Unfortunately, this revelation about the hippopotamus apparently contradicts the fossil record, which suggests that the hippopotamus is only a very distant relative of the whale, not an ancestor, and, of course, as I mentioned, that whales are descended not from hippos but from that distant wolf...
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In Kaikoura I went whale watching. There's a 2km deep trench in the bay known as the Kaikoura Canyon that attracts Sperm Whales for feeding all year round. The cruise was interesting and informative, but we only saw one whale...luckily I'd only paid half price on BookMe! Then I drov...
The Inuit are an indigenous people who emerged in the Arctic around a thousand years ago. They are descended from the earlier Thule people. The Inuit population is around 150,000 today, with most Inuit living in Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and Denmark....
False killer whales (pseudorcas) and bottlenose dolphins are each from a different genus. Man-made classification systems were thrown into confusion when these two creatures mated and produced a live offspring (see main text). This suggests that all killer whales and dolphins, which are all in...
The creation myth of polar bears, the romances of whales and the social customs of sled dogs are all vibrantly brought to life. There is a tradeoff, however. These stories immerse the reader in the question of how other species see the world. They are, as a result, very character-driven...
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unlike all other mammalian orders, most of its members eat animal flesh, there are a few carnivorans that are not carnivores in this more general sense (e.g., giant pandas), and many carnivorous animals that are not mammalian carnivorans, toothed whales and birds of prey being only the mo...
A pod of killer whales, or orcas (Orcinus orca),swims in Chatham Strait, Alaska, in August of 2019. These whales are considered apex predators, as they have no natural predators. Humpback whale migration MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images ...
From tiny zooplankton to filter-feeders like giant larvacean and barnacles to whales, most of the marine food chain depends on phytoplankton. A notable exception lies along deep ocean vents where chemosynthetic bacteria form the base of the food chain. ...