topic wise assessments It is recommended to the students revise any topics after the teacher is finished teaching them. This helps them remember tiny details or correct their mistake...
Humpback whales are named, predictably, after an obvious hump in front of their small dorsal fin and are therefore easy to identify compared to some of the other baleen whales. This hump is emphasised when they raise and bend their backs in preparation for a dive. They have dark backs rangi...
compared to the ocean where they can swim freely. In captivity, space is limited. According to one expert, “orcas can swim up to 100 miles per day- a phenomenal amount, in comparison to the exercise they receive in captivity” (Cronin). While in captivity, an orca has to keep swimming...
38). Additionally, several HOX genes (HOXA5, HOXB1, HOXB2, HOXB5, HOXD12 and HOXD13), which have an important role in the body plan and embryonic development28, were positively selected in the whale lineage compared to terrestrial mammals, reflecting the morphological adaptation of the whale...
to IAV. The seal H7N7 was antigenically and genetically similar to avian H7N7 but showed greater ability to infect, replicate and produce pneumonia in a broad range of experimentally infected mammals compared todomestic birds(Kida et al., 1982; Lang et al., 1981; Murphy et al., 1983; ...
compared to its relatives and it is the only living member of an otherwise extinct family. This placement makes the pygmy right whale genome an interesting target to update the complex phylogenetic past of baleen whales, because it splits up an otherwise long branch that leads to the radiation...
Anthropocentric value theory is the idea that humans hold the highest value over all other forms of life, but also that all other life forms have value only inasmuch as they can be used or are important to humans. Non-anthropocentric values, then, allows for the intrin- sic valuation to ...